Ioana Florea

Master’s degree in Anthropology and Community Development (2008) and PhD in Sociology from the University of Bucharest (2011). Since 2017, she has been a researcher at the Department of Sociology and Labour Studies at the University of Gothenburg. She has taught seminars at the Faculty of Sociology and Social Work, University of Bucharest; she also worked at the Department “Inequalities, Migrations and Territories” of the Center for Research and Studies in Sociology, University Institute of Lisbon (2010-2011).

As a researcher, she specializes in socio-spatial dynamics in poor neighborhoods in Romanian cities, youth’s experience of outdoor public spaces marked by post-socialist transformations (her PhD project), and spatial processes of social differentiation. Since 2006, she has been involved in several grassroots organizations in Bucharest working for social and environmental justice and the right to the city. Thus, most of the research projects she has been involved in have had an action or educational dimension.