PhD student profiles

Find out more about our current and former PhD students.

PhD student Carlo Chan against a colourful background

Growing up in a bustling city like Hong Kong, I have a keen interest in how city inhabitants interact with the urban space they live in

Carlo Chan A Comparative Study on the Age-friendly policy in Manchester and Hong Kong

My PhD study is a qualitative study on how age-friendliness is translated and manifested in different political, social, economic and cultural contexts, with a neo-institutionalist lens.

PhD student Divine sits in his PhD office

My research specifically focuses on lands acquisition processes, land conflict, and housing production in peri-urban Accra, Ghana

Divine Asafo Peri-urban development

Divine is a PhD student from Ghana who is researching about land acquisition, land conflicts and its effect on housing production in peri-urban Accra.

PhD student Sarah Linn smiles at camera while holding child

My research is a comparative project which examines the relationship between space, gender, refugee status and security

Sarah Linn Intersectional identities of urban refugee women

Focused on Syrian refugee women living in the cities of Amman and Beirut, Sarah's research examines the role of identity and refugee status,