Staff members with discipline Urban Studies
Academia develops at the interface of different fields. This is one reason why the University of Groningen is home to a wide range of fields, each with a great number of subject specialists. The overview below, which is based on a standard categorization of fields, will help you find the right expert for each field. If you cannot find the expert you are looking for in this list, try searching via a related field or faculty; you may find him or her there.
Özlem Altınkaya Genel is the Assistant Professor of Design of Healthy and Accessible Cities at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen. Between 2012 and 2016, she completed her doctoral degree at Harvard University Graduate School... read more
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o.altinkaya rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Design of Healthy and Accessible Cities
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infrastructure and environmental planning, environmental impact assessment, ex post evaluation
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professor Environmental and Infrastructure Planning
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∇ Multi-perspective approach in spatial planning and design
∇ Children's rights and the city
∇ Participatory urban planning and design
∇ Child-focused urban environments
∇ Sustainable City Models: Circular City
∇ Pluralistic Education in Spatial Planning &... read more
∇ Children's rights and the city
∇ Participatory urban planning and design
∇ Child-focused urban environments
∇ Sustainable City Models: Circular City
∇ Pluralistic Education in Spatial Planning &... read more
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o.ataol rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Spatial and Institutional Design
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- State-socialist and post-socialist architecture and urbanism
- Architecture and urban planning in East-Central Europe and the Balkans
- Islamic cultural and urban heritage in twentieth- and twenty-first century
- Post-disaster and post-war urban... read more
- Architecture and urban planning in East-Central Europe and the Balkans
- Islamic cultural and urban heritage in twentieth- and twenty-first century
- Post-disaster and post-war urban... read more
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m.babic rug.nl
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Assistant Professor History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
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Farzaneh’s research is on the interplay between mobility systems and urban forms. She holds a Ph.D. from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Laboratory of Urbanism. Her PhD research, on futures of mobility, sought to identify the... read more
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f.bahrami rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Urban Design and Mobility
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Especially interested in perception, when spaces becomes places and how such processes are influenced by the strategy and governance of the marketing and branding of cities, regions and countries.In addition, interested in every aspect of the historical... read more
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m.boisen rug.nl
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Lecturer
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i.t.j.bousema rug.nl
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PhD Candidate
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Integrated flood risk management and climate adaptation, urban climate resilience, spatial quality, spatial planning, floating urbanization, institutional continuity and change, organisational adaptation, boundary spanning, discourse and framing analysis
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m.a.van.den.brink rug.nl
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Associate Professor Water and Planning
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Child-friendly cities.
Water Sensitive City
Adaptive Water Governance
Institutional Design
Flood Resilience
Multilevel Governance
Climate Change Adaptation
Indonesia
Adaptive Water Governance
Institutional Design
Flood Resilience
Multilevel Governance
Climate Change Adaptation
Indonesia
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m.drenth rug.nl
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Human Geography, Tourism Studies, Post-Disaster Recovery, Political Economy, Urban Studies, Qualitative Research
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n.el.alam rug.nl
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PhD student
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Cultural Geography
Children's Geographies
Children's Geographies
Spatial restructuring and revitalisation of rural and urban regions, especially in the provinces of Groningen and Friesland on behalf of the Abe Bonnema Foundation.
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j.j.m.hemel rug.nl
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professor by special appointment
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Integrated transport infrastructure- and areadevelopment, (added) value assessment, consensus
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a.m.hilbers rug.nl
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PhD student
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t.hoffmann rug.nl
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PhD student
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Environmental and Infrastructure Planning, Design Methods, Quality Assurance in Education.
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Emeritus Professor of Environmental and Infrastructure Planning
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Social Housing, Landmarkets and Land Policy, Housing Associations, Non-profit Organisaztions and Social Enterprise, Housing the Elderly, Area-based Arrangements for Housing and Care, Neighbourhood Redevelopment, Impact of Induced Earthquakes on the... read more
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g.r.w.de.kam rug.nl
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Landmarkets, with a focus on Housing of the Elderly
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(Environment and Infrastructure) Planning, Energy Infrastructure, Energy Landscapes, Applied Thermodynamics, Governance, Environment and Engineering
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f.m.g.van.kann rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Environmental Planning
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leadership in planning processes
planning theory
post-growth planning
regional and state planning
research-practice interfaces
roles of planners
spatial transformations
planning theory
post-growth planning
regional and state planning
research-practice interfaces
roles of planners
spatial transformations
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c.w.lamker rug.nl
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Assistant Professor Sustainable Transformation and Regional Planning
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I research the geography of inequality, poverty, and social exclusion, especially in cities. My expertise is in the following domains and their interactions;
- experiences of poverty and social exclusion
- coming of age in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
-... read more
- experiences of poverty and social exclusion
- coming of age in disadvantaged neighbourhoods
-... read more
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Assistant professor urban poverty & inequality
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tiankun.li rug.nl
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PhD student
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Associate Professor of History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism
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Public Spaces; Spatial Analysis; Public Participation GIS (PPGIS); Vulnerable Groups; Marginilsed Communities; Kurdish Cities; Urban Geopolitics
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s.mansournia rug.nl
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PhD student
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history of modern and contemporary architecture and urbanism / international transfer of urban and typological models / non-western regions / Bildung through Architecture and place making / post-conflict and - trauma urban renewal.
