The USF is excited to announce another record level of funding for urban studies Seminar Series Awards around the world. Thirteen unique proposals have received offers of support to deliver projects in over twenty different countries, with over £245k being committed to the 2022 round of this funding scheme. Each programme involves at least three […]
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Infrastructure, Inequality and the Neo-Apartheid City
This guest post from Dr Mori Ram, Dr Charlotte Lemanski, and Prof Haim Yacobi details some of the activities held and supported by a USF Seminar Series Awards grant during 2021-2022. The Infrastructure, Inequality and the Neo-Apartheid City seminar series involved four workshops between October 2021 and June 2022. The seminar series developed a conceptual […]
Welcome to eight new International Fellows!
The Urban Studies Foundation is excited to announce eight new International Fellowships in 2022. Each grant funding award will support a visiting sabbatical for an early-career scholar from the Global South, and is designed to support the development of their research publications and outputs. This year’s Fellows will travel from positions in Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, […]
Introducing four new Postdoctoral Research Fellows
The Urban Studies Foundation is pleased to announce that four new Postdoctoral Research Fellows will begin USF-funded projects in 2022. The Fellows will begin their research programmes at host institutions in Italy, Mexico, and the United Kingdom. Each three-year project will focus on a range of research themes and cities, including: Cape Town and Johannesburg […]
Seven USF grants awarded for research into pandemics and cities
The USF is excited to announce the outcome of a new seed-funding award for research into pandemics and cities. The Pandemics and Cities research funding scheme ran during late 2021, and aimed to provide four awards of up to GBP 25,000 towards partnered urban research on Covid-19 and other infectious diseases. The scheme was very […]