Special Sessions on Publishing in Urban Studies

Location: Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bangalore
Language: English

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Special Sessions on Publishing in Urban Studies

Co-organised by Urban Studies Journal (USJ), Writing Urban India (WUI, a program of Centre for Policy Research and Urban Studies Foundation), and Indian Institute of Human Settlements (IIHS), the event will be held prior to the Urban Arc conference and post the PhD Workshop organised by IIHS in order to educate and create awareness on academic publishing. Two sessions on ‘Turning your dissertation into a book’ and ‘Publishing academic articles in international journals’ will have experts interact with students and early career researchers.

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Our USF grant provided the platform for a major programme of research on family homelessness, debt and temporary accommodation in the UK, culminating in the 2025 co-authored book Debt Trap Nation: Family Homelessness in a Failing State. The grant generated more than £550,000 in subsequent research funding and grew new and now enduring partnerships with Shared Health Foundation, the Chartered Institute of Housing, Garden Court Chambers and the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Households in Temporary Accommodation. The research has had significant policy impact. It directly informed the UK Government's National Plan to End Homelessness (2025) and underpinned a proposed amendment to the Social Housing Bill currently before the House of Lords (June 2026), with the potential to change primary legislation affecting survivors of domestic abuse facing housing-related debt.

Navigating debt-trap urbanism in pandemic times: family homelessness and temporary accommodation in Greater Manchester, Pandemics and Cities

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