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. 

IUR gathers around 40 scholars from different disciplines on topics around urban justice. IUR holds seminars, workshops, conferences and public lectures where the applicant can present and discuss their work. The applicant can also be part of writing research applications seminars, publication workshops and will be invited to participate in the Master of Urban Studies.  

We would like to invite applicants focusing on urban research in relation to any of our four themes:  Housing and Welfare, Green and Just Cities,  Global Urbanism, and  Urban Humanities.