I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam, and part of the international research project WHIG (What Is Governed in Cities: Residential Investment Landscapes and the Governance and Regulation of Housing Production), funded by the Open Research Area for the Social Sciences (ORA). The project examines the inter-relationships between contemporary investment flows into the housing markets of major metropolitan centres (Amsterdam Metropolitan Area, Greater London and Grand Paris) and the governance arrangements and public policy instruments that are designed to regulate them.
My research centres around spatial governance and planning processes, which I approach from two different – but arguably interconnected – angles: property market dynamics and social policy. I am currently exploring investment flows into residential property in the Amsterdam Metropolitan Area.
Previously, as part of the DIVERCITIES Project (Governing Urban Diversity: Creating social cohesion, social mobility and economic performance in today’s hyper-diversified cities) , I analysed socio-spatial policies and governance arrangements affecting individuals and groups suffering from socio-economic deprivation in Toronto. In my PhD Transformative Spatial Governance: New Avenues for Comprehensive Planning in Fragmented Urban Development, I employed an explicit public sector planning perspective and sought new ways to link property-driven development projects and scattered micro-scale social efforts in Amsterdam and Toronto.