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Committee Members

Committee PositionNameInfoTerm Dates
(start and end years)
ChairDavid AdamsPosition: Lecturer in Urban Planning. Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham.
Email: d.adams.48[AT]bham.ac.uk
Research interests: contested nature of land use and decision making in city spaces, theories of urban change, British post-Second World War reconstruction and recent decades of the city centre regeneration and how they are incorporated into the official
decision-making and placemaking; delivering innovative responses to environmental challenges through design interventions, such as community gardening practices and scalable urban food systems.
2024-2027
Secretary
TreasurerJoseph Hongsheng ZhaoPosition: Lecturer in Town Planning, University of the West of Scotland
Email: joseph.zhao[AT]uws.ac.uk
Research Interest: town planning education, post-industrial cities, migration and displacement, sustainable urban and regional planning, spatial justice
2024-2027
Events and Conferences Officer Calvin ChungPosition: Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Email: calvin.chung[AT]cuhk.edu.hk
Research interests: environmental politics, planning politics, state spatial restructuring, cultural political economy
2022-2025
Membership SecretaryNivedita SinghPosition: Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society, London
Fellow - Royal Anthropological Institute, London
Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, London
University of Mumbai
Email: nivedita1116[AT]gmail.com
Research Interests: Gentrification, Climate Change, Sustainable Development, Urban Studies, Gender
2023-2026
Dissertation Prize Coordinator Vacant
Website and Communication Officer

Postgraduate RepresentativeFarhan AnsharyPosition: PhD Student in Planning at Newcastle University
Email: c1026346[AT]newcastle.ac.uk
Research interests: urban theory, planning theory, urbanisation, cultural political economy
2023-2026
Ordinary Member Sandra HiariPosition: DPhil Student in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford
Email: sandra.hiari[AT]conted.ox.ac.uk
Research interests: urban governance, policy mobilities, policy transfer, public administration, postcolonial urban theory.
2023-2026