Leila Ghaffari
Assistant Professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia
Leila Ghaffari holds a joint PhD in urban studies from the Université du Québec à Montréal and urban planning from Université de Tours. She also holds an international research master’s degree (M2) in urban planning and sustainability from the latter university as well as a master’s degree in urban design and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the National University of Iran.
In parallel to her doctoral studies, Leila Ghaffari has been working as a researcher at the Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES) since 2016, notably in a research project on indicators of cultural vitality in Montréal neighbourhoods (i.e. Rosemont-La-Petite-Patrie, Le Sud-Ouest, and Côte-des-Neiges) directed by Professor Juan-Luis Klein and funded by SSHRC.
She has also had the opportunity to work on several research projects related to social inequalities, focusing on the territorial aspect of these inequalities. In particular, she was a researcher in a project on socio-demographic disparities in Montréal-Nord, commissioned by the borough’s mayoral office, in which she conducted detailed research on the population data of this territory in order to analyse the existing social inequalities between the neighbourhoods of this borough.
Finally, she was a member of the Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve urban planning advisory committee between 2018 and 2020. Her doctoral thesis, entitled “Pour une gentrification socialement acceptable : le cas d’Hochelaga-Maisonneuve à Montréal et Madeleine-Champ-de-Mars à Nantes” (For a socially acceptable gentrification: the case of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal and Madeleine-Champ-de-Mars in Nantes), corresponds to the effects of gentrification and its acceptability by the local populations, in a comparative perspective.
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