Shelley Kotze
About Shelley Kotze
Originally from Devon, in the UK and arrived in Gothenburg in Autumn 2017. Previously I spent seven years in Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to starting my PhD, in Gothenburg I have been working as a project assistant within the Urban Rural Gothenburg Research Forum, and as a guest researcher at Mistra Urban Futures. My research has included leading projects exploring issues of immigrant integration, gender mainstreaming in projects and the influence of trust on project building.
My current research focuses on the transformation process that occurs between the planning for and the manifestation, management and maintenance of urban green spaces. Green spaces in the city are important for many purposes. For urban green spaces to be sustainable in the long-term the maintenance of them needs to be in the planning process. I am framing my PhD research as a critical exploration of the process of planning for urban green space; this includes how the ongoing management and maintenance of said space is considered and written into the planning process, and how well that is translated into action. I anticipate that a better understanding of this process will contribute to the better management of urban green space, in that it actually reflects the plans which municipalities spend so much public money on.
Research areas
- Urban green space
- Planning
- Institutional processes
- Integration
- Gender
Selected publications
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Walking as a pedagogical tool in higher education: Moving beyond
COVID-19
Shelley Kotze, Oskar Abrahamsson
Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) Annual International Conference 2022 - 2022 -
North‐South research collaborations: An empirical evaluation against principles of transboundary
research
Shelley Kotze, Mirek Dymitrow
Development Policy Review - 2022 -
Ticking boxes and clocking in: A critical view of gender mainstreaming in labour-market
integration
Shelley Kotze, Ana Blazheva, Mirek Dymitrow
Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - 2021 -
Replicating projects for comparative research: Mistra Urban Futures’ experiences with comparative work on knowledge exchange, food and
transport
Warren Smit, Elma Durakovic, Rike Sitas, Magnus Johansson, Gareth Haysom, Mirek Dymitrow, Karin Ingelhag, Shelley Kotze
Simon, D., Palmer, H. and Riise, J. (eds.), "Comparative urban research from theory to practice: Co-production for sustainability" - 2020 -
The future of sustainability projects: Flights of fancy or a threnody to a lost
age?
Karin Ingelhag, Mirek Dymitrow, Shelley Kotze, John Wright
Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories - 2019 -
Gender and integration: The ebb and flow of mainstreaming in
projects
Shelley Kotze
Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories - 2019 -
Trusting constructive
madness
Shelley Kotze, Inga-Lisa Adler, Ulla Lundgren
Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.), Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories - 2019 -
Anatomy of a 21st-century project: A critical
analysis
Mirek Dymitrow, Shelley Kotze, Karin Ingelhag
Anatomy of a 21st-century sustainability project: The untold stories. Dymitrow, M. and Ingelhag, K. (eds.) - 2019 -
Food systems sustainability: An examination of different viewpoints on food system
change
Gareth Haysom, Gunilla Almered Olsson, Mirek Dymitrow, Paul Opiyo, Nick Taylor Buck, Michael Oloko, Charlotte Spring, Kristina Fermskog, Karin Ingelhag, Shelley Kotze, Stephen Gaya Agong
Sustainability - 2019 -
Ticking boxes and clocking in: A critical view of gender mainstreaming in labour-market
integration
Shelley Kotze, Mirek Dymitrow
Conference “Organizing Migration and Integration in Contemporary Societies”, Gothenburg Research Institute and Centre on Global Migration, 6–9 November 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2019 -
Transboundary research collaborations: An evaluation against 11 principles of transboundary
research
Shelley Kotze, Mirek Dymitrow
MiReKoc – 15th Anniversary Conference on Migration and Development in the ‘Global South’: “Research Challenges and Implications”, Migration Research Center at Koç University, 24–25 October 2019, Istanbul, Turkey - 2019 -
Using South-North collaborations to explore the role of gender within immigrant integration
projects
Shelley Kotze, Mirek Dymitrow, Lillian Omondi, Ana Blazheva
2019 RINGS Conference: “Genders and Feminisms in a Polarised World – Sustainability, Futures and Utopias”, The International Research Association of Institutions of Advanced Gender Studies / Tallinn University – Gender Studies Research Group, 2–4 October 2019, Tallinn, Estonia - 2019 -
The role of trust in street-level organisations within integration
projects
Shelley Kotze, Mirek Dymitrow
The 17th Annual ESPANET Conference: “Social citizenship, migration and conflict – Equality and opportunity in European welfare states”, The European Network for Social Policy Analysis, 5–7 September 2019, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden - 2019 -
The ‘Research Forum’ as a methodological tool for transdisciplinary
co-production
Mirek Dymitrow, Karin Ingelhag, Shelley Kotze
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019: “Joining Forces for Change”, TD-Net – Network for Transdisciplinary Research / Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, 10–13 September 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2019 -
Double jeopardy within Swedish integration: Using South–North collaborations to explore the role of gender within transdisciplinary integration
projects
Shelley Kotze, Mirek Dymitrow, Lillian Omondi
International Transdisciplinarity Conference 2019: “Joining Forces for Change”, TD-Net – Network for Transdisciplinary Research / Swiss Academies of Arts and Sciences, 10–13 September 2019, Gothenburg, Sweden - 2019 -
Can a city feed itself? Innovations in City–Region Food Systems from a Swedish
perspective
Shelley Kotze, Mirek Dymitrow, Karin Ingelhag
4th Global Food Security, Food Safety & Sustainability Conference,10–11 May 2019, Montreal, Canada - 2019 -
Local projects replicated: Insights from Urban Rural
Gothenburg
Mirek Dymitrow, Karin Ingelhag, Shelley Kotze
2019 -
The place of community values within community-based conservation: The case of Driftsands Nature Reserve, Cape
Town
Shelley Kotze
Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series - 2018 -
Integration and green business development in a trust-building
context
Mirek Dymitrow, Kristina Fermskog, Karin Ingelhag, Shelley Kotze
Mistra Urban Futures Annual International Conference “Comparative Co-Production”, SunSquare Conference Centre, 5–7 November 2018, Cape Town, South Africa - 2018