CV Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling
Date of birth: 1977-03-17Citizenship: Swedish
Family: Married, two children born 2009 and 2012 E-mail: ulrika@abe.kth.se
HIGHER EDUCATION DEGREE(S)
2004 Master of Science in Spatial Planning, KTH. Master’s thesis: In the streets of Zanzibar: Constructions of gender and place, fieldwork was financed by a Minor Field Study scholarship from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida).
1998-2002 Studies at Lund Univeristy in philosophy (20 hp), KTH in math, chemistry and physics (40 hp) and Stockholm University in Philosophy (20 hp).
1997 Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, Anglo World,
Cambridge, Great Britain DOCTORAL DEGREE
2011 PhD in Planning and Decision Analysis, with specialisation in Urban and Regional Studies, KTH. Title: Just Sustainable Futures:
Gender and Environmental Justice Considerations in Planning. Supervisors: associate professor Mattias Höjer and professor Göran Cars. Discussant at dissertation: professor Susan Fainstein.
PRESENT POSITION
2011- Researcher at the department of Urban Planning and Environment,
KTH, 2011-07-01 –(permanent employment), working in research projects partly at the division of Urban and Regional Planning, but mainly the department of Environmental Strategies Research. Approximately 80% research, 20% teaching.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS AND PERIODS OF APPOINTMENT 2006-2011 PhD student at KTH
2003-2005 Research assistant and teaching assistant
Employed by the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, KTH. Research assistant in a project studying the role of cultural heritage in planning financed by the Swedish National Heritage Board and the Swedish tourist delegation.
INTERRUPTIONS IN RESEARCH Parental leave: January 2009-September 2009 (100%) September 2009-March 2010 (20%) March 2010-Septeber 2010 (60%) September 2010-January 2011 (15%) January 2011-December 2011 (12,5%)
August 2012-May 2013 (100%)
AWARDS AND SPECIAL COMMISSIONS
2008-2012 National representative for Sweden, AESOP Council of Representatives 2007-2008 Board member, Centre for Sustainable Communications, KTH
2001-2010 Board member, Pro et Contra, KTH PUBLICATIONS
Peer reviewed articles in international journals
Finnveden, G., Ekvall, T., Arushanyan, Y., Bisaillon, M., Henriksson, G., Gunnarsson-Östling, U., Ljunggren Söderman, M., Sahlin, J., Stenmarck, Å., Sundberg, J., , Sundqvist, J-O., Svenfelt, Å., Söderholm, P., Björklund, A., Eriksson, O., Forsfält, T. and Guath, M. (2013) “Policy Instruments towards a Sustainable Waste
Management”. Sustainability, Volume 5, Iusse 3, pp 841-881.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U., Svenfelt, Å. and Höjer, M. (2012) “Participatory methods for creating feminist futures”. Futures, Volume 44, Issue 10, pp 914–922.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (2011) “Gender in Futures: A Study of Gender and Feminist Papers Published in Futures, 1969-2009”. Futures, Volume 43, Issue 9,
November 2011, pp 1029-1039.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. and Höjer, M. (2011) “Scenario Planning for Sustainability in Stockholm, Sweden: Environmental Justice Considerations”. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Volume 35, Issue 5, pp 1048–1067. Larsen, K., Gunnarsson-Östling, U. and Westholm, E. (2011) “Environmental
scenarios and local-global level of community engagement: environmental justice, jams, institutions and innovation”. Futures, Volume 43, Issue 4, pp 413-423.
Höjer, M., Dreborg, K. H., Engström, R., Gunnarsson-Östling, U. and Svenfelt, Å (2011) “Experiences of the development and use of scenarios for evaluating Swedish national environmental objectives”. Futures, Volume 43, Issue 4, pp 498-512.
Larsen, K. and Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (2009) “Climate change scenarios and citizen-participation: Mitigation and adaptation perspectives in constructing sustainable futures”. Habitat International, Volume 33, Issue 3, pp 260-266.
Bradley, K., Gunnarsson-Östling, U. and Isaksson, K. (2008) “Exploring
environmental justice in Sweden – How to improve planning for environmental sustainability and social equity in an “eco-friendly” context”. Projections, MIT Journal of Planning 8, p. 68-81.
Peer reviewed books, book chapters and conference proceedings with international coverage
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (forthcoming) “Politicising planning through images of the future” in Bradley, K. & Hedrén, J. (eds.) Green utopianism: practices and
in Metzger, J. and Rader Olsson, A. (eds) Sustainable Stockholm: Exploring urban sustainability through the lens of Europe’s greenest city. London: Routledge.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (2011) Just Sustainable Futures: Gender and Environmental Justice Considerations in Planning. PhD Thesis. Stockholm: KTH.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U., Höjer, M. and Svenfelt, Å. (2010) “Creating Feminist Futures” Invited Paper at Stockholm Futures Conference: Our Future in the Making, 18-19 November 2010, Stockholm, Sweden.
