IUR invites all interested postdocs to apply to develop a collaborative MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship application within the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program and to spend 1-2 years with us in Malmö. The call is announced on Euraxess and Errin with a deadline to apply of Friday May 1, 2026, 23:59. Welcome with your application according to the instructions below!
Description of the post:
Would you be interested in spending 1 – 2 years as a postdoc on a research project (of your choice) in an ambitious research environment in southern Sweden? The Institute for Urban Research (IUR) at Malmö University invites candidates** of any nationality to develop a collaborative MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship application within the European Commission’s Horizon Europe program. Applicants may not have resided, worked, or studied in Sweden for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to the call deadline (September 8, 2026). More about the scheme, eligibility and application here at the Funding & tenders portal HORIZON-MSCA-2026-PF-01. For questions on formal issues, please contact Lars Ola Nilsson (lars-ola.nilsson@mau.se).
The selected candidate(s) will, together with a researcher and mentor from the Institute for Urban Research, develop a project proposal that will be jointly submitted with Malmö University as the host organization. For this call, we welcome topics in the field of urban studies where Malmö University’s Institute for Urban Research has built up significant expertise and international recognition. In addition to the applicant’s merits, we will prioritize applications that fit the main research themes of the Institute for Urban Research:
- Housing and Welfare seeks to redefine the housing crisis in Sweden and beyond, framing it as a crisis of inequality and injustice, aligning with IUR’s overarching theme of Urban Justice.
- Urban Humanities mobilizes humanities scholars to engage with the full spectrum of human expression and experience in and of the urban, ranging from urban literatures and visual cultures to public art, the built environment, memory, and heritage
- Global Urbanism works towards dislocating urban knowledge production from its current Euro-American centred theorization by highlighting recent conceptualizations and categorizations of urban phenomena by scholars working outside Western contexts.
- Green and Just Cities contribute to deeper understanding of the physical geographical and ecological dimensions of urban justice by providing a bridge between urban studies and environmental studies
If you are interested in developing such a proposal with us, email your CV and a one-page outline of your research idea to IUR Director Carina Listerborn (carina.listerborn@mau.se) no later than May the 1st 2026. Selected candidates/teams are offered support in MSCA-PF proposal writing by the Grants Office, starting with a compulsory Master Class in June.
Malmö University was founded in 1998 in Sweden’s third largest city of Malmö in the southern part of Sweden. It has five faculties, including scientific fields within e.g. life sciences, health, technology and humanities. It offers a wide variety of education programs and courses at undergraduate and postgraduate including PhD level. It is the only university in Sweden that offers a PhD in Urban Studies. It has around 27,000 students and 2,200 employees.
The Institute for Urban Research is placed at the Department of Urban Studies, which is a multi-disciplinary department with a main focus on the development of urban scholarship. It currently has a staff of almost 100 persons and ca 2000 students, and is an excellent environment to gain teaching experience alongside research activities.
** who on 8 September 2026 (call deadline date) are in possession of a doctoral degree or have successfully defended a doctoral thesis, and maximum of 8 years fulltime equivalent experience in research, measured from the date of award of the doctoral degree.
