Welcome to the Institute for Urban Research

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.