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 has widely published on the politics of urban and regional development policy in the European and, more specifically, postsocialist (Hungarian) context, and on (discourses) of smart city building and governance.

Currently, her research focuses on diversifying planning history through a feminist lens, the multi-scalar politics of the caring city and the implementation of gender-sensitive urban planning.

Current research project: 

Uncovering the legacies of Dutch feminist geography and planning

This research, financed by the Van Eesteren-Fluck & Van Lohuizen Stichting, seeks to collect and curate the pioneering work of Dutch feminist geographers and planners active between the late 1960s and 1990s. Carried out with colleagues Marielle Zill, Michiel van Meeteren (both UU) and Jasmijn van der Craats (Erasmus University Rotterdam), the project aims to collect, digitize and analyse Dutch feminist human geography and planning research on the built environment in the above-mentioned period, and investigates the societal impact of feminist research and professional networks. 

Previous project:

Inclusion in the datafied city (Special Interest Group within the UU's focus area Governing the Digital Society)