Our people
Find out more about the people who make up the Spatial Policy and Analysis Laboratory.
Staff
Select one of our members to view more information about them, including contact details:
SPA Lab Directors
- Professor Cecilia Wong, Executive Director
- Professor Richard Kingston, Deputy Director
- Professor Brian Robson, Founding Director
Academic Staff Members
- Dr Felix Agyemang
- Professor Mark Baker
- Dr Andreas Schulze Baing
- Dr Iain Deas
- Dr Caglar Koksal
- Dr Nuno Pinto
- Dr Yueming Zhang
- Dr Helen Zheng
Associate members
- Dave Carter, Honorary Research Fellow
- Professor Vincent Goodstadt, Honorary Professorial Knowledge Exchange Fellow
- Professor Graham Haughton, Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning
- Dr Richard Kirkham, Affiliate Member and Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering
- David Rudlin, Honorary Professorial Knowledge Exchange Fellow
PhD Students and Topics
Current PhD Students
- Abdulrahman Abubaker Al Mottahar: Autonomous Vehicles: Assessment of its Supporting Ecosystem and The Process of Developing a Regulatory Framework
- Ana Kashfi Muhamad: The Interplay of Architecture in the Complex Urban Fabric of Town Centres
- Augustine Asuah: Understanding the Relationship between Spatial Structure and Inequality of Access in Sub-Saharan African Cities: A Case Study of Accra and Greater Kumasi City-Regions in Ghana
- Christopher Marsland: Mobility-as-a-Service (MaaS)— Analysing activity-travel behaviour and its application to on-demand multi-modal mobility solutions in cities
- Dong Xinyue: Addressing the ageing issue in China with the strategic planning of urban community
- Fatimah Alturfi: Towards Smart and Sustainable Urban Futures: Developing a Framework to Assess the Urban Sustainability Impacts of Autonomous Vehicles and Associated Mobility Services
- Patrick Moat: How can the planning and implementation processes in the redevelopment of mid-20th century social housing projects be made more egalitarian, sustainable, and affordable in modern entrepreneurial UK cities?
- Ren Yitian: E-commerce, rural entrepreneurship and in situ urbanization in rural China
- Ruotong Tang: Sustainable Development in Ethnic Villages of Southwest China: A bottom-up perspective
- Thomas Harris: Constructing a Model for Smart City Strategy Building in Latin American Cities
- Xinye Xiao: A Research on Green Gentrification in China Caused by Urban Regeneration
- Yueh-Sung Weng: Incremental housing upgrading strategy as an alternative – A community-led regeneration approach in Taiwanese cities
- Yuyuan Chen: Transition to Mobility-as-a-Service: an international comparative study of integration mechanisms and implementation strategies
Recently Completed PhDs
- Aya Badawi: Simulating the Behaviours of Urban Negotiators Using Agent-based Modelling
- Eman Abouziyan: Mapping the spatial and socio-technical dynamics of urban metabolism for sustainable urban development in Egypt