Cecilia Fåhraeus

Short presentation

Cecilia Fåhraeus is a senior lecturer and PhD in human geography. Her research interests revolve around slums and urban transformation in the global South, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, and the geography of livelihood activities among low-income communities.

She primarily teaches on the bachelor's programme in spatial planning at Campus Gotland.

Research

Ongoing projects

Communal green spaces for well-being? Using participatory action research for inclusive green space design for slum dwellers in Zambia (2024-2028).

GOAT Power! Can top-down intensification of goat production for climate resilience strengthen women's empowerment in Zambia? (2024-2027). https://www.slu.se/en/departments/urban-rural-development/research/rural-development/ongoing-projects/goat-power/

JÄMBO: Handlingsutrymme för jämlik tillgång till boende och livsmiljöer. (2023-2026). Post-doctoral project at the Department of Urban Studies, Malmö University. https://mau.se/forskning/projekt/jambo--handlingsutrymme-for-jamlik-tillgang-till-boende-och-livsmiljoer/

Finished projects

Developing rights-based housing in Southern Africa. (2022-2023). This project is a research and collaboration project with Swedish NGO Weeffect, funded by UU Innovation Office. It entails formulating a rights-based, evidence-based and socially sustainable housing programme for Weeffects Southern Africa Office (Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe).

Dealing with double disaster: The impact of natural disaster and Covid-19 on livelihoods and livelihood geographies in Palu, Indonesia. (2023). This project evaluates how the 2018 earthquake and subsequent tsunami and liquefaction in Palu have affected the livelihood strategies of low-income households in the affected region, with a particular focus on the spatial design of livelihood strategeis. Funded by SSAG and Helge Ax:on Jonssons stiftelse.