ESRC/CASS Urban Transformations - Urban Development, Migration, Segregation and Inequality
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Glasgow
Department Name: School of Social & Political Sciences
Abstract
Urbanization and urban transformation in China is one of the most important aspects of global development in the 21st century. The fast speed of changes and the complexity of development in major Chinese cities pose a great challenge to urban researchers in China. This proposed International Centre Partnership will bring together researchers from three leading urban research organisations: the Urban Big Data Centre at University of Glasgow, the Applied Quantitative Methods Network at University of Sheffield, and the Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies at CASS. It will conduct collaborative and comparative research on three important and interrelated urban development issues of migration, segregation and inequality, and will make significant contributions in research findings, new methods, theoretical development and policy impact.
This partnership will fulfil the core aim of the Newton Fund, trough the development of close scientific and innovative research collaboration and promoting the economic development and welfare of Chinese people, especially the 250 million migrant workers living in cities and towns.
In order to achieve the above aim and project objectives, our partnership activities will include research training through workshops, summer school and international symposium with people mobility in both directions in every year; a series of collaborative and innovative pilot research projects; and several important knowledge exchange and impact events and activities to influence future research agenda and government policy development.
The partnership include a total of 27, from University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield, and Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It will involve a large number of other researchers, early careers and PhD students from these institutions and beyond, and government officials, policy makers, and civil society representatives.
This partnership will fulfil the core aim of the Newton Fund, trough the development of close scientific and innovative research collaboration and promoting the economic development and welfare of Chinese people, especially the 250 million migrant workers living in cities and towns.
In order to achieve the above aim and project objectives, our partnership activities will include research training through workshops, summer school and international symposium with people mobility in both directions in every year; a series of collaborative and innovative pilot research projects; and several important knowledge exchange and impact events and activities to influence future research agenda and government policy development.
The partnership include a total of 27, from University of Glasgow, University of Sheffield, and Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. It will involve a large number of other researchers, early careers and PhD students from these institutions and beyond, and government officials, policy makers, and civil society representatives.
Planned Impact
The ultimate beneficiaries will be city residents, especially migrant workers and low income communities in Chinese cities. However, policy makers in central government and policy makers and practitioners in local government are more immediate research 'customers'. Given the broad compass of the research, the policy community will extend across traditional boundaries between planning, housing and interior ministry functions. In China central agencies will include the Ministry for Housing and Urban-Rural Development; Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and Ministry of Civil Affairs. Similar departments/bureau could be found at municipal level. As the central government think tank, IUE has strong links with these central and local angencies. In the UK the Department of Communities and Local Government; in Scotland, the Cabinet Secretary's Office for Finance and Sustainable Growth have strong interests in these topic areas. Other beneficiaries will include national and local third sector and civic organisations concerned with neighbourhoods and urban development, the housebuilding industry and social justice. At the supra-national level, this research will provide useful intelligence for agencies such as UN Habitat, and the World Bank.
Stakeholder Engagement: We will establish two Policy Stakeholder Groups, one in each country, to help us refine and implement the project. We will invite key policy makers from the relevant government ministries and practitioners from municipal governments to be members, as well as other urban policy researcher, including from outside the academy. Several project Impact Workshops will be held with the Stakeholder Group members at every stage. Members will be invited to attend the local events and help shape the project outputs and communication strategies.
We have planned network meetings, seminars, workshops and an international symposium, a summer school on research methods. These will spread out over the three year period, rotated from the three different cities. Policy Stakeholder Group members will be invited to participate and give speaches. Between these workshops, research teams will hold research seminars at their own institution to report the progress and findings to local academic and policy maker audience. The main symposium in year three on Urban Transformation will be a major international research communication event, advertised early to attract large participation, and centred on the research findings. We will invite policy makers from both countries to participate and also issue a general call for papers.
