Postdoc Commoning Accessibility in Urban Outskirts and Beyond at University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Closing Date: November 9, 2023
Job Category: Postdoc
Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
University: University of Amsterdam
Department: Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO)
Faculty/Division: Urban Planning Research Group at the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) and the Centre for Urban Studies (CUS)
Description:
Are you a recent PhD graduate, eager to understand how to make mobility and accessibility in urban outskirts and beyond more just and sustainable? If you are, this might be your next job!
The University of Amsterdam’s Urban Planning research group is looking for a postdoctoral researcher (3 years) to contribute to the new project “COMMON ACCESS”.
COMMON ACCESS brings a novel focus on the social nature of accessibility options and measures in urban peripheries, towards realization of the ’15-minute city’ vision. Central to COMMON ACCESS’s approach are ‘Commoning Accessibility (CA)’ practices such as community shared (e-)bikes, (e-)cargo bikes, (e-) cars and (e-)vans, alone or in combination with community managed digital platforms, and social, cultural and care amenities and services (e.g., community-run cafes or supermarkets with a social function) - where the role of communities in optimizing resources and sharing physical and digital accessibility services is fundamental.
By way of testbeds in different peri-urban neighborhoods of six metropolitan areas of Amsterdam (NL), Bergamo (IT), Ghent (BE), Munich (GE), Pavia (IT) and Oxford (UK), COMMON ACCESS will generate insights into (1) the variety of accessibility conditions of urban outskirts; (2) ongoing CA practices in urban outskirts; (3) opportunities for activating new CA experiments; (4) the mobility and social impacts of CA experiments and (5) the policy enablers and constraints of CA experiments in the outskirts.
As a postdoctoral researcher you will specifically contribute to the latter aim, by generating insights into which multi-scalar and multi-sector policies impact commoning accessibility in urban outskirts and beyond and how; and by identifying combinations of top-down policy frameworks and bottom-up experiments that can accelerate the transition towards CA. The Amsterdam Metropolitan Area will be the main, hypothesis-generating case study, and other regions participating in the project will provide case studies for hypothesis testing and refining, in collaboration with local consortium partners.
You will work directly with Prof. Dr. Ir. Luca Bertolini and Dr. Anna Nikolaeva. You will also become part of the COMMON ACCESS consortium, which includes leading universities and policymakers in five European countries. At the University of Amsterdam, you will be embedded in the Urban Planning research group, in the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies (GPIO). You will become part of the Amsterdam Institute of Social Science Research (AISSR) and the Centre for Urban Studies (CUS).
More information here.
