Job University of Amsterdam (UvA) - Postdoc in Urban and Regional Planning

Urban and Regional Planning research and education are embedded within the Planning, Institutions and Transforming Spaces theme group. They are directed at understanding the spatial governance challenges of the contemporary metropolis, and at identifying ways of addressing these challenges. Within this broader field there is a lively area of specialization concerned with identifying ways of better integrating transportation and spatial planning and development. The focus is on exploring ways of achieving a transition to sustainable urban mobility, and includes subjects as accessibility planning and multi-modal development. The postdoc will help further expand and consolidate this area of specialization. Fostering communication between the disciplines of transportation planning and spatial planning and critical exchange between planning science and planning practice are viewed as crucial to the pursuit.

Tasks

• Completed PhD in Urban and Regional Planning, with a focus on integration with Urban Transportation Planning
• Publications in international ‘peer reviewed' journals and/or in books published by internationally recognized publishers
• Broad knowledge in the field of Urban and Regional Planning
• Specialist knowledge in the integration of Urban and Regional Planning and Urban Transportation Panning
• Thorough knowledge of and interest in quantitative and qualitative research methods, and particularly in the specific research methods of planning as a ‘design science' aimed at identifying solutions as well as problems
• Ability to teach and motivate students at both basic and advanced levels
• Willingness to work as a ‘team player' within the current urban and regional planning research agenda as well as within the educational programmes
• Proficiency in Dutch is not a requirement, however, willingness to learn it is appreciated and will be supported

Depending on qualifications and experience, the gross monthly salary will range from €2,379 (scale 10) to €4,374 (scale 11). It is a temporary appointment lasting 2 years.

The Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG) is the largest educational and research institution in the social sciences in the Netherlands. The Faculty serves 7,500 students in numerous Bachelor's and Master's programmes in Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Communication Science, Psychology, Social Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, and Educational Sciences. The academic staff is employed in education as well as research. There are over 1,100 employees at the Faculty, which resides in a number of buildings in the centre of Amsterdam.

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

For more information about this position, please contact the Head of the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies, Dr Joos Droogleever Fortuijn (j.c.droogleeverfortuijn@uva.nl) or the leader of the spatial and transportation planning area of specialization Prof. Luca Bertolini (l.bertolini@uva.nl, +31 20 525 4007). 

For more information on the Bachelor's programmes in Human Geography and Planning, and Master's programmes in Planning and in Metropolitan Studies, go to: www.fmg.uva.nl/researchandeducation/home.cfm

For more information about the scientific focus of Urban and Regional Planning, go to: www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/home.cfm and within that site to the Planning, Institutions and Transforming Spaces research group sections in particular (follow the leads 'research', 'research groups').