Visiting Research Fellowships, 1 – 2 months stay, 2027
Linköping University, Tema T – Technology and Social Change, Sweden
Travel and accommodation provided
Application deadline: 4 October 2026
We would like to draw your attention to a new call for visiting research fellows in the field of Urban and Regional Climate Transitions at Tema T – Technology and Social Change, Linköping University, Sweden, for the calendar year 2027. We would like to give both junior and senior researchers the opportunity to stay between one and two months at our department and engage with our vibrant interdisciplinary research environment. We will provide an apartment as well as research infrastructure (workplace, IT, library) for this time and can cover the travel to and from Linköping. Please find more information below, in the leaflet attached or at https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/tema/temat/research-fellows-at-technology-and-social-change-2024-
Examples of topics of interest within Urban and Regional Climate Transitions are:
- the role of urban and regional planning in sustainability transitions; new tools and approaches for strategic and transformative planning; new roles for planners
- social transformation and the role of knowledge and politics
- the governance of socio-technical change; building capacities for transformation
- the role of social movements, grassroots innovations or energy communities
- new instruments and strategies for urban transformative change – socio-technical experiments, system demonstrators, reflexive monitoring and evaluation, mission-oriented innovation policies
- critical analysis of the politics of transition; conflict, controversy and friction in transition processes; questions of justice, equality, democracy and marginalisation in sustainability transitions
Your workplace will be at the Division of Technology and Social Change at Linköping University. Tema T is a nationally and internationally leading environment for research and education in how people create and use technology, and how technological change is interwoven with cultural patterns, everyday life, politics, ethics and economy.
If you are interested, please send us an email with your preferred period of stay to fellowship.temat@liu.se and attach a CV and expression of interest, including plans for your stay, of up to three pages.
The application deadline for the coming calendar year 2027 is 4 October 2026.