Andrew Byerley Senior Lecturer, Docent

I teach in the following thematic areas: Urban Geography, Urban Planning in the Global South, Urban Political Ecology, Urban theory, method. I am the Department of Human Geography's head teacher for the Global Development Program (Global Utvecklingsprogrammet) based at the Department of Anthropology, Stockholm University.

Research interests: colonial and post-colonial urban planning (with an empirical focus on Uganda and Namibia); challenges for planning in the Global South; Urban informality; public space; governmentality.

Main funded research projects:

2016-2019 What places? What ageing(s)? Ageing-in-place in contemporary African urbanities: the cases of Namibia and Uganda. Funded by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (P15-0140:1). Head of project Prof. Catharina Nord, Blekinge Tekniska Högskolan 2011-2015: Research Project: Urban imaginaries and socio-economic exclusion. (Funded by Sida-SAREC SWE-2011-195). The project's research group comprised: Ilda Lindell (head of project), Andrew Byerley, Onyanta Ajonge, all from Department of Human Geography, Stockholm University Post-doctoral project: From Hostels to Homes: Re-framing order in Walvis Bay (Sida: SWE-2006-482) ended 2012-02-28). Doctoral research project: Becoming Jinja: The production of space and making of place in an African industrial town (2005). In 2006 I was awarded a Wallander Stipendium (W-2006-0014:1) based on the doctoral thesis.