Gabriela Debrunner
Assistant professor

University of Lausanne
Institute of geography and sustainability
Mouline - Géopolis 3526
CH-1015 Lausanne
 
 
 
Phone +41 21 692 3553
gabriela.debrunner@unil.ch
ORCID 0000-0002-3706-7896

Research projects

Institutional (In)justice in Swiss Food Governance: Agricultural Workers, Land, and the Missing Middle

My PhD research examines institutional (in)justice in Swiss Food Governance, focusing on the relations between land, ...
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2026-2030
disP Special Issue: Homes Today, Pensions Tomorrow: Pension Funds Between Social Responsibility and Housing Financialization

Pension funds occupy a highly specific but powerful position within current liberalized and globalized real estate ma...
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2025-2027
Cities built on pensions: The role of pension funds in the development of Swiss cities

Pension funds have become major actors in real estate development (Crevoisier et al., 2025). In Switzerland in partic...
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2025-2027
The politics of temporary socio-cultural spaces and urban citizenship (PhD Thesis in Human Geography)

This project examines how grassroots socio-cultural initiatives negotiate access to and use of temporary urban spaces...
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Urban Studies Special Issue: The Business of Densification: Institutions, Actors, and Outcomes in the Transformation of Urban Settlements

Many states and cities worldwide have introduced densification policies over the past twenty years (Dembski...
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2023-2026
Land policies for affordable housing – Comparative insights from 33 global case studies

Land Policies for Affordable Housing explores how land policy can be used to address the global affordable hou...
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2023-2027