My research focuses mostly on students as actors of urban change (studentification in particular).

Research fields:

• Urban Studies;
• Urban Geography;
• Housing Studies;
• Leisure Studies;
• Economic Geography;
• Heritage Studies.

Research topics:

• Studentification;
• Gentrification;
• Urban Change & Urban Restructuring.

Selected publications:

• Zasina, J., & Żelazowski, K. (2025). Rooming flats: How financialisation-led densification is spurring inner-city studentification in Lodz, Poland. Urban Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/00420980251342404

• Zasina, J., & Jakubiak, W. (2024). Studentification, youthification, and gentrification, all at once? New-builds, newcomers, and near-campus change in a post- industrial city. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 64(64), 87–101. https://doi.org/10.12775/bgss-2024-0015;
• Zasina, J., & Nowakowska, A. (2023). Is the ‘student city’ lost? The rhythms of Lodz as a consumption-oriented student city through the COVID-19 pandemic lens. Population, Space and Place, 29(2), e2607, https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2607;
• Zasina, J., Mangione, E., & Santangelo, M. (2023). Nuancing student geographies: Studentscapes in post-industrial cities. Urban Geography, 44(1), 105-127, https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2021.1969142;
• Zasina, J., & Antczak, E. (2023). The ‘gown’ unconcerned with the town? Residential satisfaction of university students living in off-campus private accommodation. Housing Studies, 38(8), 1536–1559, https://doi.org/10.1080/02673037.2021.1961692;
• Zasina, J. (2021). The student urban leisure sector: Towards commercial studentification? Local Economy, 36(5), 374–390, https://doi.org/10.1177/02690942211051879;
• Zasina, J. (2020). Students’ leisure consumption patterns in cities: Three-dimensional pictures from Lodz and Turin. Miscellanea Geographica, 24(4), 253–262, https://doi.org/10.2478/mgrsd-2020-0023;
• Zasina, J., Sokołowicz, M.E., & Nogalski, S. (2020). Lodz City Tour: The Changing Nature of the Urban Restructuring of a Post-Socialist Industrial City. disP - The Planning Review, 56(2), 8–19, https://doi.org/10.1080/02513625.2020.1794119;
• Zasina, J. (2018). The Instagram Image of the City. Insights from Lodz, Poland. Bulletin of Geography. Socio-Economic Series, 42, 213–225. https://doi.org/10.2478/bog-2018-0040.

Selected presentations and speeches:

• Zasina, J., & Żelazowski, K. (2024.08.27). Window counting: How densification activities of the rooming-flat business spur studentification. ENHR Conference, Deflt, The Netherlands;
  
• Zasina, J., & Jakubiak, W. (2023.07.14). New builds and newcomers near campus: Studentification, youthification, gentrification, all at once? AESOP Congress, Lodz, Poland;
• Zasina, J., & Żelazowski, K. (2023.06.29). In the kaleidoscope of student private,
off-campus accommodation. How does studentification unfold in the post-socialist city? ENHR Conference, Lodz, Poland;
• Zasina, J., & Żelazowski, K. (2023.04.28). Living off the Campus: The Kaleidoscope of Student Housing in the Post-Socialist City. UAA Conference, Nashville, TN, USA;
• Zasina, J., & Nowakowska, A. (2022.08.31). Is the student city lost? The rhythms of Lodz as a consumption-oriented student city in the COVID-19 pandemic lens, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, England;
• Zasina, J., & Nowakowska, A. (2021.06.10). The Student City Lost? The Rhythms of Lodz as Consumption-Oriented Student City in the Lens of COVID-19 Pandemic, RSA Global e-Festival “Regions in Recovery” (online);
• Zasina, J. (2019.10.11). Three-Dimensional Approach to Comparative Analysis of University Students Consumption in Cities. Evidence from Lodz and Turin, Central European Conference in Regional Science, Sopron, Hungary;
• Zasina J., & Nowakowska, A. (2018.08.30). University students’ expenditures in transformation of post-industrial cities. Evidence from Lodz and Turin, ERSA Congress, Cork, Ireland;
• Zasina, J., & Santangelo, M. (2018.07.13). Understanding the complexities of studentscapes in the post-industrial cities. Evidence from Lodz and Turin, AESOP Congress, Göteborg, Sweden;
• Zasina, J. (2017.09.21). Spatio-consumer Behaviours of Students and The Development of Post-Industrial Cities. A Research Framework, 6th Central European Conference in Regional Science, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia;
• Zasina, J. (2016.06.17). The Instagram Image of The City, EURA Conference, Turin, Italy.