CV

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

Uppsala University
Professor in social and economic geography, 2007

Uppsala University
Associate professor in social and economic geography, 2001

Uppsala University
Ph.D (social and economic geography), 1994

Mid Sweden University
B.A (social science), 1978

I am a researcher associate at Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden.
My research focuses on residential mobility and housing choice, migration, urban and housing models, geography and social justice. In 1994 I completed my Ph.D. dissertation in social and economic geography, about residential vacancy chain models as a mean to analyse the relation between mobility and housing opportunity on the urban housing market. I have been involved in research on housing career and economic progress for immigrants, who immigrated for different reasons to Sweden and during different time periods. I have also done research about housing preferences and demand sensitive rent setting, as well as research about social cohesion and poverty in the EU founded research project The importance of housing in safeguarding social cohesion in Europe (SOCOHO).
I am at present in involved in a research project about household mobility on tight housing markets and how that mobility is influenced by the mix of dwellings in new construction. The study tackles mobility on the housing market from two perspectives - first on structural conditions for residential mobility and second on household's actual mobility and the decision making process behind these moves.