Visiting Research Fellowships, 1 2 months stay, 2026
Linkping University, Tema T Technology and Social Change, Sweden
Travel and accommodation provided
Application deadline: 15 October 2025
Dear colleagues,
This is a friendly reminder about the approaching deadline for our call for
visiting research fellows at Tema T Technology and Social Change, Linkping
University, Sweden, for the calendar year 2026. We would like to give both
junior and senior researchers the opportunity to stay between one and two
months at our department and engage with our vibrant interdisciplinary
research environment. We will provide an apartment as well as research
infrastructure (work place, IT, library) for this time and can cover the
travel to and from Linkping. Please find more information in the attached
leaflet.
This time we are offering two tracks, one on Urban and Regional Climate
Transitions and one on Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities and Bioethics.
Please find more information below, in the two leaflets attached or at
https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/tema/temat/research-fellows-at-technology-
and-social-change-2024-
Examples of topics of interest within Urban and Regional Climate Transitions
are:
- the role of urban and regional planning in sustainability transitions;
new tools and approaches for strategic and transformative planning; new roles
for planners
- social transformation and the role of knowledge and politics
- the governance of socio-technical change; building capacities for
transformation
- the role of social movements, grassroots innovations or energy
communities
- new instruments and strategies for urban transformative change -
socio-technical experiments, system demonstrators, reflexive monitoring and
evaluation, mission-oriented innovation policies
- critical analysis of the politics of transition; conflict, controversy
and friction in transition processes; questions of justice, equality,
democracy and marginalisation in sustainability transitions
Fields of interest within Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities and Bioethics
are:
- Global health challenges;
- Interdisciplinary research across the humanities, the social sciences,
and biomedicine;
- Interdisciplinary research in the medical humanities (including the
social sciences), in bioethics or across medical humanities and bioethics;
- Critical analysis of knowledge production in health care practices and
policy work;
- Creative research methods and art-research collaborations;
- Intersectional and gender approaches to contested illnesses;
- Medical humanities (including social sciences) or bioethical analyses of
conditions that more commonly affect or are perceived to affect women;
- Medical humanities (including social sciences) or bioethical analyses of
recovery, resilience, and health.
Your workplace will be at the Division of Technology and Social
Change at Linkping University.
Tema T is a nationally and internationally leading environment for research
and education in how people create and use technology, and how technological
change is interwoven with cultural patterns, everyday life, politics, ethics
and economy.
If you are interested, please send us an email with your preferred period of
stay and the track you would like to choose to
fellowship.temat@liu.se and attach a CV and
expression of interest, including plans for your stay, of up to three pages.
The application deadline for fellowships during the coming calendar year 2026
is 15 October 2025. However, later applications can also be accepted on a
rolling basis pending on the availability of funding.
We are looking forward to receiving your expressions of interest! Wed also be
grateful if you could pass this information on to other potentially interested
persons.
With best regards,
Harald Rohracher & Kristin Zeiler
Harald Rohracher
Professor
Linkping University
Tema T - Technology and Social Change
581 83 Linkping
Sweden
Phone: +46 (0) 13-28 29 75
Mobile: +46 (0) 70-08 96 002
Visiting address: Hus T, Campus Valla
Please visit us at: https://liu.se/en/organisation/liu/tema/temat
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