Zhe Zhang is a postdoctoral fellow at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University. He is a political geographer with research interests in geo-setting—a situational approach to understanding geopolitical processes and practices—, China’s border geopolitical economy, and geographical thought. A key aspect of his current work is fostering dialogue between Chinese and Western […]
Dr. Folasade Odekunle is a Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at Bells University of Technology in Ota, Nigeria, where she oversees the Centre for Climate Change. She earned her PhD from the University of Ibadan and is a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association (UK) as well as a member of the International […]
Shaista Falak is a Lecturer at the University of Technology Sarawak, Sibu, Malaysia. She holds a PhD in Rural Tourism and teaches marketing-related subjects, in addition to supervising undergraduate final year projects. Her research interests include rural tourism development and the promotion of STEM education among girls. She has been involved in an international collaborative research […]
Noela Mahmutaj (PhD) is an early-career researcher and lecturer at the Institute of European Studies at the University of Tirana, Albania. Her main research interests and publications focus on IR topics, especially those related to contemporary geopolitics and external influences in the Western Balkans and Black Sea regions. She has published several research papers and […]
I am Dr Oladyo Ramon Ibrahim, a researcher with a strong interest in rural development, urban informality, and social sustainability. My work focuses on understanding how marginalised groups, particularly the elderly and low-income populations, experience and navigate challenges in rural and urban communities. I am committed to producing research that informs inclusive policies and strategic […]
Diana A. Prelorenzo is a postdoctoral researcher in regional studies. She is currently based at the Public Health Intelligence Unit of the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico. Her research focuses on regional development examining spatial disparities through the health dimensions. She specifically investigates the relationship between social determinants and health outcomes to strengthen place-based public […]
Dr Xiaofeng Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Urban Governance and Design Thrust, Society Hub at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (Guangzhou). She obtained her PhD in Geography from the University of Hong Kong. Her research area include political geography, the Belt and Road Initiative, transboundary and local environmental politics and governance. Her […]
Takudzwa Mutize is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of the Free State, South Africa, and a Fellow in the Africa Fellows in Education Program (AFEP) for 2025 – 2027. His research focuses on education and labour economics, regional development, and urban competitiveness. Recent publications include “Attracting […]
Yatu Mou is a PhD candidate in Human Geography at East China Normal University, Shanghai, specializing in Globalization and Geopolitics. She also completed a visiting research term at the Department of Sociology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. With an interdisciplinary background, her research interests lie at the intersection of infrastructure geopolitics, assemblage theory, and the production […]
Carlos Cadena is an Associate Professor at EAFIT University (Medellin, Colombia) whose work sits at the intersection of climate governance, public policy, and community-based adaptation. With a focus on how communities organize, learn, and co-produce solutions in contexts of risk and inequality, his research advances evidence-informed approaches to urban resilience. Supported by a Regional Studies […]
Régis Dandoy is Professor of Comparative Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at the Universidad San Francisco de Quito (Ecuador). He is also an Associate Researcher at Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium), Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan) and the United Nations University (UNU-CRIS). His main research interests and publications focus on federalism, party […]
Andy Pike is the Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. His research interests, publications and research projects are focused on the geographical political economy of local, regional and urban development and policy. He has undertaken research projects for the OECD, UN-ILO, […]
Xuanyi Nie is an Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. He was previously a postdoctoral researcher at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research examines how healthcare […]
Diya Mehra is a Senior Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at South Asian University, New Delhi. Trained as a cultural anthropologist, her research focuses on the historical and contemporary urbanization of metropolitan cities in India, metropolitan urban governance, the contemporary urbanisation of small Indian towns and their rural hinterlands, particularly in mountain environments, and […]
Research project: Stuck in Place: Unpacking Residential Immobility in the UK Dr. Conor O’Driscoll is an Assistant Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Groningen’s Faculty of Spatial Science. Conor holds a PhD in Economics from University College Cork, Ireland, where he studied the determinants of travel behaviour, with particular attention to the relationship between […]
Powering Development? Solar Energy, Poverty Alleviation and Just Transition in Rural China Yunpeng Zhang is an Assistant Professor in Urban and Regional Planning at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin. His research interests lie at the intersection of social geography, political economy and development studies, with a focus on urbanisation, […]
Small Grant Scheme on Pandemics, Cities, Regions & Industry: Imaging Housing Hierarchy: Mapping Landlords’ Responses to COVID for German versus Migrant Renters in Berlin — Case of Spandau versus Wedding This project examined how landlords in two contrasting Berlin districts—Spandau and Wedding—responded to tenants during the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on differences between German and […]
Lonely Teleworkers Remote work has become easier in the past years. For some employees, working fewer days at the office means fewer days of travelling, and they choose a longer travelling distance and settle in cheaper, greener, more spacious peripheral locations. However, there is a drawback to that spatial reorganization. Living away from the bustle […]
Preparing the welcome mat: Regional climate migrant projections and regional policy Supported by the FeRSA Grant, this project takes the case of a particular region in Western New York State, USA, proclaimed by local politicians to be a “climate refuge,” to form a focused review of the existing claims and potential around this idea. Among the […]
Name of event: 7th Global Conference on Economic Geography The Global Conference on Economic Geography (GCEG) is one of the largest international conferences in the field, providing an excellent forum for knowledge exchange and discussion of today’s great challenges. This year, it took place from June 4 to 8, 2025, in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. Organized […]
“Tigress” or “Cat”? Women Entrepreneurs in Emerging Entrepreneurial Ecosystems This research project responds to recent calls for greater attention to differences in entrepreneurial networking behaviour and processes among women. Existing literature has not fully unveiled the dynamic and evolving nature of their strategic network formation within the compressed timeframe of entrepreneurial support organisation (ESO) programs. […]
Policy Solutions to Emerging Renewable Energy Development Conflicts The goal of the project is to examine the conflicts associated with solar, onshore wind, and offshore wind development and to identify legal, regulatory, legislative, and related approaches to resolving them in three countries—the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden. Finding solutions to conflicts is essential to […]
Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study Women’s Entrepreneurship and Rural Regional Revitalisation – Comparative Study addresses the persistent policy challenge of how to stimulate economic revitalisation in ‘left behind’ rural regions. This comparative, exploratory ethnographic study examines the extent to which locally led entrepreneurial ventures by less-visible social actors (rural women) are contributing […]
Mapping Remittance Resilience: A Regional Analysis of US-Mexico Flows During and After the COVID-19 Crisis This research proposes analyzing US-Mexico remittance flows by creating an Origin-Destination Remittance Flows Matrix, mapping remittance volumes from US states to Mexican states. A dependence analysis will determine Mexican states’ reliance on specific US states. The study will model the […]