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2018 Summer Institute in Urban Studies
The Summer Institute in Urban Studies will take place at the National University of Singapore (NUS) and run from the evening of Sunday 15 July to the afternoon of Thursday 19 July.
It provides an opportunity to investigate leading-edge theoretical and methodological questions, along with a range of associated career development issues, in the field of urban studies.
SIUS2018 comes after three very successful Summer Institutes in Urban Studies at the University of Manchester in 2014, 2015 and 2016 (https://www.mui.manchester.ac.uk/connect/events/summer-institute/).
It reflects going forward that the Institute will occur on a biennial basis and take place as a partnership between the Manchester Urban Institute and another university-based urban grouping.
SIUS2018 is sponsored by the National University of Singapore, the University of Manchester and the Urban Studies Foundation.
Format
Open to doctoral students (usually post-fieldwork), postdoctoral researchers, and recently appointed faculty/lecturers (normally within three years of first continuing appointment), the
Institute comprises an intensive program of activities.
It is designed to provide participants with an in-depth understanding of the innovatory developments and enduring controversies in urban studies, as well as mentoring and support in the
different aspects of the academic labour process, from applying for grants to designing courses, from editing books and special issues of journals to writing book proposals, and from publishing in journals to working at the academic/non-academic interface.
Lee Kah Wee (National University of Singapore)
The fee for the Institute is 250 GBP. This amount includes bed and breakfast accommodation for four nights (arriving 15 July, leaving 19 July), plus a welcome reception, a walking tour,
lunches and an Institute dinner. To this you need to add the cost of your travel to and from Singapore, and various incidentals such as transport and the costs of other meals.
Our funding
allows us to offer a small number of scholarships.
Only students who are citizens from countries classified as ‘B’ or ‘C’ by the ISA [see
http://www.isa-sociology.org/table_c.htm] are
eligible to apply for a scholarship.
Scholarships will cover the cost of flights/travel to Singapore and the Institute registration fee. The scholarships will not cover daily subsistence expenses (meals, local transportation
costs etc.).
If you have any questions regarding the 2018 Summer Institute in Urban Studies please contact the Manchester Urban Institute manager, Matthew Harrison, at
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Kevin Ward, Professor of Human Geography, Room 1.057, School of Environment, Education and Development,
University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK: 44 (0) 161 275 6866
Director
of the Manchester Urban Institute
Adjunct
Professor, Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Visiting
Professor, The City Institute at York University, Toronto
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on ESRC IAA Devo Manc Hub