PhD Candidate in ICT for Sustainable Cities

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About the position

For a position as a PhD Candidate, the goal is a completed doctoral education up to an obtained doctoral degree.

This PhD position is one of four PhD fellowships within a multi-disciplinary project SWELL (Sustainable Built Environments for better Health and Well-being), which is a collaboration among the Department of Computer Science (IDI), Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science (INB) and Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (IBM). The SWELL project’s goal is to address the complex interaction between individual Humans’ HWB (health and wellbeing) and the Built Environment (BE). 

This particular PhD fellowship will focus on the use of ICT to affect behaviour change among individuals and communities by raising awareness about their own carbon footprint and lifestyle, through their daily activities, e.g. mobility choices and short and long term goals. This activity will support citizens make decisions to transition to a more sustainable future, using an ICT-enabled “personal/community-based sustainability manager”, which could help short and long term planning and make trade-offs, through a better understanding of sustainability. It will enhance the human-in-the-loop and make them active participants through increased understanding of sustainability. 

The work will be based on the Urban Living Labs methodology to engage and work with citizens to co-design solutions. The technologies and solutions that will be explored will include pervasive and ubiquitous technologies that could be used to relate the global/national Sustainable Development Goals (e.g. UN SDGs) and climate related goals to citizens’ behaviours. The research will explore how ICT solution(s) can be designed and developed to enhance citizens’ understanding of health and sustainable choices, achieve a broader outreach to larger and varied groups of people, and scalable technology that has the potential to engage a variety of stakeholders (e.g. educators, communities, investors, public authorities and service providers). 

You will report to the Head of the Department.