Dr. Darinka Czischke Ljubetic

Darinka Czischke Ljubetic is a housing and urban specialist with over 15 years’ international experience in research, teaching and consultancy across industry, policy and academia.

She has applied organisational, sociological and political theory to understand the interphase between societal processes, institutions and the built environment. Her recent research focuses on the potential for hybrid organisations to achieve multiple and (often) conflicting objectives in the built environment.

Darinka is also interested in new practices and conceptualisations of ‘sustainability’ and co-production in housing and urban regeneration processes. Her academic work favours a pluralistic epistemological approach and mix-methods, with an emphasis on qualitative, longitudinal and ethnographic methodologies.

Research Interest
Social housing in a comparative international perspective.
Social innovation and co-production in housing.
Contemporary collaborative housing approaches.
Socio-spatial integration in cities.
Sustainable urbanism.

Courses
Rethink the City: New approaches to Global and Local Urban Challenges