Robert Boyer

I am trained as a scholar of urban planning (Ph.D. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), with an interest in how strategies for collaboration, sharing, and planning can stimulate a transition to a low-carbon, sufficient world. I am a methodological omnivore. I love collaborating with experts that use the right methods to answer the right questions.

At RISE, I am the research manager of the Sustainability Analytics unit.

I also lead several ongoing externally-funded research projects including:

1) Consumer Demand for Circular Urban Living (www.CDCUL.eu) is a 3-year multinational project funded by the EU's Driving Urban Transitions programme exploring who- and in what circumstances residents are willing to pay for shared-access spaces and facilities.

2) MOUSERS (Measuring and optimizing the utilization of residential spaces) is a 4-year project funded by Formas that benchmarks how existing shared-access spaces are used and models opportunities to improve the design of these spaces so that they are accessible, attractive, and used 24-hours a day, all year long.

3) Digital Decision Support for Refurbishment (2DSR)is a 3-year project funded by Vinnova that is developing an image recognition tool to help the Swedish furniture industry make more efficient decisions about re-use and repair.

In addition to theses projects, I led a 1.5 year internal initiative at RISE to attract research funding in the area of Sufficiency Lifestyles which leveraged over 39 million Swedish crowns for 11 different research projects.

My past work has explored how community movements like ecovillages and cohousing can serve as living experiments for sustainable urban development, how urban cycling in the USA benefits from "social rides" and recreational cycling, the challenges of transitioning toward servitized mobility (Mobility as a Service), and ways to measure, evaluate, and communicate about the Circular Economy. I am a proud multi-methodological researcher, taking advantage of qualitative and quantitative methods to explore interesting topics at different scales.

My full publication record can be viewed on Google Scholar https://scholar.google.se/citations?user=pB05ytUAAAAJ&hl=en.