SMUS Calls Archive

Call for Applications: SMUS Action 2 ‒ Experience: Gaining Applicable Skills in Research through Combined Teaching-Research-Course

Application Deadline: 05.09.2023

SMUS is pleased to announce an open call for (1) one teaching-research-project course during 2023/2024.
Research methodological skills are often abstract, and many scholars find it challenging to put them into action for their own research topic. In certain disciplines, the challenge of learning how to put methods into practice is often tackled by designing and conducting tandem teaching-research-project courses.

The course usually includes:
• Methodological training on particular research methods,
• Data analysis training and
• Writing skills.

2023/2024 Teaching-Research-Project Course

The SMUS teaching-research-project course will allow all university teachers from the SMUS network to further their teaching and research skills by collaborating with colleagues within the network, by co-designing a small research project and developing a teaching programme to address their research question.

Step 1
University teachers can either design an entirely new course or use an existing course to address their research questions with their students.

Step 2
The course will then be taught by university teachers from at least two SMUS partner universities looking at a particular theme or topic under SDG#11.

Step 3
The final results of the teaching-research-project course will then be published as a manual, a textbook, or a handbook that can be used as a resource for future teaching or online lectures.

Should you have any questions or require additional information on this Call, please do not hesitate to contact either Professor Nina Baur at nina.baur@tu-berlin.de. or Thando Tilmann at thando.tilmann@tu-berlin.de.


SMUS Action 4 ‒ “Exchange”: Practical-Empirical Implementation Projects (PEIPs)

Drawing on the targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal #11 (SDG #11), Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, this Call for Applications, open to all SMUS partners, is looking for innovative projects for making a difference in professional practice for urban sustainability with the aid of spatial research methods.
Within a specific research activity area at the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS), SMUS Action 4, “Exchange”, the Call will fund ONE or TWO Practical–Empirical Implementation Project (PEIP) of the SMUS-developed toolkit of spatial methods for collaborating with the SDG #11 targets. The selected PEIP(s) will run over a 6-month period: from 1 October 2023 to 31 March 2024.
This Call has been prepared by Action 4 Speaker Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse and Action 4 Scientific Coordinator Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa. If you require any further information or clarification on this call, please write to:  smus-action4-peips@usp.br.

Extended Deadline 05.09.2023

 


Call for Abstracts (Extended Deadline: Friday, 15.08.2023)

4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) &4th RC33 Regional Conference Asia: Thailand, 23‒29.07.2024, hosted by Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)

We hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “4th RC33 Regional Conference Asia: Thailand” and take place on site at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) from Tuesday, July 23rd, to Monday, July 29th, 2024.

About the Conference

The “Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (GCSMUS or SMUS) together with the Research Committee on “Logic and Methodology in Sociology” (RC33) of the “International Sociology Association” (ISA) and the Research Network “Quantitative Methods” (RN21) of the European Sociology Association” (ESA) will organize a 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the 4th RC33 Regional Conference Asia: Thailand, and take place on site at the Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University (Bangkok, Thailand) from Tuesday, July 23rd, to Monday, July 29th, 2024. The seven-day conference aims at continuing a global dialogue on methods and should attract methodologists from all over the world and all social and spatial sciences (e. g. anthropology, area studies, architecture, communication studies, computational sciences, digital humanities, educational sciences, geography, historical sciences, humanities, landscape planning, philosophy, psychology, sociology, urban design, urban planning, traffic planning and environmental planning). The conference programme will include keynotes, sessions and advanced methodological training courses. With this intention, we invite scholars of all social and spatial sciences and other scholars who are interested in methodological discussions to suggest an abstract to any sessions of the conference. All papers have to address a methodological problem.

Please find more information on the above institutions on the following websites:

If you are interested in getting further information on the conference and other GCSMUS activities, please subscribe to the SMUS newsletter by registering via the following website:
https://lists.tu-berlin.de/mailman/listinfo/mes-smusnews

