Vacancies

Elsa Gallez

Elsa is from Belgium and holds a bachelor degree in Geography from the University of Namur. As part of her Msc in Urban Environmental Management at the University of Wageningen (Netherlands), she takes part in the GREENLULUs project, in which she will help with the analysis of qualitative and quantitative data on green gentrification. Fascinated by Jane Jacobs activism and her contemporary relevance, Elsa is interested in examining socio-economic dynamics in cities and the challenges and opportunities that new sustainable projects bring to urban areas in relation to equity.

Helene Christensen

Helene is a Danish student and holds a bachelor’s degree in Sociology from Aalborg University. Her current interest involves the dynamics, effects, complications and leading actors of green initiatives in urban areas which are initiated to improve public health and living conditions. As part of her master’s degree in Sociology Health & Sickness and Space she is an intern at the lab for four months as a qualitative data analyst on the GREENLULUS project regarding green gentrification.

Mateus Lira

Mateus holds a dual MSc in International Cooperation in Urban Development from the Technische Universität Darmstadt and in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, with a Bachelor in Architecture and Urban Planning from Minas Gerais Federal University, Brazil. He has collaborated with different urbanism collectives and community initiatives, fostering urban justice by giving visibility to everyday life practices. His current interest centers around how knowledge is created and exchanged in grassroots contestations and urban transformations, especially in housing social movements. At BCNUEJ he works on the GreenLULUs project.

Carla Rivera

Carla is currently completing a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona. She has collaborated with the dissemination of the rights to peaceful assembly and association in Barcelona in order to contribute to the civil appropriation of the Right to the City. Her current interest centers on the study of the social damage produced by urban violence and exclusion processes derived from housing commodification and green gentrification. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, she helps with research on how municipal policies and activists face green gentrification processes in Barcelona and Nantes.

Aina Planas Carbonell

Aina completed her Bachelor’s degree in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Erasmus University College in Rotterdam, specializing in Sociology and Urban Studies. Her Bachelor thesis explored the effectiveness of multilevel governance in environmental action. She is currently a Master’s student at Utrecht University, where she follows the Earth System Governance track within the Sustainable Development Master. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, she works on the GreenLULUs report on policy tools against green gentrification.

Emilia Lewartowska

Emilia is currently pursuing a Master's degree in International Development and Global Studies at Roskilde University in Denmark. She has previously completed a Bachelor's in International Studies at Trento University. Her current academic interests concern the feminist perspective on social justice and community empowerment. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, Emilia works on the development of the spatial, quantitative and qualitative analysis of green gentrification in the GreenLULUs project and contributes to the creation of the tools for just and sustainable cities in the UrbanA project.

Jonathan Luger

Jonathan holds a BSc in Environment Science, majoring in Philosophy and Political Science, from the University of Amsterdam. He is currently completing his MSc in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sustainability at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Specializing in urban political ecology, he focuses on discourses of justice in the context of (de)politicising urban sustainability. Working at an Amsterdam-based NGO that facilitates grass-roots activism worldwide, he is interested in bridging the gap between activism and academia. At BCNUEJ he works on the upcoming UrbanA event in March 2021, and on policy tools against green gentrification for GreenLuLus.

Nacho Sánchez

Nacho is currently a Master’s in Public Health student at Pompeu Fabra University. He previously completed a bachelor in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Pompeu Fabra University and an MA in Metropolitan and Urban Studies from the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He joined BCNUEJ to do his master thesis on Public Health focusing on the relationship between play spaces and childhood obesity in Barcelona. Nacho is interested in the implications of local public policies in people’s health, the implementation of the strategy Health In All Policies and how socioeconomic determinants affect urban health inequalities.

Ella O'Neill

Ella is currently completing her Master's degree at ICTA in Interdisciplinary Studies in Sustainability at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Having previously completed a Bachelor's in Anthropology at UCL, her research interests try to bring these two perspectives together. Her primary research interests are focused in the UK, on the relationship between mental health and structural disadvantage/social mobility in the urban setting. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, she is working on the creation of policy tools on green equity with GreenLULUs.

Sarka Hajtmarova

Sarka holds a BSc degree in Environmental Management and Technology from the Open University, UK. She is currently a student of the Master’s Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability at the UAB, specialising in Global Change. Her research interests include traditional ecological knowledge and regenerative agriculture in the rural and urban context. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, she is completing a report on policy tools on green equity with GreenLULUs.

