Grants awarded

  • International Fellowships
  • Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
  • Senior Research Fellowships
  • Seminar Series Awards
  • Urban Urgencies
  • Pandemics and Cities
  • Knowledge Mobilisation Awards
  • Event Support Funding
  • Other

International Fellowships

Dr Richard Apatewen Azerigyik
Dr Michael Gameli Dziwornu
Dr Raina Ghosh
Dr Galuh Syahbana Indraprahasta
Dr Lazarus Jambadu
Dr Mukta Naik
Dr Maria Raquel Passos Lima
Dr Gustavo Prieto
Dr Solam Mkhabela
Dr Saurav Chakraborty
Dr Can Cui
Dr Nian Paul
Dr Nimas Maninggar
Dr Michael Osei Asibey
Dr Ing Francis Dakyaga
Dr Junia Cambraia Mortimer
Dr Arundhathi
Dr Ana Beraldo de Carvalho
Dr Sarita Pillay Gonzalez
Dr Snehashish Mitra
Dr Mercedes Najman
Dr Harsh Mittal
Dr Andrea Carrión
Dr Deborah Fromm
Dr Zhengli Huang
Dr Aleksandra Dordevic
Dr Telma Hoyler
Dr Mónica Farías
Dr Irene Appeaning Addo
Dr Salifou Ndam
Dr César Ricardo Simoni Santos
Dr Dhiren Borisa
Dr Prosper Issahaku Korah
Dr Asha L. Abeyasekera
Dr Eda Beyazit
Dr Claudia Gastrow
Dr Priscila Izar
Dr Basirat Ashabi Oyalowo
Dr Augusto dos Santos Pereira
Dr Sandra Carolina Pulido Chaparro
Dr Felipe Rangel Martins
Dr Preeti Sampat
Dr Daniel de Mello Sanfelici
Dr Suraya Scheba
Dr Rachel de Castro Almeida
Professor Cauê Costa Capillé
Dr Carmel Christy Kattithara Joseph
Dr Ofita Purwani
Dr Beatriz Rufino
Dr Gilbert Siame
Dr João Tonucci
Dr Faisal Umar
Dr Tunde Decker
Dr Dinorah Gonzalez
Dr Kingsley Madueke
Dr Lina Martinez
Dr Ashima Sood
Dr Smytta Yadav
Dr Melih Yeşilbag
Dr Ivana Socoloff
Dr Engida Esayas Dube
Dr Wangui Kimari
Dr Siân Butcher
Dr Kristian Saguin
Dr Jie Shen
Dr Aiden Mosselson
Dr Ingrid Olivo
Dr Andre Ortega
Dr Michel Nicolau
Dr Ruth Massey
Dr Tuna Kuyucu
Dr Nancy Odendaal
Dr Mary Lawhon
Dr Christine Mady
Dr Jorge Inzulza Contardo
Dr Shari Daya
Professor Shinichiro Iwata