At the international level, this partnership will provide useful information on the key world challenges of how to accommodate migrant population in ciites, maintain social order and stability, and promote justice and equality. At the national level, agencies will benefit from new ideas and intelligence that can be used to improve understandings of how their cities are performing. It will help to inform macro urban policy and social development, in relation to the role of cities in society and their national and international economic competiveness. At the urban level it is expected that this partnership will inform city-specific policy development and practice development in key areas such as urban planning, the leverage of urban development, service and infrastructure planning and delivery. For the private development industry policy change may give rise to greater certainty and an improved capacity for risk management in relation to new urban extensions. Residents in cities will ultimately benefit from improved social integration and greater planning responsiveness. In particular the aspirations of migrants and their likely future trajectories will be better understood, with potential gains for their well-being and quality of life, as well as their societal contribution.
Stakeholder Engagement: We will establish two Policy Stakeholder Groups, one in each country, to help us refine and implement the project. We will invite key policy makers from the relevant government ministries and practitioners from municipal governments to be members, as well as other urban policy researcher, including from outside the academy. Several project Impact Workshops will be held with the Stakeholder Group members at every stage. Members will be invited to attend the local events and help shape the project outputs and communication strategies.
We have planned network meetings, seminars, workshops and an international symposium, a summer school on research methods. These will spread out over the three year period, rotated from the three different cities. Policy Stakeholder Group members will be invited to participate and give speaches. Between these workshops, research teams will hold research seminars at their own institution to report the progress and findings to local academic and policy maker audience. The main symposium in year three on Urban Transformation will be a major international research communication event, advertised early to attract large participation, and centred on the research findings. We will invite policy makers from both countries to participate and also issue a general call for papers.
At the international level, this partnership will provide useful information on the key world challenges of how to accommodate migrant population in ciites, maintain social order and stability, and promote justice and equality. At the national level, agencies will benefit from new ideas and intelligence that can be used to improve understandings of how their cities are performing. It will help to inform macro urban policy and social development, in relation to the role of cities in society and their national and international economic competiveness. At the urban level it is expected that this partnership will inform city-specific policy development and practice development in key areas such as urban planning, the leverage of urban development, service and infrastructure planning and delivery. For the private development industry policy change may give rise to greater certainty and an improved capacity for risk management in relation to new urban extensions. Residents in cities will ultimately benefit from improved social integration and greater planning responsiveness. In particular the aspirations of migrants and their likely future trajectories will be better understood, with potential gains for their well-being and quality of life, as well as their societal contribution.
Publications
Chen Y
(2019)
An investigation of migrants' residential satisfaction in Beijing
in Urban Studies
Colbert J
(2022)
Driving forces of population change following the Canterbury Earthquake Sequence, New Zealand: A multiscale geographically weighted regression approach
in Population, Space and Place
Dang Y
(2019)
Settlement intention of migrants in the Yangtze River Delta, China: The importance of city-scale contextual effects
in Population, Space and Place
Dang Y
(2017)
Residential environment and subjective well-being in Beijing: A fine-grained spatial scale analysis using a bivariate response binomial multilevel model
in Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science
Guan X
(2018)
Mismatch distribution of population and industry in China: Pattern, problems and driving factors
in Applied Geography
Guan X
(2018)
Assessment on the urbanization strategy in China: Achievements, challenges and reflections
in Habitat International
Guo Y
(2017)
(De-)Activating the growth machine for redevelopment: The case of Liede urban village in Guangzhou
in Urban Studies
Jin Y
(2019)
Mapping the annual dynamics of cultivated land in typical area of the Middle-lower Yangtze plain using long time-series of Landsat images based on Google Earth Engine
in International Journal of Remote Sensing