Clara Calabuig Martínez

Clara holds a Master’s Degree in Governance, Development and Public Policy from the Institute of Development Studies, UK and a BA in Global Studies from the University Pompeu Fabra. Her master thesis analyzed lessons and impacts within the non-capitalist self-managed communities of the Zapatistas in Mexico, and Mendha Lekha villagers in India. She also has experience working with an interfaith environmental NGO in Jerusalem, and is interested in peacebuilding, participatory democracy and ecological economics. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, she is contributing to the Barcelona social-environmental justice map with Naturvation.

Ariella Levitch

Ariella is from Berkeley, California. She completed her Bachelor's in Urban Environmental Policy at Occidental College in Los Angeles and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Urban Placemaking and Management at Pratt Institute's Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in participatory urban planning practices that promote community empowerment. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, she works on the GreenLULUs report on policy tools against green gentrification.

Sarah Bretschko

Sarah holds a Master's degree in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University and a BA in Development Studies also from Lund University. Her Master's thesis investigated links between care and climate justice articulated by social movements that resulted in alliance building. She also engages in degrowth and feminist research-activism. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, Sarah conducts fieldwork for FEMPUBLIC, and works on transforming GreenLULUS findings into storymaps.

Anaëlle Bueno

Anaëlle is a French/Spanish student currently pursuing a Research Master’s degree in Urban Studies at the University of Amsterdam. She has completed a Bachelor degree in sociology at Sorbonne University, where she also realized a one-year Erasmus at the University of Copenhagen in the department of political science. She is interested in collaborative governance and participatory processes in local climate adaptation. At BCNUEJ she is currently an intern working on the FEMPUBLIC project.

Toby Godfray

Toby recently completed a Master’s degree in Sustainable Cities from King’s College London, culminating in a dissertation that sought to reimagine London cycling into a more playful, inclusive and participatory network. His research examines issues of environmental justice, placemaking, urban mobility, tactical urbanism, and the right to the city. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, he works on converting findings from the GreenLULUS project into storymaps.

Alicia Vollmer

Alicia holds a Bachelor's degree in Geography from Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen. As part of her thesis, she conducted a qualitative study on the perception and construction of gentrification processes in San Francisco. Currently she is pursuing an interdisciplinary Master's in Geography of Global Change at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg, with a multi-faceted focus on human and physical geography, and environmental and spatial planning. Her personal field of interest includes research on social exclusion processes in the context of urban planning and degrowth. At BCNUEJ, she works on transforming the results of the GreenLULUS project into StoryMaps.

Erin Monroe

Erin is from Central Florida. She is currently pursuing her Master’s in City Planning degree at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, PA. She previously obtained a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Sociology at Florida State University. Her interests are in social equity and community empowerment, focused on health, education, and housing. As part of the BCNUEJ team, Erin analyzes qualitative and quantitative data related to healthcare gentrification in the United States.

Taliah Dommerholt

Taliah is USA/Dutch and completed her Bachelor's in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Amsterdam University College, specialising in Environmental Policy and Science. She is currently a dual Master’s student at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where she studies Sociology of Development and Urban Environmental Management. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, she helps with the synthesis and writing of output material for the GREENLULUs project and works on the upcoming UrbanA event in June 2020. Her goal as a researcher is to promote urban sustainability, social justice and quality of life through informed local governance and community capacity building.

Marina Skarpeti

Marina holds a dual MSc in International Cooperation in Urban Development from the Technische Universitat Darmstadt and in Sustainable Emergency Architecture from the Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, as well as a BA (Hons) in Architecture from the University of Manchester. She has been an active member of a grassroots project on managing cultural heritage buildings through community development strategies in Athens. Her most recent research is related to the urban commons and the revival of abandoned building stock through commoning practices. At BCNUEJ, she works on the GreenLULUs project.

Hanne Carla Bisjak

Hanne is currently completing her Bachelor’s degree in Global Environmental and Sustainability Studies at Leuphana University Lüneburg in Germany. Her academic interest and dissertation thesis focus on the effectiveness and improvement of government-neighbour collaboration and communication in urban sustainability projects. As an intern researcher at BCNUEJ, she explores the change in perception and use of public space of marginalised gender groups over the Covid pandemic in the FEMPUBLIC project. Further, she works on the development of a climate shelter in La Prosperidad and contributes to the GreenLULUs report transforming and visualising the results in StoryMaps.

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