Seminar Series Awards

Mapping opportunities for healthy and sustainable urban transitions in post-industrial cities
Urban politics and negotiated stateness: comparative perspectives across Africa and eastern Europe
Tensions in policy learning: grounding learning practices in urban Southeast Asia
Urbicide in Gaza: spatial violence, reconstruction, and resistance
Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decentre urban knowledge
Co-producing alternative urban futures through experimental urbanism
Ordinary ecologies of repair: youth, urbanity and environmental change in South Asia
Coproducing a research agenda for responsible and transparent AI-capabilities for decision support in urban governance
Cities and urban research(ers) at war
Phoenix-Nomenon of Kharkiv
Urban geographies of carcerality: from Latin America to the Middle East
Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces
Land commodification and housing affordability under capitalist urbanisation. Global dynamics and local resistance in Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States
Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism: sharing knowledge and practices between the Mediterranean region and Latin America
Youth on the Move: performing urban space in the Global South
UTA-Do African Cities Workshop Series
Towards innovative mixed-methods approaches to studying living multicultural in small cities
Overlooked Cities: Thinking and doing global urban studies differently
Women’s urban care practices through the lens of public social capital: a dialogue between Latin America and Europe
Feminising urban struggle: bodies, territories and politics in women’s production and reproduction of peripheral spaces
Interrogating the role of religious actors in shaping urban planning: reflections from Middle Eastern and Latin American cities
Calibrating urban liveability in the Global South: gendered perspectives on climate, health, governance and policy
Coastal commons: Afro-Indigenous urban solidarities
New municipalism, democratic public ownership, and the politics of the common
Urban vacancy, occupation and commoning: advancing a global comparative urbanism
Intersections on the periphery: the Good City in a Time of Crisis
Alternative circulations? Situating policymaking, decoloniality, and urban models within Latin American cities.
ReCLIC: Recasting the City, Lives & Livelihoods, and Inequality in the post-Covid world
Negotiating Social Futures: the politics of land development and value capture during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Counter-mapping as urban resistance
Infrastructure, Inequality and the Neo-Apartheid City
Peripheral centralities: lost, past, present and future
Shrinking domesticities: towards a global research agenda on urban micro-living
Re-thinking the spatial politics of global urbanization processes: the contested relationalities of port cities past and present
Decentering urban climate finance: relational comparison in theory and practice
Toward just environmental futures: exploring the equity dimensions of nature-based solutions in cities
European creative cities and Covid-19: exploring urban creative economies and policies in the age of Covid-19
Global Black Geographies: Racial Capitalism and Black Urban Experiences
Methodologies for just urban futures: using geospatial tools to address police violence
Temporalities of urban natures: imaginaries, narratives, and practices
Predicting neighbourhood change using big data and machine learning: implications for theory, methods, and practice
Urban metabolism in policy and practice: a global discussion
Cities in their own right: southern urban planning theories and practices
Gender equity in cities of the MENA region
The ‘Southern Tilt’ in the urban: embedded wisdom and cultural specificity as pathways to planning
Eco-communities in an urban future
Doing Indigenous urban research: creative futures and indigenising urban studies
Urban climates: power, development and environment in South Asia
Emerging urbanisms in deindustrializing city-regions: the afterlife of leftover spaces
The Welcoming City
Infrastructural futures across cities of the global north
Reconceptualising Urban Landscapes of Work
Polarization, Fragmentation and Resilience: four urban contexts compared
The Future of Urban Network Research
Doing Global Urban Research
The Edges of Home Ownership
Starting from the South: alternative visions of comparative urbanism

Pandemics and Cities

From social infrastructure to pandemic resilience?: learning from and with low-income urban communities
Community-based social capital and economic resilience of SMEs in Iran: the role of socio-economic and built-environment characteristics of urban neighbourhoods
The city after Cov­id-19: vulnerability and urban governance in Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg
Towards resilient and liveable neighbourhoods post Covid-19: evaluating neighbourhood quality in Sydney (AUS) and Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
Navigating debt-trap urbanism in pandemic times: family homelessness and temporary accommodation in Greater Manchester
Dispatches from the threshold: organizing for housing justice in a pandemic
The urban politics of wastewater-based epidemiology: transforming the relationship between waste, health, and urban governance

Knowledge Mobilisation Awards

Just Waiting/Bas Intezar
Pedagogical games for municipalist democratic public ownership
Grassroots infrastructures: collaborative methods and the co-creation of community organizing resources
Social infrastructures of care: confronting urban crisis through locally-embedded practices
Youth on the move: of storytelling and popular mapping
Home as hope: reimagining Colombo as utopia with the urban working-class poor in Sri Lanka
Making cities liveable: caste, queerness and city-making through stories of everyday resilience in India
Narrating port-cities from below: Communities, Solidarities, Politics
Democracy on the ground
Documentary on precarity, class and daily mobilities of female domestic workers
Memories of an urban market in dispute
LaCasa: aspirational cartographies
Making action research findings on gender and urban transformation accessible to peripheral communities of Dar es Salaam
Organizing plumbers in Delhi: navigating the building and other construction workers welfare board and labour court
Insurgent Black urban geographies in Brazil
Decolonising the City (DtC): co-designing a participatory arts-based research toolkit with migrant communities in Athens, Greece
Mobilizing alternative circuits of knowledge: memory as resistance and connection among self-built and upgraded settlements in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and Medellín
Building new urban skills in the Anthropocene
Locating and practicing land’s social values through collective inquiries and problem solving
Securing urban space: an exploration of community crime prevention and control strategies in low-income neighbourhoods
Protests and urban spaces: Kochi through the lens of struggles and movements