Malmö University is an innovative, urban and international institute of higher education, located in the centre of Malmö. We have around 1,800 employees and 24,000 students. Our research and education are characterised by the role we believe a university should play in an open society — to contribute to sustainability and equality in a scientifically grounded way with external partners and stakeholders. Identifying and addressing the challenges of the future are of highest priority. Our researchers and students work collaboratively to create, share and spread knowledge in order to understand, explain and develop society — both locally and globally.
Faculty
The Faculty of Culture and Society is a multidisciplinary faculty that includes three departments: the School of Arts and Communication, the Department of Global Political Studies, and the Department of Urban Studies. The Faculty offers doctoral studies in the following subjects: Global Politics, Interaction Design, International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER), Media and Communication Studies and Urban Studies. The Faculty hosts two of the university’s five research centres. Read more about the Faculty of Culture and Society here.
Department
The department of Urban Studies is characterised by three core features: dynamic interdisciplinary research; a professional organisation; and a highly qualified faculty. The Department comprises around 95 researchers and teachers, as well as 2000 students. We have a strong emphasis on theory-driven empirical research and teaching informed by the social and behavioural sciences. Our research centres around five fields: Urban Studies, Transport Studies, Real Estate Science, Sustainable Studies, and Organisation Studies. Across these fields, we unite around cultural, economic, material, social and discursive processes of change. Furthermore, we collaborate with our well-established networks within the public sector, the corporate sector and civil society. The department offers a doctoral programme and masters programmes in Urban Studies, as well as bachelor programmes encompassing city planning, environmental studies, transport and logistics, real estate science as well as both masters and bachelor level studies in organisation and leadership. Read more about the Department of Urban Studies here.
Doctoral programme in Urban Studies
As a doctoral student at the department, you are part of the postgraduate subject Urban Studies, which can be defined as the scientific study of the content, form, planning and transformation of urban areas together with environmental, economic, and organisational aspects on urban development. The subject is positioned in a field of tension between social and cultural practices and the material world of global resource flows, manufactured landscapes, buildings, infrastructure, and everyday objects. Urban Studies is of major substantive breadth and treats several aspects of urban conditions, which requires that it is multi-and interdisciplinary and pluralistic in terms of research methods. Urban Studies is based on a multi-and interdisciplinary foundation with roots in engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities. More information about doctoral studies at Malmö University here.
Work duties
Those appointed to doctoral studentships shall primarily devote themselves to their studies but may to a limited extent work with educational tasks, research, artistic research and administration. Duties of this kind may however not comprise more than 20 per cent of a full-time post (Chapter 5, Section 2 of the Higher Education Ordinance). The doctoral education concludes with a doctoral degree and comprises 240 credits, which corresponds to four years of full-time study. The programme consists of courses and an independent research project that is presented in a doctoral thesis. As a doctoral student, you will be expected to play an active part in the research and educational environment and, when applicable, in the research programmes of the Department.
The research project will be part of the research school ASSURE - Adaptation of urban Space through SUstainable REgeneration. The research school is a collaboration between Malmö University, Lund University, Uppsala university/Campus Gotland, and RISE (Research Institutes of Sweden). ASSURE aims at developing practices-based research on how to renovate and adapt existing buildings and urban areas for future needs. Cities today face challenges of climate change, urbanization, and segregation, and in order to create sustainable future cities we need to use the built environment that already exists. Both buildings and neighbourhoods will need to be adapted, e.g., through energy efficiency measures, and will affect everyday life of its inhabitants.
This specific doctoral project, Renovations and the transformation of neighbourhoods, will focus on the transformation of neighbourhoods in which renovations have been implemented. Renovations may affect neighbourhoods through several different channels, such as locational decisions of firms and households. Analysing the socio-economic transformations of neighbourhoods, and consequences for firms and households, is therefore an integral part of the project. Part of the research school aims at developing methodological approaches using building-specific data, individual and household data, as well as geodata. Methods used in this project are primarily quantitative and include statistical and GIS analysis.
Qualifications
In order to be admitted to doctoral studies, the applicant must meet the general and specific entry requirements of the subject in question. Moreover, the applicant must be deemed capable of assimilating the education.
