Tove Samzelius is a Senior lecturer in social work at Malmö university. Her research focus on the intersection of policies in the areas of housing, social security, employment and social welfare in the lives of disadvantaged families with children. She has a particular interest in gendered, classed and racialised experiences of poverty and community-engaged research. Prior to joining the university, Tove worked in the third sectors in the UK and Sweden.
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The housing crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing societal challenges in recent decades. Global organizations—including the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the IMF—along with national policymakers, housing experts, and researchers, widely acknowledge the severity of this crisis. Rapidly growing regions face acute housing shortages, soaring costs, rising homelessness,…
At the IUR, urban humanities mobilizes humanities scholars to engage with the full range of human expression in and of the urban, from literature and visual culture to public art, the built environment, memory, and heritage. These explorations open new ways of understanding and imagining urban space, lived cities, and the cultural object we call…