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We are hosting a workshop to launch our new ESRC Newton Funded research project entitled ‘Learning from Small Cities: Governing Imagined Futures and the Dynamics of Change in India’s Smart Urban Age’ on 1st August 2018 at King’s College London. We are also hosting a follow-up workshop on ‘Big Data and Urban Governance on the Margins of the City’ as part of a British Academy Visiting Fellowship awarded to Prof. Sanjay Srivastava (Indian PI on the ESRC project) at King’s College London on 2nd August 2018.
The workshops aim to focus research on smart cities, urban transformations, big data and urban governance in India and the Global South. They will also include separate presentations from the project team to introduce the project and garner feedback.
We invite applications for participation and/or presentation from urban studies scholars (with a particular encouragement to PhD and Early Career Researchers) working across urban studies, urban, social, cultural and political geography, technology and ICTs, sociology and geo-informatics.
We have limited funds available to support the participation of Early Career Researchers and PhD scholars.
Applications could address work on themes such as:
• Smart cities in the Global South
• Urban futures in the Global South
• Urban technological/ICT transformations
• Urban governance in the Global South
• Big Data and Deep data
• Urban ethnography in India/the Global South
Please sign up for numbers on the Eventbrite page https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/learning-from-small-cities-governing-imagined-futures-and-the-dynamics-of-change-in-indias-smart-tickets-47947005785?ref=estw
For further information or to submit an application/proposal, please contact our Administrative Officer Marta Kochetkova [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
Kind regards,
The ‘Learning from Small Cities’ research project team
Twitter: @SmartSmallCity<https://twitter.com/SmartSmallCity>
Website: Coming soon
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Further details
The research team includes Dr Ayona Datta, King’s College London (PI), Professor Sanjay Srivastava, Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi (India PI), Dr Melissa Butcher, Birkbeck, University of London and Dr Sophie Hadfield-Hill, University of Birmingham (UK Co-Is), Dr Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Mohali (India Co-I) and other members of the advisory board.
Confirmed speakers include: David Satterthwaite, Jaideep Gupte, Katherine Willis, Robert Cowley, Oliver Zanetti, Srilata Sircar, Ursula Rao, Jon Cinnamon, Scott Rodgers, Lieven Ameel and Igor Calzada.
Submission
• Applications for workshop participation and abstracts for individual presentations of approximately 10 minutes in length should be 300 words maximum, detailing any relevant research experience and your suitability to participate or present.
• All applications for participation and presentation abstracts must be accompanied by a brief biographical statement (maximum 200 words) and full contact information (name, institution/affiliation, contact email address) and sent by midnight (UK time) on 15th July 2018 to Marta Kochetkova (email).
• Notifications of acceptance will be sent by 20th July 2018.
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We look forward to receiving your applications.
Please feel free to get in touch with if you have any questions.
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Dr Ayona Datta
Reader in Urban Futures
Urban Futures<https://kclurbanfutures.wordpress.com/> Research domain chair
Programme Director, MA/MSc Sustainable Cities<http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/geography/study/masters/suscit/index.aspx>
Department of Geography, King’s College London
Bush House NE 6.08, 30 Aldwych, London WC2B 4GB
Tel: 207 7836 1734
Blog The City Inside Out<https://ayonadatta.com/>
Twitter @ayonadatta<http://www.twitter.com/ayonadatta>
RESEARCH PROJECTS
ESRC Learning from small cities: Governing imagined futures in India’s smart urban age<https://ayonadatta.com/research-themes/learning-from-small-cities/>
AHRC Gendering the Smart City<https://gendersmartcity.wordpress.com/>
British Academy (Dis)connected Infrastructures and Violence Against Women<https://disconnectedinfrastructures.wordpress.com/>
SNF Smart Cities: Provincialising the Global Urban Age<https://provincialsmartcities.wordpress.com/blog/>
AHRC Learning from Utopian Cities<https://utopiancities.wordpress.com/>
Editor Dialogues in Human Geography<http://dhg.sagepub.com/>
Editor Urban Geography<http://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=aimsScope&journalCode=rurb20>
Editorial Advisory Board Routledge series in Equity, Justice and the Sustainable City<https://www.routledge.com/Routledge-Equity-Justice-and-the-Sustainable-City-series/book-series/EJSC>
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