Two Doctoral Positions in Housing Cooperatives and Socio-Ecological Transition ETH Zurich in Switzerland

A PhD opening is available in Urban Provisioning Systems, Sufficiency Behaviour, and Well-Being at EPFL , in collaboration with the University of Freiburg im Breisgau . The project examines how urban planning interventions and changes in provisioning systems influence citizens’ perceptions, behavioral choices, and subjective well-being, and how these changes affect resource demand and urban socio-metabolic profiles. The research is interdisciplinary and combines spatial/quantitative analysis wit...

This PhD project at the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), within EPFL's School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, investigates how urban provisioning systems can support low-carbon futures while maintaining or improving human well-being. The research connects urban systems, human behaviour, perceptions, and subjective well-being with socio-metabolic analysis. The doctoral researcher will examine how urban planning interventions and changes in...

EPFL’s HERUS Lab in Lausanne, Switzerland is recruiting a PhD researcher for a project on urban provisioning systems, sufficiency behaviour, and well-being . The research examines how urban planning and provisioning systems can reduce resource use and carbon emissions while improving well-being. Methods mentioned include surveys, interviews, choice experiments, spatial analysis, synthetic household populations, resource demand analysis, and urban material/energy flows . Relevant study areas incl...

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...

CAMPSproject at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona is advertising a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Socio-Spatial Studies, Geospatial Analysis, and Spatial Justice . The role sits within ETSAB–UPC and is part of the Comparative Atlas of Long-term Refugee Settlements , a five-year European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant project focused on the spatial organisation, transformation, and lived realities of long-term refugee settlements worldwide. The project asks how hundred...