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Molina, Irene, Professor i kulturgeografi, ssk Bosättning och bebyggelseORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-1074-2302
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Biography [eng]

Irene Molina obtained her master degree in Geography and graduated as a Professional Geographer in 1986 at the Pontifical Catholic University in Santiago, Chile, with the thesis: El Programa de Erradicación de Campamentos en la Región Metropolitana de Santiago: Implicancias Socio-económicas y Espaciales. Her PhD degree from 1997 is from the Department of Social & Economic Geography at Uppsala University, with the dissertation Stadens Rasifiering: Etnisk Boendesegregation i Folkhemmet. In 2002 Irene Molina obtained the title of Associate professor, and in 2011 she obtained the title of Professor of Human Geography, especially in Settlements and the Built Environment, both at Uppsala University. Since 2004, Molina is a senior lecturer and professor at the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, IBF, at Uppsala University (Head of Dept. 2013-2017). In 2017, she participated in the creation of the Center for Multidisciplinary Studies on Racism, CEMFOR, where she currently is Director of Research.

Biography [swe]

Irene Molina är professor I kulturgeografi, verksam vid tre institutioner vid Uppsala universitet: Institutet för bostads- och urban forskning, IBF; Centrum för mångvetenskaplig forskning om rasism, CEMFOR (vetenskaplig ledare), samt kulturgeografiska institutionen. Specialiseringsområden är Boendet, Rasism, Diskriminering, Intersektionalitet, Genus, Stadsplanering i Sverige, Europa, Latinamerika. Har intresse för teoretiska och metodologiska frågor samt relationen mellan forskning och det omgivande samhället genom konst, kultur och politik.

Projects
Gendering Housing ? Intersectional perspectives on housing provision and urban planning with emphasis on gender relations in Sweden [2014-01623_VR]; Uppsala UniversityNarratives of the Million Programme - Constructing Modern Cultural Heritage [F15-1145:1_RJ]; Uppsala UniversityNature as Culture: the (re)production of common sense; Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Center for Integrated Research on Culture and Society (CIRCUS) (Closed down 2025-12-31)Unsettled City: A Comparative Study on the Influence of Residence Status on the Public and Private Dimensions of Refugee Inclusion and Societal Sustainability [2020-02046_Formas]; Uppsala UniversitySocially sustainable housing and urban development – a global challenge [SAB20-0052_RJ]; Uppsala UniversityKnowledge and innovation in municipal planning´s strategies for socially sustainable land use and combating segregation: housing research in collaboration with Uppsala and Botkyrka municipalities [2023-00136_Formas]; Uppsala University
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