Conference Sessions

      1. The Longue Durée in the 21st-Century Social Sciences: Methodological Challenges of Analyzing Long-Term Social Processes
      2. Methods for Analyzing the Economy: Rural-Urban-Relations, Spatial Transformations and the Economy
      3. Methodologies for the Investigation of Spatial Transformation Processes
      4. Cities and Communities: Unpacking the Contested Urban in South Asia
      5. Mapping the socio-spatial transformation of public space
      6. Decolonizing Social Science Methodology: Strategies for Challenging Power Structures and Promoting Equity in Research
      7. Towards Decolonial Reflexivity. A Dialogic Approach Towards Decolonizing Social Science Methodology
      8. The Decolonization of spatial ethnography: Perspectives and Limits
      9. Decolonizing social science methodology and the Global South – Methods from, by and/or for the Global South
      10. Beyond the Discourse: Dynamics, Intricacies and Challenges of Knowledge Decolonization in the Global South
      11. Decolonizing methodology of Social Science: from Post-colonial theory to Decolonial knowledge
      12. Overcoming methodological nationalism
      13. Decolonising the Canon for Methods Training
      14. Critical Mapping and comtemporary visual cultures
      15. Mapping as a tool for Participatory Methods in Spatial Research and Planning
      16. Exploring Spatial Micro Interactions and Videographic Methods
      17. Coping with iconic architecture in the Global South: Methodological dilemmas and opportunities
      18. Ethnography as Spatial-Temporal Method for Research on Urban Public Space
      19. Knowledge Cultures and Qualitative Methods
      20. Urban Ethnography – Practical Experiences, Lessons and Challenges of the Research Method
      21. (Re-)Thinking Methods for Migration Research
      22. Comparative Study about ‘Leaving’ and ‘Living’: Housing and Young People in Asia
      23. Urban Mobility Studies: Methodological Enquiry from Social Science and Human Centric Approaches
      24. Applying Spatial Methods in Homelessness Studies: Methodological and Ethical Challenges
      25. Decoding the City: Entanglements of the Material and Affective
      26. Urban Assemblage: Interrogating Transdisciplinary Methodological Approaches to Researching the City Environments
      27. Experimenting with Methods for Entangled Areas and Critical Zones
      28. Well-Being in Socio-Spatial – Participatory Research methods and tools
      29. Spatial Methods in Healthcare Research
      30. A Mixed Method Approach to The Prevention of Lifestyle Diseases in The Work Environment
      31. Global methods for the study of housing affordability and urban health?
      32. Between Precarity and Formality: Interrogating the Gendered Spaces of Informality in the Global South
      33. Feminist Participatory Methods for Gender-inclusive Urban Planning and Design
      34. Implementing Gender Sensitive Research Methods
      35. Methods in Food Studies Research
      36. Design Methods for Accessibility and Social Inclusion
      37. Methods in deviance research.
      38. Spaces of Violence_ Violent Spaces? Analyzing Forms of Violence and their Relation to Space
      39. Digitalization and Digital Transformation: Methodological Approaches, Dilemmas and Prospects
      40. Methods for studying religions and religious/sacred spaces
      41. Cross-cultural methods, transnational research and issues of comparability
      42. Language and Social Research
      43. Comparative urbanism and qualitative social research
      44. Diverse geographies, (dis)similar empirics: Exploring climate risks and resilience in urban deltas using ‘comparative urbanism’ approach
      45. Who and how should we include in methodological tools? Towards the integration of stakeholders and different approaches for spatial knowledge construction
      46. Spatial Methods in Transdisciplinarity for Urban Sustainability
      47. Teaching spatial methods and urban sustainability in different contexts
      48. Engendering Urban Governance and Planning in the Global South : Methodological Issues and Challenges
      49. Historical and contextual uses of planning and their methods
      50. Mixed Methods Use in Conservation Outcomes and Local Governance Assessment in Sustainable Forest Management
      51. Methodological Challenges, Overlaps, and Misunderstandings between Planning and the Social Sciences
      52. Sustainability and Resilience of Cities
      53. Mapping as a tool for Participatory Methods in Spatial Research and Planning
      54. Datafication of Asian Cities:  Seeing the city with Algorithms
      55. Strategies of data collection, storage and access in psychology and related discipline
      56. Multi-Method Approaches in Interpretive Empirical Research on Relations between Established and Outsider Groupings
      57. Embracing Diversity in Empirical Research: Insights from culturally sensitive approaches
      58. Data-Driven Smart Community Design
      59. Understanding Influencers of Fast Urbanization using Non-survey Data
      60. Social Inequality in Field Work – Handling Reseachers’ Positionality in Research
      61. Current Trends of Research Ethics in Spatial Methods
      62. In the Field – Experiences in conducting research in the Global South
      63. How international is interpretive social research?
      64. Methodological Challenges in Spatial Method: A quantitative approach
      65. Key Ethical Principles in Protecting Research Subjects: Accommodating Research Ethics from Global South

Submission of Abstracts

If you are interested in presenting a paper in any SMUS Thailand 2024 session, please submit an English-language abstract containing the following information to SMUS Thailand via the official conference website https://gcsmus.org/conferences/thailand/ between 24.04.2023 and 15.08.2023.