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associate professor
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Urban & Rural Inequality, Ethnography, Qualitative Methods
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e.meij rug.nl
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Phd researcher
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Geography, GIS, Smart Buildings
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Programme manager Smart Buildings & IT Consultant
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Policy implementation, street-level bureaucracy, politics, human rights, minorities, disadvantaged groups, inequalities, racism, diversity
Giordano Magri (he/him) is a researcher and PhD candidate affiliated with the University of Groningen (The... read more
Giordano Magri (he/him) is a researcher and PhD candidate affiliated with the University of Groningen (The... read more
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g.morangueira.magri rug.nl
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PhD Candidate | Public Policy Researcher
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t.v.q.nguyen rug.nl
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Short clip (in Dutch): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8WeU7KmIfs
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j.g.nieuwenhuis rug.nl
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Assistant professor
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Expert in the field of Real Estate Development including financial, legal, spatial and managerial aspects
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Professor Economic Geography (Faculty of Spatial Sciences)
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My research examines how evolving governance structures shape urban planning and property markets. I analyze planning regulations and property market dynamics to uncover the forces influencing residential property investment and development. Additionally,... read more
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s.ozogul rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Urban Planning
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Key Themes of Interest: Urban and Regional Economics; Economic Geography; Regional Science; Location Decisions; Travel Behaviours; Quantitative Research Methods. Empirical Expertise: R; STATA; GIS; SPSS
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c.odriscoll rug.nl
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Assistant Professor in Economic Geography
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Zeqiang did his Master in 2017 on policy-making of collaborative watershed management in the Pearl River Delta City of South-eastern China. Since 2020, his on-going research has focused on the interdependency of integrated planning and communicative... read more
Rural-urban resettlement, aging in place, perspectives and practices of death and dying, social contact
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h.pang rug.nl
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PhD student
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Danica Petrović is an architect and currently a PhD researcher at the University of Groningen, Center for Media and Journalism Studies, where she investigates the intersections of journalism and space in the context of former Yugoslavia. Her research... read more
GIS, Geospatial modeling and analysis, Context-aware spatial computation, Urban informatics, Volunteered geographic information, Location-based social networks, Geosocial analysis, Network analysis
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mahdi.rahimi rug.nl
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Postdoctoral Researcher
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Mobility, Accessibility, Travel behavior, Integrated land use and transportation planning, Human-environment interactions, Participatory planning, health and wellbeing
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s.ramezani rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Specialist in urban self-organization, uncertainties in strategic urban planning, and adaptive approaches to urban governance and planning. Field research topics include neighbourhood (re)development, community initiatives, accessibility, city logistics,... read more
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w.s.rauws rug.nl
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Associate Professor Spatial Planning
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My research mainly focuses on bridging the worlds of flood risk management and spatial planning, with the goal to generate insights on how to create more flood resilient places and landscapes from a spatial and institutional design perspective. Central to... read more
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b.restemeyer rug.nl
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Assistant Professor of Spatial and Institutional Design
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Mobility hubs; multimodal integration; rural accessibility
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PhD Candidate
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g.saygi rug.nl
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Postdoctoral researcher
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Value of nature and landscape; Economics and space; Real estate and green; Evaluation ecology versus economy; Cost-Benefit Analysis, Multi-Criteria Analysis.
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Director Rudolf Agricola School for Sustainable Development / Associate Professor Faculty of Spatial Sciences
Architectural Theory and Design, Spatial Design, Design Education, Socio-spatial Boundaries, Inner-urban Borders and Border Studies.
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g.tona rug.nl
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Lecturer in Spatial Planning and Design
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My research focuses on resilient and sustainable communities and place-making with an emphasis on the role and relevance of collective action (citizen initiatives, participatory governance but also protest movements/dissent). The themes I have recently... read more
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Associate Professor Resilient and Sustainable Communities
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I am interested in people and places, which is why I work as an assistant professor at the Department of Spatial Planning & Environment at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences (FSS). In my position I am involved in academic research and education. My research... read more
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Assistant Professor
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s.g.weitkamp rug.nl
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Associate Professor
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As a researcher, I am Mainly interested in the social and spatial consequences of contemporary socio-economic and institutional developments. My expertise is centered around the following topics and their interaction:
- Housing- Housing Market Dynamics-... read more
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b.j.wind rug.nl
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Assistant Professor
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Johan Woltjer is Professor of Urban Development and Planning, and Dean Graduate Studies at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. He was previously at the University of Westminster, United Kingdom, and various other universities including the... read more
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j.woltjer rug.nl
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Professor of Urban Development and Planning
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(Colonial) Architecture and Urban History
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a.f.yasmin rug.nl
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PhD student
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Environmental planning, integrated energy planning, sustainable development, governance renewal, decentralization, (post-)contingency theory, adaptive planning
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c.zuidema rug.nl
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Associate Professor Spatial Planning
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