Dolf te Lintelo

Dolf te Lintelo is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies (UK), where he leads the Cities research Cluster. He is the principal investigator of a British Academy research grant on Co-designing Learning for Evidence-informed climate policy in Marmara’s Municipalities (CLEMM). This project examines policy learning and the use of evidence in climate policy, together with local university and public sector partners. It builds on prior collaborative research in Türkiye and elsewhere examining the multi-scalar processes that govern displaced populations’ incorporation into city spaces, globally. He has an enduring interest in urban informality; food/nutrition insecurity, poverty and wellbeing, and the ways in which marginal groups exercise constrained agency and contest structural factors of disadvantage.

In recent years, Lintelo has been principal investigator of comprised multi-country, cross-disciplinary and cross-sectoral research collaborations in Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, India, Finland, Norway and the UK, funded by ESRC/AHRC, British Academy, NWO and the UK Foreign Office. These projects gained new insight into dynamics of (un)safe, (dis)orderly and (ir)regular migration, and contributed to strengthened capacity in host countries and host communities for dignified reception and inclusion of migrants and forcibly displaced persons in development processes.

He has published widely in reputable journals, including in: Cities; International Journal of Housing Studies; Wellbeing, Space & Society; Environment & Urbanization; GeoForum, European Journal of Development Research; Journal of International Development, World Development; Global Policy; Food Policy; IDS Bulletin and other outlets.