    • Mention the Session Number and Name
    • Paper Title
    • Speakers (= name(s), email address(es), institutional affiliation(s))
    • 1000-2000 Word Abstract (= short description of the proposed talk. The abstract should explain which methodological problem is addressed, why this is relevant, how the paper refers to the session and what the general line of argument will be.)
    • Only one submission per individual will be entertained.

Please note that all sessions must adhere to the rules of session organization comprised in the RC33 statutes and GCSMUS Objectives (see below). Please note that you can give a maximum of two papers at the conference, including joint papers. The conference organizers will inform you if your proposed paper has been accepted for presentation at the conference. For further information, please see the conference website or contact the session organizers.

Please also kindly forward this call to anybody to whom it might be of interest.

Jakkrit Sangkhamanee

Chulalongkorn University

SMUS 2024 Conference Convener


Rules for Session Organization

 

  1. There will be no conference fees.
  2. The session organizers and speakers will be expected to provide for their own funding for accommodation and travel expenses. However, members of SMUS partner institutions will be able to apply for a travel grant via their home institution. In addition, there will be travel grants for non-SMUS scholars from India who present a paper or organize a session. Travel grants will be high enough to fully cover travel costs and living expenses. Details on the application process will follow in autumn this year.
  3. The conference language is English. All papers therefore need to be presented in English.
  4. All sessions have to be international: Each session should have speakers from at least two countries (exceptions will need good reasons).
  5. Each paper must contain a methodological problem (any area, qualitative or quantitative).
  6. There will be several calls for abstracts via the SMUS, RC33 and RN21 Newsletters. To begin with, session organizers can prepare a call for abstracts on their own initiative, then at a different time, there will be a common call for abstracts, and session organizers can ask anybody to submit a paper.
  7. SMUS, RC33 and RN21 members may distribute these calls via other channels. SMUS members and session organizers are expected to actively advertise their session in their respective scientific communities.
  8. Speakers can only have one talk per session. This also applies for joint papers. It will not be possible for A and B to present at the same time one paper as B and A during the same session. This would just extend the time allocated to these speakers.
  9. Session organizers may present a paper in their own session.
  10. Sessions will have a length of 90 minutes with a maximum of 4 papers or a length of 120 minutes with a maximum of 6 papers. Session organizers can invite as many speakers as they like. The number of sessions depends on the number of papers submitted to each session: for example, if 12 good papers are submitted to a session, there will be two sessions with a length of 90 minutes each with 6 papers in each session.
  11. Papers may only be rejected for the conference if they do not present a methodological problem (as stated above), are not in English or are somehow considered by session organizers as not being appropriate or relevant for the conference. Session organizers may ask authors to revise and resubmit their paper so that it fits these requirements. If session organizers do not wish to consider a paper submitted to their session, they should inform the author and forward the paper to the local organizing team who will find a session where the paper fits for presentation.
  12. Papers directly addressed to the conference organising committee, suggesting a session. The conference organizers will check the formal rules and then offer the paper to the session organizer of the most appropriate session. The session organizers will have to decide on whether or not the paper can be included in their session(s). If the session organizers think that the paper does not fit into their session(s), the papers has to be sent back to the conference organizing committee as soon as possible so that the committee can offer the papers to another session organizer.

 


SMUS Action 4 ‒ “Exchange”: Practical-Empirical Implementation Projects (PEIPs)

*Reopened Call – Deadline: 17.07.2023*

Drawing on the targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal #11 (SDG #11), Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, this Call for Applications, open to all SMUS partners, is looking for innovative projects for making a difference in professional practice for urban sustainability with the aid of spatial research methods.
Within the framework of SMUS Action 4, “Exchange”, the Call will fund ONE to TWO Practical–Empirical Implementation Project (PEIP), which is based on the deployment of the “SMUS toolkit”, developed out of the experience of the Pilot Project, to address one or several targets of SDG #11 (refer to the Call for more details). This PEIP will run over a 6-month period: from 1 October 2023 to 31 March 2024.
This Call has been prepared by Action 4 Speaker Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse and Action 4 Scientific Coordinator Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa. If you require any further information or clarification on this call, please write to:  smus-action4-peips@usp.br.

Extended Deadline 17.07.2023

 

 

 

 

 


SMUS Action 5 – “Enhance”: SMUS MOOCs (3rd Generation)

This Call for Applications is looking for innovative ideas for the production of SMUS MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on urban sustainability, spatial research methods, and their practical/professional application.

This call is now open to all SMUS partner institutions including repeating SMUS partners (meaning Gen 1 and Gen 2 teams) as well as for “Wild Card” (max 1 will be awarded) applications from higher education institutions from DAC countries.


