London, UK
Researcher
at RMIT University
RMIT University is seeking a researcher to join its team in London or Cambridge, UK.
PHD in Urbanism – Making Cities: Centres & Edges – MSCA COFUND – REDI Program
Job location: 5th Studio Ltd., London or Cambridge, England
Job description
REDI is a unique PhD training program offering industry-supported positions with excellent salaries, enviable international experiences across 10 countries including a residential year in Melbourne and annual workshops weeks in Barcelona, top-class research and skills training as well as networking with academic and industry leaders across 60+ supporting partners.
REDI is looking for one researcher (with less than four years’ of research experience and not yet in the possession of a doctoral degree), who will work with both at the 5th Studio (England) and RMIT University (Australia) on one of three research projects:
- Project 1: Ecological Urbanism – Research through design at the very large scale, addressing the challenges of climate change in the city. Deep contexts, ecologies – methodologies for documenting evolution of land uses and existing conditions. Estate retrofit. Conceptions of the 15-minute city, circular economy, social equity. Approaches to adaptive re-use, retrofit, co-production and community empowerment
- Project 2: A new Hansa – Exploring intra-national interplays between contemporary resonances of the old Hanseatic League of countries/city states around the North Sea. Exploring energy production, common conditions and environments, climate change adaptation and resilience, post-Brexit conditions and sociologies. Drawing on and building networks of city governance and practitioners: Amsterdam, Hamburg, Malmo, Copenhagen, Oslo. Rural/urban relationships – landscape re-wilding and repair
- Project 3: Urban Logistics – Exploring emerging thinking on logistics within the city, including food /just-in-time relationships, new markets, distribution of building materials, waste and the circular economy. Exploration of different modes including water, rail, new transport, Consolidation within cities; future of work. Emerging architectural hybrids that draw on co-location and intensification; new typologies and urban Impacts; social aspects. Economic and historical survey of precedents
Research supervisors for these projects include Prof. Tom Holbrook (5th Studio) and Prof. Martyn Hook (RMIT).
Candidates will be expected to have a design background with a minimum of two years relevant professional experience within the built environment post-master’s, preferably in public works, urban design or architectural practice. 5th Studio actively encourage qualified applicants who are Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, disabled, women and LGBTQIA+, as these groups are under-represented throughout the built environment professions.
For full remuneration and application details, visit the REDI website: www.rediprogram.eu
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 101034328