Fear, urban design and neighbourhood segregation in Stockholm, Sweden.

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This PhD seeks to investigate the social geographies ofwomen's safety, specifically the relationships between fear,urban design and neighbourhood segregation in Stockholm,Sweden. The intersecting causes of female fear of crimewere identified as a significant gap in the literature by Pain(2001), and this remains the case despite the abundance ofresearch on safety and perceived safety. It is particularlyunder-studied in Stockholm owing to the widespreadassumption that the city is safe. However, myundergraduate research and peer-reviewed publication withProfessor Ceccato demonstrate that factors underpinningwomen's low fear of crime in Stockholm are problematic forothers, such as spatial and social segregation. Therefore,informed by an intersectional framework, this research willexplore how gender, race, class and place of residence foldinto perceptions and likelihood of victimisation in differentbuilt (CPTED and non-CPTED) and social environments.Semi-structured interviews and focus groups will beconducted with female citizens as well as key stakeholders.These will be used alongside a pre-existing, high-qualityquantitative dataset collected by Stockholm police, toinvestigate, first, how spatial patterns of perceived safetyvary across Stockholm, and second, what interconnectedprocesses within neighbourhoods influence perceivedsafety. The research will provide important empirical andconceptual advances on female fear of crime and itsrelationship with CPTED and urban segregation. With 'SaferSweden Foundation' as collaborative partner, this work willhave impacts on policy and practice via stakeholder andpolicy workshops and a user-oriented report, as well asleading to high-quality academic outputs.