Banister Fletcher Fellowship 2027

The Fellowship

Over more than a hundred years, twenty different editions of Banister Fletcher’s A History of Architecture were published, each one bringing into play a different range of authors, from Professor Banister Fletcher and his son Banister Flight Fletcher, their wives Lady Fletcher and Alice Maud Mary Fletcher, to an ever-boarder community of contributors. In 2019 Murray Fraser published a completely new collection, Sir Banister Fletcher’s Global History of Architecture, involving 88 scholars from around the world. This work marked a major departure from the colonial hierarchies that shaped the prior editions.

The Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship in Urban Studies builds on this transformation of the field of architectural history by expanding attention to minor infrastructures and to the way that two major imperial capitals are adjusting to the changing patterns in labour, mobility and urban policy priorities.

It invites scholars to develop new perspectives on how we conceive, define, preserve or restrict the built environment. Prioritising interdisciplinary work, it aims to address these questions by fostering experientially embedded expertise that reflects and informs the ways in which urban environments are responding to deepening inequalities and environmental crisis, with particular attention to the way community-led knowledge and practice is addressing sustainability and transmission.

Over the first six years of its work, the Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship has developed a body of groundbreaking research that will constitute a reference point in the future of urban studies. Through plenary sessions with policy makers, practitioners and scholars, through workshops and research training sessions, through exploratory walks, sound-based events, street theatre and community radio engagement, Fellows and the participants in their programmes have experimented with different methods for identifying, assessing and enhancing forms of urbanity often overlooked or underestimated in policy analysis.

The Banister Fletcher Global Fellowship in Urban Studies is piloted by the University of London Institute in Paris, drawing on the support of the London Research and Policy Partnership (LRaPP) and the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) as well as the University’s leading centres of research and learning in urban history, culture, design and theory, including the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and Goldsmiths, University of London. All relevant programming will be offered as part of the School of Advanced Study’s research training portfolio.

Applications

Person specification

You must have a substantial research track record and hold a PhD (or equivalent) in a relevant field or have demonstrated the impact of your work through creative practice and dissemination. Candidates are invited to consult the University of London Institute in Paris website (or directly here) for further details on this fellowship and a sense of the range of approaches adopted so far.

We particularly welcome applicants from minority groups. 

We will accept applications from salaried and non-salaried candidates.  

How to apply

To be considered for this opportunity, please submit your application by clicking ‘apply for job’ at the bottom of this page

Applications close midnight (BST) FRIDAY 3 JULY 2026.  Online interviews are expected to take place on 16 July 2026.

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