Apply for the fully funded visiting scholarship at HafenCity Universität Hamburg in Germany organised by the research training group
Closing Date: 15 September 2025
Apply for the fully funded visiting scholarship at HafenCity Universität Hamburg in Germany organised by the research training group
Exciting opportunity: Urban Future Making research training group is inviting applications for a funded visiting scholarship to join them at HafenCity Universität Hamburg (HCU) one to four months in the next winter term (mid-October 2025 until mid-February 2026). Urban Future Making warmly welcome scholars whose work aligns with the themes of its programme and who are interested in engaging with its team.
Urban Future Making will cover travel expenses and accommodation for the selected guest and provide for daily allowances.
About
The research training group (RTG) ‘Urban future-making: Professional agency across time and scale’. The RTG is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and jointly organized by the HafenCity University Hamburg (HCU), University of Hamburg (UHH), and Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH). Its mission is to investigate the agency of built environment professionals in the face of pressing challenges for transformative change.
Urban areas have become crucial sites where aspired pathways towards desirable futures are imagined, forecasted, and variably negotiated. Through the lens of ‘urban future-making’, the research training group explores the activities of experts and administrators responding to expected threats and risks to urban societies through measures related to the built environment. The central question is whether reflexive and responsible professional agency in urban future-making is possible under present conditions of heightened uncertainty and multiple crises.
Urban future-making research training group examines strategies and interventions employed by experts and administrators to address the expected threats to urban societies with measures related to the urban built environment. Urban future-making specific focus lies on the group of built environment professions. Urban future-making recognize professionals in these fields as a highly diverse group of urban future-makers, operating in public administration, the private sector, non-profit organizations, and in civil society initiatives.
The members of the research training group investigate the agency of built environment professionals in the interdisciplinary dialogue between reflection- and solution-oriented fields of research. The group of participating supervisors and researchers have backgrounds in geography, sociology, political science, and urban studies as well as in architecture, planning, and engineering. Urban future-making’s aim is to facilitate conceptual and methodological cross-fertilization across these social sciences and built environment disciplines.
How To Apply
If you are interested, please send the research training group an email with:
- A letter of motivation (max. 1 page)
- A short statement of your research interests and their connection to their RTG (max. 500 words)
- CV
- Your preferred time-frame for the visit
Please submit your message to the spokesperson Monika Grubbauer ([email protected]) by 15 Sept 2025. Please also feel free to forward this announcement to colleagues or scholars who might be interested. Preference will be given to scholars from non-European and particularly Global South contexts.
A follow-up call for visiting scholarships for the summer term 2026 (mid-April until mid-July) will be announced separately by the end of November 2025.
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