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Trustee Recruitment 2025

The deadline for applications to this call is 8th August 2025 at 23:59 UTC+0. The Urban Studies Foundation (USF) is recruiting new Trustees to serve on its Board, with start dates throughout 2026. Trustees may be based anywhere worldwide, but must be able to demonstrate significant, long-term, and ongoing involvement in urban studies research and […]

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 […]

Three new Trustees

The USF is excited to welcome three new Trustees over the coming months. Dr Zarina Patel, Associate Professor of Human Geography at the University of Cape Town, will be the first appointment from October 2022. Zarina brings a wealth of knowledge in African cities and urban studies to the USF Board of Trustees, as well […]

Recruiting now: USF Trustee (African urban studies)

The deadline for applications to this position is 11th April 2022, at 23:59 GMT. The Urban Studies Foundation (USF) seeks to recruit a specialist in African cities and urban studies to sit on its Board of Trustees, from summer 2022 (or as soon as possible thereafter). The successful candidate should ideally be located on the […]

Recruiting: Three New Members on the Urban Studies Foundation (USF) Board

The Urban Studies Foundation (USF) is looking to recruit three new Members (also known as ‘Trustees’) to sit on its Board, one to commence from January 2018 and two from January 2019.