Researchers

Researchers

Per Hillbur

  • Associate Professor
  • per.hillbur@mau.se

Per Hillbur is currently an 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 […]

Robert Hrelja

  • Senior Lecturer
  • robert.hrelja@mau.se

Robert Hrelja, associate professor in Transport and Roads, is a senior lecturer at Malmö University. His research is primarily concerned with the micro-level practices of transport policy and regional and local transport and spatial planning, often with policy, governance, implementation, and power as analytical themes. He is interested in how the actions of interested parties, […]

Tina Gudrun Jensen

  • Researcher
  • tina-gudrun.jensen@mau.se

Tina Gudrun Jensen holds a Ph.D. in anthropology. Her research focuses on the intersection between migration and urban studies, and covers topics such as diversity, cultural complexity, social integration, social housing and urban spaces in Scandinavia and Latin America. She is currently participating in a major comparative research project on Governance and Lived Experiences of Urban Diversity […]

Roger Johansson

  • Professor
  • roger.johansson@mau.se

Roger Johansson is a Professor of History and the director of research at the Institute for Studies in Malmo’s History at Malmo University. Roger Johansson’s research has focused on history didactic research and modern culture and social history. Methodically has mediating and the shaping of history been emphasized.

Defne Kadioglu

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • defne.kadioglu@mau.se

Defne Kadıoğlu is an urban political sociologist with an interest in urban policy, housing and urban political economy. In particular she has worked on gentrification processes and their intersection with territorial stigma and racism in Germany. She also worked in the context of Turkey, in particular on the political and social dimensions of urban transformation projects in […]

Alexander Kalyukin

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • alexander.kalyukin@mau.se

Alexander Kalyukin is a human geographer interested in early modernist housing and urban planning. He defended his Ph.D. thesis at Uppsala University, Sweden in 2021. His current research explores the social meaning and function of housing, the development and circulation of planning ideas and visions, and the everyday lived experience of the built environment.

Mattias Kärrholm

  • Professor
  • mattias.karrholm@arkitektur.lth.se

Mattias Kärrholm is a professor at the Department of Architecture and the Built Environment in Lund University. His research areas include: architecture, social sciences, territoriality, public space, urban design, architectural theory, space & culture.

Ulrik Kohl

  • PhD Student
  • ukohl@ruc.dk

I am a Double Degree PhD fellow at Roskilde University (Denmark) and Malmö University working on the Democratic Energy Transitions project. I am interested in urban sustainability transitions, grassroots innovation, energy democracy and community energy. I investigate the potential to democratize and accelerate Europe’s clean energy transformation by empowering collective actors in decentralized and locally-owned […]

Daniela Lazoroska

  • Postdoctoral Researcher
  • daniela.lazoroska@mau.se

I am an anthropologist with research that has spanned across body culture, grassroots organization, the built environment, and energy systems. In my qualitative analysis, I apply feminist and Critical Theory. I have conducted research in Sweden and Brazil. The red thread in my research has been the practices of marginalized groups and how they can […]

Christina Lindkvist

  • Senior Lecturer
  • christina.lindkvist@mau.se

Christina Lindkvist, associate professor in urban studies, has a Ph.D in human geography. Christina is a senior lecturer at Malmö university and her main research focus are gender equality and gender studies, regional development, planning and qualitative methodology.