Developing Research Capacity for Inclusive Urban Governance: a Sheffield-Witwatersrand PhD training partnership

发展包容性城市治理的研究能力：谢菲尔德-威特沃特斯兰德博士培训伙伴关系

• 批准号: ES/N013816/1
• 负责人: Glyn Williams
• 金额: $ 13.31万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2015 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN013816%2F1
• 关键词: Developing; Research; Capacity; Inclusive; Urban

The proposed partnership will develop an international cohort of researchers in South Africa and the UK with the skills and capacities to conduct high-quality research on governance and social inclusion in rapidly-changing urban environments. Since Apartheid, the South African state has made major investments in housing and urban infrastructure, and yet faces ongoing protest over housing and urban service delivery, and the persistence of 'informal' housing and employment. These conditions, which are echoed in other international contexts, indicate the pressing need for critical research that examines the gaps between urban policy goals, everyday state practices, and the life-worlds of intended policy recipients. This exchange programme draws together a team of researchers (from School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, and Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield) who are undertaking internationally-leading work on 'actually existing' governance practices in the local state, and the impacts of urban policy on the lives of poor urban citizens, to build research capacity in this challenge area. It does so through collaboration which draws on the complementary strengths of their respective institutions: Sheffield's leadership of the ESRC's White Rose Doctoral Training Centre and interdisciplinary research within Sheffield Institute for International Development and its new Urban Institute, and the Witwatersrand's expertise in co-produced research in urban planning. It uses this partnership to deliver high-quality doctoral training structured around key stages of PhD progression, from research design to write-up and dissemination. Delivery of bespoke 'training packages' will be concentrated in short, intensive exchange visits, supported by on-line communication and follow-up activities, a structure that facilitates participation of part-time, and mid-career PhD students. Sequencing these exchanges throughout the PhD process will develop researchers' skills base, and also develop a strong cohort identity and intellectual coherence among the Sheffield and Wits students working together over the course of the programme.Beyond directly enhancing the research capacities of the participants themselves, the exchange programme will have two major benefits. The first is cross-institutional learning about doctoral training. Staff exchange visits within the core team will be used to collaboratively develop high-quality training materials, and embed best practice within doctoral programme development in each institution. The timing of this exchange is ideal, coinciding with a push to formalise doctoral training within Wits, and a significant review of Sheffield's provision in preparation for a DTP bid (March 2016). Members of the core team lead Sheffield's Faculty of Social Sciences Doctoral Programme, and PhD training in the Planning school in Wits, and so are uniquely placed to ensure that pedagogical learning over the course of the exchange programme is reflected in lasting institution-level change.The second is the development of a sustained academic research agenda, emerging from the cohort identity of the researchers themselves, and collective publication and knowledge-exchange activities they will undertake over the course of the programme. The core project teams in both institutions are committed to taking this forward beyond the period of Newton funding through collective bids for further PhD studentships and joint research projects.

拟议的伙伴关系将在南非和英国培养一批国际研究人员，他们具有在快速变化的城市环境中进行高质量治理和社会包容研究的技能和能力。自Aparthotel以来，南非政府在住房和城市基础设施方面进行了大量投资，但仍面临着对住房和城市服务提供的持续抗议，以及“非正式”住房和就业的持续存在。这些条件在其他国际环境中得到了回应，表明迫切需要进行批判性研究，审查城市政策目标，日常国家实践和预期政策接受者的生活世界之间的差距。该交流项目汇集了一组研究人员（来自威特沃特斯兰德大学建筑与规划学院和谢菲尔德大学城镇与区域规划系），他们正在开展关于当地国家“实际存在”治理实践的国际领先工作，以及城市政策对城市贫困居民生活的影响，以建立这一挑战领域的研究能力。它通过利用各自机构的互补优势进行合作：谢菲尔德领导ESRC的白色玫瑰博士培训中心和谢菲尔德国际发展研究所及其新的城市研究所内的跨学科研究，以及威特沃特斯兰德在城市规划联合生产研究方面的专业知识。它利用这种伙伴关系提供高质量的博士培训，围绕博士学位进展的关键阶段，从研究设计到撰写和传播。定制的“培训包”的交付将集中在短期内，密集的交流访问，在线通信和后续活动的支持下，一个结构，促进兼职和职业生涯中期的博士生的参与。在整个博士过程中安排这些交流将发展研究人员的技能基础，并在谢菲尔德和Wits学生之间建立强大的群体身份和智力一致性。除了直接提高参与者本身的研究能力外，交流计划还有两个主要好处。第一是关于博士培养的跨机构学习。核心团队内部的工作人员互访将用于协作开发高质量的培训材料，并将最佳实践嵌入每个机构的博士课程开发中。这次交流的时机是理想的，与推动正式的博士培训内的智慧，并在准备DTP投标（2016年3月）的谢菲尔德的规定进行了重大审查。核心团队的成员领导谢菲尔德的社会科学学院博士课程，并在规划学校的博士培训在Wits，因此，独特的地位，以确保教学学习的过程中的交流计划是反映在持久的机构层面的变化。第二个是一个持续的学术研究议程的发展，从队列身份的研究人员本身出现，以及它们将在方案执行过程中开展的集体出版和知识交流活动。这两个机构的核心项目团队致力于通过集体竞标进一步的博士生奖学金和联合研究项目，在牛顿资助时期之后继续推进这一工作。

项目成果

(Im)mobility at the margins: low-income households' experiences of peripheral resettlement in India and South Africa

边缘的流动性：印度和南非低收入家庭的边缘重新安置经历

• DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2021.1946018
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Housing Studies
• 影响因子: 3.2
• 作者: Williams G