KG2307 Place, Migration and Identity,Course Convener, 7.5 HECs (2020-)

KG1220 Vetenskapliga förhållningssätt, källor och metoder PLII, moment 4, Lecturer, 7.5 HECs (2019)

KG1302 Befolkning, miljö och landskap i förändring, Lecturer, 7.5 HECs (2019 -2025)

KG2304 Methods 1, Lecturer, 7.5HECs (2020-2021)

KG2311 Gender and Geography (Genus och geografi) Lecturer, 7.5 HECs (2021-)

KG3302 Samhällsvetenskapliga metoder och forskningsdesign inom samhällsplanering/kulturgeografi, Lecturer, (2024-)

Postgraduate Masters (Second Cycle)

KG7243 Space & Society: Theory & Method in Human Geography, Course Convenor, 15 HECs (2018 -)

KG9209-11 Master Thesis Course, Course Convenor, 30 HECs (2019 -)

KG7244 Cultural Landscapes & Society, Course Convenor, 15 HEC (2019 - )  

KG7206 Migration and Social Change: A life course perspective,  Lecturer, 15 HECs (2020) Course  Co-ordinator (2025 -)

KG7232 Advanced Method in Human Geography & Urban & Regional Planning, Lecturer, 15 HECs (2019-2021, 2025 -)

KG7234 Field Project in Urban and Regional Planning, Lecturer (‘Warsaw’) – 15 HECs (2019)                            

Postgraduate PhD (Third Cycle)

DIGGeog Digital Geography National PhD Course, Co-convenor and lecturer (2025)

QualMethod Qualitative Methods: From the Archives to the Field, Lecturer (2025)

IntroDoc Introduction to Doctoral Studies in Human Geography, Lecturer, (2024)

HI1SPA2 Rumslighet, minnet och det förflutna (Space, place, memory), Lecturer (2020, 2023)

MHG Memory, Heritage and Geography: Methods (PhD course, 5/7.5hp), Jointly convened between Uppsala University, Department of Social and Economic Geography and Stockholm University, Department of Human Geography, Convenor (2022).

REMESO (LiU) Methods for exploring the interlinkages of Migration and Memory, Seminar 2 hours, in Research Methods in Ethnic and Migration Studies (7,5 ECTS), Fall Semester 2022.

Current Doctoral Students (PhD)

2023

Sofi Johansson (PhD Candidate) – Circulations of safety of/in the neighbourhood: Data and Emotions.

Lorena Arias Solano (PhD Candidate) – Violent landscapes, sugar production in southwestern Colombia.

2022

Björn Nordvall (PhD Candidate) – Digital Geographies

Ida Säfström (PhD Candidate) – Farm work: a survey of work processes, segmentation patterns and sustainability visions in Swedish farm-based production.

Completed Doctoral Students (PhD)

2020

Caitlin Buckle (PhD) – ‘Mapping mobile lives: Explorations of migrants’ lived experience through narratives, visual imagery and virtual visitation, (Supervisor, Co-Supervised by Dr C Brennan-Horley, UoW), Awarded without amendment.

Charishma Ratnam (PhD) – ‘(Re)creating Sri Lankan Refugee Homes: How memory and identity influence resettling in the home’, (Supervisor, Co-Supervisor Dr Marilu De Melo, UNSW).

2019

Nerida Godfrey (PhD) – ‘Becoming-with movement: Life course mobilities and alternative cartographies of independent contemporary dancers', (Supervisor).

2018        

Peta Wolifson (PhD) – ‘Sydney at night: People, places, and policies of the neoliberal city’, (Supervisor, Co-Supervised by Prof. Chris Gibson, UoW and Dr Phillip Wadds, UNSW).

2015       

Helen Karathomas (PhD) – ‘Social mixing and urban redevelopment in Millers and Dawes Point’ (with A/Prof Wendy Shaw).

Current Masters Students

2026

Karolina Wrzosek

Thao Du Nguyenová

Frederic Cathomas

Nejla Kukrica

Completed Masters Students

2025

Sarah Nagel (Master Thesis) – Participation and belonging, (Supervisor).

Josphine Nilsson (Master Thesis) – Caring between the keys, (Supervisor).

Ashmar Redar (Master Thesis) – Between Silence and Strolling, (Supervisor).

