On Thursday 1 November Prof Hyun Bang Shin is giving a lecture on ‘China’s Urbanisation and Gentrification as State Project’ at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo. Hyun’s lecture discusses […]
In June, members of the Urbanisation, Planning and Development cluster gathered for an away day at the October Gallery in London. Faculty and research students who were able to attend joined in a retreat day […]
Professor Hyun Bang Shin has commenced his directorship for LSE Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (LSE SEAC) on 01 August 2018. SEAC is a multidisciplinary centre of the School, which seeks to foster world-leading […]
The UPD Research Cluster of the LSE Department of Geography and the Environment is proud to announce the following faculty promotions with effect from 1st August 2018: Claire Mercer, full Professor; Hyun Bang Shin, full […]
UPD Research Student Jordana Ramalho and Professor Sylvia Chant presented at two sessions in the Development Studies Association Conference on Global Inequalities in Manchester 27-29 June 2018. In a panel convened by Dr Andrea Rigon […]
Dr Hyun Bang Shin has been active during the first half of 2018, having published several papers and interviewed by the media. This post collates the recent publications and activities as summarised below: Publications Guest editorial […]
Professor Sylvia Chant has been selected as one of LSE’s Leading Women. The #LSEwomen campaign aims to celebrate LSE’s inspiring leading women from 1895 to today. Having now spent thirty years at LSE, Professor Chant […]
This year the MSc Urbanisation and Development programme introduced for the first time a field trip to London’s East End. On 7 June 2018, a group of students visited Stratford, home to the Queen Elizabeth […]