Description | Many publications have been produced by individual members of the three partner teams (in both Chinese and English). They covers a wide range of issues in our topic area. The followings are highlights of some our overall research findings: 1) China's urbanisation and unprecedented transformation of Chinese society (from rural to urban) in the last four decades is one of the greatest human-resettlement schemes and social changes in the world history. Urbanisation is continuously seen as a major driving force for China's socio-economic development over the next few decades. Urban researchers and government policy makers are currently exploring the idea of urban agglomerations (conurbations and city clusters, as cities in highly urbanised regions begin to merge). 2) Urbanisation process in China was accompanied by many serious social, economic, and environmental problems. Inequality between urban and rural areas, between different regions and between the rich and poor are the most challenging ones. Millions of rural migrants live and work in cities, but they are often segregated (in urban villages and other poor areas) from the areas occupied by the mainstream urban residents and the emerging new middle classes. Their employment conditions, income, housing and living environment form a sharp contrast to the modern images of middle class neighbourhoods in Chinese cities. In the last few years, the government has promoted new urban policies, under the policy of 'New Style of Urbanisation', to facilitate the integration of migrants into urban communities, through the process of neighbourhood construction and management. The effect of this policy however varies between regions and cities. The unique residence registration system (hukou) is still one of the most important barriers for migrant integration. Urban policies sometime produce very conflicting consequences. In Beijing, for example, the municipal government's policy on comprehensive environmental improvement in 2017 cleared away many poor housing areas and associated job opportunities for which the low income residents and migrants rely on. Rather than integration, a large number of migrant workers had been forced to leave the city; many of them had lived in the city for many years. 3) Urbanization has strengthened the traditional spatial and social hierarchy of human settlements, starting with county towns at the bottom, moving up to regional cities, provincial-level cities, second-tier national cities, and the first-tier cities. Long held cultural wisdom and current socio-economic and political ideologies encourage the upward migration of people and vertical flow of money and other resources toward the top of this urban settlement pyramid. The urban housing and property market in some extent has reinforced this centralization. It facilitates the concentration of people with talent (political, managerial, academic, and intellectual), money, and other resources to higher-level cities where returns for property investment are higher. Housing price inflation became a mechanism for asset accumulation by the rich. The integration and linkages of housing markets in different locations enable the exploitation of rural areas by urban areas and smaller and lower-level cities by larger and higher-level cities. In a huge country, the dynamic of such a large urban property market leads to inequality in housing consumption and asset ownership between different cities and urban areas, between different socio-economic groups, and between the rich and the poor. For a meaningful integration with local communities in cities, migrants need social, economic, and political capitals and resources. Social and political assets are however largely determined by one's hukou status and connections in cities. Without hukou and sufficient economic power, it is very difficult for anyone to move into a good, properly built and stable new neighbourhood. Within this system, there are always people want to migrate to bigger cities and settled there while the government would like to limit the growth of large national cities, but there is no effective social and economic policies and incentive to reverse the upward population movement process. 4) Rural to urban migrants not only face the challenges of integration, their next generation is negatively affected as well. Drawing on data from the 2011 Chinese Migrant Dynamics Monitoring Survey, Chen and colleagues explored the relationship between different types of parental migration and their children's wages when the children have grown up and migrated to work in cities. They found significantly negative relationships between parental migration and young migrants' educational attainment and wages. Those who experienced the out-migration of both parents are most disadvantaged in the urban labour market. All these mean that inequality and social integration will be major challenges for policy makers in China in the future. |
Exploitation Route | Most publications based on the project are accessible by both policy makers and other academic researchers. Our partner institution in China is a central government 'think tank'. All researchers there have direct influence over policy development and debates. Professor Houkai Wei, was recently appointed by the central government as a member of the Rural and Countryside Affairs Committee of the National People's Congress. His knowledge and experiences on urban and rural development will have a direct impact on national policy development. Professor Shan is involved in national policy development in area of urban development, planning and migrant integrations. Other team members are also closely involved in policy making in their subject areas, Prof Wang Yeqiang on housing policy, Prof Li Guoqing on shanty town renewal. The findings from this project will be promoted by them. Our edited book will be out soon in 2021. It includes 15 chapters with contributions from both Chinese and UK team members as well as other European authors. It will be an open access publication, which will have a wide reach to the international audience. The book details are: Gwilym Pryce, Ya Ping Wang, Yu Chen, Jingjing Shan and Houkai Wei (eds.) (2021 forthcoming) Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China - Towards a New Dialogue. Springer (Open). |
