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Latest news from the Institute.

Six seed grants were awarded to IUR researchers

March 13, 2023

The aim of the seed grants is to foster research cooperation amongst IUR members together with urban researchers outside the IUR.

This year, six projects were awarded.

Digital (In)justice in the Smart City

February 21, 2023

IUR members, Professor Carina Listerborn and Lorena Melgaço contributed to the newly released book titled Digital (In)justice in the Smart City, edited by Debra Mackinnon, Ryan Burns, and Victoria Fast.

Honorable Mention for Chiara Valli

February 14, 2023

The Urban Geography Journal gave an Honorable Mention to Chiara Valli on the 2022 Early Career Researcher Prize.

Brown-bag seminars Spring 2023

February 3, 2023

Welcome to our brown-bag seminars for this Spring term 2023. The seminars will be on selected Wednesdays between 12:00-13:00, and we will continue with a hybrid format.

On June 16-17, the IUR hosted the conference “Beyond Smart Cities Today: Power, Justice and Resistance”. The two-day conference provided time and space to question the differences within smart cities, reflect on issues of justice and injustice, analyse social and spatial inequalities through feminist and postcolonial lenses, and underline historical perspectives to situate the smart city in time and place. To watch the recorded keynotes you can visit the conference website.

Upcoming Events

22 March

Gunhild Askehave  – Spatial Images: Urban Sustainability in Practice

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • NI:C0826

Brown Bag Seminar Gunhild Askehave  – Spatial Images – Urban Sustainability in Practice This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you would like to participate digitally, please contact Defne Kadioglu to get the Zoom link.

29 March

Defne Kadioglu- Debt, Risk and Return: From ‘Vulnerable Neighborhoods’ to Financial Imaginaries.

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • NI:C0826

Brown Bag Seminar Defne Kadioglu  – Debt, Risk and Return: From ‘Vulnerable Neighborhoods’ to Financial Imaginaries This seminar will be in person only event.

19 April

Laleh Foroughanfar- The Street of Associations: Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö.

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • NI:C0826

Brown Bag Seminar Laleh Foroughanfar   – “The Street of Associations: Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, Malmö” This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you would like to participate digitally, please contact Defne Kadioglu to get the Zoom link.

10 May

Marcus Morhall – TBC

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • NI:0826

Brown Bag Seminar Marcus Morhall   – TBC This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you would like to participate digitally, please contact Defne Kadioglu to get the Zoom link.

24 May

Carina Listerborn and Guy Baeten  –  Past, Present and Future of Urban Studies

  • 12:00 - 13:00
  • NI: C0826

Brown Bag Seminar Carina Listerborn and Guy Baeten  –  Past, Present and Future of Urban Studies. This seminar is part of the IUR Brown Bag Seminar Series; check out the rest of the program. If you would like to participate digitally, please contact Defne Kadioglu to get the Zoom link.

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Welcome to the Institute for Urban Research

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.