Sweden

Bio

Vania Ceccato is a Professor at the Department of Urban Planning and Environment, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. She is the head of the Urban & Community Safety Research Group and the coordinator of the Safeplaces network. Ceccato is interested in the relationship between the environment and safety. GIS and spatial statistical methods underlie her research that is on the geography of crime and fear in urban and rural environments; transit safety; the intersectionality of safety, the impact of crime on housing markets; and safety governance.