Opportunities

Global South Fellowship Program Birmingham deadline 29 May2026

The Global South Fellowship Program aims to support the professional development of early-career researchers from universities in the Global South.

Aims of the Scheme
The aim of the scheme is to enable visiting fellows to gain insight into the organisation and conduct of research, training, and administration at the University of Birmingham and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Additionally, it promotes research collaboration, partnership development, and further collaboration with the Global South. We welcome applications in subject areas related to education access and equity, global health, and sustainability and climate action. However, there is some flexibility around this. 

Funding and accommodation
The scheme will provide each visiting fellow with travel expenses of up to £850 and a monthly stipend of £1500 for up to three months to help cover living expenses and accommodation. On campus accommodation can be booked on fellows' behalf and the cost deducted from the stipend, however there is no guarantee that University accommodation will be available during the fellowship. Further information on private accommodation options and support with organising accommodation is available upon request.

Application deadline: 29 May 2026 , Application results: 25 June 2026
Fellowship period: The fellowship period is between July 2026 to June 2027. Please note that the funding is only available for three months in this period.

enquiries regarding this grant and application process may be addressed via
website : https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/international/global-south-fellowship-program 

We are inviting proposals for a workshop exploring how ideas of urbanization extend beyond the traditional boundaries of the city—and how these concepts emerge, evolve, and travel across regions.

Southeast Asia (SEA) has been, and remains, fertile ground for research that unsettles any neat dichotomy of city versus non-city, and association of urbanization only with the former. This has given rise to work on the urban beyond the city, most famously “desakota” (McGee, 1991). What other concepts, terms or ideas emerge from the region alongside (or perhaps in the shadow of) desakota? Where specifically have these terms emerged from and where (beyond as well as within the region) have they travelled to? How does Southeast Asia relate to the wider traffic in ideas around burgeoning literatures on planetary urbanization and planetary ruralization? These are the overarching questions that frame this urban/rural studies workshop on the making and mobility of concepts from Southeast Asia.

📅 Workshop dates: 24–25 September 2026
📍 Location: National University of Singapore
🗓️ Deadline for proposals: 29 May 2026

enquiries regarding this grant and application process may be addressed via
email : aritm@nus.edu.sg

website : https://ari.nus.edu.sg/events/beyond-the-city/ 

Apply for a postdoctoral fellowship to develop: publications, networks, research skills, professional skills

You must have:

• completed your PhD in the UK at a UK research organisation

• less than 15 months active postdoctoral experience (at full-time rate) measured from passing your viva voce to the funding opportunity closing date

Fellowships must be held at a research organisation that is part of a Doctoral Training Partnership and aligned to an accredited subject area.

Duration
The duration of this award is up to nine months full-time, or up to 18 months part-time. The duration of part-time awards should be pro-rated based on the fellow’s time commitment.

Fellowships must start on 1 October 2026. We will consider requests for later start dates in exceptional circumstances. Speak to your DTP to discuss this.

enquiries regarding this grant and application process may be addressed via
email : nwssdtp@liverpool.ac.uk

website : https://www.ukri.org/opportunity/esrc-postdoctoral-fellowships/ 

the FoAR × JoA Writing Camp 2026 deadline 5 June 2026

Applications are now open for the FoAR × JoA Writing Camp 2026, co-hosted by Frontiers of Architectural Research and The Journal of Architecture, and co-organised by Southeast University and the University of Manchester.

Taking place in Nanjing and Yixing, China (8–18 September 2026), the Writing Camp offers UK-based PhD candidates and early-career researchers (up to six years post-PhD) an opportunity to engage critically with architectural research, publication cultures, and academic writing across different editorial and disciplinary contexts.

Participants will work directly with editors from both journals through lectures, discussions, peer feedback, and intensive writing sessions. The programme supports the development of research from proposal to draft paper, while encouraging reflection on how architectural knowledge is produced, communicated, and circulated internationally.

Applicants are required to submit:

• a short covering letter (up to 200 words)
• an extended outline (up to 1,500 words) of the proposed paper
• up to five images supporting the proposal
• a short academic CV (up to 3 A4 pages)

All materials should be submitted as a single PDF to:

thejournalofarchitecture[at]gmail.com

Participant expenses in China, including travel, accommodation and subsistence, will be covered.

Application deadline: 05 June 2026.

enquiries regarding this grant and application process may be addressed via
email : thejournalofarchitecture@gmail.com

website : https://www.thejournalofarchitecture.com/