Sectors | Communities and Social Services/Policy Government Democracy and Justice |
Description | This project has achieved significant impact in many aspects. 1) One of the main outputs of the project - the book on 'Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China - Towards a New Dialogue', jointly edited by team members from both UK and China, was published by Springer in late 2021, under The Urban Book Series (Open Access). With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, the edited volume brings together an impressive team of project members and other international researchers to shed light on the entwined processes of inequality and segregation, and the implications for urban development. The authors offered a timely contribution to scholarship, identifying the core insights to be learned from existing research, and providing important guidance on future directions for policy makers and researchers. Through a rich collection of empirical studies at the city, regional and national levels, the book explores the impact of migration on cities, the related problems of social and spatial segregation, and the ramifications for policy reform in China. The book is open access and has been downloaded over 11,000 times in the first few months of its publication. This books will be a major resource for future research and policy making in relation to urban inequality and segregation in China. It will be a key reference for students who has an interests in urban development in China. 2) The international comparative ideas and perspectives gained by both UK and CASS research team members will have a lasting impact on their future research works. Project team members produced a series of other publications on these important research topics in both English and Chinese in the last few years. The training of advanced quantitative research methods has benefited many young researchers and postgraduate students at CASS, Sheffield and Glasgow and enhanced their research capacity and career progress. 3) Through the collaborative research and exchange activities, team members at China Academy of Social Sciences developed great understanding of urban problems and challenges faced policy makers in the process of urban transformation. They gained valuable research knowledge and perspectives on UK cities, and became much more experienced and confident in research approaches and methodology. The project enables CASS Institute to develop a strong, stable and internationally outward looking research team on urban studies. Leading SASS team members are particularly productive and influential. They continuously produce publications and policy advices in areas of urbanisation, housing, urban renewal, integration, inequality reduction and poverty elimination. They influence central policy development directly from their institution's unique position as the central government think tank. |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Communities and Social Services/Policy,Education,Environment,Government, Democracy and Justice |
Impact Types | Cultural Societal Economic Policy & public services |
Description | GCRF: Growing Research Capacity |
Amount | £7,100,000 (GBP) |
Funding ID | ES/P011020/1 |
Organisation | Economic and Social Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 12/2021 |
Description | RSE-NSFC joint project |
Amount | £9,800 (GBP) |
Organisation | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 05/2021 |
End | 05/2023 |
Description | Bristol University |
Organisation | University of Bristol |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Dr Yiming Wang Senior Lecturer in Cities and Public Policy was invited to participate in our workshop at Sheffield. |
Collaborator Contribution | Dr Wang is writing a chapter on Social Networks: Segregation and Inequality between rural migrants and local residents in urban China |
Impact | He will contribute a chapter to the edited book on Urban Inequality, Segregation & Integration in Europe & China. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | CASS Institute of Rural Development |
Organisation | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | One of the main CASS collaborators - Professor Wei Houkai moved from the Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies to the Institute of Rural Development, and became the Director. The collaboration therefore is now with two CASS Institutes. |
Collaborator Contribution | Professor Wei and Dr Su Hongjian are the two main project team members from the Institute of Rural Development. |
Impact | Professor Wei and Dr Su's publications have been listed as outputs. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | CASS-IUES |
Organisation | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | This is an International Centre Partnerships China 2014 project co-funded by the ESRC and CASS. It brings together researchers from two existing ESRC Research Centres (Urban Big Data Centre UBDC based at the University of Glasgow and the Applied Quantitative Methods Network AQMeN based at the Universities of Sheffield) and to extend the research on urban development including infrastructure initiatives, migration, segregation, and inequality to Chinese cities by developing collaborative links with academics at the leading national Institute of Urban and Environmental Studies at CASS. It seeks to bring fresh ideas, new methods and analysis through comparative studies on the impact of migration on cities and related social and spatial segregation problems and the challenges for integration and dealing with inequality. ESRC funded the UK part of activities (workshops, seminars, UK team members travels to China and fieldwork). |
Collaborator Contribution | CASS provided funding to support Chinese partners workshop, seminar, networking and international travel activities of CASS members. |
