As the significance of shared culture and meaningful exchange between the cities of London and Paris comes increasingly to the fore, the University of London has launched a new global fellowship opportunity piloted by the University of London Institute in Paris in collaboration the University’s leading centres of research and learning in urban history, culture, design and theory, including the Institute of Historical Research, the London Policy and Research partnership, as well as the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
As the significance of shared culture and meaningful exchange between the cities of London and Paris comes increasingly to the fore, the University of London has launched a new global fellowship opportunity piloted by the University of London Institute in Paris in collaboration the University’s leading centres of research and learning in urban history, culture, design and theory, including the Institute of Historical Research, the London Policy and Research partnership, as well as the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL).
This Global Fellowship aims to build experientially embedded research that reflects and informs the ways urban environments are responding to deepening inequalities and environmental crisis, as well as the effects of rising nationalism. It invites interdisciplinary work to help shape new understandings of the variable triangulations of public works, private investment, and civil-society action. As patterns of labour and mobility change, as the imperatives of climate action and disease control increasingly shape urban policy and infrastructure, how are cities adapting, transforming, failing, and thriving?
The fellowship seeks in particular to foster new attention to urban dynamics of welfare, well-being, and solidarity. Much scholarship focuses on macro-factors in global city analysis, stressing the intensification of competition between urban centres and particular configurations of rivalry and/or emulation, all patterns that tend to dominate the structure of work between Paris and London. Yet community-led innovation and knowledge are increasingly shaping urban and design cultures, generating new vernaculars and alternative forms of circular economies or more or less autonomous structures of solidarity. Can these processes by mapped from what are often perceived as ‘only’ local dynamics into a transnational frame, and what do we gain in doing so?
The Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship invites scholars to place alternative forms and spaces of knowledge production at the heart of proposals that may build on research and creative practice developed in relation to cultures and histories of the built environment across the world, but also more directly within the perimeter of the Paris-London framework. It encourages candidates to consider how their work will both benefit from sustained consideration of this Paris-London framework, while also contributing to the elucidation of it. It also anticipates the importance of historical perspectives and welcomes proposals anchored in the city as archive.
The Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship invites scholars to place alternative forms and spaces of knowledge production at the heart of proposals that may build on research and creative practice developed in relation to cultures and histories of the built environment across the world, but also more directly within the perimeter of the Paris-London framework. It encourages candidates to consider how their work will both benefit from sustained consideration of this Paris-London framework, while also contributing to the elucidation of it. It also anticipates the importance of historical perspectives and welcomes proposals anchored in the city as archive.
The Fellow will conduct and communicate original research, engage in the research environment of the supporting institutions, and contribute to fostering productive connections between them. More specifically, the Fellow will design and convene a programme of lectures and collaborative events with funds available for this programming. Using video capture and the subsequent publication of the lectures, the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship intends to establish a body of new research that will constitute a reference in urban studies.
The Fellowship will be for a period up to 6 months (normally between January and June 2024), based in Paris or London, or split between the two cities.
The University is seeking candidates who are looking to learn from new institutional and interdisciplinary collaborations. Candidates must have a substantial research track record and hold a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field or have demonstrated the impact of their work through creative practice and dissemination.
The University particularly welcomes applicants from minority groups.
We will accept applications from salaried and non-salaried candidates.
Pursuing excellence in education and equal opportunities.
Applicants should submit (amalgamated in one document):
CV (including names of two referees)
Short summary/pitch outlining the key objectives for the fellowship (300 words max)
A project document explaining the aims and tentative organization for each of the workshops, including possible invited participants (speakers or session leaders), as well as the relation between the Paris and the London events, and how these would be supported by the key-note lectures. Indicative titles for the latter and/or short abstracts may be given. Candidates are encouraged to diversify the means/modes of interaction in the workshops (up to 4 pages; font: times roman 12).
Click here to apply via the University of London's jobs portal.
Applications close Tuesday 30 May 2023 at midnight BST.
Applications close Tuesday 30 May 2023 at midnight BST.
The University reserves the right to close the vacancy earlier than the published end date should it receive sufficient applications to warrant earlier shortlisting.
If you would like to discuss the post informally, or have questions about the application process, contact Anna-Louise.Milne@ulip.lon.ac.uk
Professor Simone’s Fellowship Programme is entitled Urban Life at the Extensions. It will engage in collaborative work with the Beyond Inhabitation Lab and a number of frontline associations and networks in the Paris area to build a series of seminars and joint investigations. It will explore the notion of ‘extensions’ in ways that themselves exceed the focus on extension of city form to suggest that going beyond can take place anywhere and is manifested not only in new territorial formations but also in ways of living and inhabiting.
For the second iteration of the Banister Fletcher Fellowship, the University of London Institute in Paris in partnership with the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL) and Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), is delighted to welcome Dr John Bingham-Hall to lead a programme of research that will explore some of the implications of the new focus on ‘green infrastructures’ as they are playing out in the cities of Paris and London. You can check the programme by clicking on the image below.
During her Banister Fletcher Fellowship, Dr Min Kyung Lee curated a series of events that aimed to understand the social, cultural and epistemological consequences of the comprehensive quantification project on the urban forms and inhabitants of metropoles such as London, Paris and beyond. Her lectures focused on the Second Empire Paris and Interwar France, while the two panel conversations she convened brought together perspectives from around the world and a range of disciplines from law to data science to art and architectural history.
