New EURA Governing Board member (2022)

During the EURA annual conference that took place in Milan in June 2022, Prof. Susanne Søholt from the Oslo Metropolitan University (Norway) announced that she would be stepping down from the EURA Governing Board.
After 6 years of active participation in the life of our network, including several contributions to the EURA Conversations Series and most importantly the organisation of the EURA 2021 virtual edition of the conference in Oslo, we would like to show our gratitude!

We welcome Geir Heierstad which has stepped in!

Geir Heierstad is the director of the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway. He is a social anthropologist with a background from research on urban renewal and political culture in India. Through studies of caste based urban neighbourhoods he has worked on the interconnections between tradition and modernity, local practises, and globalisation. More recently his research interests have centred around urban governance and climate mitigation in a Nordic context, as well as the prevention of radicalisation and violent extremism. Both fields concern the establishment and nurturing of arenas involving multiple actors from e.g., public, private, and civil society sectors working together to define and reach common goals. Through his period as NIBR's Director he has worked on the establishment of the annual Norwegian Urban Research Conference, Storbykonferansen, and the peer-reviewed, open-access Nordic Journal of Urban Studies.