VACANCY: AMALI Communications Officer
The African Centre for Cities is seeking to appoint Communications Officer for the African Mayoral Leadership Initiative (AMALI)
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Call for applications for UTA-Do 2024
Calling all early-career academics, researchers, activists, and artists interested in urban theory in Africa! Apply now to be a part of the third UTA-Do African Cities Workshop in 2024, to be hosted in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (29 Jan to 2 Feb 2024).
Call for applications for PhD scholarship
As part of this project on Smartness as Wealth, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, the ACC is seeking to recruit a full-time PhD candidate who will undertake rigorous and critical work on fintech and inclusion in the context of Nairobi
Vacancy: Strategic Communications Manager
The African Centre for Cities seeks to appoint a Strategic Communications Manager. The main purpose of the Strategic Communications Manager is to deliver strategic communications outcomes for the African Centre for Cities.
Vacancy: Communications Officer
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) is seeking to appoint a Communications Officer. The main purpose of the Communications Officer is to in collaboration with the Communications Manager provide communication services to the ACC Team.
EDP and ACC – collaboration for transformative urban learning
In April, 2023, the African Centre for Cities and the Economic Development Partnership (EDP) began a new collaboration. This partnership, building on a decade-long relationship between the two organisations, focuses on building knowledge from, with, and for urban practice.
New website of African infrastructure case studies launched
infra.africa is a new website which resulted from African Urban Futures, a research collaboration African between the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and the Urban Futures Studio at Utrecht University.
Fighting Urban Corruption in Fast-Growing African Cities
Corruption in Urban Planning: A Guide for Professional and Trainee Planners is a guide developed in partnership with researchers at the African Centre for Cities, geared towards understanding and addressing the impact of corruption on Sub-Saharan cities.
Research Officer/Senior Research Officer: AMALI Data Programme
The African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town invite applications for three full time Research Officers or Senior Research Officers for a two-year period (1 June 2023 – 31 May 2025).
Zeit Stiftung Fellowship awarded to ACC’s Alicia Fortuin
ACC PhD candidate and research fellow Alicia Fortuin was awarded a Zeit Stiftung Fellowship.
Pathways to transform urban food system
An action research compass for strengthening the informal sector’s role in achieving the right to food.
DAAD Call for Scholarship Applications 2024 – MPhil Southern Urbanism
The African Centre for Cities, through Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) are calling for scholarship applications for 2024.
Second call for applications: Associate Professor or Professor in Urban Studies
The African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town and Urban Studies at the University of Basel invite applications for a full time Associate Professor or Professor in Urban Studies.
theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban theories
African Centre for Cities is delighted to publish theoriSE: debating the southeastern turn in urban studies, edited by Oren Yiftachel and Nisa Mammon.
EXTENDED DEADLINE: Call for Applications: Junior Research Fellow
The African Centre for Cities invites applications for a two-year Junior Research Fellow position to join Young and Online in African Cities: Tech-based Activations for Just and Sustainable Urban Development, an applied and action-oriented research project aiming to tackle inequality through exploring the relationship between youth, technology, work, citizenship, and sustainable and just placemaking.