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PhD student in Urban and Regional studies
KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm is the largest and oldest technical university in Sweden. No less than one-third of Sweden’s technical research and engineering
education capacity at university level is provided by KTH. Education and research spans from natural sciences to all branches of engineering and includes Architecture, Industrial Management and Urban Planning. There are a total of 12,400 full year students
at first and second levels, almost 1,900 active (at least 50 per cent) research students and 5,100 employees.
KTH Architecture and Built Environment focuses on future of our societies, on how our cities, buildings and infrastructure should be designed. We study growth, technology
and environment, as well as ethical considerations and risks. Our curriculum and our research are based on several academic disciplines: Engineering and the Technical sciences, the Humanities, and the Social sciences.
Job description
The PhD position is placed at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, the Division of Urban and Regional Studies.
The PhD Candidate will work within the research programme
The Seed Box: A Mistra-Formas Environmental Humanities Collaboratory and is part of a joint research school with Linköping University, The Royal Institute of Technology and Uppsala University. The PhD project is situated within the wide and emerging
area of Environmental Humanities, transgressing and bridging the divide between culture and nature.
The research programme engages with current and historical environmental projects, with a focus on values, ethics, current and daily politics, history, gender, embodied identities, imagination,
media, power, epistemology, human and non-human (nature, animal, technology) relations, posthumanities, science in society, institutional renewal and cultural perceptions. The PhD project is to be articulated by the applicant, in dialogue with one or several
of the programme’s main areas:
1) Deep Time, Deep Earth, Deep Waters: concerns questions about how human activities such as mining, rivers, the Baltic Sea and other bodies of water, even trash, are expropriated
at the expense of ecology and marginalized groups, as well as questions about how other ways of relating are possible.
2) Green Futures: interrogates how so called green ideologies, markets and approaches are established, historically, in politics and in commercial popular culture, based on notions
about the naturally given. Focus is also on how alternative economies, animal care and exchange have emerged in urban settings and in cultural imagination.
3) Toxic Embodiment:
about the ways in which we embody pollution, health, disease and toxic incursion, transcorporeality, industrial farming and zoonosis, air catastrophes, biomedicine and de-militarization, sediments in the body and transformations in sexual anatomy, and
other traces left in the form of modern ruins and leftovers in landscapes and seas. This area also raises questions about how we can think, practice and embody nature-culture in more sustainable ways.
4) Weather and Climate Change: Climate changes are too encompassing to be addressed only by techno-scientific expertise. They affect us all, albeit in different ways. Here, the impact
of the notion of the anthropocene is studied, as well as identity producing climate visions between art and science. The research programme, as well as an inspiring project portfolio is fully described on:
http://www.tema.liu.se/environmental-humanities/environmental-humanities-collaboratory/1.628206/RESEARCHPROGRAMOVERVIEWANDCURRENTPROJECTPORTFOLIO.pdf
The width of the research programme opens up for applicants with a variety of educational backgrounds, such as environmental science, gender studies, cultural and social studies, sociology,
Human Animal Studies, urban planning, media studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, literature studies, history, history of ideas, Science and Technology Studies, artistic research, as well as other transdisciplinary areas, primarily but not exclusively,
within the humanities and social sciences.
PhD training is often intensive and it is important that the applicant is highly motivated. The position puts high demands on the ability to work independently, to conduct critical analysis,
and to be able to collaborate and communicate well with others in English, both spoken and in writing.
As a PhD Candidate you will primarily devote yourself to research. You may work with education and administration outside of your research, however up to at most 20 percent of full time.
Qualifications
To be admitted to PhD studies, the applicant needs to have an advanced degree, have completed a minimum of 240 ECTS, of which at least 60 ECTS are on the advanced level.
Union representatives
For contact with union representatives, see
KTH web page.
Application
Log into KTH's recruitment system in order to apply to this position. You are the main responsible to ensure that your application is complete according to the ad. Your complete application
must be received at KTH no later than the last day of application.
The application, marked with reference number, shall contain:
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A Letter of Intent (approximately 2 pages), in which you briefly account for your research interest, and state within which, one or several, of the programme’s main areas you would prefer
to be engaged.
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CV with degree certificate
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Course transcripts with grades
In the event of discrepancy between the English translation of the job announcement and the Swedish original, the Swedish version shall take precedent.
Type of employment:
Temporary position longer than 6 months
Working hours:
Full time
First day of employment:
1 September 2015
Salary:
Salary follows the directions provided by KTH
Number of positions:
1
Working hours:
100%
City:
Stockholm
County:
Stockholms län
Country:
Sweden
Reference number:
A-2015-0594
Contact:
1.
Bradley Karin, Associate Professor, E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Published:
23.Apr.2015
Last application date:
25.May.2015
Jonathan Metzger,
(Docent, PhD)
Associate Professor / Universitetslektor
Director of Postgraduate Research Studies
Division of Urban and Regional Studies
KTH - Royal Institute of Technology
Stockholm, Sweden
telephone: +46-(0)8-7907905
cell: +46-(0)70-4451593
mailing adress:
Division of Urban and Regional Studies, ABE-school, KTH, SE-100 44 Stockholm, SWEDEN