Tilda Ståhlbom (Master Thesis) – Planning for death as part of the everyday, or not – the case of Järva cemetery (Supervisor).

2024

Guðni Þór Þórsson (Master Thesis) – Big Projects – Small Communities: Exploring residents’ sense of place in relation to large scale infrastructure developments in the Arctic: The case of Finnafjörður, Iceland (Supervisor).

2023

Sanda Bruzaite - (Master Thesis) (Re)imagining Home: Co-living Residents' Perceptions and Experiences: A case study in Allihoop, Bromma, Stockholm (Supervisor).

Sebastian Blomberg - (Master Thesis) Commemorating the Terror Attack at Drottninggatan: Commemorative Atmosphere, National Identity and Everyday Space (Supervisor).

2022

Saga Li Strålberg - (Master Thesis) Graffiti and street art in mobile landscapes (Supervisor)

Yildiz Gülce Demirer - (Master Thesis) Culture, Gender and Emtoions in Urban Green Sapces: Migrant Women's encounters of urban green spaces ain Istanbul and Stockholm (Supervisor)

2021

Aviva Blomquist (Master Thesis) – Understanding Community Sense of Place and Social Sustainability Through Instagram: A case study of Snösätra Graffiti Wall of Fame and Rågsved nature reserve (Supervisor).

2020

Nicolina Ewards Öberg (Masters Thesis) – ‘“People would say this was the bad side!”: An ethnography of everyday strategies for managing place stigma"(Supervisor).

Sara Amatoul Sabooh (Masters Thesis in Planning) – ‘Exploring neighbourhood composition and associated neighbourhood effects – a case study of (a neighbourhood in Stockholm region)’ (Joint Supervisor with Eva Andersson).

Dayana Indira Hernandez Vivas (Masters Thesis in Planning) – ‘Emotional dimensions of climate change’ (Supervisor).

Karin Thalberg (Masters in Environment and Social Sciences) – ‘Gender and Green Space’, (Joint Supervisor with Sara Borgström (KTH)).

2019

Esben Larsen (Masters in Human Geography) – ‘Familiar Flavors: Sensorial Experiences of Familiarity and Transnational Food Practices Amongst International Students’ (Joint Supervision with Dr Natasha Webster, SU).

Jonna Lidmark (Masters in Environment and Social Sciences) – ‘The (un)forbidden fruit: A case study on barriers and motivations for local fruit and berry harvesting in Skarpnäck’ (Supervisor).

2018

Gail Broadbent (Masters of Philosphy, 2 yr thesis by research program) – ‘Speeding the uptake of electric vehicles in Australia: social attitudes to electric vehicle purchase and recommendations for government intervention to address market failures’, (Joint Supervision with Prof Graciela Metternicht), Awarded without amendment.

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND SKILLS

Cultural memory and memorialisation:

Politics of memory and memorialisation; Public memory and the role of museums and monuments in national memory; Everyday memorialisation; Anzac Memory and War Commemoration; Genealogies of memory and post-memory

Identity, multiculturalism, cultural diversity:

Politics of identity; Nationalism; Everyday multiculturalism; Cultural infrastructure

Migration and Mobility:

Treechange and seachange migration; Youth migration; Regional demographics

Parenting and Caring:

Parenting in academia; Gender and Geography

Methodological and analytical approaches:

Mixed methodologies; Semi-structured and unstructured interviews; Social surveying; Discourse and text analysis; Archival research; Landscape observation and participation observation; Ethnography (visual, sound) and auto-ethnography; Qualitative data analysis programs (NVIVO) & Quantitative data analysis programs (SPSS, Microsoft Excel).

Invited/Keynote/Guest/Funded Papers

Webster, N.A., Drozdzewski, D., & Osborne, T., (2026) “Introducing a Research Agenda for Emotional Geographies”, Higher Seminar at School of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences, Örebro University, May 6.

Drozdzewski, D., Webster, N.A., & Osborne, T., (2026) “Feeling, Power, Method: Feminist Perspectives from a Research Agender for Emotional Geographies, RGS/IBG GFGRG Seminar Series, April 20. https://www.rgs.org/events/talks-on-demand/feminist-perspectives-emotional-geographies

Drozdzewski, D., (2026) Zoe Methods Day Workshop, Department of Human Geography, University of Lisbon, Jan 26.

