PhD Students

For areas of possible PhD supervision, please visit my research page.

Main Supervision

• Yimin Zhao | 2012-2017 | “The Hegemony of Urbanisation: Questioning the Production of Space by the State in Beijing’s Green Belts” (part funded by LSE studentship). PhD awarded
• Mara Cristina Nogueira Teixeira | 2013-2017 | “Who has the Right to Remain in Place? Informality, Citizenship and Belonging in Belo Horizonte, Brazil” (funded by the Brazil Government). PhD awarded
• Do Young Oh | 2013-Present | “From a Colonial Institution to a Neoliberal Real Estate Developer: Comparative Analysis of Universities in East Asia.” PhD awarded
• Ulises Moreno-Tabarez | 2012-Present | “Spectral Latinidad: Intersectional Encounters between Latin@ Migrants and Small-scale Charity Organisations in London.” (funded by LSE studentship)
• Yi Jin | 2014-Present | “Property Rights Activism in China’s Third Front Cities.” (funded by LSE studentship)
• Laura Antona | 2015-Present | “Divisions and Resistance: Migrant Domestic Workers and the Right to the City.” (funded by ESRC scholarship)
• Kyung-Ae (aka Didi) Han | 2016-Present | “Urban Communing Movements in East Asia.” (funded by LSE studentship)

Review Supervision

• Carwyn Morris | 2015-Present | “The New Generation of Chinese Migrants: Communication Technologies, Migration and Integration into the Chinese Megacity” (funded by ESRC)
• Tucker Landesman | 2011-2017 | “Remaking Rio de Janeiro through ‘favela integration’: the politics of mobility and state space.” PhD awarded
• Sin Yee Koh | 2010-2014 | “British colonial legacies, citizenship habitus, and a culture of migration: mobile Malaysians in London, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur.” PhD awarded. Current employment: Assistant Professor of Geography in the Institute of Asian Studies (IAS) at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD)
• Antonios Vradis | 2010-2013 | “Patterns of contentious politics concentration as a ‘spatial contract’: A spatio-temporal study of urban riots ad violent protest in the neighbourhood of Exarcheia, Athens, Greece (1974-2011).” PhD awarded. Current employment: Vice Chancellor’s Research Fellow, Department of Geography, Loughborough University

PhD External Committee

• Yueming (Amy) Zhang | Clark University (external member of PhD committee) | “Capitalizing on art, aestheticizing capital: The making and consuming of arts districts in Chinese cities.” PhD awarded
• David Lukens | Clark University (external member of PhD committee | “Emerging Forms of Urban Renewal: Limits of State-Led Gentrification in Seoul.”

Postgraduate Courses

• GY438 Cities and Social Change in East Asia (Course convenor) (FACEBOOK) | 2009-Present
• GY480 Remaking China: Geographical Aspects of Development and Disparity (Course convenor) (FACEBOOK) | 2012-Present
• GY452 Urban Research Methods (course convenor) | 2015-Present
• GY445 Urban Policy and Practice in the South | 2008-2015

Thesis supervision of students in MSc Urbanisation and Development and MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies. Supervised 74 MSc dissertations between 2008/09 and 2016/17

Undergraduate Courses

• GY302 Urban Development: Politics, Policy and Planning (Course convenor) | 2008-Present

Summer School Courses

LSE-Peking University Summer School, Beijing, 2014-Present

• LSE-PKU GY201 The Political Economy of Urbanisation in China and Asia: Globalisation and Uneven Development. Click here for the latest course description

LSE Summer School, London, 2016-Present

• IR203 An Urbanising World: The Future of Global Cities. Click here for the latest course description

Helsinki University Summer School (The Welfare City), 2013