Kajsa Lundberg

Kajsa is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Urban Research, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. She currently works on the Australian Research Council-funded Industrial Transformation Research Hub, Transformation of Reclaimed Waste Resources to Engineered Materials and Solutions for a Circular Economy (TREMS). In collaboration with Professor Ralph Horne and Dr Bhavna Middha, her research examines apartment waste management from social and policy perspectives.

 

Her research areas include climate-change mitigation and policy, carbon offsets, urban climate action, waste and recycling, and urban and spatial justice. Her interdisciplinary work draws on Science and Technology Studies, Actor–Network Theory, spatial justice, posthumanist urban geography, green criminology, and urban studies, among other theoretical approaches.

 

Her monograph, Ordinary and Extraordinary Harms in the City, is forthcoming with Rutgers University Press in September 2026.

 

Kajsa is also co-convenor of the Messy Methods Network, an early-career network that encourages and supports alternative qualitative methods while challenging traditional assumptions of objectivity and the precarious conditions of neoliberal academia.

 

Kajsa completed her PhD at the University of Melbourne in December 2023. Her thesis explored the intersection of urban development/policy and more-than-human harms, climate change and fires arising from the ways urban areas develop and expand.

 

In 2022, as the Melbourne Centre for Cities Research Fellow in Urban Innovations, Kajsa led a participatory research project with the Global Covenant of Mayors that explored the potential for a global research agenda for cities.