The Voices from the Community section of the IJURR Foundation website is a space for past and present award holders and workshop organisers to reflect on their experience of the IJURR Foundation. Over the 27 years since it was established, the Foundation has supported hundreds of outstanding scholars around the world. Some have gone on to work in academic positions, while others have moved into a diverse range of careers and positions. It is time to share the stories from this rich network of alumni and find out more about the people supported by the Foundation, and where this support has helped to take them in their lives and careers.

We welcome new blogs from IJURR Foundation Alumni to Sarah Daisy (Company Secretary).

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Event Flyers. Images: Jhono Bennett, 2025. Co-Writing Repair: Reweaving Southern Urban Knowledge Across Continents by Jhono Bennett (IJURR Foundation Majority Regions’ Workshop Organiser 2026)

“Buddy”. Image: Aireen Andal, 2025 On building quiet human infrastructures of care in global academia by Aireen Grace Andal (Writing up Grant Holder 2023)

“First members of the Afro-Indigenous Spectralities Network.” Photo by Miguel Angel Liborio Maceda, 2025. Afro-Indigenous Spectralities: A Network under Construction from Coastal Urbanism in Guerrero

“Participants’ feet.” Photo: Ulises Moreno Tabarez, 2026. Common Spectralities: Territorial Conjurings of Presence and Memory by Linayme Paulette Reyes Ávila, Juan Fernando Abarca Reyes and Arturo Lara Valdez.

“Abandoned van in the street, Acapulco.” Photo: Astrid Paola Chavelas López, 2025 Spectral Beginnings: Weaving the Afro-Indigenous Network in Guerrero by Ulises Moreno-Tabárez (Organiser of Afro-Indingenous Spectralities, IJURR Foundation funded Workshop Series)

“Typology: Section of access street”. Image: Sara Gebremeskel, 2024 Reimagining Urban Design Through the Pedestrian’s Lens by Sara Gebremeskel (Writing up grant holder 2024)

“Participants at workshop.” Photo: Napong Tao Rugkhapan, December 2024 IJURR Workshop for Early Career Scholars in Urban Studies in Southeast Asia, 7-8 December, 2024, Bangkok, Thailand by Napong Tao Rugkhapan (workshop co-organiser, Writing up Grant holder 2016), Petchpilai Lattanan and Chaya Vaddhanaphuti (workshop co-organisers