“Improvising subsistence security in urban Western Europe”

Even before the coronavirus pandemic, Europeans were navigating profound insecurities in work, care and access to basic infrastructures. This research project investigates how urban Western Europeans in Dublin and Rotterdam improvise new forms of subsistence security, for example by combining jobs or creating informal care arrangements. Read more on the project here.

Marguerite van den Berg was a recipient of a CUS Teaching Buyout Grant. These grants are provided to assist permanent staff in writing a major research grant application.