Åsa Westermark

Assistant Professor of Human Geography
Department of Natural and Social Sciences , School of Education and Communication

Contact

E-mail
asa.westermark@ju.se
Room
Hc234
Telephone
+46 36-10 1428
SMS-number
+46 73-910 17 44
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Research groups

Sustainable Societies (SUS)
Presentation

Research

Åsa Westermark has professional experience in the field of international co-operation, and particularly in gender and development in Latin America.  Åsa´s research  has applied a time-geographic perspective to the analysis of women´s livelihoods and everyday conditions in urban contexts. Her research is also connected to method development within time-geography. Åsa presented her dissertation in 2003. Today she works to develop didactic tools based on the time-geographic perspective to be used in higher education of geography. The objective is to structure complex social processes around specific issues, i.e. sustainable development. 

Biography

Åsa is employed as a senior lecturer in human geography at the School of Education and Communication since 2008. She is teaching at Teacher Education and Global Studies. Åsa has taken part in several international collaborations for SIDA and UNICEF and civil society.