Personal profile

Curriculum vitae

Gunhild Askehave is an architect and urban development researcher who completed her Ph.D. at the Royal Danish Academy in January 2025. Her doctoral research breaks new ground in understanding how practitioners shape urban quality in contemporary development projects. Combining ethnographic methods with architectural expertise, she brings a unique interdisciplinary perspective to studying urban development dynamics. Her work particularly focuses on the intersection of long-term real estate investment, sustainability, and urban value creation.

Research area

  • City
  • Circular economy
  • Urban development
  • Sustainability
  • Property investment
  • Architecture
  • Architectural storytelling
  • Construction
  • Theory and philosophy
  • Narrative analysis
  • Discourse analysis
  • Qualitaitve methods
  • Storytelling
  • Organization theory
  • Interview
  • Actor network theory

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