Fully Funded PhD Positions in Urban Planning, Development, Public Policy and Management at USC Price School University of Southern California in United States

University of California, Irvine is offering a postdoctoral scholar position in the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy within the School of Social Ecology on a project examining wildfire recovery and sustainable building practices in disadvantaged and low-income communities in California. The scholar will work on a multi-campus, community-engaged research project that brings together planning, policy, engineering, architectural, and community engagement expertise. The research combin...

Rutgers University is inviting applications for its PhD in Global Urban Studies . This opportunity is aimed at students interested in interdisciplinary research with a multiscale and multicultural perspective, making it a strong fit for applicants whose interests connect urban systems, society, governance, and spatial change. The post notes that applications are reviewed as they arrive, with December 1 as the deadline for full consideration. Admitted students receive a 5-year funding package , w...

Arizona State University’s School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning is recruiting a PhD student for a fully funded graduate research assistantship on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded project Shadow Grids: Gas, fuel deliveries, and backup generation in an electrifying US . The project examines how natural gas, deliverable fuel, and backup generator networks persist and expand alongside efforts to decarbonize US homes. The student will conduct field-based research in Arizona and pol...

The University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of Business is recruiting up to two one-year, full-time postdoctoral fellows in Real Estate , starting August 2027 . The positions are based in the Department of Finance and connected to the Real Estate Center and the newly launched Housing Innovation Lab . Selected fellows will collaborate with UC faculty and corporate partners on research applying state-of-the-art analytics methodologies to real estate problems. The role emphasizes indepen...

Fully funded PhD position at the University of Florida in the Department of Landscape Architecture , School of Landscape Architecture and Planning, in Dr. Chendi Zhang’s Research Group. The project focuses on landscape architecture , environmental resilience , aging-in-place , and geospatial analytics , with an emphasis on quantitative methods , mixed methods , and modeling. This is a strong fit for applicants interested in spatial analysis, planning, design research, and socially relevant envir...