SMUS Action 3 ‒ “Evaluate”: Post-Doctoral Research

Given the diversity and inherent complexity of the themes contained within the targets of the SDG #11, which are underlain by as well as directly concerned with “the urban”, conceiving academic work and conducting research turns out to be pivotal to enable the critical evaluation of the numerous challenges encountered throughout the various world regions when it comes to furthering urban sustainability.
Against this backdrop, in SMUS Action 3 Step 3, a second round of Post-Doctoral and Researcher Scholarships are offered for post-doctoral researchers at different stages of career development. While the scholarships will be awarded in 2023, scholarship recipients will only begin activities between 1 January and 31 October 2024. More specifically, the scholarships are aimed at enabling a minimum of 3 post-doctoral researchers (Track A) and a minimum of 3 advanced researchers/junior professors/lecturers (Track B) from partner universities to complete a research stay at a SMUS partner university of their choice. To encourage knowledge transfer and the transition towards scientific-academic autonomy, both south-to-south and south-to-north collaborations are strongly encouraged. Moreover, the scholarship will only be awarded to applicants who plan to submit their research proposal to a research grant institution.
This Call has been prepared by Action 3 Speakers Prof. Dr. Angela Million and Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa. If you require any further information or clarification, please write to: i.castilloulloa@tu-berlin.de

Deadline 03.07.2023

 


SMUS INDIA 2023 – Conference
Call for Abstracts

Deadline: 13.10.2022

We hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India”, and take place on site at the Indian Institute for Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee, India).

 

Downloads:

Call for Abstracts

 

 

 

 


SMUS Action 4 Exchange: Gaining Applicable Skills in Practice Through PracticalEmpirical Implementations of Spatial Methods

Drawing on the targets and indicators of the Sustainable Development Goal #11 (SDG #11), Make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable, this Call for Applications, open to all SMUS partners, is looking for innovative projects for making a difference in professional practice for urban sustainability with the aid of spatial research methods.
Within a specific research activity area at the Global Center of Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS), Action 4 “Exchange”, the Call will fund two PracticalEmpirical Implementation Projects (PEIPs) of a SMUSdeveloped toolkit of spatial methods for collaborating with the SDG #11 targets.

This Call has been prepared by Action 4 Speaker Prof. Dr. Fraya Frehse and Action 4 Scientific Coordinator Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa. If you require any further information or clarification on this call, please write to:  smus-action4-peips@usp.br.

Deadline 19.09.2022

 

 

 

 


SMUS BRAZIL 2022 – Conference

Call for Abstracts

Deadline: 13.06.2022

We hereby invite you to submit an abstract for the “2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability” (“SMUS Conference”), which will simultaneously be the “1st RC33 Regional Conference “Latin America: Brazil” in cooperation with ESA RN21 “Quantitative Methods”, and take place online at the University of São Paulo (Brazil) from Thursday, September 8th, to Saturday, September 10th, 2022.

 

Submit your abstract here.

 

 

 


Call for Applications
Deadline: 24.04.2022

Action 2 – Experience: SMUS Joint Teaching-Research Courses

Are you a SMUS junior or advanced researcher interested in co-designing and co-teaching a course? Then join us for an online mandatory preparatory meeting to learn more about the call. The meeting will take place on the 24.02.2022 from 12.00 – 14.00 CET. Please note that applications will not be accepted if you have not attended the preparatory meeting. If you are for whatever reason unable to attend the meeting, please write to Nina Baur at nina.baur@tu-berlin.de.

 

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“Wild Card” Call for Applications:
SMUS MOOC (2nd generation)


Deadline: 04.04.2022

This “Wild Card” call for the production of 1 SMUS MOOC is open to all higher education institutions from DAC countries. Whilst applications from SMUS partners are welcomed, please note that this is an open call and that applicants do not need to be from a SMUS partner university/institution. The main applicant university/institution should have the desire to become an active SMUS partner.

Application Deadline: 04 April 2022

Download the SMUS MOOC Call
Download the SMUS MOOC Application Form
Download the SMUS MOOC Application Budget

 

 

 

 

 

 


Call for Session Organizers
Deadline: 25.03.2022

 

3rd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) &
3rd RC33 Regional Conference Asia: India, 20.‒26.02.2023,
by IIT Roorkee (India)

 


Call for MOOC Applications
Deadline: 21.03.2022

 

This Call for Applications, open to all SMUS partners, is looking for innovative ideas for the production of 3 SMUS MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) on urban sustainability, spatial research methods, and their practical/professional application.

 


Call for Session Organizers
Deadline: 13.03.2022

 

2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Spatial Methods for Urban Sustainability (SMUS Conference) & 1st RC33 Regional Conference Latin America: Brazil

 

08.‒10.09.2022

Online-Conference hosted by the University of São Paulo (Brazil)


Call for Applications

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