Kevin Drain

Senior Research Scientist

Education

PhD Urban Sociology, University of Helsinki, 2024
MSc Contemporary Urbanism, London School of Economics and Political Science, 2009
BA Geography, UCLA, 2006

Bio:

Before joining GPS, Kevin worked as a researcher for the National Center for Mobility Management, based in Washington, D.C., and as a student advisor for the Finland-Sweden Cultural Centre in Helsinki, Finland, on the international course Sustainable Cities in the Nordic and Baltic Region. Kevin is the author of Gentrification in Helsinki: Urban planning at the edge of the welfare state, published by Routledge. His previous research has involved analysis of population change, cluster (hotspot) analysis, as well as socio-historical and ethnographic approaches, and he brings these skills to the work of GPS in New Mexico.