Esteem

Colleagues in the Manchester Urban Institute have seen their standing in the various disciplinary fields that go into the making-up of urban studies rewarded in a range of ways. This include fellowships, journal editorships, learned society prizes, and positions on government and industry committees.

Current indicators of esteem include: 

• Mark Baker 
  • Charted Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
  • Elected Academic Member of the Landscape Institute (LI)
  • Editorial board member of Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management
• Philip Black 
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy 
  • Member Royal Geographic Society (with IBG)
• Stefan Bouzarovski
  • Chair of the European Energy Poverty Observatory
  • Trustee, Eaga Charitable Trust
• Greig Charnock
  • Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
  • Member of the editorial board of the journal Capital & Class, and serves on the advisory board of URBS: Revista de Estudios Urbanos y Ciencias Sociales (Spain)
• Iain Deas
  • Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)
• Henrik Ernstson
  • Honorary Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
• James Evans
  • Fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation
  • Fellow of the Institute for British Geographers
  • Fellow of the Association of American Geographers
  • Member of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Team of Specialists on Public-Private Partnerships.
• Sarah Marie Hall
  • ISRF Political Economy Research Fellowship
  • Member of the Department for Work and Pensions Methods Advisory Group
• Martin Hess
  • Member of the ESRC Peer Review College
  • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society - Institute of British Geographers
• Deljana Iossifova
  • Appointed Member of the Urban Studies Foundation ‘Trustees’ Board 
  • Visiting Scholar, Urban Studies Institute, University of Antwerp
• Richard Kingston
  • Associate Editor for Regional Studies, Regional Science, Regional Studies Association
  • Editorial Board Member, Journal of Urban Planning
• Ruth Lupton
  • Visiting Professor, London School of Economics & Political Science (University of London)
• Ian Mell
  • Editorial Board - Urban Forestry & Urban Greening
  • Editor (Special Issues on GI/Greening Cities)
• Diana Mitlin
  • Vice-Chair of the Research Committee of the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 
  • Vice-Chair of ESRC's International Development Expert Group.
• Anupam Nanda
  • European Real Estate Society Board Member
• Nuno Pinto
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Liz Richardson
  • Trustee for the National Association for Neighbourhood Management
• Cristina Temenos
  • Editorial board member for Environment & Planning C: Politics and Space and Geography Compas
• Mark Usher
  • Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society
• Arpana Verma
  • Honorary Consultant, Public Health England
• Kevin Ward 
  • Editor-in-chief, Urban Geography
• Saskia Warren
  • Member of the AHRC Peer Review College
• Cecilia Wong
  • Co-Editor of Town Planning Review
  • Chair of Regional Studies Association North West Branch
  • Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute (MRTPI)
  • 2021 REF Sub-panel Chair of Architecture, Built Environment and Planning
  • Member of Economic and Social Research Council Grant Assessment Panel
• Albena Yaneva
  • Lise Meitner Visiting Chair at the University of Lund

Past indicators of esteem include:

• Nicola Banks
  • ESRC Future Leaders award
• Stefan Bouzarovski
  • Visiting Professor, Institute of Geography, University of Gdansk
• Yaron Matras 
  • BA Wolfson Research Professorship
• Erik Swyngedouw
  • British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship
  • The University of Manchester's Researchers of the Year
• Cristina Temenos
  • Editorial Board Member: Geography Compass – Urban
  • Urban Studies Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
• Harriet Thomson
  • Winner of ESRC Outstanding Early Career Impact award 2017
• Saskia Warren
  • AHRC Leadership Fellowship
• Albena Yaneva
  • Visiting Professor at Princeton School of Architecture