We are looking for an ambitious PhD student to analyze the political ecology of coastal urbanization by developing a qualitative case study on the labour and workers behind dredging and land reclamation in Singapore, an often invisiblized labour that nevertheless laid the foundation for this global city of finance and trade. The focus is on workers’ experiences, histories, migration, organization and everyday places. The project combines urban political ecology (UPE) and labour geography to understand how sediment, machinery and labor combine with industrial and financial capital to shape often unequal urbanization patterns. Employment at KTH’s Environmental Science Department with a 15-24 month stay in Singapore at the School of Social Science at Nanyang Technological University (NTU). You will join a supportive research team that studies the political ecology of dredging and land reclamation. Go here for more information about the PhD project.
Deadline is 26 June 2025.
Supervision: Professor Henrik Ernstson at KTH and Associate Professor Ye Junjia at NTU. Decision at admission.
What we offer
- The possibility to study in a dynamic and international research environment in collaboration with industries and prominent universities from all over the world.
- A workplace with many employee benefits and monthly salary according to KTH’s Doctoral student salary agreement.
- A postgraduate education at an institution that is active and supportive in matters pertaining to working conditions, gender equality and diversity as well as study environment.
- Work and study in Stockholm, close to nature and the water.
- Participate in a vibrant interdisciplinary community at KTH: Situated Ecologies Platform, KTH Environmental Humanities Lab, Centre of Excellence for Anthropocene History, Climate Action Centre, that provide seminars and attracts world leading scholars.
- Join the research team Terra Potentia: The World-making Force of Dredging with ongoing studies in Hamburg, New Orleans, Savannah, and Luleå.
- Receive doctoral education at two leading universities and be part of a strategic partnership between KTH and NTU.
- Guidance on relocating and settling in Sweden and at KTH and access to on-campus graduate housing at NTU.