Drozdzewski, D., (2025) Digital Methods and Qualitative Research: With QualNotes, for the BCN4Seasons School of Demography Program, Center for Demographic Studies-CED, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 3-hour workshop, Oct 15.

Drozdzewski, D., and Arias-Solano, L., (2025) Recopilacion digital de datos cualitativos: Uso de QualNotes, FormAccion LAB-MULTITUDES, Universidad Autonoma de Chile, Sept 3.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?si=CRz3sJcovVx-S9WJ&v=l4abyHmnU_4&feature=youtu.be

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) Digitising Qualitative Data Collection, Geographical Society of New South Wales, Dec 12.

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) On the move: (re)making, (re)working, (re)inventing, Invited Keynote at ‘The Promise of (Un)happiness? Gender, Labour, and Migration’, supported by the ‘Women in Tech’ Project, European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18 July.

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) Digital Memory Methods with QualNotes, Invited and Funded 2 hour guided Workshop for the M4C Dialogue Day – new Approaches in Memory Studies, Nottingham Trent University, 9 July.

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) PhD Masterclass, Invited and Funded Seminar to School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, 5 July.

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) Doing Qualitative Data Collection Digitally with QualNotes, Invited and Funded Seminar to School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, 5 July.

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) ‘Interviewing Methods with Mobile Application QualNotes’, Invited and Funded 2 x 2 hours lectures to 2nd Year Political Science Students, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, with Prof. M Rodo-Zarate.

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) ‘Locating memory in(to) place: Stolpersteine as an absent present’, Invited and Funded Paper at the Transdisciplinary Potentials of Spectral Landscapes: Bridging Space, Memory and Language, Conference, Villa Källhagen, Stockholm, Sweden, May 23-25.

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) ‘What can 'post' do? Thinking with the Post through Memory, Place and Identity’, Invited Keynote at ‘Disrupted Identities in the Light of ‘Post-Everything’ Conference, International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture, Justus Leibig University Giessen, Germany, May 14-16.

Drozdzewski, D., (2019) Critics Response, Author meets critics: Elaine Stratford’s Home, Nature, and the Feminine Ideal, Institute of British Geographers / Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, 27-30 August.

Drozdzewski, D., (2018) Contextualising contemporary attitudes towards integration in Berlin and Wrocław within histories of difference, paper presented at ‘Memories, normative ideals and empathic solidarities in Europe in the aftermath of refugee arrivals in 2015–16’ COSMOS Workshop, Humboldt University, 19–20 October, 2018.

Drozdzewski, D., (2018) Methods for encountering memory in the everyday streetscape, Paper presented to Commemoration Reframed Workshop III, Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Society (CEGESOMA), Brussels, 15 October.

Drozdzewski, D., (2018) Experiencing memory in the everyday city: Small scale memorialisation, Guest Lecture to Australian Centre for Cultural Environmental Research, University of Wollongong, 28 February, 2018.

Drozdzewski, D., (2017) Experiencing memory in the everyday city: Wroclaw, Berlin, Singapore, Guest Lecture to Institute of Cultural Studies, Wroclaw University, 11 December, 2017.

Drozdzewski, D., and Matusz-Protasiewicz, P., (2017) Framing contemporary responses to refugees through historical legacies in Poland, paper presented at the ‘Remembering Europe: Civil Society Under Pressure Again’ Workshop, Funded by BLUELINK, Central Europe University, Budapest, 7-9 December, 2017.

Ratnam, C., and Drozdzewski, D., (2017) Researching the Homes of Sri Lankan Migrants in Australia: A Methodological Overview, Guest Lecture Institute of International Studies, Wroclaw University, 10 October.

Drozdzewski, D., (2017) How we experience memory in the everyday city, Commemoration Reframed Workshop, Centre for Historical Research and Documentation on War and Society (CEGESOMA), Brussels, 7 Sept, https://youtu.be/R8RtHSJbsQw.

Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Stumbling over memory in the Streetscape: Locating national memory in(to) place, Critiquing the Nation, Symposium sponsored by the Research Cluster on Imperial, Colonial and Transnational Histories, UNSW, 28 September.

Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Motherhood in the academy: measuring and valuing care-work and wage-work, The Politics of Motherhood Workshop, University of Newcastle, Mar 31 - April 1.

Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Poles in the Antipodes: Charting the impacts of immigration policies of migration and settlement, invited paper at the Institute of National Remembrance, Warsaw, Poland, Conference on ‘Polonica in Foreign Institutions: Research on the history of Polish political emigration 1939-1990’, April 20-22.

Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Stumbling over Memory in Streetscapes: Local and Small-Scale Memory in Place, in Berlin, Guest Lecture at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, University of Amsterdam, May 3.

Drozdzewski, D., (2015) ‘Geopolitics and the development of Australia’s identity’, Guest lecture Faculty of Geography and Regional Studies, University of Warsaw, May 29.

Non-refereed reports and reviews

Drozdzewski, D., (2025) Qué recordamos y por qué es importante: ética, memoria y guerra (What we remember and why it matters: ethics, memory and war), #40 Anuario Internacional, CIDOB 2026,

Berengueres, J. O., and Drozdzewski, D. (2024). Mobile mapping, User Journeys & Collaborative Interviews with QualNotes App: Make your own Map!, NordiCHI Adjunct 2024: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2024 Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, No. 37, pp 1-4.

Sumartojo, S., Drozdzewski, D., Graves, M., Kesteloot, C., Vanneste, D., Vanraepenbusch, K., Van Ypersele, L., Wallis, J., Winter, C., and Wouters, N., (2017) Commemoration reframed: conceptualising commemoration from the perspective of experience, Working Paper from the Commemoration Reframed Workshop, CegesSoma, Brussels, 7 September 2017.

Shaw, W.S., Drozdzewski, D., Cross, R., and Wolifson, P., (2012) A historical geography of cotton farming in NSW and Qld: adaptation and adoption, Report to CRC Cotton Catchment Communities, Project ID 3.02.11.

Drozdzewski, D., (2011) ‘Book Review – “Festival Places: Revitalising Rural Australia” Connell, J., & Gibson C (eds) 2011’, Australian Geographer, Vol. 42, No. 4, pp. 455-457.

Drozdzewski, D., Shaw, W.S., and Godfrey, N., (2011) Treechange Migration to the NSW Southern Highlands: Motivations and outcomes of urban to rural migration, Report to the Dept. of Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government.

Drozdzewski, D., Shaw., W.S., Brander, R., Dominey-Howes, D., Goff, J., Walton, T., and Gero, A., (2011) Demographics, surf knowledge and behavioural response of rip current rescue victims, Report to Surf Life Saving Australia, Project ID RM08258.

Media

Drozdzewski, D., (2024) QualNotes, in the SU Holding Yearbook, https://lnkd.in/dJ7bf5q8.

Drozdzewski, D., and Robinson, D.F., (2021) The hazard of ascribing and spatialising identity narratives, Identities Journal Blog (invited), 28 July, https://www.identitiesjournal.com/blog-collection/the-hazard-of-ascribing-and-spatialising-identity-narratives.

RJ Project Media Release. (2020) How polarized is Sweden? New research project on segregation, neighbourhoods and life courses, 21 January.

Birdsall, C.J., Drozdzewski, D., and Osborne, T., (2019) Memory Research. New Questions and Approaches to Understanding Memory, SPUI25 with University of Amsterdam Faculty of Humanities and the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), 27 February.

Metternicht, G., Drozdzewski, D., and Broadbent, G. (2017) Negative charge: why is Australia so slow at adopting electric cars? The Conversation, Nov 9, https://theconversation.com/negative-charge-why-is-australia-so-slow-at-adopting-electric-cars-86478#comment_1451904

Dominey-Howes, D., and Drozdzewski, D., (2016) Preparing researchers to manage traumatic research, naturejobs blog, Sept 23, http://blogs.nature.com/naturejobs/2016/09/23/preparing-researchers-to-manage-traumatic-research/#more-10757

Drozdzewski, D., and Waterton, E., (2016) In remembering Anzac Day, what do we forget?, The Conversation, April 20. https://theconversation.com/in-remembering-anzac-day-what-do-we-forget-57629

Berlin’s stolpersteine – remembering in the city, (2016) SoundMinds Radio Podcast.

Visible parenting, in Melinda James (Presenter) Breakfast Radio, Illawarra, ABC Radio 97.3, 19 February, 2016.

Visible parenting, on TalkAbout, Simon Marnie (Presenter) Weekends, 702 ABC Sydney, 20 February, 2016.

