Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university
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2022
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Urban ECA Collective*, Nabeela Ahmed, Alexander G Baker, Akash Bhattacharya, Sally Cawood, Ana Julia Cabrera Pacheco, Mallo Maren Daniel, Matheus Grandi, Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez, Prince K. Guma, Victoria Habermehl, Katie Higgins, Lutfun Nahar Lata, Minsi Liu, Christopher Luederitz, Soha Macktoom, Rachel Macrorie, Lorena Melgaço, Inés Morales, Elsa Noterman, Gwilym Owen, Basirat Oyalowo, Ben Purvis, Enora Robin, Lindsay Sawyer, Jessica Terruhn, Hita Unnikrishnan, Thomas Verbeek, Claudia Villegas & Linda Westman
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We are an international collective of Early Career Academics (ECAs) who met throughout 2020 to explore the implications of COVID-19 on precarious academics. With this intervention, our aims are to voice commonly shared experiences and concerns and to reflect on the extent to which the pandemic offers opportunities to redefine Higher Education and research institutions, in a context of ongoing precarity and funding cuts. Specifically, we explore avenues to build solidarity across institutions and geographies, to ensure that the conduct of urban research, and support offered to ECAs, allows for more inclusivity, diversity, security and equitability.
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postdoctoral research, international solidarity, decolonisation, neoliberal academy, ECRs
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Urban ECA Collective*, Nabeela Ahmed, Alexander G Baker, Akash Bhattacharya, Sally Cawood, Ana Julia Cabrera Pacheco, Mallo Maren Daniel, Matheus Grandi, Christian O. Grimaldo-Rodríguez, Prince K. Guma, Victoria Habermehl, Katie Higgins, Lutfun Nahar Lata, Minsi Liu, Christopher Luederitz, Soha Macktoom, Rachel Macrorie, Lorena Melgaço, Inés Morales, Elsa Noterman, Gwilym Owen, Basirat Oyalowo, Ben Purvis, Enora Robin, Lindsay Sawyer, Jessica Terruhn, Hita Unnikrishnan, Thomas Verbeek, Claudia Villegas & Linda Westman 2022, 'Redefining the role of urban studies Early Career Academics in the post-COVID-19 university', City, vol. 26, no. 4, pp. 562-586. https://doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2022.2091826