Faculty of Culture and Society
Department of Urban Studies (US)
Martin
Grander
Associate Professor/Senior lecturer
martin.grander@mau.se
+46 40 665 81 34
orcid.org/0000-0001-5896-2016
Housing research
Political Science
Social innovations
Presentation
Martin Grander is an associate professor (Docent) in Urban studies at Malmö University. Grander's research is mainly related to housing issues and he is especially interested in the relation between housing and the wider welfare state.
Martin Grander is the director of the national research environment Studies in Housing and Welfare comprising around 20 researchers from different disciplines and a number of research projects and programmes. He leads the theme Housing and Welfare within the Institute for Urban Research (IUR) and organizes the Housing and Welfare Research Network.
Grander is the project leader of several major research projects, funded by national funding agenices such as Formas, as well as public authorties and private and public housing companie (see list below). He is one of the coordinators for the working group Comparative Housing Research in the European Network of Housing Research (ENHR).
He is an an often-appointed expert and lecturer on housing policy, social aspects of housing provision, segregation and the role of housing tenures. Grander has many years of experience in national and transnational projects connecting researchers and practitioners, often with the aim of creating knowledge crucial for societal change.
