Research profile

Anja Jørgensen, Ph.D., Professor of Urban Sociology, Head of SocMap www.socmap.aau.dk

She has a comprehensive experience conducting and managing research projects within urban -and rural sociology, territorial inequality, urbanization, territorial cohesion, neighbourhood communities, place based belonging and vulnerable neighborhoods. As the research-coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project COHSMO she has been engaged in developing a territorial dimension of the European Social Model of economic growth and democratic capacity. She is one of the central figures (together with Rolf Lyneborg Lund) in developing a micro-area mapping tool based on flexible boundaries, sociological variables and algorithmic learning. This is a unique tool to integrate in-depth understanding of territorial variations and territorial inequality in order to identify geosocial diversity and local uniqueness into sociological analysis.