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The Sustainable Cities International Affiliated Researchers Program (ARP) is a collaborative initiative that brings together top level international graduate students with the projects and expertise of SCI network member cities. The ARP fosters a three way exchange between researchers, individual cities, and the broader SCI network.
The ARP helps graduate students conduct research within SCI's Network of innovative urban sustainability leaders and projects. To find out more, and to see a list of our Network Cities, click here.
Following a competitive selection process, successful applicants work with SCI and local project staff to plan and implement their research program. SCI provides Affiliated Researchers (ARs) with guidance and helps facilitate their research work on the ground. For their part, ARs feed their research back into the SCI network, providing analytical insights into the strengths, weaknesses, and larger context for work going on in SCI member cities.
Through the ARP, network cities themselves may also post calls for more specifically focused research partnerships to explore questions that they have identified as being of particular importance. SCI will then work with applicants to help establish a research project that meets the needs of both the researcher and the host city.
Research conducted as part of the ARP helps to build and disseminate knowledge linked to SCI's three key research areas:
- Synergies between environmental, social, and economic sustainability;
- Mainstreaming and integration of sustainability planning across municipal institutions;
- Environmental Governance and the multiple relationships between state, private, and civil-society actors involved in integrated and ambitious approaches to urban sustainability.
Specific areas of study include, for example: climate change adaptation and mitigation planning, urban agriculture, integrated community energy systems, urban mobility, change management, institutional innovation, public participation, and the organizational dynamics of urban sustainability planning.
Interested applicants should see our application guidelines below.
APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MARCH 15, 2012
 SCI Affiliated Researcher Program Application Info-update (38.5 kB)
SCI Network cities wishing to host researchers to explore specific issues should contact Alex Aylett, SCI's Research Director, at (mail-to:
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Alex Aylett is Researcher Director at SCI and an urban sustainablility researcher and consultant. He has a PhD in urban sustainability from the University of British Columbia. He has worked on urban sustainability in Canada, the United States, Europe and Africa.
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Current Researchers
 Our first SCI Affiliated Researcher is Afton Halloran, a former SCI intern now based in the Department of Agriculture and Ecology at the University of Copenhagen. Her research focuses on urban agriculture, food security, and the barriers that hinder the recognition of urban food production as a legitimate urban activity. In her first “research notes” column for the SCI community, she covers some of her preliminary findings. Afton will begin her research on urban agriculture in Dar es Salaam (Tanzania) in the new year. Contact:
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For more on Afton's research see her posts on the SCI blog.
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