Doctoral student in Architecture: Adaptive Reuse and Repair

Six doctoral positions are being advertised simultaneously within the School of Architecture and the Built Environment’s focus on digitalization and sustainability.

Project description

Third-cycle subject: Architecture

Through artistic research, this PhD position addresses the need for new sustainable ways of reuse and repair in architecture. Through digital techniques for visualization, documentation, and fabrication, the aim is to develop sensitive methods that attend to material, cultural, and historical values in the built environment. The aim of the project is to advance methods for imagining how the already existing holds radical sustainable futures.

In response to current environmental and socio-political concerns, and with a critical awareness that techniques for digitalization simultaneously preserve and control, as well as construct and rewrite knowledge, this project engages in a cross-disciplinary overlap of methods to make intertwined relationships and multi-layered aspects visible. Further, it examines how we imagine, understand, make, and maintain our built environment.

Supervision: Thordis Arrhenius, Ulrika Karlsson and Adam Wickberg is proposed to supervise the doctoral student. Decisions are made on admission

What we offer

• The possibility to study in a dynamic and international research environment in collaboration with industries and prominent universities from all over the world.
• A workplace with many employee benefits and monthly salary according to KTH’s Doctoral student salary agreement.
• A postgraduate education at an institution that is active and supportive in matters pertaining to working conditions, gender equality and diversity as well as study environment.
• Work and study in Stockholm, close to nature and the water.
• Work in an internationally established research environment in architectural spatial analysis.
• Help to relocate and be settled in Sweden and at KTH.

Admission requirements

To be admitted to postgraduate education (Chapter 7, 39 § Swedish Higher Education Ordinance), the applicant must have basic eligibility in accordance with either of the following:

• passed a second cycle degree (for example a master's degree), or
• completed course requirements of at least 240 higher education credits, of which at least 60 second-cycle higher education credits, or
• acquired, in some other way within or outside the country, substantially equivalent knowledge

The specific requirements for the doctoral program in Architecture apply: V-2023ASP_Arkitektur.pdf

In addition to the above, there is also a mandatory requirement for English equivalent to English B/6.

Selection

In order to succeed as a doctoral student at KTH you need to be goal oriented and persevering in your work. During the selection process, candidates will be assessed upon their ability to:

• independently pursue his or her work
• collaborate with others,
• have a professional approach and
• analyse and work with complex issues.
• architecturally address issues of sustainability and reuse
• to work and develop digital methods for architectural representation

After the qualification requirements, great emphasis will be placed on personal skills. 

Target degree: Doctoral degree

Information regarding admission and employment

Only those admitted to postgraduate education may be employed as a doctoral student. The total length of employment may not be longer than what corresponds to full-time doctoral education in four years ' time. An employed doctoral student can, to a limited extent (maximum 20%), perform certain tasks within their role, e.g. training and administration. A new position as a doctoral student is for a maximum of one year, and then the employment may be renewed for a maximum of two years at a time. 

Union representatives

Contact information for union representatives.

Doctoral section (Students’ union on KTH Royal Institute of Technology)

Contact information for doctoral section.

To apply for the position

Apply for the position and admission through KTH's recruitment system. It is the applicant’s responsibility to ensure that the application is complete in accordance with the instructions in the advertisement.

Applications must be received at the last closing date at midnight, CET/CEST (Central European Time/Central European Summer Time).

Applications must include the following elements:

• CV including your relevant professional experience and knowledge.
• Application letter with a brief description of why you want to pursue research studies, your academic interests and how they relate to your previous studies and future goals. (Max 2 pages long).
• Appendix with (1) a proposed direction of research, (2) its relation to the profile Architecture: Adaptive Reuse and Repair, and (3) to architecture, digital tools for documentation and fabrication, and to methods for imagining the already built.
• Copies of diplomas and grades from previous university studies and certificates of fulfilled language requirements(see above). Translations into English or Swedish if the original document is not issued in one of these languages. Copies of originals must be certified.
• Representative publications or technical reports: For longer documents, please provide a summary (abstract) and a web link to the full text.
• Representative project portfolio (max 8 pages).
• A maximum of three publications, or two publications + portfolio, is accepted.

Other information

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