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About the speaker

Prof Beth Perry is Director of the Urban Institute and a Professor of Urban Knowledge Governance, and also leads the Urban Institute’s Co-producing Urbanisms theme.

From 2016-2020, Prof Perry was the UK lead for the Mistra Urban Futures centre, setting up and delivering a local interaction platform across Greater Manchester and Sheffield to develop co-production projects around critical urban justice questions. This involved working in close collaboration with city partners in Sweden, Kenya and South Africa.

Prior to joining the University of Sheffield as a Professorial Fellow in 2016, Prof Perry worked through research assistant, fellow, reader and director positions within the Centre for Sustainable Urban Regional Futures at the University of Salford.

About this event series

Director's Seminars are an opportunity for audiences to get an in-depth theoretical perspective on sustainable and inclusive prosperity. These Seminars are given by academics who are pushing for new ways of thinking and new ways of researching society's grand challenges.

For more events in this series visit the series page â–º

About IGP UK Week

For our 10th Anniversary, we're organising a full week of events to celebrate the work we've been doing in the UK, led by our Prosperity Co-Lab for the UK. The week will include the launch of the Citizen Prosperity Index and Dashboard, with presentations on the latest findings from our Prosperity in east London longitudinal study.

For more events in this series visit the UK Week page â–º