eprintid: 10189422 rev_number: 7 eprint_status: archive userid: 699 dir: disk0/10/18/94/22 datestamp: 2024-03-21 15:13:37 lastmod: 2024-03-21 15:13:37 status_changed: 2024-03-21 15:13:37 type: article metadata_visibility: show sword_depositor: 699 creators_name: Taylor, Myfanwy title: Urban Theory by and for Whom? Engaged Research, Authorship and Transformation Beyond the Academy ispublished: pub divisions: UCL divisions: B04 divisions: C04 divisions: F39 keywords: Engaged research, Collaborative research, Urban economies, Economic diversity, London note: © The Author(s) 2024. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). abstract: This paper engages with Loretta Lees‘ suggestion that this journal include research collaborators beyond the academy as commentators in its urban dialogues. In it, I highlight the contortions and contradictions involved in extracting individual scholarly outputs from collaborative research, drawing on my experiences as a doctoral researcher in the UK. These challenges are intimately entangled with key questions posed by Loretta about who counts as an urban scholar or theorist, and what urban theor(ies) are – or might be – for. The difficulties involved in publishing engaged and collaborative research in academic formats contribute to its marginalision within critical urban studies, robbing the discipline of the particular understandings and possibilities it can open up. Making space for engaged dialogue beyond the academy within this journal can help to open up the production and circulation of urban knowledge to a greater diversity of perspectives and interests, creating a more hospitable environment for engaged, collaborative and activist research within the academy. Such a shift invites authors to bring their multiple subjectivities and identities into urban dialogues – as modelled by Loretta – challenging conventions designed to separate and elevate academic knowledge from the diverse others it depends upon. Extending urban dialogue to non-academic collaborators can therefore help to connect critical urban research with the communities and interests in whose name it claims to operate. date: 2024-03 date_type: published publisher: SAGE Publications official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/27541258241236879 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 2260913 doi: 10.1177/27541258241236879 lyricists_name: Taylor, Myfanwy lyricists_id: MMTAY64 actors_name: Taylor, Myfanwy actors_id: MMTAY64 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Dialogues in Urban Research volume: 2 number: 1 pagerange: 53-58 issn: 2754-1258 citation: Taylor, Myfanwy; (2024) Urban Theory by and for Whom? Engaged Research, Authorship and Transformation Beyond the Academy. Dialogues in Urban Research , 2 (1) pp. 53-58. 10.1177/27541258241236879 <https://doi.org/10.1177/27541258241236879>. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189422/1/Taylor%20-%202024%20-%20Dialogues%20in%20Urban%20Research.pdf