During the course of the fellowship, I completed two academic papers documenting my research findings, and one book chapter. I am currently working on two additional papers.
- The book chapter, titled "Urban Greening and Green Gentrification", The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures, was published in 2021.
- The first paper, titled “Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism and the Green Redevelopment of a Council Estate in London: Wins and Losses in Woodberry Down”, with co-author Loretta Lees, is under review at City and Community Journal.
- The second paper, titled “Renovation without renoviction? The green retrofit of a municipal housing estate in Drewitz, Germany, Sustainability” is under review at Housing Studies Journal.
- The third paper, “Banking on the Wetlands: sustainable development and green value capture in Hackney, London,” is the final writing stage.
- A final paper, titled “When life gives you lemons… Residents’ Agency, Empowerment and Survivability in the Face of Redevelopment”, is in the early writing stage.
I also held a large number of major international conferences, including the Regional Studies Association (RSA) Conference 2022 and the American Association of Geographers Conference (AAG) 2023. Over the next months I will be Chair at the ICCAUA 2023 International Conference (Istanbul June 2023), and speaker at the RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (London September 2023) and at the International Conference “Gentrification - An international dialogue”at Boston University in October 2023. Within the Urban Climate Finance Network 2021-2022 Masterclass, I launched a series of 5 monthly reading sessions with high-profile guests in February-June 2021. I also held a large number of seminars and lectures including at University of Leicester (2023), at BCNEUJ (ICTA/UAB) (2022), Keele University (2020), Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institut (2021), IoC Boston University (2022), De Montfort University, UK (2023), among others.
I organized an end-of-gran International Conference “Green Geographies of Evaluation and Devaluation” at University of Leicester on May 15th 2023, with a stellar lineup of speakers from all across the world and with a panel of experts and keynote speakers which brought together all partners of the SUSTEUS project, including supervisors Loretta Lees (University of Leicester / Boston University) and Matthew Wilde (University of Leicester), Director of the BCNUEJ Isabelle Anguelovski, Prof. Sarah Knuth and other members from the Urban Climate Finance Network (Urban CliFi).
My enrollment in the CliFi Masterclass in 2021 has expanded the scope of my research interests in the fields of financial geographies of urban climate action. The role of private finance initiatives in the redevelopments of social housing estates has been thoroughly analyzed in my paper “Financialized Municipal Entrepreneurialism and the Green Redevelopment of a Council Estate in London” (City and Community) and will be further explored in my upcoming paper “Banking on the Wetlands: sustainable development and green value capture in Hackney, London”.
Throughout my secondment at BCNUEJ, I expanded my interests in the fields of adaptive reuse and energy-efficient conversions of unused buildings, a topic which became the foundation for my upcoming ERC Grant application called RE/ACTIVATE, whose aim is to provide critical knowledge and evidence-based guidance on practices of adaptive reuse of inactive publicly-owned buildings for affordable and social housing.
In January 2023 I designed and launched the website
https://www.susteus.com/(öffnet in neuem Fenster) which summarizes the context, the aims and the findings from my MSCA Global Fellowship research.
In March 2023, I was awarded an Honorary Visiting Position at the University of Leicester.
