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Oana Druta is Assistant Professor with the research group Urbanism and Urban Architecture at the TU/e Department of Built Environment. Oana is a social/cultural geographer and urban planner, researching housing and inclusive urban living. Her topics of interest include shared and flexible housing, urban commons and participation; housing pathways through the life course; homeownership, aging in place, and intergenerational relations. To date, she has researched and written about urban housing phenomena in Detroit, Tokyo, Birmingham (UK), Bucharest, Milan, and Amsterdam. Between 2020 and 2022, Oana was a board member of the Eindhoven Young Academy of Engineering and coordinated the activities of the Urban Innovation Think Tank at Built Environment. In 2021, with colleagues at the University of Milan Bicocca and KU Leuven, Oana initiated a new working group of the European Network for Housing Research named Housing and Young People. Between 2022 and 2025 Oana is coordinating the Dutch leg of the JPI Urban Europe Capacities for Urban Transformations project CoNECT (Collective Networks for Everyday Community Resilience and Ecological Transition). She is an associate editor of the International Journal of Housing Policy and is active on the advisory boards of Housing Studies and Housing and Society.
Originally from Bucharest, Romania, Oana Druta received a BA degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Tsukuba (Japan) in 2009. During this time she received the Ministry of Education Scholarship awarded to elite international students in Japan. Later, Oana completed her Masters of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan (USA), graduating in 2011. During her Master's studies, Oana was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg scholarship for students advancing social justice, and the distinction for exceptional service to Taubman College and the Urban and Regional Planning program. Her master's capstone project was awarded the prize for Best Student Project by the American Institute of Certified Planners. In 2012, Oana started her PhD at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (University of Amsterdam) embedded in the ERC funded project HOUWEL. In 2014, she was a visiting researcher at the University of Birmingham (UK), Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) and Bucharest University where she conducted fieldwork into the housing careers of young adults. Oana obtained her PhD in 2017, with her thesis on 'Young adult homeownership pathways and intergenerational support'. After having been a postdoctoral researcher at UvA, she was appointed assistant professor at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in May 2018
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Geography, Doctor, Young Adult Homeownership Pathways and Intergenerational Support: Homes, Meanings and Practices, University of Amsterdam
Award Date: 10 Jan 2017
Planning, Master, University of Michigan
Award Date: 30 Apr 2011
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Academic › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Abstract › Academic
Oana Druta (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
Oana Druta (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Oana Druta (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Professional
Oana Druta (Associate editor)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editorial activity › Scientific
Igor Costarelli (Member), Oana Druta (Member) & Constance Uyttebrouck (Member)
Activity: Membership types › Membership of network › Scientific
14/02/22
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities
Roy van der Meel, Sandra Loerakker, Job Beckers, Patricia Y.W. Dankers, Johanna I. Höffken, Federica Eduati, Frank P.T. Baaijens, Yoeri B. van de Burgt, Bob Walrave, Daniël Lakens, Danqing Liu, S. Hofmann, J.P. (Jan Philipp) Hofmann, Oana Druta & Antoni Forner Cuenca
16/10/20
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Expert Comment