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Our Team

Dr Joe Shaw
Henrietta Sampson
Neil Scott
Karen Robinson

Trustees

Dr Rita Padawangi (Chair)
Professor Bas van Heur
Professor Loraine Kennedy
Dr Wangui Kimari
Professor Jeroen Klink
Professor Mary Lawhon
Dr Zarina Patel
Professor Linda Peake
Professor Karin Pfeffer
Dr Neha Sami
Dr Yimin Zhao

Reviewers

Professor Rowland Atkinson
Dr Naama Blatman
Professor Karen Chapple
Professor Agustín Cocola-Gant
Professor Ben Derudder
Dr Dinorah Gonzalez
Dr Maike Hamann
Professor Roger Keil
Dr Wangui Kimari
Professor Mary Lawhon
Dr Melanie Lombard
Dr Aidan Mosselson
Dr Arnisson Andre Ortega
Professor Jenny Pickerill
Dr Felipe Rangel Martins
Dr Sanjeev Routray
Professor Kristian Saguin
Dr Camila Pereira Saraiva
Dr Deen Sharp
Dr Mi Shih
Dr Gilbert Siame
Dr Ivana Socoloff
Dr Ashima Sood
Dr Antonis Vradis
Professor Kevin Ward
Dr Katie Wells
Dr Astrid Wood
Dr Yimin Zhao

Former Trustees

Professor Alison Brown
Professor Jie Chen
Dr Desiree Fields
Professor Deljana Iossifova
Professor Kenneth Gibb
Professor Donald McNeill
Dr Evert J. Meijers
Professor Hyun Bang Shin
Dr C.P. Pow
Professor John Flint
Professor John B. Parr
Professor Chris Philo
Professor Fulong Wu

"The USF has played a crucial role in creating space for urban research that not only moves beyond academic spheres but also values embodied, decolonial, and insurgent ways of knowing. As a queer geographer working in and through the messy, affective terrains of urban India, this Fellowship didn’t just fund my research — it affirmed it. It gave me the courage and capacity to experiment with form, to centre marginal voices, and to hold space for joy, pain, memory, and resistance in my work. I remain in awe of the nurturing, and genuinely transformative support USF continues to offer its Fellows — during, and far beyond, the fellowship period."

Dr Dhiren Borisa, International Fellowship

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  • Studying cities at war: The destruction of knowledge infrastructures and exclusions
  • Two decades of southern urban theory: Notes beyond informality
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