PhD SUPERVISION (* denotes main supervision)

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

Yoonai Han* (2018 – Present; LSE-funded)

Kyoung-Ae (aka Didi) HAN* (2016 – Present; LSE-funded)
“Precariat movement and space production in East Asia”

Laura ANTONA* (2015 – Present; ESRC-funded)
“Understanding the Everyday Experiences of Migrant Domestic Workers in Singapore”

Carwyn MORRIS* (2015 – Present; ESRC-funded)
“The New Generation of Chinese Migrants: Communication Technologies, Migration and Integration into the Chinese Megacity”

Yi JIN* (2014 – 2018; LSE-funded)
“Entrepreneurial Managerialism: Mobilising Socialist Legacy for EntrepreneurialRedevelopment of Penghuqu in a Chinese Third-Front City”. Submitted and pending oral examination on 10 January 2019

Ulises MORENO-TABAREZ* (2012 – 2018; LSE-funded)
“Spectral Latinidad: Intersectional Encounters between Latin@ Migrants and Small-scale Charity Organisations in London.” Submitted (17 December 2018) and pending oral examination on 25 February 2019

Do Young OH* (2013 – 2017)
“From a Colonial Institution to a Neoliberal Real Estate Developer: Comparative Analysis of Universities in East Asia.” PhD awarded

Mara NOGUEIRA-TEIXEIRA* (2013 – 2017; Brazil Government-funded)
“Who has the Right to Remain in Place? Informality, Citizenship and Belonging in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.” PhD thesis submitted. PhD awarded. Current employment: LSE Fellow, Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science

Yimin ZHAO* (2012 – 2017)
“The Hegemony of Urbanisation: Questioning the Production of Space by the State in Beijing’s Green Belts.” PhD awarded. Current employment: Assistant Professor (tenure-track), School of Public Policy, Renmin University of China

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: Senior Lecturer in Global Studies, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Malaysia

Antonios Vradis (2008 – 2013; ESRC-funded)
“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

David LUKENS (2016 – Present)
Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, “Emerging Forms of Urban Renewal: Limits of State-Led Gentrification in Seoul”

Yueming (aka Amy) ZHANG (2014 – 2016)
Graduate School of Geography, Clark University, “Places of Aesthetics and Capital: the Making and Consuming of Arts Districts in Chinese Cities,” PhD awarded. Current employment: Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham

TAUGHT COURSES

GY438 Cities and Social Change in East Asia, 2009/10 – Present (Convener)

GY480 Remaking China: Geographical Aspects of Development and Disparity, 2012/13 – Present (Convener)

GY452 Urban Research Methods, 2015/16 – Present (Convener)

Seoul Case Study Programme (field trip), MSc Urbanisation and Development

LSE-PKU GY201 The Political Economy of Urbanisation in China and Asia: Globalisation and Uneven Development, LSE-Peking University Summer School, Beijing, 2014-Present (Convener). Click here for the latest course description

IR203 An Urbanising World: The Future of Global Cities, LSE Summer School, London, 2016-Present (Lead Faculty). Click here for the latest course description

MSc DISSERTATION SUPERVISION
(since 2018-19 academic year)

33 dissertations in MSc Urbanisation and 48 dissertations in MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies