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.

We’re not fully sure whether this role is open to international candidates. If you would need visa sponsorship or work authorisation, we recommend checking directly with the employer before applying.