The School of Cities welcomes students, faculty, researchers, practitioners, and community members across urban sectors by offering fellowships, grants, projects, residencies, and training and development. Explore our programs and opportunities below.
In the spotlight
The Leading Social Justice Collective program is having an information session on October 23, 2024. LSJC offers network-building, project support, and leadership development to strengthen participants’ social justice practices and help them make progress on a challenge within their organization or community in the GTA. Embrace your role as a positive change agent, form a team of three, and join us!
Grants
Urban Challenge Grant
The Urban Challenge Grant (UCG) program at the School of Cities builds multidisciplinary scholarly communities of practice within the University of Toronto around complex urban challenges.
Graduate Fellows
The Graduate Fellows program supports graduate (and exceptional undergraduate) students from across the University of Toronto who are working on urban-focused research projects. Graduate Fellow positions are open to U of T students who are pursuing a PhD or Masters degree and who have a passion for urban issues.
Small Grants Program
The Small Grants Program supports knowledge mobilization and translation, public policy engagement, curricular innovations, and other activities that address urban issues and contribute to efforts that make cities more sustainable, prosperous, inclusive and just.
Postdoctoral Matching Program
In spring 2023, the School of Cities announced support grants to eight postdoctoral fellows at U of T undertaking research that aligns with our key themes of climate justice and belonging, migration and thriving.
With nearly $300,000 in grants, we aim to lift the work of emerging scholars and advance the research of our colleagues across disciplines.
Training
Leading Social Justice Collective
The Leading Social Justice Collective (LSJC) is a cross-sectoral leadership development program for individuals engaged in social justice transformation in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), co-hosted by United Way of Greater Toronto and the School of Cities.
Equitable Development Data Insight Training
The Equitable Development Data Insight Training Initiative (EDDIT) trains equitable development-focused organizations to expand their reach and impact using the data and resources they already have.
Summer Workshop on Urban Mixed Methods across the Disciplines
The Graduate Fellows program supports graduate (and exceptional undergraduate) students from across the University of Toronto who are working on urban-focused research projects. Graduate Fellow positions are open to U of T students who are pursuing a PhD or Masters degree and who have a passion for urban issues.
Other
Leading Urban Change
Leading Urban Change is a project accelerator. We encourage you to bring members of a team that is stuck in progressing a particular city-focused project or program – and we will work together to build skills and an approach that will eliminate your roadblocks.
Visiting Experts
The Equitable Development Data Insight Training Initiative (EDDIT) trains equitable development-focused organizations to expand their reach and impact using the data and resources they already have.
App Development Competition
The goal of this competition was to design a mobile application or website aimed at improving and fostering civic engagement in youth (ages 15–24).
SofC Story & Image Competition
The School of Cities Short Story & Image Competition invites U of T students to pair original fiction with visual art, exploring annual urban themes like climate and justice; migration, belonging, and thriving in cities; or inequality, data, and democracy. Cash prizes are awarded in undergraduate and graduate categories.