Mats Stjernberg

Senior Research Fellow

Mats has a background in urban geography and regional studies. His main research interests include themes concerning urban development and neighborhood change and questions concerning postwar housing estates and segregation in particular.

Academic qualifications
PhD in Regional Studies (Urban Geography), University of Helsinki, Finland (2019)

MSc in Regional Studies (Urban Geography), University of Helsinki, Finland (2011)

Languages
Swedish
Finnish
English
German
French
Spanish

Prior positions
Senior researcher at the City of Helsinki Urban Facts, Finland (2016–2017)

Doctoral candidate at the Department of Geosciences and Geography at the University of Helsinki, Finland (2012–2016)

Junior expert at the ESPON coordination unit, Luxembourg (2011)


Publications

Concrete Suburbia: Suburban housing estates and socio-spatial differentiation in Finland (2019). PhD dissertation. (Stjernberg, M.).

Tenure structure and perceived social disorder in post-WWII suburban housing estates: A multi-level study with a representative sample of estates (2017). Acta Sociologica, (Kemppainen, T. Kauppinen, T., Stjernberg, M., Sund, R.).

Helsingin seudun 1960- ja 1970-lukujen lähiöiden sosioekonominen ja demografinen kehitys vuoden 1990 jälkeen (The socio-economic and demographic development of 1960s and 1970s housing estates in the Greater Helsinki Region) (2017). Tutkimuksia, 2017: 1. Helsingin kaupunki, kaupunginkanslia, kaupunkitutkimus ja -tilastot. (Stjernberg, M.). <https://www.hel.fi/hel2/tietokeskus/julkaisut/pdf/17_06_07_Tutkimuksia_1_Stjernberg.pdf>

Suomalaisten 1960- ja 1970-lukujen lähiöiden sosioekonominen kehitys ja alueellinen eriytyminen (The socio-economic development of 1960s and 1970s suburban housing estates and residential differentiation in Finland) (2015). Yhteiskuntapolitiikka, 2016/6. (Stjernberg, M.).

Tackling city-regional dynamics in a survey using grid sampling (2015). Survey Research Methods, 9. (Laaksonen, S., Kemppainen, T., Stjernberg, M., Kortteinen, M., Vaattovaara, M., Lönnqvist, H).

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