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New frontiers of urban inequality - Keynote Dr Saffron Woodcraft

This keynote - New Frontiers Of Urban Inequality: Power, Technology, and the Politics Of Everyday Life was delivered on Thursday 26 Jun 2025 as part of the Sheffield Urbanism Summer Programme. In her keynote lecture, Saffron Woodcraft explored the evolving landscape of urban inequality in the 21st century. Drawing on her long-term research on urban regeneration, inequalities, and the co-production of knowledge in shaping equitable cities, Dr Woodcraft explored the emergence of new forms of inequality linked to digital infrastructure and data citizenship. Examining how traditional theories and metrics of urban inequality fail to capture these shifting realities, which increasingly affect both marginalised and middle-income urban populations, she advocates for trans-disciplinary approaches to urban knowledge production, policy design, and planning that foreground local knowledge, community agency, and shared prosperity. Bio Saffron is Principal Research Fellow and Director of Social Policy at the Institute for Global Prosperity, where she leads the Prosperity Co-Lab (PROCOL) UK. Her research focuses on understanding lived experiences of community, shared prosperity, and inequality in urban neighbourhoods experiencing rapid change. Saffron works collaboratively with citizen scientists, community organisations, government policymakers and business decision-makers to bring local understandings of prosperity and inequality into planning and decision-making processes. This work examines how 'communities of place' and relationships between opportunity, quality of life, and urban transformation are imagined in public policy and professional place-making practices and theorised in urban studies. She leads trans-disciplinary research and innovation partnerships in the UK and Tanzania, including the Prosperity in east London 2021-2031 10-year study, London Prosperity Board, and UCL Citizen Science Academy, which focus on collaborations with citizen scientists, local community organisations, government policymakers, and business, to develop evidence and action on local pathways to prosperity. Saffron is currently a Research Policy Fellow at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government.