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.
Startup seminar: Ikram Abdulkadir (IUR Artist in Residence 2026)
13:15–
15:00Niagara K3 studio (5th floor)Throughout 2026, Malmö-based artist Ikram Abdulkadir will join IUR and Urban Humanities as artist in residence. Participating in both our public activities and everyday routines,…
Brown Bag Seminar: Magnus Gustafson
12:00–
13:00Hybrid: Niagara C0826 and ZoomThis event will be hybrid in Niagara C0826 and on Zoom (link here). Title: In the Tracks of Cement – Aspects of Cement’s Impact on…
- 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…
Meet Our Research Team
A snapshot of the collaborators driving our interdisciplinary work.
Martin Grander
Associate ProfessorMagnus Gustafson
Postdoctoral ResearcherLisa Björkman
Project ResearcherAnders Melin
Associate ProfessorPål Brunnström
Senior LecturerHoai Anh Tran
Associate ProfessorPeter Parker
Senior LecturerHelena Fernández-Cavada
ArtistJennie Gustafsson
Postdoctoral ResearcherHannah Persson
Research Assistant
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