Personal profile
Opportunities
Postgraduate Opportunities
I am happy to supervise PhD students who are interested in research in the following areas:
- Geographical Political Economy of East Asia
- Urban transformation in developmentalist contexts
- The politics of development expertise
- Labour geographies
- Democratization and the politics of space
- Mutations of territory and sovereignty (e.g. zones, enclaves, borders and other spatial experiments)
Please feel free to contact me if you would like to discuss ideas for research.
Biography
University of Manchester, October 2012 - Present.
- Leverhulme Research Fellowship 2018-2019
- Korea Foundation Fellowship 2016
- Member: Center for Asian Urban Societies, Seoul National University 2018-present
In addition to my teaching and research at Manchester, I currently serve as Deputy Chair, University Research Ethics Commitee 3 and Co-Director of the Cities, Politics, Economies Research Group. I recently finished a 3 year term as School AD (Research Ethics)/Co-Chair of the School Ethics Committee.
Visiting Scholar, Seoul National University Asia Center, 2016
University of British Columbia. Researcher/Lecturer Department of Geography 2011-2012
Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Economics, 2010-2011
University of British Columbia, Human Geography PhD 2010
Sungkonghoe University, Seoul. Visiting Researcher, Democracy and Social Movements Institute, 2006-2007