Karin Topsø Larsen
Bio
My work focuses on local and regional development in challenged localities – the conditions that frame peoples’ attraction to live, seek education and work in particular places. My research centres on young people, their education orientations and on the role of place and mobility in such processes. I would like to contribute to education planning in rural localities.
I am also interested in understanding places through a translocal lens – i.e. an understanding that places are defined not just by those who live there year-round, but by a wider group of actors and interests, whose relations in and out of places contributes to place-making. Themes may include place engagement, rural gentrification and second homers, but also the role of place-making in sustainable transition processes. I mostly work with mixed methods – combining quantitative and qualitative analyses – and often with a perspective for development inequalities.