| What: | A small group of students who will present their work, read each other’s work, and provide feedback to their peers, coordinated and led by one faculty member serving as an academic advisor. |
| Who: | PhD students in urban related disciplines who are actively working on their thesis/dissertation. The School is not suitable for students who are at the early portion of their PhD studies, as it focuses on discussing, reviewing, and refining existing work for scholarly presentation and publication. |
| When: | One 2-3 hour meeting on April 7/8, May 12/13, and June 9/10. A workshop on how to publish papers in urban studies will follow these sessions. |
| Why: | To bring together students from as many regions of the world as possible to discuss their work (in English) with each other coordinated by an established scholar. |
| Where: | On Zoom |
2022 Distinguished Faculty
AbduMaliq Simone | University of Sheffield
Diane Davis | Harvard University
Enzo Mingione | University of Milano-Bicocca
Hyun Bang Shin | London School of Economics
Jeremy Seekings | University of Cape Town
Marisol Garcia | University of Barcelona (UB)
Rivke Jaffe | University of Amsterdam
Roger Keil | York University
Sara Gonzalez | University of Leeds
Sujata Patel | Umea University
Susan Fainstein | Harvard University
Yuri Kazepov | University of Vienna
Zhigang Li | Wuhan University
2022 Students
Aireen Grace Andal | Macquarie University, Australia
Balbir Aulakh | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Raina Ghosh | Jawaharlal Nehru University, India
Ishan Shahi | IIT-Bombay, India
Shaylan Oudeh | Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
Dina Adjei-Boadi | Imperial College London, United Kingdom
Victoria Wilson | African College for Sustainable Cities, South Africa
Joyce Angnayeli Eledi Kuusaana | Utrecht University, Netherlands; TU Darmstadt, Germany
Bamiji Adeleye | Federal University of Technology, Nigeria
Cansu Sonmez | Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Fatoumata Diallo | Sciences Po, France
Brian O’Neill | University of Illinois, United States
Anisa Bhutia | Tata Institute of Social Sciences, India
Francisco Fernández Romero | University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ana Clara Chequetti da Rocha Duarte | CAPES/IESP-UERJ, Brazil
Jhono Bennett | UCL, United Kingdom
Kallia Fysaraki | National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Shweta Rani | Delhi School of Economics, India
Ceylin Idel | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Albeniz Tuğçe Ezme Gürlek | Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Turkey
Silvia Danielak | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Kyle Galindez | University of California-Santa Cruz, United States
Emmanuel Awohouedji | London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Yinglei Chen | University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Meryem Belkadi | University of British Columbia, Canada
Mirtha Lorena del Castillo | University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Katrin Hofer | ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Gianna Luisa Gehriger | University of Zurich, Switzerland
Haoyu Zhao | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marcela Alonso | Sciences Po, France
Yoonai Han | London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom
Purva Dewoolkar | University of Manchester, United Kingdom
Vivek Mishra | Northeastern University, United States
Simbarashe Mazongonda | University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe
Pearl Wematu Puwurayire | Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany
El No | University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Program Description
The Virtual Doctorate School is aimed at PhD students who are actively working on their thesis/dissertation on a topic that contributes to conceptual and theoretical debates in urban sociology or urban studies more broadly. A key objective in the selection process and the creation of the smaller cohorts is to have significant representation from each continent. The school provides PhD students with an opportunity to learn from each other as they share their work in a small group overseen by an established scholar from an urban studies related discipline. The goal is to offer PhD students an engaging environment to present their work and to engage with other scholars and established faculty in the field of urban sociology and related disciplines.
2022 Doctorate School Coordinator
The coordinator of the Virtual Doctorate School 2022 is RC21 board member Dr. John Joe (John or J.J.) Schlichtman. The school can be reached at RC21summerschool@gmail.com.
Fees
There are no fees for the Doctorate School.
Application procedure
The application for 2022 is currently closed.
