Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowships 2025 – YOA

Deadline: July 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowships 2025. Each award will cowl the price of a visiting sabbatical interval at a number college of the candidate’s alternative, for the aim of writing-up the candidate’s present analysis findings within the type of publishable articles, guide chapters, and/or books. The proposed work needs to be accomplished underneath the steering of a selected Mentor within the candidate’s discipline of study. Funding is obtainable for a interval ranging between three and 9 months, and eligible analysis could cowl any city research theme pertinent to a greater understanding of city realities inside and throughout the Global South.

The scheme is meant to serve the USF’s over-arching strategic mission to advance international city research. Supporting over seventy Fellows from over twenty nations, the scheme has additionally contributed enormously to the USF’s targets of supporting early-profession researchers, strengthening scholarship of the Global South, fostering collaboration, and creating wonderful city analysis. Through selling the worldwide alternate and mobility of each people and concepts, the scheme additionally goals to intervene within the manufacturing of data in a fashion that each champions epistemic justice and elevates new understandings of numerous international realities. In the longer-time period, the scheme works in the direction of cultivating the analysis management and capacities of tomorrow.

Funding

• The monetary help of the Fellowship is meant to satisfy lodging and subsistence wants whereas staying on the host college, return journey, and help in the direction of some analysis prices. There can also be a small price range obtainable for the Mentor to have interaction with the Fellow’s home establishment(s), community(s), and/or analysis website(s).
• Shortlisted candidates may additionally apply for a small supplemental grant if they’ve further-peculiar prices arising because of caring obligations or incapacity, offered they’ve contacted the USF prematurely of making use of to debate their necessities. Fellowships ought to start no sooner than 4 months after the deadline for functions, and no later than fourteen months after the application deadline.

Eligibility

• Applicants have to be early-to-mid-profession city students holding a PhD awarded throughout the previous ten calendar years (by the submission deadline).
• They have to be nationals of any nation current on the present OECD DAC listing of ODA recipients and be formally affiliated to/working inside a analysis organisation primarily based in any of those nations.
• Candidates should have already accomplished main knowledge assortment and evaluation and be prepared to put in writing-up their findings as educational publications.
• The work should signify a transparent and priceless contribution to the sector of city research, and proposals exterior of this discipline is not going to be thought-about.

Application

The application should embrace:

• Applicant data: contact particulars, current training, current educational roles, a brief profession assertion, proof of nationality, and the names and speak to particulars of two educational referees.
• Proposed fellowship data: dates, mentorship, and host organisation preparations.
• Budget: all value gadgets and appropriate proof for any gadgets above GBP 500.
• Research proposal: define of the deliberate analysis, meant outputs, the explanations for the selection of the host organisation, and a press release of how the candidate’s chosen mentor will help and facilitate the proposed analysis.
• Applicant CV itemizing educational achievements and publications (3 pages most).
• Short CV from the mentor which incorporates any earlier mentoring expertise (3 pages most).
• Mentor’s supporting letter stating their willingness to behave as a Mentor to the Fellow, and detailing the suitability of the host organisation for the proposed Fellowship in reference to the Host Organisation and Mentorship Guidelines (2 pages most).

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For extra data, go to Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowships.