Caitlin Morrissey

I am in the very final stages of my Joint PhD between the University of Manchester and the University of Melbourne, where I have been working on a project called Making up the global city: The financing and governing of urban infrastructural futures.

In this research, I explore how infrastructure is used to ‘make up’ the global city in Manchester and Melbourne. Here, ‘making up’ the global city refers to the global city aspirations that are ‘made up’ or imagined by different actors and the processes through which these aspirations come to be physically materialised through infrastructure.

I am supervised by Prof. Kevin Ward and Dr. Aurora Fredriksen at the University of Manchester, and Prof. Michele Acuto and A/Prof. Crystal Legacy at the University of Melbourne. 

I am the co-host of The DNA of Cities podcast and the Urban Studies podcast. I am a member of the Cities, Politics and Economies Research Group.

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