The DFG research training group (RTG) 2725 “Urban future-making” will offer 12 doctoral positions (E13, 100%, 3 years) at HafenCity University Hamburg, University of Hamburg and Hamburg University of Technology, starting April 1, 2025. The official call for applications will be opened on September 9, 2024.
To help interested candidates prepare and plan their application in advance, we would like to draw your attention to the upcoming call already in advance. Further information on the call for applications will be published on the RTG’s website in July 2024:
https://urban-future-making.hcu-hamburg.de/
The mission of the RTG “Urban future-making” is to investigate the agency of built environment professionals in the face of pressing challenges for transformative change. Urban areas have become crucial sites where aspired pathways towards desirable futures are imagined, forecasted, and variably negotiated. Through the lens of “urban future-making”, the RTG explores the activities of experts and administrators responding to expected threats and risks to urban societies through measures related to the built environment. Our specific focus lies on the group of built environment professions. The central question is whether and how reflexive and responsible professional agency is possible under present conditions of heightened uncertainty and multiple crises.
We approach this question from an interdisciplinary perspective. The group of participating supervisors and researchers have backgrounds in geography, sociology, political science, and urban studies as well as architecture, planning, and engineering. Our aim is to facilitate conceptual and methodological cross-fertilization across the social sciences and built environment disciplines.
As part of the application, we expect a proposal of 5 pages outlining an idea for a PhD project related to the research aims of the RTG.
- The application deadline for the doctoral positions will be October 22, 2024. The interviews are scheduled for November 25-27. We expect to send out acceptance letters by mid-December 2024.
- The application deadline for the associated members will be January 6, 2025, interviews are scheduled for January 13 and confirmation letters will be send out by end of January 2025.
For further information please contact Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer (monika.grubbauer@hcu-hamburg.de).
We offer three online Q & A sessions for all those interested in applying:
- July 16, 4.30-6.00 pm: General information and Q & A related to social science and planning topics (Prof. Dr. Monika Grubbauer)
- July 17, 6.30-8.00pm: Q & A related to architecture and engineering (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Annette Bögle, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gesa Kapteina, Prof. Dott. Paolo Fusi)
- October 8, 4.30-6.00 pm: General information and Q & A
Zoom-Link for the online Q & A sessions:
https://hcu-hamburg.zoom.us/j/81154029547Meeting-ID: 811 5402 9547
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