Graduate Students and Dissertation supervision
Successful research students and current positions
| PhD awarded in Year |
Name |
Title of Dissertation |
Current Position |
| 2002 | HU Yan | Regional Development and Governance in an era of Globalization: A Study of the Pearl River Delta Region, China | Programme Director, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China |
| 2003 | SONG Ping | Urban Land Allocation as a Mechanism in the Development of Ecocities—A Case Study of Nanjing | Founder & Managing Partner, Hong Kong Patent & Trademark Agent Ltd. |
| 2004 | HONG Wen | Planning for High-Tech Industrial Development in Transitional China : The Case of Shanghai | Head of Research, New World Development Co. Ltd. Hong Kong / Member, Legislative Council, Hong Kong SAR (2021- ) |
| YAO Xin | Governance Mechanisms of Urban Fringe Land Use in China : A Case Study of Nanjing | Associate Professor, Nanjing University, Nanjing, China | |
| 2007 | SHAMSAD Bushra | Accommodating Street Enterprises in the Urban Built Environment of Bangladesh : The Case of Khulna City | Research Analyst, Land & Housing Development, Government of Western Australia |
| 2008 | WU Yu | Development Zones : The Making of New Industrial Spaces in Transitional China — a case Suzhou | Research Associate, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Shanghai, China; Associate Professor, Shanghai University, China |
| 2011 | CHEN Yu (Co-supervisor with Anthony Gar-On Yeh) |
Inter-provincial Regional Cooperation in China: A Case Study of Pan-Pearl River Delta Cooperation | Associate Professor, Department of Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, China |
| XIE Yongqing | Urban Compaction and Its Impacts on Urban Development in China: A Case Study of Beijing | Associate Professor, Department of Urban and Rural Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Tianjian university | |
| 2012 | YANG Haihuan | Creative Industries, Creative Industrial Clusters and Urban Regeneration: A Case Study in Shanghai, China | Manager of Wealth Management and Protection, American International Assurance Company (Bermuda) Limited (Hong Kong) |
| 2012 | HUANG Dingxi | Land Banking Mechanism and Its Effects on Urban Development: A Case Study of Guangzhou, China | Principal Research Fellow, Center for Policy Research, Guangdong Department of Housing & Urban Rural Development, China |
| 2012 | TANG Yuanzong | Urban and Regional Planning for Technopoles: A Case Study of Shenzhen in Greater Pearl River Delta, China | Urban Planner & Programme Director, Hong Kong – Macau Research Center, China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (Shenzhen), China |
| 2012 | XIAN Shi | Urban Competitiveness and Regional City-to-city Cooperation in the Yangtze River Delta Region: a Case Study of Joint Development Zones | Lecturer, School of Geographical Sciences, Guangzhou University, China |
| 2014 | BHATTA, Kishan Datta (University Postgraduate Fellowship) |
Ecotourism planning and sustainable community development in Nepal |
Dean of Faculty of Engineering, Far Western University, Nepal
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| 2014 | CHAN Chun-kwok | (Re)production of Shanghai’s “Lilong” space : from historical and social conception to cultural and cognitive perception | Field coordinator of International Agency based in Yangon, Myanmar |
| 2015 | CHEN Hui Wei (University Postgraduate Fellowship) | Subsidized Housing, Life Chances and Poverty Alleviation – Evidence From Guangzhou, China | Lecturer, Urban Studies Programme, Faculty of Social Science, the Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| 2015 | SUN Yi | Making a City Region a New State Space under China’s Emerging Regionalism: Evidence from Regional Strategic Development Plans in the Pearl River Delta | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University |
| 2015 | LI Lingyue (University Postgraduate Fellowship) | Urban Restructuring and New Area Strategy in Transitional China: The Case of Chongqing | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Urban Planning, College of Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai, China |
| 2016 | XU Siyang | Mixed-use Neighborhood and the Sustainability of Built Environment: A Case Study of Tianjin | Project Director, Country Garden Holdings Property Management, Guangdong, China |
| 2016 | XU Xiaoxia (Hong Kong PhD Fellowship) |
Formation and Restructuring of State Space in China: A Case Study of Tianjin Binhai New Area | Urban Planner, Research Centre for Master Planning, Tsinghua Tongheng Urban Planning and Design Institute, Beijing, China |
| 2017 | WEI Xueji | Rural community transformation and peri-urbanization in China | Principal Staff Officer, Guangzhou Municipal Housing and Urban-Rural Development Bureau, Guangdong, China |
| 2017 | WANG Xu (Hong Kong PhD Fellowship, Fulbright Scholar) | Economic and Social Upgrading of the Pearl River Delta, China | Senior Staff, Dept. of Housing and Urban-rural Development, Sichuan Province, China |
| 2018 | MAI Xin | Economic Resilience of National and Urban Development in China | Post-doctoral fellow, School of Geography, South China Normal University, China |
| 2020 | LUO Yiling (Hong Kong PhD Fellowship) | Gender, Place and Entrepreneurship in the Network Age: A Case of Shenzhen, China | Post-doctoral fellow, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China |
| 2020 | ZHOU Changchang (Hong Kong PhD Fellowship) | State Rescaling and Policy Experimentation in Understanding China’s Rural Land Reform: A Case Study of Wujin | Post-doctoral fellow, School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, China |
| 2023 | MA Yi | Social Knowledge Production and Urban Grassroots Governance of Guangzhou’s Government Purchase of Social Work Policy | Post-doctoral fellow, The University of Hong Kong, China |
| M. Phil. Awarded in Year | |||
| 2005 | MA Ying | Logistics Center in Beijing : An economic and environmental analysis | |
| 2007 | ZHANG Cynthia Yingxuan | Integrated Coastal Zone Management as a Mechanism of Coast Development and Protection in Shantou City | Research Project Manager and Research Associate, Hong Kong Shue Yan University |
| 2011 | LI Lingyue (HKU Outstanding Research Postgraduate Student Best Dissertation Award) |
Urban Entrepreneurialism and Mega-Events in Transitional Urban China: A Case Study of Expo 2010 in Shanghai | Assistant Professor, Dept. of Urban Planning, College of Architecture, Tongji University, Shanghai, China |