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Professor Beth Perry serves as Director of the Urban Institute and Professor of Urban Knowledge Governance at the University of Sheffield. She leads the Co-producing Urbanisms thematic area and coordinates local interaction platforms across Greater Manchester and Sheffield, collaborating with partners in Sweden, Kenya, and South Africa on urban justice initiatives.
- Director of Urban Institute, University of Sheffield
- Professor of Urban Knowledge Governance
- Previously: Professorial Fellow (2016), Centre for Sustainable Urban Regional Futures, University of Salford
Her research focuses on co-production practices in urban governance, epistemic injustices in knowledge production, and socio-cultural dimensions of urban justice. Key substantive areas include cultural participation, digital democracy, heritage politics, and food systems as cross-sectoral connectors.
Recent publications analyze co-production's paradoxes, SDG localization challenges, and city-regional governance under austerity. She has co-authored works on:
- Knowledge co-production frameworks
- Participatory urban climate policy
- Epistemological tensions in critical urban research
- Comparative urban studies in global contexts
- Transdisciplinary sustainability research
Beth directs the Urban Institute's Co-producing Urbanisms theme and leads international collaborations through Mistra Urban Futures. She supervises PhD projects on:
- Co-productive urban climate policy (Ryan Bellinson)
- Just Transition and trade unions (Jenny Patient)
- Common public spaces (Ana Mendez de Andes)
Her teaching spans:
- Transdisciplinary research methods
- Co-production practices
- Urban knowledge exchange
- Academic-civic engagement
Beth has secured grants from British Academy, ESRC, AHRC, and EPSRC for projects including:
- Whose Heritage Matters?
- Jam and Justice: Co-producing Social Innovation
- Putting Foodbanks Out of Business
- New African Urban University
She contributes to debates about epistemological reform in universities through editorial roles in Urban Geography and Local Environment, and participates in networks like the Science Cities Consortium.
