Current Research 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 - further details of each student and their research can be found by clicking on the name of the student.

Aritenang, Adiwan
Impacts of Devolution and ASEAN Free Trade Area to Indonesian Regions

Baek, Kyunghyun
Self organisation, and Urban design and planning method

Bento, João
The Role and Effectiveness of National Architecture Policies in the European Union: Lessons for the Emerging Portuguese Policy on Architecture and Landscape

Besussi, Elena
The fiscal regulation of urban space

Buyukcivelek, A Burak
Urban injustices, the state and the (re)production of retail environments: The case of organised food retailers in Ankara

Canelas, Patricia
Property markets in the post-industrial city: Clusters' implementation and management

Cardoso, Rodrigo
New Identities of the Extended City: The Case of European Second Cities

Cary, Sarah
District Energy: The Role of Planning as an Actor in Network Governance.

Cha, Ji Eun
A Flexible Response to Housing Pressures Created by Temporary Immigrants in a 'Global City', London

Chen, Chia-Lin
High-speed Trains and Space Economy: The UK experiences, 1976-2001, and Prospects for High-speed Two- A Manchester- Lille Comparison

Durrant, Daniel
The role of the third sector in mega infrastructure projects

Delrieu, Varina
GIS toolkits for understanding the socio-economic impacts of Mega Urban Transport Projects (MUTPs)

Fitzpatrick, Daniel
Urban commons: Collective ownership of urban assets

Flatten, Stella (born Schmid)
Urban Blind Spots: An image-discursive analysis of post-socialist artefacts in contemporary Berlin

Foroughmand Araabi, Hooman
Formulation Urban Design Theory in Relation to Practice

Garcia, Brian
Intensification of Polycentric Cities; Examining the Catalytic Properties of Urban Rail Projects

Garcia Mejuto, Diego
Towards a 'Europe of Flows'? A case study on the Europeanization of transport infrastructure policy

Gomes, Alexandra P. A.
Invisible city. A multisensory approach to urban planning

Harinasuta, Supapim 
Landscapes of Consumption: The spatial transformation of Bangkok city centre from 1988 to the Present.

Hamiduddin, Iqbal 
Mobility, social interaction and place making: the lessons for future car-free development

Jeong, Paul Ick 
Institutional rearrangements for public acceptability on the risk policy: Participatory contexts of radioactive waste management policy in the UK and Korea

Kim, Mikyung 
City image transformation: The impact of commercial development on city image

Kim, Sang-Hee 
Time dimension and spatial arrangement in public space for sustainability and vitality

Martín I Arias Loyola
Mining, multinational corporations and regional development: enclave formation through the asymmetrical bargaining power

Maguire, Suzanne 
Intra-urban Polycentric Development: Office Space in Outer London

Manlangit, Michael
Landbanking as a coping strategy for large-volume housebuilders in the UK housing market and planning policy context

Martins, Juliana
The Extended Workplace: How Urban Form Supports Creative Production - A study of the digital media industries in London

Mo, Aaron
Artworks and Networks: an ethnographic study of creatives and urban spaces in Manchester and Brno

Moreira de Souza, Tatiana
Publicly-sponsored mixed tenure as a means of achieving social mix: a case study of housing regeneration in the UK, Netherlands and France

Morais, Paula
Urban Interfaces: the case of Macao

Maguire, Suzanne
Polycentric Development: Office Space and Employment in Outer London.

Miao, Tian (Julie)
The genesis of a high-tech cluster in a less-favoured region in China: Case study of the Optics Valley of China, Wuhan

Nakamura, Kazuki
The Effect of Area-wide Pedestrianisation between Town Centre Attractions

Natarajan, Lucy
Learning about Communities in a Participatory Spatial Planning Context: A Study of Community Engagement & Planning Knowledge in England

Nunes, Richard
Conceptualizing 'change' in the Portuguese footwear industry: regional voices and cognitive spaces of agency

Pumhiran, Nolapot
To what extent does place-marketing have an impact on consumers' perceptions?:Case studies on the experience of place consumers in creative industries quarters in the UK

Rivera, Helena
Re-Inventing the British New Town of the 21st Century

Sieh, Louie
Questions of Value in the Urban Public Realm

Simoes Aelbrecht, Patricia
Framing Social Encounters Among Strangers through Urban Design

Soltani, Kiavash
Piecemeal versus Comprehensive Redevelopment in Deteriorated Neighbourhoods of Tehran.

Stoica, Melania
Forms of interaction between financial and real estate markets: a global perspective.

Suwannasang,Veeramon
The effects of gated communities on sense of community and fear of crime

Tarazona Vento, Amparo
Global Architecture and the Politics of Competitiveness

Yamamoto, Arata
Political Ecology, Sustainable Development and the Greater London Authority:
A Democratic Challenge for London

Zammit, Antoine
Addressing urban design quality in the Maltese built environment through its correlation with the planning system

Past Research Students

Details of some of our successful research students can be found here.