Drozdzewski, D., and Klocker, N. (2016) Parenting at work: how visible are your choices?, The Motherish, 16 February.

UNSW and Cotton CRC (2012) 'Cotton Tales: A History of the Australian Cotton Industry', Proceedings of the CRC Science Forum, Narrabri, Produced by Papermoose Productions.

CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

 QualNotesis digital research tool for the social sciences and humanities.

QualNotes offers an integrated research tool with three key research portals: (1) mobile mapping, (2) interviews and focus groups, and, (3) participant observation and auto- ethnography. Each portal combines and integrates the materials necessary for undertaking common qualitative research methods into one platform.

Functionality includes: image capture; video and audio recording; file repositories for research documentation including ethics consent forms; collaboration and sharing capability; sketch and doodle options; and, GPS-based mobile mapping.

The mobile mapping tool (currently available) tracks your route while walking and allows you to add different media (photos, audio, text notes and documents) at different points along the route. It can be used for walking interviews, go-alongs, mapping transects and for sensory mobile methods.

QualNotes has VFT funding through SU Holdings, 2022-23, 295 000 SEK.

RECENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

VOLVO EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FUND: Biosocial Walking: Investigating the emotions of urban walking for migrants from the Global South, 2023, 500 000 SEK

Project Lead: Dr Tess Osborne, University of Leciester

Project Researchers: Associate Professor Danielle Drozdzewski

FORTE: Is there consistency in evaluation of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity asylum seeker cases? (Konsekvent asylprövning av asylsökande som åberopar sexuell läggning och könsidentitet som asylskäl?), 2022-2024, 4 900 000 SEK.

Project Lead: Associate Professor Thomas Wimark, Uppsala University

Project Researchers: Associate Professor Danielle Drozdzewski (Stockholm University) and Professor Rebecca Stern (Uppsala University).

Riksbankens Jubileumsfond Program Grant:2019-2024, 40 240 000 SEK.  

Lyckliga gatan? Geografisk polarisering och social sammanhållning i dagens Sverige 

The Neighbourhood Revisited: Spatial polarization and social cohesion in contemporary Sweden.

Program Lead: Professor Bo Malmberg

Subproject 1 Lead: Professor Gunnar Andersson

Subproject 2 Lead: Dr Danielle Drozdzewski

Subproject 3 Lead: Professor Eva Andersson

Digital Human Sciences Grant: 2019-2020, 150 000 SEK.

Exploring and writing ‘the digital’ into memory research, Danielle Drozdzewski (Sole CI).   Included in this project are the following case studies: 

'Poland: How does a politics of Polish memory frame (re)productions cultural memory?'

Dr Danielle Drozdzewski as part of the 'Commemoration Reframed' network.

This project explores the historical and contemporary geopolitics of Polish memory. It considers how Polish cultural memory has been operationalised, with political purpose, to ensure the continuance of Polish cultural memories that (re)affirm certain narratives about the nation.  To do so it draws on field data generated on November 11, 2018, in Poland.  On this day, Armistice Day, Allied countries commemorate the end of the First World War (WWI).  In Poland, this day has extra significance as it marks the (re)creation and restoration of the Second Polish Republic, post-WWI following 123 year-long partition by the Russian, Austrian and Prussian empires. Narodowe Święto Niepodległości (National Independence Day) as a calendar ritual, has both commemorative and celebratory characteristics – its solemnity marks war dead, but it also specifies the triumphant return of the Polish state.  This research examines contested sentiments about November 11 in Poland, placing the happenings of that day amid contexts of remembrance and nation building.

Other Continuing Research 

Migration, memory and national identity - Berlin and Wroclaw 

This project will consider what happens post-settlement, shifting focus to the outcomes of migrations on host societies and to the migrants. By adopting a dual focus on both migrants and host communities, this project seeks to provide insights into whether successful settlement can be predicated on greater understandings and appreciation of the linkages between memory and identity by both migrants and the communities they settle in.

This project has two aims:
1. It will articulate the post-settlement outcomes of migrants in Poland and Germany with an explicit focus on how new identities are negotiated in the host countries and how cultural memories of the homeland are maintained.

2. It will investigate the views of the people in the places where migrants settle – Polish and German. As such, this second aim will address how and what integration looks like from the point of view of the host community.