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CURE and cities@manchester to host double feature seminar with top urban researchers

Professor Jenny Pickerill (University of Sheffield) and Professor Steve Graham (Newcastle University) will give back-to-back talks featuring their recent scholarship on Tuesday next week.

Report from the ‘Beyond the Fracking Polemic’ panel discussion

Craig Thomas summarises the discussions that took place during a event organised by the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy at the University of Manchester.

energy vulnerability, fracking, public participation, unconventional gas

CURE at the 2015 AAG in Chicago

Federico Cugurullo from CURE compiled a list of sessions and call for papers which have been organised by CURE members for the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), which will take place in Chicago between 21st and 24th of April 2015.

AAG, Chicago, cities, crisis, CURE, resilience cities

CHARISMA workshop report: Community retrofit for housing professionals

Jenni Cauvain, a team member of the CHARISMA project reflects on the current issues related to community retrofit and social housing in Greater Manchester, which were debated at the recently organised workshop.

community, Energy, Manchester, retrofit, social housing

Panel Discussion – Beyond the ‘fracking’ polemic: Energy Futures and Vulnerability

A reminder for our forthcoming event …

community, Energy, environment, UK

Quality of whose life? Prosperity by another name?

In his third post on this blog, Joe Ravetz, Co-director of CURE, gives a critical overview of prosperity indexes. He formulates and develops the idea of synergistic prosperity.

complexity, sustainability, synergistic, urban

EVENT project policy brief now available in English and Greek

The relationship between domestic energy vulnerability and economic austerity in Greece is discussed in a new policy document issued by a recently completed research project.

austerity, energy vulnerability, Greece, Poverty

EVALUATE project presented at the 2014 Fuel Poverty Research Symposium 

EVALUATE/CURE research associate Sergio Tirado Herrero recently participated in an international symposium in Belfast, with a video introducing the aim and context of some of our recent work, as well as key results and emerging ideas on the spatially-contingent and multi-scalar nature of domestic energy deprivation in Europe.

Energy, EU, Poverty, Vulnerability

Tomas Maltby joins EVALUATE project team

The EVALUATE project team has recently expanded to include Tomas Maltby – an energy politics researcher in at the University of Manchester, whose work focuses on EU energy security policy, EU agenda-setting and new member states, EU-Russia energy relations and renewable energy policy.

energy policy, energy vulnerability, EU energy policy

Energy, austerity, informality workshop report

On the 21st of May 2014, the Centre for Urban Resilience and Energy (CURE) hosted a workshop on Energy, austerity, informality: … More

austerity, Energy, Greece, Poverty

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