I haven’t had a moment to put together PhD success of my former doctoral students. Here is a summary of those celebratory memories in recent years, together with my wholehearted congratulations to all of them and best wishes to their career.
The oral examinations in 2020 under COVID-19 constraints were particularly challenging, as they had to take place on Zoom, and the in-person summer graduation cancelled, but those who endured the pandemic constraints deserve an extra pat on their back.
Dr Carwyn Morris (2020), “Life under chai: Spatial governmentality and practices of resistance in the digital and physical spaces of Beijing, China” (PhD thesis passed with no correction)
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Dr Laura Antona (2020), “Anatomies and apparatuses of violence: the everyday encounters of migrant domestic workers in Singapore” (PhD thesis passed with no correction)
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Dr Ulises Moreno-Tabarez (2019) “Spectral Latinidad: the work of Latinx migrants and small charities in London” (PhD thesis passed with minor correction)
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Dr Yi Jin (2019) “Entrepreneurial managerialism: mobilisation of redistributive mechanisms for entrepreneurial redevelopment of Penghuqu in a Chinese third-front city” (PhD thesis passed with no correction)
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Dr Do Young Oh (2018) “From a colonial institution to a neoliberal real estate developer: comparative analysis of universities in the urban process in East Asia” (PhD thesis passed with no correction)
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Dr Mara Nogueira (2018) “Who has the right to remain in place? Informality, citizenship and belonging in Belo Horizonte, Brazil” (PhD thesis passed with no correction)
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Dr Yimin Zhao (2017) “The hegemony of urbanisation: questioning the production of space by the state in Beijing’s green belts” (PhD thesis passed with no correction)
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