Heike Hanhörster

Heike Hanhörster studied spatial planning and gained her doctorate at the University of Dortmund. In 2013 she finished her dissertation titled “Should I stay or should I go? Locational decisions and coping strategies of Turkish homeowners in low-income neighbourhoods”. Since 2015, she holds a tenure-track position at ILS - Research Institute for Regional and Urban Development, Dortmund. Before, she stayed as a visiting scholar at OTB, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, TU Delft. 

Research interests 

• social networks and encounters of (middle-class) households
• social and spatial inequality
• residential mobility of migrant groups
• institutional discrimination and exclusionary processes on the housing market

Visiting projects and objectives

• New arrival spaces in Germany and France
• Discrimination on the housing market

To know more

• Link to personal webpage