Beata Sirowy (PhD 2010) is Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Urban and Regional Planning and a participant of the NMBU Talent Program. Her educational background consists of philosophy (MA) combined with architecture and urban planning (MSc), and her research interests lie at the intersection of these domains. She has been publishing within the following subject areas: (1) phenomenology and hermenutics and their implications for architecture and spatial planning; (2) ethical aspects of urban development; (3) the role of public space in regard to the quality of urban life.

Her PhD dissertation (AHO 2010) proposes a phenomenology-based framework for a user-oriented architectural practice. In her postdoc period she was engaged in a RCN-funded research projects on goal conflicts in a compact city development, where her focus was on exclusion and inclusion mechanisms in urban public spaces (SUSPLAN project/Demos programme).After completing this research she co-led DEMOSSPACE project examining the democratic dimension of urban public space in the perspectives of deliberative democracy and the capability approach (Demos programme/RCN) and was a module leader in ADAPT project examining the social dimension of resilience in post-industrial urban transformation areas (Miljøforsk programme/RCN). She is currently the leader a research project addressing the relationship between the quality of public space and human well being: Cultivating Public Space: Urban agriculture as a basis for human flourishing and sustainability transition in Norwegian cities, and the leader of the Norwegian team in the EU funded project PUSHousing, examining qualities of public spaces in European social housing (HERA programme).

She has been a section editor of the Nordic Research Journal Formakademisk and the leader of Urban and Planning Philosophy research group. She was a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley twice: at the Institute of Urban and Regional Development (01.2019-01.2020), and at the Department of Philosophy (01.2022-08.2022).