Impact | 1) First Partnership Networking Meeting was held on 3-4 December 2015 at the Urban Big Data Centre at Glasgow. 14 Members (include all UK PI and Co-Is) attended the meeting. At the meeting each of the three partner organisations made a presentation about their organisational structure, staff and research expertise in relation to the project topic; all team members at the meeting introduced their research experiences and interests to others; three presentations were made on the current state of research on migration, segregation and integration, covering both UK and China; several group discussions were held to identify pilot collaborative research areas/projects. 2) CASS researchers' fieldwork in Scotland: After the two day meeting at University of Glasgow, the four CASS colleagues carried out four day fieldwork (5-8 December 2016) in Glasgow and Edinburgh accompanied by Glasgow team members (Professor Keith Kintrea and Professor Ya Ping Wang). They visited various neighbourhood areas in different parts of the two cities and also suburban/rural areas, covering issues of urban regeneration, social housing, migrant destinations, suburban and village extension, changing shopping patterns, etc. 3) Second Networking Meeting was held at CASS in Beijing on 25 August 2016. The meeting was attended by 8 UK members (4 from Glasgow and 4 from Sheffield) and 10 CASS members. It reviewed progress in the year, and discussed/refined about potential collaborative research works. 4) An Open Forum Workshop on Migration and Integration in the process of urban transformation was held on 26th August at CASS. 12 papers were presented and discussed, including 4 invited speakers from outside of the project team. The workshop were attended by many young researchers from CASS institutes. The Director of Urban Planning and Economic Development of Glasgow City Council (as part of the University of Glasgow team member) attended this workshop (and the second network meeting). 5) UK Team member fieldwork in Beijing: Following the workshop, UK team members were accompanied by CASS colleagues to visit several selected housing and urban renewal areas in Beijing from 27-28 August. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Conference and summer school on urban segregation in Sheffield in 2017 |
Organisation | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
Country | China |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | UK colleagues organised the following events in Sheffield in July and August 2017: a) A conference on Urban Segregation and Inequality in Europe and China on 31 July 2017 b) A project review meeting on 1st August c) A Summer School on Applied Statistical Methods for Analysing Segregation from 1st to 4th August. d) CASS colleagues fieldwork in Sheffield and other cities in England |
Collaborator Contribution | Colleagues from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences made presentations at the conference, and participated in the project meeting. |
Impact | (1)About 60 people from both China and UK attended the conference, including students, researchers and policy markers and practitioners. (2)The Conference was followed by the Summer School which offered a four day well designed training courses to young researchers from CASS Institutes and UK Universities. All 25 funded places were filled through competition; 10 postgraduate students from CASS attended the summer school, and the rest participants came from the UK. (3) CASS project members carried out fieldwork on public housing, urban regeneration, industrial heritage, and rural development, etc., firstly in Sheffield and neighbouring towns and villages, and then to other cities. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Duke University |
Organisation | Duke University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Professor Christopher Timmins (Department of Economics at Duke University, with a secondary appointment in Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment) was invited to participate in our Sheffield workshop in 2017. |
Collaborator Contribution | He is current co-authoring, with Professor Gwilym Pryce, a chapter on Market Sorting & Urban Structures: Underlying Causes of Inequality and Segregation in a Market Economy. |
Impact | Contribute a chapter to the edited book on Urban Inequality, Segregation & Integration in Europe & China. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | TU Delft |
Organisation | Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) |
Country | Netherlands |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prof.dr. M. van Ham, Professor of Urban Renewal and Housing - Department of OTB - Research for the Built Environment was invited to participate at our workshop and Sheffield. He gave a joint-authored paper on Trends in Urban Inequality, Segregation & Integration in Europe. (Co-author with Professor. Prof. Tammaru). |
Collaborator Contribution | Their paper will be included in the edited book. |
Impact | Contribute a chapter to the edited book on Urban Inequality, Segregation & Integration in Europe & China. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | University of Tartu, Estonia |
Organisation | University of Tartu |
Country | Estonia |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Prof. Tammaru (Professor of Urban and Population Geography and Head of the Centre for Migration and Urban Research at the Department of Geography at the University of Tartu, Estonia.) was invited invited to participate at our workshop and Sheffield. He gave a joint-authored paper on Trends in Urban Inequality, Segregation & Integration in Europe. (Co-author with Prof.dr. M. van Ham). |
Collaborator Contribution | Their paper will be included in the edited book. |
