MPhil/PhD students
The Bartlett School of Planning encourages a lively research culture. Details of our current research students and their topic of research are listed below.
Current Research Students
A I B I C I D I E I F I G I H I I I J I K I L I M I N I O I P I Q I R I S I T I U I V I W I X I Y I Z
Landlord, Tenant, Subtenant, Visa: Investigating the Role of Rental Housing Platforms in Facilitating More Insecure Forms of Tenancy for Working-Age Migrants in Berlin, Germany.
Aditya, Rendy Bayu
Investigating the impact of crisis on the circular transition: The Case of Jakarta (Indonesia) and Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
Alberti, Juan
Mega-transport projects and the “rules of the game”: The role of contractual risk management in the planning and appraisal process in Latin America.
Arifin, Zaenal
FDI Spillovers and Industrial Upgrading of Local Firms in the Automotive Global Value Chains.
Urban sprawl and the city construction process: uncovering potential changes in the morphological patterns of informal and mass produced housing developments and their role on the city’s fragmentation and dysfunctions.
Carr, Oliver
Planning Lore: A Historical Institutionalist Analysis of the Impacts of Case Law on Planning Practice in London Between 1909 and 1986
Clement, Paul
The evolution of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in the context of English urban governance.
Cochrane, Douglas
Chengdu’s urban development model and changing governance in the ‘Park City’ era: a view of state entrepreneurialism
Deng, Yaxi
Investigating Central government’s technology policy on urban testbed development-A two case study of internet connected vehicle testbeds in Shanghai and Chongqing
Diaz Martinez, Cristobal
New voucher programs for low-income families in Santiago and Valparaiso: residential mobility or struggle against segregation?
Regulation and the Built Form: A Study of the Building Law in Lebanon and the Landscape of High-rises in Contemporary Beirut
Urban Borders and Inclusive Public Spaces: A Participatory Design Approach for Post-conflict Aleppo
Goldzweig, Sarah
Guo, Jiayin
Investigating the Influence of Urban Form Elements on Sense of Belonging
London’s Historical Street Markets as Everyday Heritage: Local Community, Temporality, and Adaptability
Hsu, Lin-Fang
A Flourishing Smart City for Entrepreneurs? Evolution of Urban Technological Innovation Pattern in the Digital Age
Hughes, Ben
The role of settlement organisations as community builders in contemporary cities; a comparative study of Bristol and Birmingham.
Shaping imaginary geographies into inclusive cities.
Hybrid Third Places as Catalysts for Innovative Placemaking: An Urban Design & Planning Exploration of the Connection Between Physical & Digital “Third Places”, Emerging Technologies, and Their Role in Social Interactions and Placemaking in Saudi Neighbourhoods
Kastrouni, Maria Ilia
Situated Citizenship and Urban Development: Engaging with Diversity in Post-crisis Athens, Greece
The Transformation of Urban Environmental Governance in China: a Case Study of Chongming Eco-island, Shanghai
Li, Bushi
Effects of Textual Sentiment on the United Kingdom Housing Market
Li, Pengpeng
Effectiveness of China’s Talent Housing Policies on Talent Agglomeration
Li, Zhaoxi
Less is More or A Bore? The Application of Minimalist Philosophy in Public Space Design
Lin, Jing-Hong
Liu, Yining
China’s Neighbourhood-Scale Environmental Initiatives under Ecological Civilization: A Governmentality Perspective
Liu, Ziyi
Lo, Chien-Ling
Manchester Regime after Recession: City Leadership, Entrepreneurial Regeneration and Market Sustainability
Interpreting the governance of urban circularity in shrinking cities and regions. The cases of Parkstad Limburg (NL) and Satakunta (FI)
Miccoli, Fabio
Milentijevic, Aleksandra
Democratisation of the Serbian urban planning system
Monreal Lugo, Lourdes
Omar, Siti Syamimi
Finding Happiness: A Human-Centred Urban Design Approach to the Experience of Urban Happiness, A Malaysian Case.
Palacios Altamirano, Luis Felipe
Planning a financial scheme to develop sustainable and culturally inclusive transport infrastructure in southern Mexico, implementing it in underdeveloped special economic zones, and measuring their regional impact.
Price, Helen
The Estate Agency Business Model and the Role of PropTech
The multiple dimensions of urban foodscapes: an analysis of food markets and urban food planning in London
Seo, Joo Eun
Shi, Bodi
Environmental Considerations in Energy Resource Governance: A Case Study of Coal Mining Development in the Ordos League, Inner Mongolia, China
Smith, Craig
The Use of Augmented Reality in Mobile Navigation for the Visually Impaired
Sobreiro, Fernanda
Women’s resistance: community-based planning and female leadership in favela territories in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Urban redevelopment in China - a case study of Guangzhou
Wang, Yuanzhao
Perceptions of Momentary SWB and Cognitive SWB in and through the Built Environment: An approach to quantify massive qualitative urban experience by social media data related to the built environment in China
Ward, Diarmaid
Housing A Divided Community: Northern Ireland’s Shared Social Housing Programme
Xiao, Mengci
Reframing Urban Conservation Discourse Via a Lens of Public Participation: The Cases of China’s Historic Urban Landscapes
Xu, Tiantian
Exploring the role of temporary urbanism in urban regeneration within the context of China’s urban transformation: improving efficiency and quality of urban space
Zhao, Yang
Transformation of Legitimacy in Chinese Urban Development: Discourse Change and the Role of the Party-state System in Shanghai Residential Community Redevelopment
Zumbach, Luka
Past Research Students
Details of some of our successful research students can be found here.