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Associate Professor, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Dr Stefania Fiorentino joined Land Economy in October 2020, her research focuses on ways to reconcile planning practices and local economic development for more inclusive and resilient regeneration strategies.
Stefania is also a honorary lecturer at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. Before coming to Cambridge, she has extensively lectured and led research in spatial planning, local economic development and urban regeneration between the Bartlett (UCL) and London South Bank University (LSBU). She holds a PhD in Planning Studies from the Bartlett School of Planning (UCL) where she has investigated the new geography of innovation in Italy, including the underlining socio-economic dynamics and the governance implications of the new workspaces (e.g. co-working spaces, maker spaces, start-up incubators) and entrepreneurial ecosystems.
She is currently working on a project on "the Post-Covid City" with Prof Phil Allmendinger in the department, which will be published as a book by Edward Elgar. Other active research projects she is working on, look at complementary challenges that our cities are facing like new working spaces, coastal town regeneration, and urban densification processes.
Her work has been published on a number of international journals, she serves as reviewer of several journals and she is editor for Local Economy, the Journal of Property Investment and Finance, and Regions, the e-zine of Regional Studies Association.
Before becoming an academic, Dr Stefania Fiorentino has trained as a chartered engineer and she has worked in international consultancies across Italy, France and the UK with leading expertise in the fields of real estate, planning and economic development. As an academic she keeps contributing to consultancy, thought leadership and influencing policy making, acting as an expert for bodies like the EU Commission.