Dr. Griet Steel

Dr. Griet Steel

UU
g.steel@uu.nl

Griet Steel is an assistant professor in International Development Studies at the Department of Human Geography and Planning.

She is an anthopologist by training and has been involved in several international research projects addressing the interplay between gender, technology, land and mobility and the broader challenges of sustainable urban development. She has extensive field experience in several Latin American countries (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador and Nicaragua) and more recently she extended her geographical focus to the African continent.

Since 2014, Steel conducts research in the city of Khartoum on urban transformations, female online entrepreneurship and land governance. She is part of the senior management team of a DFID EARH funded research project “The Urban Land Nexus and Inclusive Urbanization in Dar es Salaam, Mwanza and Khartoum” and she coordinates the research agenda of LANDac, the Netherlands Land Academy.