IUR Involvements
The Institute for Urban Research is actively engaged in a wide range of collaborations and initiatives that extend our research impact and deepen our connection with academic, civic, and professional communities. Through partnerships, networks, spin-off projects, and journal involvements, we contribute to shaping urban research agendas and fostering critical dialogue across disciplines and sectors.
This page gathers the various forms of involvement that define and support our work—highlighting ongoing collaborations, shared platforms, and knowledge-driven communities that we help sustain and participate in.
Networks
Collaborative platforms for exchange and influence
These are formal networks in which the IUR plays an active role, connecting researchers and practitioners across institutional and geographical boundaries. They enable shared learning, joint initiatives, and collective work around pressing urban issues.
Viable Cities
Viable Cities is a strategic innovation program in Sweden aiming to achieve climate-neutral cities by 2030, ensuring a good life for all within planetary boundaries. The program fosters transformative systemic change through collaboration among municipalities, academia, businesses, and civil society.…
Nätverk för boende och välfärd
The Network for Housing and Welfare is a collaborative platform focusing on the intersection of housing policies and welfare systems in Sweden. It brings together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to discuss and address challenges related to housing inequality, affordability, and…
The Institute for Studies in Malmö’s History (IMH)
IMH is a research center at Malmö University dedicated to exploring the historical development of cities, with a particular focus on Malmö. The institute conducts interdisciplinary research on urban history, identity, and memory, engaging with both academic and public audiences.…
Partners
Strategic collaborations for research and knowledge production
Our partners are academic institutions and research centers with whom we collaborate closely on urban research topics. These relationships often involve co-hosted events, shared projects, and mutual academic exchange.
Urban Theory Lab
IUR’s Simone Vegliò is a Research Affiliate with the Urban Theory Lab as of April 2026. From the Urban Theory Lab website: The Urban Theory Lab (UTL) seeks to develop new ways of conceptualizing capitalist urbanization and its increasingly planetary…
The Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering (DICEA)
IUR established a cultural and scientific cooperation agreement with DICEA in spring 2026 that will establish paths for exchange between the two host universities. The Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering (DICEA) was established on July 1, 2010, continuing…
Urban Agency
IUR was a co-funder in 2019 of Urban Agency, a European and North American network of urban research institutes, hosted at the Urban Studies Institute (University of Antwerp). About the Urban Agency III initiative: Building on in-depth interdisciplinary research on…
The Housing and Urban Justice Project
This research group at Uppsala University’s Institute for Housing and Urban Research examines various forms of injustice—such as poverty, inequality, discrimination, and oppression—through critical theoretical frameworks. Their work investigates how different groups are included in housing provision and urban planning,…
Mobility, Space, Place, and Urban Studies (MOSPUS)
MOSPUS is a multidisciplinary research group at Roskilde University that develops theoretically informed and critical research on the themes of space, place, mobility, and urban studies. The group brings together researchers from various disciplines, including geography, sociology, anthropology, planning, and…
International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
IIAS is a global humanities and social sciences research institute and knowledge exchange platform based at Leiden University. It promotes critical, humanistic, and collaborative work on, with, in, and beyond Asia. The institute’s academic strategy revolves around five interrelated core…
Tampere Urban Research Network for Sustainability (TURNS)
TURNS is a multidisciplinary research platform at Tampere University that catalyzes innovative, collaborative, and interdisciplinary research by bringing together urban studies, transition studies, and sustainability science. As a strategic and long-term initiative, TURNS networks experts and offers funding to support…
Off-springs
Independent initiatives emerging from IUR research
This section features networks and projects initiated by IUR members in collaboration with others. They reflect the Institute’s broader influence and commitment to building new communities of practice and inquiry.
MAUSI_Net: Menopause Artivism in the UK, Sweden and India
In recent years the topic of menopause in the UK has gone from being something largely buried and ‘shameful’ in society, to being the focus of huge public attention across media, politics, medicine, retail, and more. This ‘menopause revolution’, as it has been…
Öresund Urban Social Atlas
The Öresund Urban Social Atlas presents research that maps and analyses the social dimensions of the city. Research focuses on the relation between people and the built environment, and on the urban spaces that hold and shape our daily lives.…
The Nordic Urban Political Economy Network (NUPE)
NUPE is a collaborative initiative launched in 2020 to examine the political-economic transformations occurring in Nordic cities and regions. The network focuses on critical studies of urban political economy and political ecology, analyzing how factors like neoliberalism, financialization, and migration…
Nordic Network of Global South Urbanisms (NEGSU)
NEGSU is a research network that connects scholars interested in urban processes in the Global South and their relevance to Nordic contexts. The network promotes interdisciplinary research on topics such as informal settlements, urban governance, and social movements, encouraging comparative…
Journals
Editorial contributions and hosted publications
The IUR is involved in scholarly publishing through journal hosting and editorial participation. These journals are important platforms for advancing interdisciplinary urban studies and promoting critical perspectives on urban issues.
Urban Matters
Urban Matters publishes urban research articles and commentaries on urban events, processes, trends and discussions of urban pasts and futures. It also publishes interviews with urban experts and artists, photo essays and book reviews. The Editorial Board encourages combining academic…
Book Review Editor of Housing, Theory, and Society
Housing, Theory and Society regards housing as a research topic embedded in wider issues of concern across the social and behavioural sciences. The journal accordingly aims to develop housing research as a theoretically sophisticated field spanning the diverse academic and professional…
International Editorial Advisory Board of Housing Studies
Housing Studies is a leading international journal that examines housing policy, theory, and practice. It publishes research on topics such as housing markets, social housing, homelessness, and urban regeneration. Carina Listerborn, a professor at Malmö University, serves on the International…
Editorial Board Member of Urban Planning
Urban Planning is an open-access journal that focuses on the planning and design of urban spaces. It covers a wide range of topics, including urban governance, sustainability, and spatial justice. Carina Listerborn at IUR is a member of the Editorial…
