Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowships 2026 – YOA

Deadline: July 6, 2026

Applications are open for the Urban Studies Foundation International Fellowships 2026. The scheme is meant to serve the USF’s over-arching strategic mission to advance world city research. Supporting over eighty Fellows from over twenty nations, the scheme has additionally contributed enormously to the USF’s objectives of supporting early-profession researchers, strengthening scholarship of the Global South, fostering collaboration, and growing 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 way that each champions epistemic justice and elevates new understandings of numerous world realities. In the longer-time period, the scheme works in the direction of cultivating the analysis management and capacities of tomorrow.

Beyond supporting the Fellow in attaining their revealed outputs, the USF expects that potential Mentors and host organisations ought to be capably invested in contributing to those wider outcomes and influence of the International Fellowship scheme. This contains demonstrating the worth added by the Mentor and host each throughout and after the Fellowship interval, which should embrace the availability of a secure and productive working setting for the Fellow throughout their go to. It also needs to embrace integrating the Fellow into related analysis communities and networks, making certain that lengthy-lasting connections may be constructed to assist future collaboration. It is anticipated that Fellows have to be totally launched from any current obligations and/or duties as a way to profit from the time and area that the Fellowship will present.

Benefits

• The monetary assist 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 be a small price range accessible for the Mentor to have interaction with the Fellow’s home establishment(s), community(s), and/or analysis web site(s).
• Shortlisted candidates may additionally apply for a small supplemental grant if they’ve additional-strange prices arising as a consequence of caring duties or incapacity, supplied they’ve contacted the USF upfront of making use of to debate their necessities. Fellowships ought to start no sooner than 4 months after the deadline for purposes, 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 checklist of ODA recipients, and be formally affiliated to/working inside a analysis organisation based mostly in any of those nations (observe: people based mostly in excessive-earnings territories should not eligible to apply, even the place these are related to an ODA-listed nation).
• Candidates will need to have already accomplished main information assortment and evaluation, and be prepared to jot down-up their findings as educational publications (this award just isn’t supposed to assist proposals involving new main information assortment or evaluation).
• The work should signify a transparent and helpful contribution to the sphere of city research, and proposals outdoors of this discipline won’t be thought of.

Application

The application should embrace:

• Applicant data: contact particulars, latest schooling, latest educational roles, a brief profession assertion, proof of nationality, and the names and phone particulars of two educational referees.
• Proposed fellowship data: dates, mentorship, and host organisation preparations.
• Budget: all value objects and appropriate proof for any objects above GBP 500.
• Research proposal: define of the deliberate analysis, supposed outputs, the explanations for the selection of the host organisation, and an announcement of how the candidate’s chosen mentor will assist 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 USF International Fellowships.