Gavin McCrory

About

I am a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). I hold a PhD in sustainability transitions and transformations, and my research explores how positive change together can be crafted collectively – across disciplines, sectors and places.

I am particularly interested in co-creation, transformative governance, and how learning can contribute to sustainable societal change. My work connects research and practice, drawing on perspectives from geography, futures studies, learning sciences, and sustainability science.

I work with both Norwegian and European knowledge-action questions, using comparative case studies and open methods to understand how places and communities can develop new solutions and new ways of working together.

I contribute to the research projects INNOSPACE and CIRCULAR, funded by the Research Council of Norway, and GoGreen, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. I am also active in international research networks on sustainability transitions, with a particular interest in how we learn and develop through processes of change themselves.

Field of study

Urban regeneration   Interdisciplinary   Civic and citizenship education   Sustainable Innovation   Sustainability Science   Cross-disciplinary co-creation