Susanne Urban

Professor in Sociology, especially Housing and Urban Sociology at Institute for Housing and Urban Research

Telephone:
+46 18 471 65 31
Mobile phone:
+46 70 425 00 86
E-mail:
susanne.urban@ibf.uu.se
Visiting address:
Trädgårdsgatan 18
Postal address:
Box 514
751 20 UPPSALA

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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor at Department of Sociology; Faculty

Mobile phone:
+46 70 425 00 86
E-mail:
susanne.urban@ibf.uu.se
Visiting address:
Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H
Postal address:
Box 624
751 26 UPPSALA

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Short presentation

Professor of Sociology, Deputy and Deputy Head at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research. I am interested in ideas about how to create social cohesion in cities; consequences of, and causes of, housing and school segregation; neighborhood importance; integration and climate change.

Keywords

  • sustainable development
  • residential segregation
  • neighbourhood effect
  • hållbar utveckling
  • integration
  • school segregation
  • boendesegregation
  • samhällsplanering
  • cityplanning
  • skolsegregation
  • skolpendling
  • school commuting

Research

My research can be described with the following four themes:

  • Urban development and neighbourhood ideals. On how urban planning, anti-segregation policies and urban ideals have been formulated over time and how these influence segregation in cities.
  • Neighbourhood effects. How housing areas influence the individuals that live there. I have studied the long-term effects on income and education and the importance of local social networks for native-born and foreign-born residents.
  • Work and business ownership among foreign-born residents. The role of social networks for business owners and the importance of political reforms and privatisation within health care and labour force migration reform.
  • Education and school segregation. The consequences of school choice reforms in the form of travel times and long-term consequences for education and income.

Research has been financed in part by the following external projects:

Sustainable or segregated? Energy communities for a broad sustainable energy transition. Formas, projektledare Klas Palm 2021-2024.

The market for upper-secondary education in areas with few Swedes. The choice of upper-secondary programmes among families and students from immigrant backgrounds in ethnically heterogeneous and socio-economically disadvantaged housing areas. Swedish Research Council, project manager Håkan Forsberg 2017–2020.

School choice reforms implementation and long-term consequences for individuals’ social mobility. Swedish Research Council, project manager Susanne Urban 2014–2017. SEK 6.375 million.

Strategies and Structures. A multi-disciplinary study of the preconditions for entrepreneurship among immigrants in Sweden. Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation, project manager Martin Klinthäll. 2014–2017.

Susanne Urban

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