Green and Just Cities

I am Associate Professor in Ethics and I have led and participated in several interdisciplinary research project on ecological sustainability and ethics. From 2014-2017 I was the principal investigator (PI) of the project “Energy and Justice: an ethical analysis of Swedish energy politics”. From 2020-2023 I was the PI of the project Energy scenarios and…

I am a Professor in Urban Planning and Director of the Institute for Urban Research. I completed my PhD in 2002 at Chalmers University on discourses of urban safety planning from a feminist perspective and has since then been researching urban development strategies (including smart cities), the uses of public spaces from an intersectional perspective,…

The main focuses of my research are justice and fairness in accessibility planning, and transports and mobilities from an everyday life perspective. My aim with research is to contribute to sustainable urban living environments where people can feel safe, engaged andrespected. In my research, I engage with inhabitants and professionals with different disciplinary backgrounds.

Elnaz is a senior lecturer in Urban Planning and Design at Malmö University. She has a Ph.D. in Urban Studies (Urban Planning), and a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning. Her research interests and background include Sustainability Conflicts in Urban Planning, Family-Children Mobility, Sustainable Transport and Travel Behavior, Socio- Spatial Analysis, Urban Megaprojects and…

Guy Baeten is Professor of Urban Studies at Malmö University and has previously worked at the universities of Lund, Oxford, Leuven and Strathclyde. He is the Director of the VR Research Environment ‘Housing as a digitalised service’ and the vice-Director of the Institute for Urban Research. Guy Baeten is interested in urban development projects, the…

Hoai Anh Tran is Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University. Tran’s research investigates social and spatial justice in urban and housing policies, urban space production, and inclusive public space. Her research in Vietnam highlights the role ofordinary people in the production of housing and urban spaces, as well as in the…

Jiesper Tristan Pedersen is an interdisciplinary researcher in future scenarios, urban and international sustainability, climate policy, energy and mobility. His research examines how climate knowledge, scenarios and sustainability interventions are translated into policy, urban planning and everyday practice and under what conditions they become credible, socially legitimate, policy-relevant and implementable. His work focuses on green…

Josepha (Joshka) Wessels is an Associate Professor in Media and Communication Studies at the School of Arts and Communication (K3), Faculty of Culture and Society. She has a background in Human geography and ethnographic film. She has been carrying out FORMAS and Swedish Research Council-funded research projects on Climate Change Resilience in Urban Sudan, Imagining…

I graduated with an MSc in Urban Studies from Malmö University in 2024 and began working as a research assistant at IUR in 2025. Within IUR, I contribute to a range of initiatives across the theme areas and coordinate center-wide communications. My own research interests relate primarily to the field of urban humanities, and I…

Laleh Foroughanfar is an urban scholar with an interest in urban marginalization, migrants’ infrastructures, culture-led post-industrial regeneration, sonic urbanism, and feminist-decolonial epistemologies. She has previously examined the everyday urbanism and migrants’ infrastructures produced by migrants to make life and livelihoods possible in Norra Grängesbergsgatan in Malmö. Probing the three-fold infrastructural production (spatial, socio-economic, temporal), she illustrates…

Dr. Lina Olsson is an Associate Professor in Urban Studies and works as a researcher and teacher at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University. She is trained as an urban planner and has a PhD in Architecture, with experience in research and planning practice in Sweden. Departing from theories of urban political economy and…

Martin Grander is an associate professor (Docent) in Urban studies at Malmö University. Martin’s research is mainly related to housing issues, and he is especially interested in thetheoretical and empirical nexus between housing provision and the wider welfare state. Special fields of concern are housing affordability, housing availability, segregation, and comparative housing research. Martin Grander…

Architect and BioGeometry® practitioner with experience in vernacular and environmentally conscious architecture. Worked for the last 23+ years in the field of zero emission and passive earth buildings, sustainable architectural conservation, climate responsive design, climate neutral architectural design. Research focus is on passive and carbon neutral low-tech vernacular methods and their adaptation for contemporary energy…

Mathilda Rosengren is a visual anthropologist and urban geographer with a research focus on environmental and more-than-human ethnographies of cities and urban life in the Anthropocene. Her work takes inspiration from social and cultural anthropology, geography, multispecies ethnography, urban political ecology, landscape studies, and the environmental humanities. Methodologically, she uses mixed qualitative techniques comprising audio-visual, archival…

Mikaela Herbert is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Urban Studies. Her research is mainly related to housing, and she has a particular interest in housing informality and urban inequality. In her current research project, she explores the interplay between formal and informal housing practices in northern Sweden, where select places are undergoing rapid…

Nicholas B. Torretta is a Brazilian design researcher (PhD), educator and artist based in Malmö, Sweden. Coming from resistance practices such as Capoeira, Graffiti and improvisational music, Nicholas works on the intersections of design, decolonisation and sustainability with focus on nurturing pluriverses of ways of being with the planet. Nicholas is one of the founders of…

Per Hillbur is Associate Professor of Environmental Science at Malmö University, and he has a PhD in Social and Economic Geography from Lund University (1998). His research interests are in urban ecology, sustainable use of natural resources, governance, communication and stakeholder interaction in a wide variety of urban and rural settings. Over the years, he…

I am as social anthropologist by training and with research interests that revolve around notions of urban commons, governance and space. This overarching concern has been explored in different studies to address topics such as how urban regeneration is legitimized, the viability of participation in the development of public space and relations to inclusion, implications…

Stephen Marr holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Florida. I am a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Global Political Studies and an Affiliated Researcher with the Institute for Urban Research.  My current research emphasizes approaches to comparative urban studies that seek to elevate African-focused urban theory and African urban dynamics…

I am a Double Degree PhD Fellow at Roskilde University (Denmark) and Malmö University (Sweden), and a leader of the Democratic Energy Transitions project. My research focuses on the integration of clean energy technologies in energy systems at local and urban scale, with a particular interest in how models of public, cooperative, and community ownership…

I am a senior lecturer in social work at the Department of Social Work, Malmö University. My main research areas include critical migration studies, community work and participatory perspectives. I currently give a course on community work and mobilization in close collaboration with civil society actors, and I am working in a research project together…