The SMUS (Post)Doctoral Programme (2025-2029), promotes doctoral and post-doctoral research revolving around urban sustainability topics and their underlying wicked urban problems (WUP). Next to the ongoing goal of strengthening research competencies among the teaching and research staff at partner universities, SMUS encourages the incorporation of a transdisciplinary, spatial, and practice-led research lens. By developing methodological research skills relative to this threefold approach, new light can be shed on the paradoxical nature of WUP. This in turn provides the basis for: (a) a greater understanding of WUP across the three world regions allowing for better comparison; (b) deriving common patterns and practices to tackle WUP; and (c) understanding and rendering operative contextual knowledge.
This action also includes a science-policy collaborative research initiative between Technische Universität Berlin and APRI, the African Policy Research Institute (a Berlin-based, independent, and non-partisan African think tank). In 2025, post-doctoral researchers from African-based SMUS network partner universities will be hosted at these institutions to produce policy briefs related to Urban Africa.
Action 3 – Evaluate (2020 -2024)
Action Speaker for Action 3
Action Speaker & Scientific Coordinator
Prof. Dr. Angela Million
Dr. Ignacio Castillo Ulloa
Action 3 Outputs
