Dr. Krisztina Varró

Vening Meineszgebouw A
Princetonlaan 8a
Kamer 6.58
3584 CB Utrecht

Dr. Krisztina Varró

Assistant Professor
Spatial Planning
+31 30 253 4915
k.varro@uu.nl

Krisztina Varró is Assistant Professor in Spatial Planning. She holds an MSc degree from the University of Pécs (Hungary), a postgraduate degree in project management in urban planning (DESS) from the University of Tours and a PhD (cum laude) from Radboud University Nijmegen. Prior to coming to Utrecht she held positions at the Centre for Regional Studies of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Radboud University.

Krisztina's research has been at the intersection of critical urban political economy and spatial planning and she has widely published on the politics of urban and regional development policy in the European and, more specifically, postsocialist (Hungarian) context. In the past years, her research focused on (discourses) of smart city building and governance, and inclusion/exclusion in the smart city.

More recently, her interest has shifted towards feminist geography and planning and the limitations and possibilities of moving towards more gender-sensitive urban planning and inclusive urban spaces.

Currently, she is involved in the research project 'Her city, her story: Uncovering the legacies of Dutch feminist geography and planning' - project that examines, with a focus on the early 1970s and 1990s, the contributions of feminist geographers and planners, their involvement into formal and informal networks, and the impact of their ideas on Dutch spatial planning practice and university education.