Welcome to the Institute for Urban Research
An interdisciplinary research center at Malmö University
The Institute for Urban Research is a university-wide interdisciplinary research center that brings together all urban research at Malmö University.
IUR is devoted to becoming an international leading center for research on urban justice. We focus our research around four themes: Housing and Welfare, Green and Just Cities, Global Urbanism, and Urban Humanities. IUR was established in 2019 and in 2025 we received renewed trust from the university to continue to develop our research for six more years to come. We build upon a long-standing ambition to establish critical urban studies at Malmö University and in Sweden.
We want to be relevant, not only to academia, but to society at large, and to meet contemporary challenges of different kinds – spatial, social, economic, environmental and cultural. IUR organises seminars, workshops, open lectures and hosts guests, not the least within our programs for visiting scholars, artists-in-residence, and our active-citizen-in-residence scheme.
News
Latest news from the Institute.
Upcoming Events
Join our lectures, workshops, and public talks that explore today’s pressing urban issues.
- 29September
Planning seminar: Zaid Al-Karkhi
13:15–
15:00Niagara C0826Opponent: Anna Angelin, Associate Professor, School of Social Work. Lund University Title: Child poverty and the housing issue in a conditional welfare state Abstract: This…
- 1October
(Conference) Learning with Place: Place-Based Learning, Education, and Citizenship
09:00–
16:30Niagara A0507Att lära med platsen: Platsbaserat lärande, undervisning och medborgarskap Vi bjuder in forskare, universitetslärare samt lärare i grundskola och gymnasium till ett gemensamt utforskande av…
Housing and Welfare seminar: Fördelning av hyresbostäder i Sverige
10:15–
12:00Zoom – link will be sent to those who registerThis seminar is conducted by the Housing and Welfare Research Network and will be held in Swedish. More information and registration are available here.
Meet Our Research Team
A snapshot of the collaborators driving our interdisciplinary work.
Julie Goodrich
Research AssistantLina Olsson
Associate ProfessorPer Hillbur
Associate ProfessorGuy Baeten
ProfessorAina Gagliardo
Collaboration CoordinatorMagnus Nilsson
ProfessorMikaela Herbert
Postdoctoral ResearcherJennie Gustafsson
Postdoctoral ResearcherSimone Vegliò
Project ResearcherMagnus Andersson
Associate Professor/Vice Dean
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