Impact | Contribute a chapter to the edited book on Urban Inequality, Segregation & Integration in Europe & China. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | 33 IGU Beijing 2016 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | I attended the 33 IGU at Beijing and presented a paper: Wang Y.P. (2016) China's Urbanisation from Below: A tale of Two Villages. The 33rd International Geographical Congress, Beijing, P. R. China, August 21-25, 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
URL | http://www.igc2016.org/dct/page/1 |
Description | A half-day workshop at Hohai University, Nanjing, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2017 June. "Using PySAL for Spatial Analysis (half day workshop)." Hohai University, China. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | A talk on population change and urban development in Nanjing University China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was invited to attend a round-table discussion on population change and urban development at the Department of Sociology, Nanjing University, in June 2016. About 30-40 students attended it. They raised questions about urbanisation, family planning policies, and welfare provision in both China and the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | An invited talk at Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, CAS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | 2017 December. "Design and Development of Open-source Software for Spatial Analysis". Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Science Academy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | An invited talk at Peking University, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2017 June. "Optimisation Problems in Geographically Weighted Regression." School of Government, Peking University, China. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | China's Urban Transformation. Professor Ya Ping Wang's talk at IFAKARA Health Institute at Dar se Salaam |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Ya Ping Wang gave this talk to a group of researchers based at Ifakara Health Institute at Dar se Salaam, which was followed by many questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Conference on Urban Segregation and Inequality in Europe and China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | About 60 people attended the conference on 31st July 2017, including students from both China and the UK, academics, practitioners from third sector organisations. Scholars from the UK, China and Estonia made presentations on urban segregation in Europe and China. Meanwhile, Dr Omar Khan, Director of the Runnymede Trust in London, delivered an excellent closing speech on segregation and inequality. These presentations had sparked discussions and debates about segregation and integration in different contexts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/conferences-and-events/urban-segregation-inequality-europe-china |
Description | International Symposium on Land Policy and Housing Market |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | This is a special International Symposium on Land Policy and Housing Market held at The University of Hong Kong from 16-17 May 2016. I was invited to present paper on "Climbing the Urban Housing Ladders under Fast Urbanisation: Migration patterns and housing market dynamics in China". The organiser - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is editing a book based on the symposium. The paper I presented will be included as a chapter. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Invited Seminar at Khulna University Bangladesh: Urbanisation and Urban Villages in China - A case study of Shenzhen |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Shared research findings with planning and urban studies students and staff who are interested in urban development and urban villages. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Invited half-day workshop at Hohai University, Nanjing, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | 2017 June. "Geographically Weighted Regression (half day workshop)." Hohai University, China |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Invited public lecture at Tata Institute of Social Sciences India: Urbanisation and Urban Villages in China - Shenzhen |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Shared research findings on urban villages in Chinese cities with postgraduate students in India. It sparked very interesting questions and discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Invited speaker and International Advisory Committee member, 7) First International Workshop on Big Data Smart Transportation Analytics in Shanghai, China, jointly organized by Purdue University and Tongji University, Shanghai, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | First International Workshop on Big Data Smart Transportation Analytics in Shanghai, China, jointly organized by Purdue University and Tongji University, Shanghai, China, July 16-17, 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Keynote Paper at a Major International Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Ya Ping Wang was invited to give one of the two keynotes papers at the 22nd international conference of European Association for Chinese Studies, 29 August-1 Sept 2018, Glasgow. Title: China's Urban Transformation: A Confucianism Perspective. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://eacs2018.glasgow.ac.uk/index.php/programme/keynote-speakers/ |
