Nordic Urban Futures

Romina Rodela, Ph.D., is a Senior Researcher and Associate Professor in Environmental Governance and Management at Södertörn University, where she conducts research across several disciplinary lines of inquiry. She obtained her Ph.D. from SPRU at Sussex University (UK), and from 2010 to 2012, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the UNESCO Chair for Social Learning at Wageningen University (NL). Romina conducts research on sustainable cities and communities and is pursuing a research agenda focused on methods, tools, and approaches best suited for the engagement of less represented groups in decision-making as part of the Planning with Youth project, for which she is the principal investigator.

She has a research interest in questions of equity and justice in the context of contemporary challenges, including novel governance models. At Södertörn University, she served as the Scientific Coordinator for the Research Theme Sustainability Challenges and Pathways (2021-2023) and is currently the coordinator of the Urban-Learning Hub at the Eco-Justice Research Platform. Romina Rodela is the UNESCO Chair Fellow 2024 at the UNESCO Chair in Interdisciplinary Anticipation and Global-Local Transformation, located at the Center for Advanced Studies of Eurac Research.

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