PhD News
The following continue to work on their theses:
Cristina Inclan-Valadez 2005
TBC
Paola Jiron 2004
"Analysis of the Experience of Quality of Life through the Practice of Urban Daily Mobility in Santiago, Chile"
Nicolas Di-Boscio 2004
"Mineral Wealth and Regional Economic Development"
Chris Johnson 2004
TBC
Vasileios Tselios 2003
"The impact of integration and economic development on income".
Marcia Thorpe 2003
"A study of Public Participation in Regional Government."
Achilleas Tsamis 2003
"The Effect of Science & Technology Parks in the less favoured regions of Europe"
Pushpa Arabindoo 2002
"A post-colonial condition assessment of development in Chennai, India".
Laurence Crot 2002
"The construction of Buenos Aires' urban planning agenda".
Steve Hammer 2002 had his viva in 2005 and will be awarded a PhD subject to revisions.
"Renewable energy use in cities".
Ramola Naik-Singru 2002
"The relationship of Globalisation and History in the Spatial transformation of Mumbai (Bombay), India".
Debora Cavalcanti 2001
(provisional title) "Territorialisation of Urban Poverty: migration, mobility and housing in the Northeast of Brazil".
Christopher Lyons 2001
"Planning, the state, and microeconomic policy: An investigation into the impact of progressive politics on the state as enabler through the planning process".
Keh-Her Shih 2001
"The emergence of world city domination and the consequent implication in regional governance: Globalisation crises and institutional changes in East Asia".
Ljiljana Grubovic 1999
"Planning and illegal building construction in Belgrade".
Laurentios Vasiliadis 1999
"The creation of a favoured environment for the attraction of foreign direct investments in Greece. A critical comparison between Ireland, Portugal and Greece".
Miguel Jimenez 1998
"The globalisation effect in the economic structure of Mexico City".
Kuniko Shibata 1998
"The state, planning and the public interest: historical development of regional and urban planning policy in Japan".
Jorge Vera Garcia 1998
"Liberalisation and local productive systems in Mexico: Productive linkages in agglomerations with different market orientation".
Peng Sheng Weng 1997
"The interaction between innovation systems and urbanisation".
Ertan Zibel 1997
"Globalisation and the role of the Turkish State: Case study of urban policies in Istanbul".
Completed PhD students during 2005
Iris Hauswirth PhD awarded Jan 2005
"Effective and Efficient Organisations? Trade Fair Support in Germany and the UK from an Organisational Economics Perspective."
Murat Yalcintan PhD awarded in November 2005
"Impacts of globalisation on the decision-
making process of Istanbul Greater City municipality".