Project team and partners

Project team

Dr Cristina Temenos, Principal Investigator

Cristina is an urban geographer interested in the politics and social processes of making and moving urban policy. Her research is focused on health inequalities and the politics of access to care in cities globally.

She is one of the first scholars working in the field of policy mobilities, a new approach to knowledge translation, and has developed this work in relation to drug use and treatment, public health, housing, economic austerity, environmental sustainability, transport, and climate change.

Cristina is the Co-lead on Poverty and Deprivation for The University of Manchester’s Healthy Futures Initiative, and Co-leads the Cities, Politics, and Economies Research Group. Cristina is the co-author of the book Moving Towards Transition: Commoning Mobility for a Low Carbon Future (Bloomsbury) and Co-editor of the book The Urban Politics of Policy Failure (Routledge).

Her academic articles have been published in numerous international journals including the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, and Environment & Planning A. Read more on Cristina’s Research Explorer profile.

Dr Jess Linz, Research Associate

Jess is a feminist cultural geographer interested in housing and environmental crisis in Latin America. Her PhD dissertation examined how the September 2017 earthquake in Mexico City affected gentrification and evictions in the city’s neighbourhoods. Jess holds an MA and PhD from the University of Kentucky. Read more on Jess’s Research Explorer profile.

Christina Tranti, Research Associate

Christina is an anthropologist interested in Anthropology and Science & Technology Studies, the criminalisation of immigration in Greece and the legal geographies of public space. She holds an MA from the Vrije University of Amsterdam. Christina has worked with the Urban Crisis project to collect data for the Athens case study.

Sotiria Kyriakidou, PhD Researcher

Sotiria is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at The University of Manchester. Her research focuses on the role of temporary accommodation, its effects on alcohol use and its role in dismantling barriers to accessing health services for accommodation users.

Sotiria is a licensed Social Worker with almost a decade of experience delivering frontline services in the field of poverty, homelessness, and harm reduction. She is passionate about promoting social inclusion and increasing social sustainability. Sotiria holds an MA in addictions from the School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.