General entry requirements for doctoral courses and study programmes (HEO Chapter 7 Section 39) will be met by those who:
- have been awarded a second-cycle qualification
- have satisfied the requirements for courses comprising at least 240 credits of which at least 60 credits were awarded in the second-cycle, or
- have acquired substantially equivalent knowledge in some other way in Sweden or abroad.
Specific entry requirements for doctoral courses and study programme in Urban Studies:
The specific entry requirements for the education stipulate that the applicant has acquired the knowledge and skills equivalent to a second-cycle degree in Urban Studies or in another subject relevant to Urban Studies, or has the equivalent knowledge acquired within or outside the country. In view of the multidisciplinary character of the field of Urban Studies subjects within the social sciences and humanities as well as within the technology and the arts may be relevant to meet the specific requirements.
Specific requirements for this position
- Documented English proficiency.
The following would be of benefit for the position
- Documented previous knowledge in statistics
- Documented previous knowledge in GIS analysis
- Documented Swedish proficiency.
Selection criteria
Selection among applicants who meet the general and specific entry requirements shall be made with regard to their capacity to assimilate the education (HEO Chapter 7 Section 41). The selection process will include evaluation of the written materials, interviews with shortlisted candidates and checking of their recommendations.
General selection criteria
- independent analysis and approach in previous work
- problem formulation and precision in previous work and research plans
- methodological and scholarly maturity
An important indicator of these abilities is the applicant's research plan and the reflections on the prospective doctoral student's contribution to the programme described in the advertisement and the specified thematic areas of specialization.
Further information
For questions regarding the project contact principial investigator Associate Professor Helena Bohman helena.bohman@mau.se
For questions regarding the doctoral education, contact Professor Per-Markku Ristilammi, Director of doctoral education, per-markku.ristilammi@mau.se , 040-665 73 56
For other questions contact Professor Kerstin Sandell, Head of Department, kerstin.sandell@mau.se , 040-665 73 20
In our recruitment work, Malmö University has taken a stand regarding recruitment channels and marketing. We therefore decline all offers of advertising and recruitment assistance in connection with this advertisement.
Application
You may apply for this position via Malmö University's recruitment system by clicking on the "Apply" button. As an applicant, you are responsible for ensuring that your application is completed in accordance with the advertisement, and that it is provided to the University no later than 23 January 2023. The applicant is responsible for ensuring that the University can read what is written in the application. If the application is not written in Swedish, English or any of the Nordic languages, the applicant is responsible for the application and its appendices being translated.
The application must include:
- Completed application form for admission to Research Education
- Curriculum Vitae with up to three references ((including title, affiliation, email address, phone number, and the relationship to the applicant)
- Scans of diplomas, transcript of records and other certificates relevant for the position
- A research plan of up to 3000 words excluding references). The research plan must contain an overall purpose, questions that the project intends to answer, an account of the theoretical framework and the methodological approach, and a description of research material and the way it will be obtained.
- Independent work at advanced level (including master thesis or equivalent)
- Other publications that you want to cite (research reports or scientific publications), no more than 3.
Miscellaneous
Preparation of admission to postgraduate education and employment as a doctoral student take place in parallel. Only those who are or have been admitted to doctoral courses and study programmes at a higher education may be appointed to doctoral studentships (Chapter 5, Section 3 of the Higher Education Ordinance).
The doctoral studentship is a fixed-term position comprising four years of full-time studies, in accordance with the Higher Education Ordinance Chapter 5 Section 7.
Malmö University is a workplace and higher education institution that is characterised by an open and inclusive approach, where gender equality and equal terms add value to our activities.
Malmö University applies salary setting for doctoral students in accordance with a local agreement on salary setting for doctoral students.
Start date
1 September 2023
Union representatives
Saco-S, Rebecka Johansson, rebecka.johansson@mau.se
OFR, Martin Reissner, martin.reissner@mau.se
PhD Student Union representative
Michel Anderlini, michel-vincent.anderlini@mau.se
We are looking forward to receiving your application!
You apply no later than 23/01/2023 by clicking the apply button.
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