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FLyer with USF and the text "Welcome to a new cohort of USF International Fellows"
27th October 2025

Welcome to a new cohort of USF International Fellows!

26th October 2025

The Future Starts Now! Community-led, Collaborative and Innovative Experiments in World Cities

Blog poster: Original photo by Basil Farraj (location: Colombia); Design by Mai Al-Battat (attached)
20th October 2025

Geographies of Carcerality and the City: From Palestine to Latin America

Cities at wat flyer
13th October 2025

Cities at war

V.A. Afanasiev Kharkiv State Academic Puppet Theatre
5th October 2025

Phoenix-Nomenon of Kharkiv

Image created by Nuno Pinto using ChatGPT5 on 10 September 2025, using an estimated 18 mL of water and generating 6g of CO2 emissions.
26th September 2025

Generative AI in urban governance

Navigating the terminus on a rainy day
18th September 2025

Bustling (Im)Mobility: Socio-spatial Negotiations in Delhi’s Bus Terminals

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11th September 2025

Urban politics and negotiated stateness: comparative perspectives across Africa and Eastern Europe

10th September 2025

Mapping opportunities for healthy and sustainable urban transitions in post-industrial cities

8th September 2025

Land commodification and housing affordability under capitalist urbanisation

2nd September 2025

Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces

Construction sites inhabited by internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Beiruit. Credit: Tamara Kaschek
14th August 2025

Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a call for scholars thinking, reading, and writing about urban inhabitation differently

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"Before the USF senior fellowship, I ran a real risk of drowning in University administration and management responsibilities as I entered the ‘mid-career wildernness’. The fellowship reinvigorated my capacity, ideas and track record in research – and helped catapult me from mid- to senior career."

Professor Donald Houston, Senior Research Fellowship

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