I am a researcher at the Department of Human Geography, Lund University. I have a broad interest for social sustainability and urban planning, particularly how feminist (and queer) perspectives can contribute to challenge traditional attitudes and practices of 'business as usual' - not the last in the light of the intertwined challenges of climate change and deepened social inequality. 

In September 2024, I defended my thesis Queer as a City: Unsettling coherence in 'sustainable urban development'. As a PhD student I was affiliated with the Department of Architecture and Built Environment, LTH, and the interdisciplinary graduate school Agenda 2030, Lund University. In my thesis, I studied so-called 'sustainable urban development' through queer theory, aiming to formulate a theoretical framework on how sustainability norms stabilize and change through architecture and planning practice. I used Hyllie, on of the most high-profile sustainable urban development projects in the city of Malmö, to study how sustainability and development are sought to be combined through the production of new city districts. I took interest in this across scales, from vision and strategy to everyday life in the built environments of Hyllie. In the thesis, several theoretical concepts are presented, aiming to understand how norms are stabilized and changed, as well as taking on a relational approach to spatial inequality. The theoretical concepts draws on the empirical examples from my studies of Hyllie. 

At the Department of Human Geography, I will now begin to work on the cultural heritage of 'concrete architecture', particularly focusing on how modernist and brutalist buildings threatened by demolition has been given new uses and functions. The research aims to complement an already growing research field concerned with the environmental benefits of working with existing built environments, by adding knowledge about social and cultural perspectives on the repurposing of 'contested concrete architecture'.