| Name | Department | Research area |
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Albert
Salamanca
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Stockholm Environment
Institute (Asia)
|
- Climate change adaptation, livelihoods, agrarian change, risk and vulnerability
- Leading the action research component of the Mekong Partnership for the Environment (MPE) while editing the Small Islands and Climate Change initiative in weADAPT
|
| Chenxue You |
PhD student, National University of Singapore |
- Relations between the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Burma in the early Cold War era
- Burmese-PRC border negotiations, and why Peking and Rangoon came to the border deal as they did, through archives from Myanmar, Mainland China, Taiwan, and the USA
|
| Chieh Huang |
|
- China,WTO, international economic law, trade disputes, Taiwan, economic agreements
|
Chris
Hamnett |
Department of Geography
in King’s College London |
- A leading British expert on housing wealth and inheritance and a leading researcher in the fields of social polarization, gentrification and housing
- Currently interested in the urbanization of China and the economic and social issues involved. He is a frequent visitor to China
|
| Crison Chien |
Associate Professor of Human Geography, National
Taiwan University |
- Development geography, the geography of globalization, transnational studies, the political economy of urban and regional development, political ecology of cross-border environmental process and governance, smart- and eco- cities, with empirical focuses on the Global South in general and post-socialist China in particular
|
| Cristina Greco |
Vice-Dean, Assistant Professor, Jeddah College of Advertising, University of Business and Technology, Jeddah (KSA)
|
- Communication theories
- Semiotics
- Visual culture
- Comics studies
- Interactivity and digital culture
- Collective memory and trauma theories
|
Federico
Caprotti |
Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of Exeter |
- Critical approaches to sustainable urbanism
- Eco-city projects and smart city projects in China and, more recently, also in South Africa and the EU
- Currently leads an international research consortium focusing on smart eco-city projects in China and the EU
|
|
Felix
Olorunfemi
|
Associate Professor in the Social and Governance Policy Research Department, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research, Ibadan, Nigeria |
- Climate change adaptation
- Disaster risk management
- Natural resource management
- Green Economy
- Energy
|
| Frans Sengers |
Postdoctoral researcher at the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development, Utrecht University |
- Sustainable development, socio-technical transitions, urban transport, smart urbanism, eco-cities, Thailand, China
- Transformative change in urban contexts, with an emphasis on ‘eco-city’ and ‘smart city’ developments within Europe and China
|
| Gary Chen |
Assisstant General Manager, HDs Schools |
- Healthcare
- Public-Private Partnership
- Creative industries
- Marine energy
- Outbound investment
- Zhejiang Province
- China
|
Gernot
Klantsching |
Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Crime and Director of the MA in Global Crime and Justice, University of York
|
|
| Ian Baird |
Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison |
- Political ecology perspective, development issues in Laos, Cambodia and Thailand
- Identity issues, especially amongst upland ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples in Southeast Asia, “marginal histories”
- China’s southern borders with Myanmar and Laos
|
| James Griffiths |
National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA), New Zealand |
- Flood risk modelling of the coastal cities of Eastern China
- Sustainable urban water management
- Water resource issues in the Asia-Pacific region
|
| Leo Lester |
Research Fellow at the King Abdullah Petroleum Studies and Research Centre (KAPSARC) |
- Established the Centre’s presence in China, building strong relations with both government and independent research centres, while leading their North East Asian research
- Political energy economy of China, and energy relations between the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council and North East Asian economies
|
| Leonardo Romei |
Vice-Dean, Assistant Professor, Jeddah College of Advertising, University of Business and Technology, Jeddah (KSA)
|
- Visual Communication
- Communication and Society
|
| Lila Buckley |
Senior researcher in International Institute for
Environment and Development |
- Chinese civil society, agriculture and environmental policy
- China-Africa agriculture technology transfer, aid, trade and investments, with a particular focus on Uganda and Malawi
- Disruptive change, funding, partnership and organisational management approaches from the perspective of NGO leaders in the Global South
|
| Ming-Yeh Rawnsley |
Research Associate, Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS, University of London
Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Taiwan Studies
|
- East Asian Cinema, especially Taiwan cinema and Chinese-language cinemas
- Cultural diplomacy and film festivals in Asia
- Trans-disciplinary science communications
- International coproduction of documentaries in China
|
| Paul Belesky |
Affiliated Postdoctoral Researcher, the Global Change Institute, University of Queensland
|
- International Political Economy of East Asia
- Non-traditional security studies in the Asia–Pacific; the water, energy and food security nexus; food security; food policy; sustainable agriculture, rural livelihoods and agrarian change
- International trade and development; Chinese state capitalism; Chinese agricultural policy; China’s ‘green’ finance system
|
| Philipp Spaeth |
Senior researcher and lecturer at the institute of environmental social sciences and geography at the Albert-Ludwigs-University in Freiburg |
- Principal investigator of the German contribution to an international research consortium with partners in China, the Netherlands, France and Great Britain, researching urban governance in Smart Eco-Cities
- Governance of socio-technical change (in energy and mobility), and often focusing on urban planning and interactions across governance levels
|
| Qian Zhang |
PhD student in
History and classical studies, McGill University |
- South Asia, China, Diplomacy, International History, Modernity
- China’s external behaviours in terrirorial disputes
- Sino-Indian relations in the early Cold War period
|
| Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente |
University lecturer at Leiden University |
- ‘South-South’ development cooperation
- China's global role and its relations with Latin America and the Caribbean
- The role of natural resources in processes of development
- The transformation of politics under late capitalism
|
| Xiaoming Shi (Edward) |
Ningbo Xiaoshi Middle School
|
- Science education
- History and philosophy of science in high school
- Nature of science
|
| Xiaoyu Zhao |
Assistant researcher of Institute of International Studies, the Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences
|
- Chinese Territorial Disputes
- International Relations theory
- Foreign Policy Analysis
|
| Yu Li |
Director of China-UK Research Centre for Eco-cities and Sustainable Development, Director of MSc Eco-cities; Director of Board for Chinese Society for Urban Studies; Cardiff University
|
- Planning system; regional planning and governance, development strategy, eco-city
planning and development
|
|
Yuzhou Sun
|
DPhil student in History, University of Oxford |
- Contacts between Chinese and Africans from the fifteenth century onwards, the People’s Republic of China’s engagements with Kenya and Zambia from political, ideological and social perspectives
- Zambia, Kenya, South Africa, and China
|
|
Zhan Huang
|
PhD student in the Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University |
- Leisure, Hospitality and Tourism
- Food and Eating; Material and Visual Culture
- Consciousness and Authenticity
- Identity and Identification; Commodification and Consumption
- Power and Ideology
- Fieldwork Methodologies
- Comparative Ethnographic Studies
- China and East Asia
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