Presentation
Cecilia Fåhraeus is a post-doctoral researcher in a FORMAS-funded project on the promotion of social sustainable housing through collaborative arrangements with regional and municipal actors in Skåne and Västra Götaland. Her research revolves around 1) statistical studies of moving patterns and social composition from a housing perspective, 2) the role of the physical environment in fostering meaningful interaction between different groups in socially mixed settlements, 3) generating innovative models of collaboration for socially sustainable housing.
Cecilia is also the project leader of FORMAS-funded project Communal green spaces for wellbeing? Using participatory action research for inclusive green space design for slum dwellers in Zambia that investigates green space utilisation among slum dwellers in Lusaka and its impact on psychological wellbeing. Communal green spaces in two settlements, Kanyama and Chazanga, are designed and established through participatory methods such as workshops and community labs. The project seeks to evaluate how project participation affects subjective wellbeing, but also the potential of participatory action research to mobilise marginalised communities to achieve social change.
Cecilia is also involved in the project GOAT Power! Can top-down intensification of goat production for climate resilience empower women in Zambia?
Cecilia's research interests include socially sustainable housing in the Global North and Global South, participatory action research (PAR), slum as lived environment, and livelihood geographies. She relies on quantitative and qualitative methods in her work, as well as GIS.
Previous projects
Rights-based housing in sub-Saharan Africa (2022-2024). Research and collaboration project with Swedish NGO We Effect aimed at the formulation of a holistic and socially sustainable housing provision programme in Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Dealing with Double Disaster: Exploring the impact of earthquake and Covid-19 on livelihoods in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. (2023)
Drawing a Livelihoodscape from the slum: Towards a spatial understanding of gendered livelihoods in Zambia (2020). Doctoral thesis.
