The ESRC and Alan Turing Institute have just announced their third round of the Joint Fellowship Scheme, focused on two themes: urban analytics, and public policy and innovation. The closing date for applications is 6 June…
The Experience of ‘Ageing in Place’ over Time: A Longitudinal Perspective, an ESRC-funded project imploring the perspectives of older residents of Greater Manchester on their communities, has recently published a video of their work, ‘Reimagining the…
Security on the Move: Everyday Security of IDPs in Rapidly Growing Somali Cities is now hosting an exhibition and panel discussion in London on 14 March 2019 at the Arch at the Africa Centre (66 Great…
The Centre for Urban Research on Austerity (CURA) Urban Methodologies Summer School is now open for applications. The Summer School will feature leading academics delivering sessions on novel and innovative approaches to cities and urban politics.…
The University of Coventry has recently announced two fully funded 3.5 year studentships, closely linked with the WASTE FEW ULL project. These are ‘System dynamics modelling of linked circular economies‘ and ‘Agent‐based modelling of linked circular…
The GCRF Centre for Sustainable Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC) is pleased to launch a new fund to strengthen the capacity of early career researchers to understand and address global challenges in fast-growing cities in developing countries.…
The ESRC-funded project The Economic Impacts of Brexit on the UK, its Regions, its Cities and its Sectors, recently added to the Urban Transformations portfolio, will be hosting an event in Brussels on 22 February 2019, ‘The…
Originally scheduled to end in 2018, the Urban Transformations programme has received an extension from the ESRC to continue its activities until June 2020. The portfolio recently welcomed another 10 projects to the portfolio, including a…
The University of Edinburgh and University of Glasgow have announced the launch of a collaborative series of PhD studentships of ‘Future Cities’, spanning some 20 different projects exploring various areas of cutting edge urban research. The…
The ESRC Celebrating Impact Prize is an annual opportunity to recognize and celebrate the success of ESRC-funded researchers in achieving and enabling outstanding economic and/or social impact from excellent social science research. All finalists have a…
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