The Institute for Urban Research is a university-wide research centre that brings together all urban research at Malmö University.
Seeking to shape a collective identity for urban research at Malmö University, the IUR aims to create a research environment that clearly meets urban challenges across the globe.
The IUR is open to all research within the broad field of urban studies but has a specific focus on seven themes: housing and urban renewal, urban economics, mobilities, urban ecology, migration, social sustainability and smart cities.
Latest news from the Institute.
Martin Grander has authored a new report “Allmännyttan och jämlikheten” (Public Housing and Equality) where he concludes a reform to the Swedish universal housing policy is needed.
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Join our research team on Housing within the project “Sharing Housing in Times of Housing Inequality.”
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Congratulations to Slobodan Zdravkovic and six IUR-affiliated researchers who received funding from Malmö University’s special call for research on COVID-19.
Read moreThe Landscapes for learning-workshop will explore needs and possibilities having to do with audiowalks as tools for learning and other forms of critical engagements with urban spaces. The workshop will open up a space wherein questions can be raised, ideas can be shared, future projects can be identified, and collaborations can be suggested. The workshop […]
This workshop has been postponed to December 2020 because of the Coronavirus situation. The information below has been updated to reflect the change but please contact Robert Nilsson Mohammadi (robert.mohammadi@mau.se) if you have any questions. Please join the IUR’s workshop on narrative formation around the city of Malmö, and on narrative approaches to the study […]
