Research funder · United Kingdom
Urban Studies Foundation
UK organization
- Grants since 2016
- 197
- Awarded, last 5 years (where amounts are published)
- £3.1M
- Funded works, last 5 years
- 121
- Funded works, all time
- 176
Grants
2026–2028 · grant · Urban Urgencies
Urban collapse, care, and climate: Women's narratives of polycrises in Tripoli, Lebanon
Joana Dabaj · University of Turin
2026 · fellowship · International Fellowship
The urban scripting ways: shifting the frame to the 'Other'
Solam Mkhabela · University of Edinburgh
2026 · grant · Knowledge Mobilisation Award
Just Waiting/Bas Intezar
Arundhathi · O. P. Jindal Global University
2026–2027 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Residual urbanism: rethinking city-making through waste
Maria Raquel Passos Lima · University of Amsterdam
2026 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Sustaining housing upgrade through the lens of coproduction: lessons from Tema slum upgraded facility, Ghana
Richard Apatewen Azerigyik · University of the Witwatersrand
2026–2028 · grant · Urban Urgencies
Co-researching with withdrawing subjects in Osaka and Seoul: Towards an urban political ecology of emancipatory metabolism
Didi Kyoung-Ae Han · Mie University
2026–2028 · grant · Urban Urgencies
PRIVATEVICTIONS: The rise of para-police antisquatting companies and the privatisation of eviction practices in Spain's financialised housing market
Ana Santamarina · Universidad Complutense de Madrid
2026–2028 · grant · Urban Urgencies
Open Kitchen: Weaving protection and care for communities on the move
Andres Salcedo Fidalgo · Universidad Nacional de Colombia
2026 · grant · Event Support Funding
Emerging forms of southern urbanism(s): theorising from the South
Sushmita Pati · Tata Institute of Social Sciences
2026–2028 · grant · Urban Urgencies
GeoHeat-SSA: A GeoAI decision-support platform for urban heat governance in Sub-Saharan Africa
Andrews Korah · Wageningen University & Research
2026 · fellowship · International Fellowship
More-than-human urbanisms and sacred riverfronts: Hindu nationalism, informal authority, and the everyday politics of urban space in India
Raina Ghosh · University of Amsterdam
2026–2028 · grant · Urban Urgencies
Vital Grounds: Valuing urban soils in the afterlife of mining
Anastasiya Halauniova · Durham University
2026–2027 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Learning while waiting out uncertainty: cities as 'relay points' for aspirational youth
Mukta Naik · University of Minnesota
2026 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Festivalising the postcolony: architecture, leisure, and political economy in West African urban carnivals
Michael Gameli Dziwornu · University of Manchester
2026 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Rural urbanisation: in pursuit of alternative governance frameworks for new urban formations
Saurav Chakraborty · University of Cologne
2026 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Reimagining Nusantara: a reflexivity between fact and fictional expectation
Galuh Syahbana Indraprahasta · National University of Singapore
2026 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Indebted margins: eviction, illegalism, and the financialization of housing in Brazilian favelas
Gustavo Prieto · Danish Institute for International Studies
2025–2027 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Feminist and queer autonomous urban spaces under authoritarian neoliberalism: sharing knowledge and practices between the Mediterranean region and Latin America
Cesare Di Feliciantonio · University of Cagliari
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Co-producing alternative urban futures through experimental urbanism
Georgiana Varna · Northumbria University
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Cities and urban research(ers) at war
Julia Strutz · American University of Beirut
2025 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Bustling (im)mobility: socio-spatial negotiations in Delhi's bus terminals
Arundhathi · University of the West of England
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Coproducing a research agenda for responsible and transparent AI-capabilities for decision support in urban governance
Nuno Pinto · University of Manchester
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Epistemes of non-dominant inhabitation: a seminar series for early-career and under-represented scholars to decentre urban knowledge
Paroj Banerjee · University College London
2025–2026 · grant · Knowledge Mobilisation Award
Pedagogical games for municipalist democratic public ownership
Bertie Russell · Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2025 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Housing wealth accumulation and inequality in urban China
Can Cui · University of Amsterdam
2025 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Public art for whom?: art and its exclusionary publics in Delhi
Nian Paul · University College London
2025–2027 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Mapping opportunities for healthy and sustainable urban transitions in post-industrial cities
Joseph Hongsheng Zhao · University of the West of Scotland
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Urban geographies of carcerality: from Latin America to the Middle East
Basil Farraj · Birzeit University
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Urban politics and negotiated stateness: comparative perspectives across Africa and eastern Europe
Jennifer Robinson · Tallinn University
2025–2026 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Urban-nature archives: spatial practices of futurity in Brazilian Amazonia
Junia Mortimer · University of Sheffield
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Walls speak. Are you listening? A research agenda for urban surfaces
Sabina Andron · The University of Melbourne
2025 · grant · Knowledge Mobilisation Award
Grassroots infrastructures: collaborative methods and the co-creation of community organising resources
Matina Kapsali · University of Manchester
2025–2026 · grant · Knowledge Mobilisation Award
Social infrastructures of care: confronting urban crisis through locally-embedded practices
Melanie Lombard · Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
The Phoenix-Nomenon of Kharkiv
Dmytro Legeyda · Newcastle University
2025 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Extending the dialogue on informal e-waste recycling and nature-based solutions for climate resilience
Michael Asibey · The University of Melbourne
2025 · fellowship · International Fellowship
Selective Inclusion: how smart city programs include some marginalized communities while excluding others
Nimas Maninggar · Erasmus University Rotterdam
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Land commodification and housing affordability under capitalist urbanisation: global dynamics and local resistance in Peru, the United Kingdom and the United States
Manuel Dammert-Guardia · Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Urbicide in Gaza: spatial violence, reconstruction, and resistance
Himmat Zoabi · Mada Al-carmel
2025–2027 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Tensions in policy learning: grounding learning practices in urban Southeast Asia
Napong Tao Rugkhapan · Asia Research Institute
2025–2026 · grant · Seminar Series Award
Ordinary ecologies of repair: youth, urbanity, and environmental change in South Asia
Anant Maringanti · University of Waikato