All Things Urban

The internationally renowned Technische Universität Berlin is located in Germany’s capital city at the heart of Europe. Our academic activities are focused on achieving sharply-defined goals: building a distinctive profile for our university, ensuring exceptional performance in research and teaching, providing our graduates with excellent qualifications and a modern approach to university administration.

With the start of the research pro­ject “Urban-Rural Assembly (URA) - Man­aging inclus­ive trans­form­a­tion-to-sus­tain­ab­il­ity pro­cesses at the urban-rural inter­face of the Huangyan-Taizhou region in China through the devel­op­ment of new stra­tegic gov­ernance tools and the imple­ment­a­tion of exem­plary pilot pro­jects as cata­lysts for regional value chains” TU Ber­lin is seek­ing a research assist­ant. The Hab­itat Unit at TU Ber­lin will lead an inter­na­tional con­sor­tium of out­stand­ing research insti­tu­tions from Ger­many and China as well as local part­ners from the Chinese Huangyan-Taizhou dis­trict in Zheji­ang province. The Hab­itat Unit is a glob­ally net­worked research and teach­ing centre at TU Ber­lin devel­op­ing new approaches, expert­ise and applic­a­tion-ori­ented tools rel­ev­ant for global urb­an­isa­tion and urban change pro­cesses. Com­mit­ted to an inclus­ive and rights based approach to urban policy and actor-driven plan­ning the Hab­itat Unit pro­motes an exten­ded under­stand­ing of urban and archi­tec­tural design, integ­rat­ing spa­tial, mater­ial and cul­tural dimen­sions with new mod­els of par­ti­cip­a­tion, co-pro­duc­tion and urban gov­ernance. The Hab­itat Unit col­lab­or­ates closely with lead­ing uni­versit­ies world­wide and advises national and global devel­op­ment agen­cies.

- Sup­port PI in the coordin­a­tion of the TU Ber­lin-based research team (doc­toral researcher and stu­dent assist­ant), the cluster of Ger­man and Chinese con­sor­tium part­ners and in the reg­u­lar com­mu­nic­a­tion with the fund­ing Min­istry - Lead­ing on social-spa­tial research on trans-local urban-rural prac­tices and link­ages in the Chinese region Huangyan-Taizhou - Sup­port­ing PI and con­sor­tium part­ners in draft­ing a fund­ing pro­posal for the pro­spect­ive second fund­ing phase of the research pro­ject (research and devel­op­ment phase, 4 years)

- Suc­cess­fully com­pleted uni­versity degree (Mas­ter, Dip­lom or equi­val­ent) in the field of Urban- und Regional Plan­ning, Urban- und Regional Soci­ology, Archi­tec­ture, Urban Design, Soci­ology or Urban Geo­graphy or equi­val­ent. - Suc­cess­ful com­ple­tion of doc­toral dis­ser­ta­tion in rel­ev­ant field of inter­na­tional urban stud­ies, prefer­ably with rela­tion to urban-rural devel­op­ment and/or urb­an­isa­tion pro­cesses in China. - Expert­ise deriv­ing from par­ti­cip­a­tion in inter-dis­cip­lin­ary research pro­jects as well as exper­i­ence in inter­na­tional com­par­at­ive urban and regional research approaches, prefer­ably in the field of urban-rural devel­op­ment and/or integ­rat­ive urban and regional devel­op­ment in China - Com­pre­hens­ive inter-dis­cip­lin­ary meth­od­o­lo­gical and the­or­et­ical know­ledge skills in the field of inter­na­tional urban and regional stud­ies, in par­tic­u­lar the­or­ies and meth­ods allow­ing research on urb­an­isa­tion pro­cesses, the devel­op­ment of rural spaces as well as urban-rural inter­re­la­tions. - Excel­lent writ­ten and oral com­mu­nic­a­tion skills in Eng­lish; prefer­ably also in Chinese.

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