Lina Berglund-Snodgrass

I work as a Senior Lecturer and researcher in urban planning at the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management at SLU, and serve as Director of Operations at the SLU Think Tank Movium. I am also an affiliated researcher at K2 – the Swedish Knowledge Centre for Public Transport. From 2023 to 2025, I served as co-editor-in-chief of PLAN, the journal of the Swedish Association for Spatial Planning, together with Ebba Högström at Umeå University.

Previously, I was a lecturer in spatial planning at Blekinge Institute of Technology, where I was involved in research, supervision, and teaching. I also have a background as a practicing landscape architect in London, UK, where I worked with design, construction planning, and strategic development of schools within the framework of the British investment programme Building Schools for the Future (BSF).

My research interests concern municipal planning in a broad sense, with a particular focus on how planning ideas, epistemologies, and forms of collaboration are changing in response to societal transformations such as demands for sustainability, resilience, and innovation.

Empirically, I focus on themes such as intermodal travel, housing provision, and social infrastructure, areas that in different ways challenge established planning practices. I explore how ways of thinking, organizing, and acting within planning are evolving, and how they open up new perspectives on what planning is and what it does.

My teaching experience is quite diverse, including the development, leadership and/or participation in introductory courses in planning theory; studio-based courses on local development grounded in postmodern planning theories; the use of autoethnographic methods in rural planning; the relationship between built environment development and technical infrastructure; and courses on programming and design briefs.

At SLU, I have served as a studio supervisor for Studio II in the Landscape Architecture programme, and as supervisor and examiner for master's theses in the master's programmes Sustainable Urban Development and Landscape Architecture. I have also acted as a guest critic in the Landscape Architecture Master's programme and taught in a thematic course focusing on glocal challenges, conducted in collaboration between SLU and Jomo Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya