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Thomas Gillespie

Thomas Gillespie

Dr

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6457-3754

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Overview

I am Senior Lecturer in Global Urban Development at the University of Manchester. My interests encompass urban geography, political economy and global development. My research to date has examined the relationship between economic development, urban transformations and socio-spatial inequalities. This work has largely focused on three areas:

  1. How processes of commodification and dispossession reproduce urban inequalities, and how city dwellers respond to, participate in and contest these processes
  2. Urban land transformations, real estate investment and capitalist expansion as a frontier process
  3. State-led affordable housing production and the changing relationship between housing, finance and the state in global urban development

This research has been funded by the British Academy with Leverhulme, the Feminist Review Trust and the ESRC with the Universities of Leeds and Manchester, and has been published in journals such as Antipode, Environment and Planning A, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 

I am a member of the Editorial Board of the journal Urban Geography.

Prior to my current role, I was a Hallsworth Research Fellow and Lecturer in International Development at the University of Manchester, and a Teaching Associate in International Development at the University of Sheffield.

Opportunities

I am open to supervising PhD projects in any area related to my research interests.

Research Beacons, Institutes and Platforms

  • Global Development Institute
  • Manchester Urban Institute

Accepting PhD students

  • Accepting PhD students

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  1. SDG 1 - No Poverty
    SDG 1 No Poverty
  2. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
  3. SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
    SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
  4. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
    SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  5. SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
    SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
  6. SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
    SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
  7. SDG 17 - Partnerships for the Goals
    SDG 17 Partnerships for the Goals

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