Sustainability - Built environments by SWELL
SWELL – Sustainable Built Environments for better Health and WELL-being
A project in the Interdisciplinary Sustainable Initiatives at NTNU
Call for applications: 4 PhD positions
Application deadline has expired.
About the project
The motivation for SWELL is the need for a new environmental conceptualization of public health. The main objective of the project is to nurture health and well-being in urban environments, by addressing the complex interaction between individual humans’ well-being and the built environment and through technological and space innovations. The interdependency of health, environmental and societal issues crave for new overarching approaches.
To address these issues, this project includes scientists within the fields of Health and Medicine (MH faculty), Information Systems and Data Science (IE faculty), and urban Facility Management (IV faculty). Interdisciplinary, cross-professional and multi-sector collaboration and Urban Living Labs will be employed as vehicles for achieving greater social and economic goals.
The envisaged research will demonstrate how focused interdisciplinary research on multi-sector interventions and policies, innovative research methodologies and technologies can make a systemic change.
Our entry point for a sustainable transformation is the health and well-being of the population related to the built environment, through health governance, individual and collective action and science and technology. We aim to minimise negative impacts on sustainability goals, globally and across multiple generations, through raising awareness and empowering behaviour changes, and by re-using existing data, equipment and infrastructure.
PhD Position in:
ICT for Sustainable Cities
Department of Computer Science
ICT to affect behaviour change among individuals and communities by raising awareness about carbon footprint and lifestyle. This activity will support citizens transition to a sustainable future, using a «personal/community-based sustainability manager», which could help short and long term planning and make trade-offs, through a better understanding of sustainability.
Application deadline has expired.
PhD Position in:
Interaction Design and Built Environments
Department of Computer Science
Leveraging advancements in sensing and ubiquitous systems can help us to increase the quality of life in built environments (BE). This activity will explore what interactions need to be strengthened between the humans and the BE, how those interactions can be integrated into services, and what is the impact of such integration.
Application deadline has expired.
PhD Position in:
Sustainable Built Environment – Co-creating sustainable transformation
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
The main objective is to create an urban value ecosystem, which has people and environment as the main driving forces for sustainable transformation. The study will look for innovative approaches to empower citizens for co-creating and co-designing solutions at different urban environment scales with the aim to increase health and wellbeing parameters.
Application deadline has expired.
PhD Position in:
Sustainable Built Environment and Public Health
Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science
The aim is to better understand and outline possibilities for how to address the interactions between environmental stressors, health, well-being, inequality, lifestyles, and behaviors through analyzing evidence from environmental, health and social sciences, and from existing inter-sectoral interventions and policy initiatives.
Application deadline has expired.