Articles in regional or national journals
Gunnarsson-Östling, U., Isaksson, K. and Bradley, K. (forthcoming) ”Dags för miljörättvisepolitik” [Time for environmental justice politics] Tiden.
Bradley, K., Gunnarsson, U. and Isaksson, K. (2007) “Miljörättvisa – ett nytt perspektiv i svensk planering” [Environmental justice – a new perspective in Swedish planning]. PLAN 3, p. 48-51.
Book chapters in Swedish
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (2013) “36 år av miljöpolitik i Stockholm (1976-2012)” [36 years of environmental politics in Stockholm (1976-2012)] in Gullberg, A. (ed) Makten i stadshuset, preliminär titel [The power in the city hall, preliminary title]. Stockholm: Stockholmia förlag.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (2012) “Feministiska framtidsstudier” [Feminist futures studies] in Alm, S., Palme, J. and Westholm, E. (eds) Att uforska framtiden, [Exploring the future]. Stockholm: Dialogos.
Reports in Swedish
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (2013) in Ekvall, T. and Malmheden, S. (eds) (2012) Hållbar Avfallshantering: Populärvetenskaplig sammanfattning av Naturvårdsverkets forskningsprogram [Towards Sustainable Waste Management: Popular science summary of the Environmental Protection Agency’s research program]. Rapport 6523. Stockholm: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency.
Gunnarsson, U., Höjer, M. and Dreborg, K.-H. (2006) Att använda scenarier – förslag till långsiktigt miljömålsarbete [Using scenarios – a proposal for long-term work on environmental quality objectives]. TRITA-INFRA-FMS 2006:3. Stockholm: KTH, Urban Planning and Environment.
Gunnarsson, U. (2005) ”Kulturarv och attraktivitet: En studie av Ales stenar och Västergötlands museum” [Cultural heritage and attractiveness: A study on Ales stenar and Museum of Västergötland] in Rapporter från Turistdelegationen [Reports from the Tourist delegation], CD. Stockholm: Swedish tourist delegation.
Gunnarsson, U. (2005) Kulturarv och attraktivitet: En studie av Ales stenar och Västergötlands museum. [Cultural heritage and attractiveness: A study on Ales stenar and Museum of Västergötland] Stockholm: KTH, Forskargruppen för kultur och samhällsbyggande, Arbetsrapport 2005:1.
Papers presented at international conferences
Gunnarsson-Östling (2011), Process and content sustainability in planning. Paper presented at the symposium “Is planning past politics”, KTH, Stockholm,
September 8-11, 2011.
Gunnarsson-Östling (2011) Politicising planning through images of the future. Paper presented at the symposium Green Futures, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sep 6-7, 2011.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U., Höjer, M. and Svenfelt, Å. (2010) Creating Feminist Futures Presenter of Invited Paper at Stockholm Futures Conference: Our Future in the Making, 18-19 November 2010, Stockholm, Sweden.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (2010) Gendered Futures? Paper presented at the AESOP 2010 conference, 7-10 July, Helsinki, Finland.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. and Larsen, K. (2008) Climate change scenarios and behavioural change: navigating between heuristics of deliberative planning processes and astroturfing. Paper presented at the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2008: Sustainability, space and social justice, 18-29 March, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Gunnarsson-Östling, U. (2008) Gendered Futures? Paper presented at the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2008: Sustainability, space and social justice, 18-29 March, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Gunnarsson, U. and Höjer, M. (2007) Just Futures? Paper presented at the AESOP 2007 conference, 11-14 July, Naples,
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2013- Responsible teacher, Sustainable Planning and Design, master’s
level, KTH.
2009- Responsible for lectures linking futures studies to gender and also for
a qualitative scenario assignment in the course Future Studies and Forecasts, master’s level, KTH.
2007- Responsible teacher and developer (together with Åsa Svenfelt) of
Ecosystem Support and Environmental Justice, master’s level, KTH. 2006- Guest lecturer in several master’s coursers at KTH and elsewhere
(e.g. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Örebro university) 2006 Supervising master’s thesis: Karin Wahlberg, title: Historien om
Sergels torg: Planering för vem?
2006-2008 Responsible teacher (together with Mattias Höjer), Future Studies
and Forecasts, master’s level, KTH.
2003-2005 Teaching assistant, in courses such as Sustainable Cities, Futures
Studies and Forecasts, Urban Governance and Planning for Regional Development, all on master’s level, KTH.
organizing workshops. Examples of end users and stakeholders are authorities (Swedish Environmental Protection Agency, VINNOVA – Sweden’s Innovation Agency, Boverket - The Swedish National Board of Housing, Building and Planning, The Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, The Swedish National Heritage Board), regions (Stockholm county), municipalities (Huddinge, Upplands-Väsby, Malmö, Stockholm, Umeå, Katrineholm), and organizations (NORDREGIO – Nordic Centre for Spatial Development, The New Beauty Council, The Swedish Social
