PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in urban planning in spain

The Faculty of Engineering at Vrije Universiteit Brussel is offering two fully funded PhD positions within the Department of Architectural Engineering. These positions are part of the interdisciplinary research project ‘Flows in the Construction Sector: Urban-Environmental Histories of Labour, Materials, and Money’, which explores the Brussels construction sector as an urban-environmental system shaped by the flows of people, materials, and capital. The project aims to understand how labour, mat...

Postdoctoral position in polluter and wealth elites, decarbonisation and justice The Brussels Centre for Urban Studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel is advertising a four-year full-time postdoctoral position within the Chair in Decarbonisation and Justice , a collaborative initiative between Université libre de Bruxelles and Vrije Universiteit Brussel under the Swifft Collective research project. The position is based in the Urban and Socio-Environmental Transformations Research Hub (USET) a...

Postdoctoral opportunity in public policy and related fields at the School of Government, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile . The call is for the ANID Fondecyt Postdoctorado 2027 with institutional sponsorship, aimed at researchers with a PhD/doctorate who want to develop high-impact research in policy-relevant areas. The post highlights a collaborative academic environment with access to university infrastructure, library services, institutional email, campus credentials, and interdiscip...

The Department for Migration and Globalisation at the University for Continuing Education Krems is recruiting for an ERC-funded project, Ethics in Action: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas of Migrant Solidarity , led by Professor Julia Mourão Permoser. The project examines the ethics of migration policy, migrant solidarity, forced displacement, and decision-making under value conflict through comparative qualitative research. It combines political theory with empirical fieldwork across multiple region...

Utrecht University is recruiting a PhD candidate for Agent-Based Modelling and Urban Health: Designing for Movement at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS), Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Population Health Sciences. The project focuses on how urban environments shape physical activity and health. The successful candidate will develop and extend agent-based models (ABM) to simulate how people move, make activity choices, and interact with their environment. The work in...

Massey University’s School of Built Environment is advertising a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer position in Built Environment , with strong relevance to Architecture , Civil Engineering , Construction and Project Management , Urban Planning , and related research areas. The school is based at the Albany campus in Auckland and highlights its research-active environment, close collaboration with the construction sector and relevant government agencies in New Zealand, and participation in international c...

Fully funded PhD opportunities are available at the University of Illinois Chicago in the newly established Human-Infrastructure Systems Lab (Hi Lab) within the Department of Civil, Materials, and Environmental Engineering. The lab is recruiting PhD students for Fall 2026 and Spring 2027 under a new tenure-track Assistant Professor. Research interests include human-infrastructure systems , resilience , mobility technologies , natural hazards , disasters , cascading failures , and adaptive govern...

PhD opening in Physics-based Modelling of Active Mobility and Urban Infrastructure Adaptation to Heat Waves This PhD is based at Institut Lumière Matière (CNRS & Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1) near Lyon, France. The project sits at the intersection of physics , urban resilience , environmental science , civil engineering , urban planning , and computer science , with a strong emphasis on statistical physics , agent-based modelling , and active mobility (walking, cycling, and micromobility). T...

The University for Continuing Education Krems, located in Austria’s Wachau World Heritage region, is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Migration Studies for a part-time, three-year position within the ERC-funded project 'Ethics in Action: Navigating Ethical Dilemmas of Migrant Solidarity.' The project, led by Professor Julia Mourão Permoser, focuses on the policies and practices of solidarity with irregular and precarious migrants, developing an actor-centred framework to understand how polic...