In this guest post, Professor Nicholas Phelps, Professor Roger Keil and Professor Paul Maginn write about their seminar series, which was supported by the USF through a Seminar Series Award grant. The seminar series – Peripheral Centralities – was initiated by Nicholas Phelps (University of Melbourne), Paul Maginn (University of Western Australia) and Roger Keil […]
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The plumbers of Delhi: Migration, plebeian sociality and citizenship in an occupational community
In this guest post, previous USF Postdoctoral Fellow Dr Sanjeev Routray discusses his 2022 research and organising work with plumbers in Delhi, which was supported with a USF Knowledge Mobilisation Awards grant. Between 2016 and 2019, I received a postdoctoral fellowship from the Urban Studies Foundation to carry out research on a project entitled The […]
Eight new USF International Fellows
The Urban Studies Foundation is thrilled to announce that eight new International Fellows will begin their USF-funded work over the coming year. Each grant funding award will support the Fellow with a visiting sabbatical designed to support the development of their research publications and outputs. This year’s Fellows will travel from positions in Ecuador, India, […]
From the Aspirational House to el Convite Urbano
In this guest post, previous USF International Fellow Dr Sandra Carolina Pulido-Chaparro discusses her 2022-23 project Convite Urbano, which was supported by the USF Knowledge Mobilisation Awards. This project disseminates the results of my doctoral thesis, ‘Before we were nothing, now we are not all we want to be. Class positionings in self-built neighborhoods of […]
Call for Trustees
The deadline for applications to the USF Board of Trustees is 27th October 2023 (23:59 UK time). The Urban Studies Foundation (USF) seeks to recruit up to three new Trustees to serve on its Board, starting throughout 2024. To ensure that the Board will be in the strongest possible position to meet USF objectives, the […]