📢 2026 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: USF International Fellowships for urban scholars from the Global South. Deadline 6th July 2026. Read more & apply to this grant funding here: urbanstudiesfoundation.org/f…
📢 New USF Funding: Urban Urgencies
The Urban Studies Foundation is launching a major new grant to support rapid-response collaborative research on the world’s most pressing urban challenges.
Deadline: 23rd March 2026
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We are happy to reveal the fourteen projects supported in our 2025 Seminar Series Awards!
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📢 Call for Trustees! The Urban Studies Foundation is recruiting new Trustees to join our Board.
Deadline for applications: August 8th 2025
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2025 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS:
USF International Fellowships grant funding!
📢 Deadline: 16/07/25.
This fully-funded program offers 3-9 month sabbatical research visits for urban scholars from the Global South. Read more & apply here: ow.ly/AYfn50R8oou
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🚨 New publication!
Check out @OyalowoBasirat's latest work "Urban services and the invisibility of local governments in Nigeria in a COVID-19 pandemic context," in International Development Planning Review #USFInternationalFellow 🔗 Read more: ow.ly/YnKR50UJsGQ
ALT Flyer with USF logo and the cover of the paper "Urban services and the invisibility of local governments in Nigeria in a COVID-19 pandemic context" Authored by Dr Basirat Oyalowo, former USF International Fellow on a Photo via Flickr by Paris on Ponce
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🔔 Deadline approaching! Apply now for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards! 📚✨
Submit your proposals by 17th February 2025.
Don't miss out—visit the USF website for more details! 👉 ow.ly/8xU650UoJOJ#USFSeminarSeriesAwards#UrbanStudies
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In this guest post, @az_mashayekhi, Dr Noura Wahby, and Dr Camila Pereira Saraiva discuss the outcomes of the seminars on religious actors and urban planning in Latin America and the Middle East, which were supported by a #USFSeminarSeriesAwards grant: ow.ly/8mQq50Ux4tq
ALT Flyer with USF logo and the quote "Existing scholarship on Middle Eastern and Latin American urbanism suggests that religious and ideological institutions, as well as non-state actors, have often assumed or reclaimed certain state functions. These actors frequently overlap with, contradict, or complement state-led urban policies." on a photo via Flickr by Ádám Szedlák
ALT Flyer with USF logo and Cover of the paper "Making Waves: A justice-centred framework for wastewater-based public health surveillance", authored by Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Carolyn Prouse, Josie Wittmer, and colleagues. Funded by a USF Pandemics and Cities grant. Photo via Flickr by Photo via Flickr by Fred Weirowsky
🔔 Now accepting applications for the 2025 USF Seminar Series Awards! 📚✨
Submit your proposals before the deadline on 17th February 2025. Visit the USF website for more info!
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Making waves! @mrafiarefin@CarolynProuse1 and I coordinated this piece via our work with a fantastic group of co-authors/panelists from our workshop: creating a justice-centred framework for wastewater-based public health surveillance funded by @USForgdoi.org/10.1016/j.watres.202…
The 1st advertisement for "Dispatches from the Threshold: Tenant Power in Times of Crisis" is here! Thank you to the supportive editors at @fernpub, all the contributors/agitators, and @USForg ! Available on shelves in early 2025!
Accepting invitations for book talks!
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Call for Applications | NLSIU invites applications for the third iteration of the Writing Urban India Fellowship.
Duration of the fellowship: 10 months
Application Deadline: December 25, 2024
Find out more and apply here: nls.ac.in/news-events/call-f…
The HUPA Chair for Urban Poor and the Law, in collaboration with #WritingUrbanIndia Collective and @USForg, is hosting the third iteration of the Writing Urban India Fellowship at @NLSIUofficial in 2025. Read more about WUI and apply: ow.ly/rXc750UjuJP
ALT Flyer for the Call for Fellows, WUI 3.0 with USF and National Law School of India University logos. On a photo via Flickr by Stéphane Toumayan (ToumaŸ)
🔔 Reminder! Applications for the next round of USF Seminar Series Awards funding are now open! Don't miss the deadline—17th February 2025.
Visit the USF website for more details and spread the word! #USFSeminarSeriesAwards#UrbanStudiesow.ly/cCnS50Ug4zR
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