Research output per year
Research output per year
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Dr Deljana Iossifova is Professor of Architecture and Urban Studies at the University of Manchester, where she is also Director of the Confucius Institute. She is Editor-in-Chief of The Journal of Architecture and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Studies Foundation and AzuKo Foundation. In 2021, she was a member of the judging panel for the RIBA President's Awards for Research.
Iossifova leads a portfolio of research on sustainable infrastructure and transitions. She has worked on complex urban transformations, cities and biodiversity and the human ecosystems of ageing. Her main research focus is on the Global East and South, including China, Japan, Bulgaria, India and Brazil. Trained as an architect at ETH Zurich, she practised in Germany, China, Japan and the USA before earning a PhD in Social Engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology.
Iossifova is the author of Translocal Ageing in the Global East (Palgrave, 2020) and lead editor of Urban Infrastructuring (Springer, 2022) and Defining the Urban (Routledge, 2018).
MICRA Seedcorn Award (£5,980) and Oxford Brookes Research Excellence Award (£7,629). Co-Principal Investigator. With Chiko Ncube (Oxford Brookes), Tanja Bastia and Nan Zhang. 'Infrastructures of care for and by older people in Sub-Saharan Africa’ (2022-2023)
ESRC Impact Accelaration Award (£16,784). Principal Investigator. 'Right to Water' (2021)
British Council Researcher Links Workshop (£24,000). Lead. UK China workshop in collaboration with Tongji in Shanghai, 'Towards Healthy China 2035: Sustainable Urban Sanitation Infrasystems in the Yangtze River Delta' (2020)
GCRF University of Manchester QR Allocation (£50,000). Principal Investigator/Convenor. Transdisciplinary workshop 'INFRA+' (2020-2021)
Royal Society Resilient Futures Challenge-Led Grant (£499,993). International Lead and Principal Investigator. 'Towards Sustainable Sanitation in India and Brasil (TOSSIB)' (2019-2023)
NERC Towards a Sustainable Earth (£519,880). International Lead and Principal Investigator. 'A Systems Approach to Sustainable Sanitation Challenges in Urbanising China (SASSI)' (2019-2022)
Hallsworth Conference Fund (£20,000), University of Manchester. Principal Convenor. 'Urbanisation, Infrastructures and Everyday Life in East Asia' (2018-2019)
ESRC Impact Acceleration Award (£20,128). Principal Investigator. ‘Harmonica Alley, Yokohama: Tracing Urban Change between the Tokyo Olympics’ (2017)
ESRC Strategic Network (£100,799). Principal Investigator, ‘Strategic Network: Data and Cities as Complex Adaptive Systems’ (2015-2017)
Daiwa Foundation Award (£7,000). Principal Investigator, ‘Harmonica Alley, Yokohama: a visual ethnography’ (2015)
Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (£3,000). Principal Investigator, ‘Harmonica Alley, Yokohama: a visual ethnography’ (2015)
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Editor in Chief, The Journal of Architecture (RIBA)
1 Jan 2022 → …
Chair of the Board, Urban Studies Foundation
1 Jan 2020 → …
Member of the Board, Urban Studies Foundation
1 Jan 2017 → …
Visiting Researcher, Urban Studies Institute, University of Antwerp
2017 → 2018
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
1/02/20 → 31/12/21
Project: Research
10/02/19 → 8/08/22
Project: Research
14/12/15 → 30/06/17
Project: Research
Deljana Iossifova (Chair)
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Deljana Iossifova (Editor in chief)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work
Deljana Iossifova (Chair)
Activity: Membership › Membership of board
Deljana Iossifova (Co-Organiser), Debapriya Chakrabarti (Co-Organiser) & Purva Dewoolkar (Co-Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Deljana Iossifova (Organiser) & Yahya Gamal (Co-Organiser)
Activity: Participating in or organising event(s) › Organising a conference, workshop, exhibition, performance, inquiry, course etc
Cecilia Alda Vidal & Deljana Iossifova
17/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
Debapriya Chakrabarti, Purva Dewoolkar & Deljana Iossifova
17/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
Deljana Iossifova & Norma Valencio
17/03/21
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media
31/10/20
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Blogs and social media