Urban Studies Foundation

The Urban Studies Foundation (USF) was founded in 2008 as a charitable company, regulated by the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) and run by a board of eleven Trustees.

The USF’s wholly owned subsidiary Urban Studies Journal Limited (USJ) generates income by publishing an academic journal in the field of urban studies. The USJ donates profits arising from this activity to the USF. Using gifted monies from the USJ, the USF strives to support institutions and individuals engaged in the advancement of postgraduate academic research and education, principally through grant funding schemes. The USF’s main objectives are:

• To advance academic research and education in the field of urban studies.
• To promote knowledge transfer, exchange and mobilisation in the field of urban studies.

These objectives are primarily realised by provide significant grant funding and support to individuals and institutions engaged in the advancement of postgraduate academic research and education through our current core grant-funding streams:

• International Fellowships (for early to mid-career urban scholars from the Global South)
• Pandemics and Cities Seed Funding
• Postdoctoral Research Fellowships
• Seminar Series Awards

More information on the USF can be found on their website, and you can contact them here.