Hannah Hasenberger

Hannah joined the department in 2026, having previously taught economic geography at the University of Cambridge, and worked as an urban planning consultant. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Hertfordshire, and a dual MSc in Urban Policy from the LSE and Sciences Po.

Hannah is an economic geographer with an interest in the political economy of urban and local economic development. Her research is driven by a desire to better understand the social and economic world around us, and she draws on different disciplinary perspectives and methods to do so. She explores questions such as how local state action is shaped by global markets and institutions operating across different geographical scales, and how English local councils respond to austerity. An ongoing project uses both qualitative and quantitative research methods to try and understand a deceptively simple question: how do rental housing markets work?

Publications

• Hasenberger, H. (2025). Challenging the ‘fictions of financialisation’: a commentary on explanation in financial geography. Finance and Space, 2(1), 332-337. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2833115X.2025.2544734?scroll=top&needAccess=true
• Hasenberger, H. (2024). What is local government financialisation? Four empirical channels to clarify the roles of local government. Urban Studies, 61(11), 2039-2059. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980231222133
• Hasenberger, H. (2024). The structuring conditions of local government financialisation in Europe: A comparative perspective. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 56(7), 1952-1967. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X241256546
• Hasenberger, H., & Nogueira, M. (2024). Subverting the “migrant division of labor” through the traditional retail market: the London Latin Village’s struggle against gentrification. Urban Geography, 45(1), 53-72. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02723638.2022.2146925

GY247 Field Methods in Geography with Economics

GY450 Planning Practice and Research

GY484/GY486 Dissertation - MSc Regional and Urban Planning Studies