I am a current PhD Candidate with the Amsterdam Institute for Social Sciences Research (AISSR) at the University of Amsterdam. I am originally from Vancouver, Canada, where I did an undergraduate degree in Geography at the University of British Columbia; focusing on human and urban geography and minoring in Asian Studies. I also participated in an exchange to Waseda University in Tokyo where I lived for a year and a half. I completed my M.Sc. in Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Amsterdam. Before returning to the Netherlands to begin my PhD, I worked as a researcher and GIS analyst in a consulting firm and subsequently at the Geological Survey of Canada.

I have an interest in many areas of planning and urban geography with a special focus on high-density urban form, social and community engagement in neighbourhoods, housing policy and its role within the social welfare regime, as well as the use of GIS tools in urban research.

At the AISSR, I am researching within an ERC funded project looking at shifts in the housing market and the interactions between the role of home ownership and welfare regimes. The research is conducted across six countries: the Netherlands, Germany, the UK, Italy, Romania, and Japan. My area of interest within the project will be on micro-data quantitative research into how transformations and conditions within each of the housing contexts have affected different population sub-groups, especially through the recent period of economic crisis.

Education

• Master of Science in Urban and Regional Planning ( cum laude ) - University of Amsterdam
• Bachelor of Arts in Geography - University of British Columbia (Vancouver, Canada)

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