Eleonora Ignatovich

PhD, Planning

Eleonora Ignatovich

Prior Degrees:

MSc, Public and Urban Policy, University of Glasgow, Scotland, 2017

Planning Interests:
  • Corporately managed co-living
  • Affordable housing
  • Gentrification and youthification
  • Knowledge-economy cities
  • Talent attraction / retaining
Research Topic:

Socio-spatial implications of corporately managed co-living in North American and European metropolitan areas.

Presentations/Publications/Professional Experience:

Publications

  • Ignatovich, E. & Moos, M. (2022) Understanding corporate co-living: key characteristics and main facilitating factors. Manuscript in preparation.
  • Ignatovich, E. (2023) Ever-young cities: socio-spatial implications of corporate managed co-living in the metropolitan areas. Manuscript in preparation.

Presentations

  • Ignatovich, E. & Moos, M. (2021) Corporately owned shared housing for young adults: A solution to affordability concerns for whom? Royal Geographical Society – IBG Annual International Conference, London, UK, September 1-3.
  • Vinodrai, T., Moos, M.& Ignatovich, E. (2020) Housing the new economy: An analysis of economic development and housing plans in US and Canadian cities. Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning Conference, Toronto, Canada, November 5-8.

Professional experience

  • 2008-2016 Vice-Director on Communications and Public Affairs, Tomsk City Administration, Russia

Scholarships

  • International Doctoral Student Award (IDSA), 2018-2022
  • Environmental Studies Graduate Experience Award, 2021-2022
  • UW Graduate Scholarship, 2020-2022
  • British Government Chevening Scholarship for Master study in the UK, 2016-2017
  • Joint Japan - World Bank Scholarship, 2016-2017 [Declined for Chevening Scholarship]
  • SEE Fellowship on Community Development, Eurasia Foundation, USA, 2014
At the University of Waterloo:
  • International Student Representative, Association of Graduate Planners (AGP), 2020-2021
  • Teacher Assistant for PLAN 300 Planning Theory; PLAN 401/601 Planners and Planning Tribunals; PLAN 440/674 Urban Services Planning, 2020-2021
  • Research Assistant for ‘Housing the next generation: The case of new economy cities’ (SSHRC Insight Grant; PI Markus Moos, Co-PI, Tara Vinodrai), 2018-2020