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The Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS) is now welcoming applications for studentships/research and writing-up grants for next year.The Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies Ltd was set up in 1995 as a charity under the Companies Act. Its main source of income is the surplus generated by the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, the leading critical urban and regional studies journal established in 1977 and published by Wiley-Blackwell. IJURR is run by a wholly-owned subsidiary of FURS.The aims of FURS are to 'promote and improve social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of urban, rural and regional studies'.Deadline: 31st Jan 2014.Please see the website for further details: http://www.ijurr.org/SpringboardWebApp/userfiles/ijurr/file/FURS/FURS%20Grants.pdf