UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant
The UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant
Funded by the Urban Communication Foundation, this grant supports communication and media research that advances our understanding of the growing complexity of the urban environment. It is predicated on the assumption that communication scholars have a valuable contribution to make to an understanding of the urban landscape. The grant is open to all IAMCR members in good standing.
The $1,750 grant is designed to support research already in progress or in the beginning stages. It gives priority to projects that feature innovative, inter-disciplinary, applied, and creative approaches to studying the central role of communication in the transformation of urban cultures and communities.
The grant will be awarded each year at the annual IAMCR Conference. Grant winners are expected to attend the conference and to report to IAMCR and the UCF on the progress of their research at the following year's conference.
IAMCR is pleased to announce that the 2021 Urban Communication Research Grant will be awarded to Kelsey Whipple (U of Massachusetts) for her project "Welcome to the neighborhood: Examining hyper-local information-sharing and community development on NextDoor". An honorable mention goes to Ratan Naga Deepika (U of Hyderabad).
IAMCR & the Urban Communication Foundation are pleased to announce that the 2020 Urban Communication Research Grant will be awarded to Masduki (Universitas Islam Indonesia, Indonesia) for his project From Street Art to Social Media: In Search of Alternative Public Service Media for Urban Javanese in the City of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Preeti Raghunath will receive an honorary mention.
IAMCR & the Urban Communication Foundation are pleased to announce that the 2019 Urban Communication Research Grant will be awarded to Arlene Fernandez (University of Pennsylvania) for her project Meet Me at the Papi Store: Space, Place, and the ‘American Dream’ in Philadelphia Corner Stores. Erika Polson will receive an honorary mention.
IAMCR & the Urban Communication Foundation are pleased to announce that the 2018 Urban Communication Research Grant will be awarded to Matthew Bui (University of Southern California) for his project (Re)Claiming the Smart City: Los Angeles, Racial Capitalism, and Sociotechnical Representations of Space. Bob Hanke & Rebecca Finkel will receive honorary mentions.
The 2018 Urban Communication Research Grant is worth $1,750 and supports communication and media research that advances understanding of the growing complexity of the urban environment. The grant is open to all IAMCR members in good standing.
IAMCR and the Urban Communication Foundation are pleased to announce that the 2017 UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant will be awarded to Andreas Papallas, a Research Associate at the Cyprus University of Technology, for his project Using Social Media Communication to Detect Patterns of Urban Segregation and Aggregation within Contested Cities.
IAMCR and the Urban Communication Foundation are pleased to announce that the 2016 UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant will be awarded to Myria Georgiou and Wallis Motta-Guarneros, both from the Department of Media and Communications of the London School of Economics and Political Science, for their project Community Through Digital Connectivity? Communication Infrastructure in Multicultural London.
Olesya Venger, winner of the 2015 Urban Communication Research Grant, will present the results of her research during a special session at IAMCR 2016. Her paper, Spatiality of sexual marketing in Las Vegas: Fun, surveillance, and illusion of "sin" on the Strip, grew out of research that sought "to investigate how the promotion of sexual services fits into a constantly contested above- and underground space of Las Vegas, the iconic "city of sin".
The 2016 Urban Communication Research Grant is worth €1,500 and supports communication and media research that advances understanding of the growing complexity of the urban environment. The grant is open to all IAMCR members in good standing.
IAMCR and the Urban Communication Foundation are pleased to announce that the 2015 UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant will be awarded to Olesya Venger, Assistant Professor at the Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
The 2015 Urban Communication Research Grant is worth €1,500 and supports communication and media research that advances understanding of the growing complexity of the urban environment. The grant is open to all IAMCR members in good standing.
On 28 August at a small ceremony in Limassol, Cyprus, Yiannis Christidis was formally awarded the 2014 UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant.
IAMCR and the Urban Communication Foundation are pleased to announce that the 2014 UCF/IAMCR Urban Communication Research Grant will be awarded to Yiannis Christidis, a PhD candidate and lecturer in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at Cyprus University of Technology.
Funded by the Urban Communication Foundation, this grant will support communication and media research that advances our understanding of the growing complexity of the urban environment. It is predicated on the assumption that communication scholars have a valuable contribution to make to an understanding of the urban landscape. The grant is open to all... 
The 2013 UCF-IAMCR Grant was awarded to Geoff Ostrove a PhD candidate in the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism & Communication. Having recently received a Master of Community & Regional Planning, Geoff’s research primarily focuses on the political economy of communication and how that process influences our society’s perception of certain resources. He...