Vulnerable neighbourhoods provide strategic spatial and institutional challenges for urban energy transitions, especially in developing collective agency and achieving just transitions. In our research project “Collective agency and co-evolution toward inclusive energy transitions” (CO2PED) we build concrete tools to strengthen the urban transformative capacity of stakeholders toward developing positive-energy districts.
Your job CO2PED engages with neighbourhoods in Belgium, Estonia, the Netherlands, and Portugal. We aim to empower residents as active agents in sustainable neighbourhood redevelopment while at the same time strengthening the capacity of municipalities and other public and private stakeholders to imagine and facilitate more inclusive energy transition strategies.
We are inviting candidates to apply for a position as postdoctoral researcher in CO2PED. You will work directly with
Dr Martijn van den Hurk and become a member of the international consortium, including the universities of Ghent, Tartu and Aveiro. You will conduct empirical research on two selected neighbourhoods in Utrecht, with a conceptual focus on the visions and visioning processes related to the futures of these two neighbourhoods. The critical research tasks include:
- analysing how the futures of the neighbourhoods are visioned;
- developing and testing alternative approaches of visioning the futures of the neighbourhoods;
- articulating methods to institutionalise novel visioning approaches locally and address their replicability internationally;
- (co-)organising consortium meetings and leading in preparing and coordinating stakeholder events and making and presenting research outputs.