The Voices from the Community section of the IJURR Foundation website is a space for past and present award holders 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).
Reimagining Urban Design Through the Pedestrian’s Lensby Sara Gebremeskel (Writing up grant holder 2024)
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IJURR Workshop for Early Career Scholars in Urban Studies in Southeast Asia, 7-8 December, 2024, Bangkok, Thailandby Napong Tao Rugkhapan (workshop co-organiser, Writing up Grant holder 2016), Petchpilai Lattanan and Chaya Vaddhanaphuti (workshop co-organisers)
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IJURR foundation’s majority region workshop empowers early career researchers in GhanaBy event organizers Lazarus Jambadu and Joyce Eledi Kuusaana (Writing up grant holder 2023)
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 “Farmland in rural Narok where translocal farmers are active” Photo: Mwangi Chege, 2023.Entanglements and encounters tying rural and urban Kenyaby Mwangi Chege (Studentship Award Holder, 2022)
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Panelists at the second session. Photo: W. Kimari, August 30 2023. Climate Emergencies and the Crisis of Imaginations in Africaby Wangui Kimari (Writing up awardee 2016; co-organizer UTA-do African Cities Workshop)
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Reflections on Fieldwork Experiences in Mexico City and İstanbulby Özge Yüksekkaya, (Studentship Award Holder, 2023)
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Street traders sharing their experiences during a photo exhibition in Harare, Zimbabwe. Photo: Elmond Bandauko, 2022. Voices from the ‘margins’: fieldwork reflections from using participatory photovoice with street traders in Harare, Zimbabweby Elmond Bandauko (Studentship holder, 2022)
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 Greyscale photo of desk globe. Photo: Krzysztof Hepner on Unsplash, published on Three family generations of migrants from Turkey to Europe are monetarily more impoverished than those who returned to or have never left their originsby Dr Şebnem Eroğlu (Studenship Holder, 2001)
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 Lubumbashi smelter: extraction and urbanization. Photo: Brandon Marc Finn, January 5, 2019 Adapting and Expanding Urban Research on Informality, Sustainability, and Inequalityby Brandon Finn (Studentship Holder, 2020) |
 ‘Empowering Women – Empowering Humanity: Picture It!’ Public participation at a graffiti workshop in Rio de Janeiro, promoted by UN Women Brazil #orangeurhood. Photo: Fernando Frazão/Agência Brasil, December 2014. CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 Feminicide in Rio de Janeiroby Brena O’Dwyer (Writing Up Grant holder, 2021) |
Reflection on the Effect of IJURR Foundation Writing up Grantby Divine M. Asafo (Writing up Grant holder, 2020)
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 ‘Wrocław Główny after the reconstruction’. Photo: Maria Węgrzynowska, 2016 The Beautiful, the Cosy, the Exciting—Aesthetic Desires We Live Byby Anastasiya Halauniova (Writing up Grant holder, 2020) |
Typology: Section of access street. Image: Sara Gebremeskel, 2024. 
Participants at workshop. Photo: Napong 
Participants at workshop. Photo: Lazarus Jambadu/Joyce Eledi Kuusaana, 22 July 2024. 
Left: Iztapalapa from the cablebús, Mexico City. Right: Sultanbeyli, İstanbul . Photos: Özge Yüksekkaya, 2023.
