I am a research assistant at the Institute for Urban Research. I work in the Smart Cities for City Officials project, which aims to empower city officials with information to face the smart city planning market. I have a background in international relations and a master’s degree in urban studies from Malmö University.
I am currently a Senior Researcher at The School of Art and Communication (K3) at Malmö University, and an Affiliated Researcher to the Lund University Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES). I hold a BA in Political Science (2005), an MA in International Relations (2005) and a second MA in Middle Eastern Studies (2007). I obtained a Ph.D […]
I am a Doctor in Urban Studies by the universities Malmö and Roskilde (Denmark). My primary research interest is the politicisation by grassroots social movements of housing issues, the redefinition of the right to housing and its importance in the struggle for the right to the city. Apart from chapters in books about the housing […]
Laleh Foroughanfar is a postdoc researcher at Institute for Urban Studies at Malmö University. She holds a PhD (2022) from Lund University School of Architecture. Her research focuses on urban marginalization, otherwise architecture, and socio-materiality and temporalities of everyday life. Her PhD thesis, entitled The Street of Associations: Migration and Infrastructural (Re)Production of Norra Grängesbergsgatan, […]
Martin Grander is an Associate Senior Lecturer at Malmö University, holding a PhD in Urban Studies. With a background in political science, he has been researching issues regarding the political and organizational aspects of the urban question since 2005. During recent years, he has been focusing on housing and the changing role of the state […]
Karin Grundström is Professor in architecture with a specialisation in housing. Since my employment at the department of urban studies in 2010, my service includes research, teaching and tutoring. In my role as a teacher I lecture, lead international workshops and tutor students’ thesis work at bachelor, master and PhD level. In my research I […]
I am a PhD Candidate at the Department of Urban Studies at Malmö University, investigating the interplay of social innovations and urban development in rapidly urbanizing cities of Nigeria. I am involved in rural and urban development in Nigeria for the past 10 years, supporting the transition of cities and communities to be more sustainable. […]
Gunhild Askehave is an architect and PhD student with a special interest in the practice of urban development, architectural images, and storytelling. Through an ethnographic case study, she examines how sustainability discourses and practices are translated and re-fitted throughout the development of ‘Copenhagen’s new sustainable district’ called Jernbanebyen. Her aim is to better understand how particular interests within urban development shape […]
Jennie Gustafsson is a political-economic geographer with an interest in rental housing, municipal governance, and housing inequality. She has previously examined, with the city of Malmö as a departure point, the role of public housing historically until today, and how private rental landlords use renovations as a value-adding strategy, exemplifying financialization of rental housing in […]
I am a PhD candidate at Malmö University and K2– The Swedish Knowledge Centre for Public Transport. With a hybrid background in architecture and Geo-information Science & Remote Sensing, I am interested in studying mobilities using interdisciplinary and mixed methods approaches. My current research interests include motility- mobility capital, mobility justice and socially informed measures […]
