Anton Ösgård is a PhD student in urban sociology at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research (IBF) at Uppsala University. His dissertation is concerned with urban social movements that organise for large scale housing production. The research is both historical – looking at the workers and tenant’s cooperative movements – and contemporary – researching […]
Maria Wallstam is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research at Uppsala University. Her PhD research explores the relationship between the deregulation of the Swedish housing system and the restructuring of the residential construction sector and associated labour market since 1980.
Lucrina Ştefănescu is a senior researcher at the Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Her fields of research include environmental risk management, vulnerability assessment, natural hazards and risks. Her most relevant scientific results were published in journals such as Environmental Science and Pollution Research, Environmental Science and Policy, Land Use […]
Filip Alexandrescu is a senior researcher at the Research Institute for Quality of Life, Romanian Academy. He is the PI of the Nomesis project and co-editor (with Ryan Powell and Ana Vilenica) of an upcoming volume entitled Marginality and Urban Transformation in Central and Eastern Europe (Routledge). His work explores different facets of urban marginality, […]
Mauricio Rogat is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Division of Migration, Ethnicity and Society (REMESO) at Linköping University, Sweden, working in a project about digital infrastructures and the reconfigurations of sovereignty, borders, and imagined communities. He has a PhD in social anthropology from the School of Global Studies, Gothenburg University. Mauricio’s thesis deals with […]
Leyla Bektaş Ata completed her doctoral studies at Hacettepe University Communication Sciences in 2019. She has been working at Kadir Has University as a post-doctoral researcher. Her researches focus on urban, gender, and everyday life studies. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the Ilhan Tekeli Doctoral Award. Her book, Limontepe’de Yaşamak, Büyümek, Beklemek: Kentsel Dönüşüm Öncesi Bir […]
Irina Zamfirescu is an anthropologist and a lecturer at the University of Bucharest, a public interest advocate and a member of ActiveWatch. Zamfirescu has a longstanding engagement with vulnerable groups’ rights and social justice issues and has published on the topics of housing, homelessness, the effects of poverty and human rights. Zamfirescus’s writing is available […]
Maria Persdotter is a human geographer, currently employed as a postdoc researcher in welfare law at Linköping University. Her PhD thesis, entitled Free to Move Along, examines the (local) government response to the arrival and presence of Romanian Roma migrants in Sweden in the early to mid-2010s. She has written about the contentious evictions of […]
Rebecka Söderberg is a PhD student in IMER at Malmö University. She holds a MA degree in European Ethnology from the University of Copenhagen. Her doctoral thesis explores how urban diverse neighbourhoods are problematised in Danish and Swedish urban and integration policies. Furthermore, based on ethnographic fieldwork, it explores how residents in a multi-ethnic public housing neighbourhood […]
Born in Perugia, he lived in London from 2014 to 2021, where he graduated in Popular Music Performance (BMus) at the University of East London (ICMP) and obtained a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology (MMus) from the University of London (SOAS). In 2021 he moved to Berlin, where to this day, he keeps working with photography […]