Description | Keynote in Advanced Workshop of Urban Studies and Smart Cities, Chinese University of Hong Kong. Emerging Data Sources and Urban Informatics: Examples, Prospects and Challenges. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | The keynote was a part of a workshop to help establish a presence in Urban Informatics and Smart Cities in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. the keynote was supported by Strategic Development Fund, Faculty of Social Science, The Chinese University of Hong Kong as well as Department of Geography and Resource Management Urban Studies Programme, Institute of Future Cities, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Manchester China Workshop Invited Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Based on this project, I was invited, along with Professor Tao Sun, to make the presentation on 'The changing nature of work units and its impacts to urban development in China' at the workshop on Socio-economic development in China in an international comparative perspective, organised by the China Studies Research Committee, Manchester University 3-4 October, 2017. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Open Forum in Beijing: Migration, Integration and Urban Transformation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
Results and Impact | A one day Open Forum Workshop on Migration, Integration and Urban Transformation was organised by CASS collaborator and held on 26th August at CASS. The workshop were attended by many young researchers from CASS institutes. 12 papers were presented and discussed, including 4 from outside of the project team: 1) Professor Houkai Wei, ????????????? Trend of China's Urban-Rural Integration under the new normal economic condition. (CASS) 2) Professor Gwilym Price, Importance of segregation and inequality research and methodological advances (Sheffield) 3) Professor Guoying Dang, ????????????? Analysis of the Future trend of rural labourer transfer in China (CASS) 4) Professor Keith Kintrea, Urban Development and Changes in Glasgow City - Historical perspective (Glasgow) 5) Professor Chaolin Gu and Miss Mingjie Sheng, Spatial Characteristics and New Changes of the "Ant Tribe" Urban Village in Beijing: A Case Study of Tangjialing (Qinghua University) 6) Mr Forbes Barron, Current issues of Development and planning in Glasgow City (Director of Planning and Economic Development, Glasgow City Council) 7) Ya Ping Wang, Climbing the Housing Ladder in China: Migration patterns and housing market dynamics (Glasgow) 8) Professor Yumin Ye, ??2030????????????? Projected patterns of population movement before 2030 and people oriented urbanisation strategies (Renmin University) 9) Professor Jingjing Shan, Building shared society: Promote the equalization of basic public services (CASS) 10) Professor Guoqing Li, Reforming the Slums and Rebuilding Community (CASS) 11) Dr Yu Chen and Guanpeng Dong, Residential environment and subjective wellbeing in Beijing (Sheffield) 12) Professor Yifei Cai, ?????????????? Projection of the supply and demand of labourer during the 13th Five Year Plan period (2016-2020) in China (CASS, Population and Labour Economics Institute) Members from both sides benefited enormously from these presentations and discussions. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Participation in delegate visit and talk on Urban Big Data Centre and Prospective Tianjin Eco-City/Smart City Collaboration |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Spoke to delegation members regarding potential collaboration on data infrastructure. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Politics of China's Urban Transformation: The Confucianism modification of Neo-liberalism. Professor Ya Ping Wang Talk at Wits University, Johannesburg South Africa |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | During fieldwork in South Africa, Ya Ping Wang gave a talk at Wits University in Johannesburg. About 20 postgraduates and academics attended; the talk led to active discussion at the end. . |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Presentation at Manchester University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Ya Ping Wang was invited to give a presentation and discussion at the 'China's New Urban Agenda: An International Dialogue on Sustainable Development', international conference organised by University of Manchester, 1 - 2 November 2018. He made two presentations: Paper 1: China's urban transformation: a Liberal-Confucianism perspective Paper 2: A presentation of the research progress and problems for the ESRC-NSFC collaborative project: The Re-Making of Chinese Neighbourhoods Both attracted a lot of interests among the 100+ delegates. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/transformation-of-greater-manchester/ |
Description | Presentation at the Symposium on Urban Transformation in Glasgow |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was invited to talk about spatial change, residential environment and subjective wellbeing at the symposium on Urban Transformation in China at the University of Glasgow in February 2017. There were good debates and discussions among the Chinese and British audience afterwards. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation in Jinan University Guangzhou China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was invited to speak at the international conference on 'Rural-urban Migration and Inclusionary Urbanisation in China' in Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, in July 2016, jointly funded by the British Council and NSFC. My presentation is about rural-urban migrants and life satisfaction in Beijing. I had discussions with students in Jinan University, and researchers from both China and the UK. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Public lecture at Nankai University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was invited to give a public lecture on "Global City Futures and China's Urbanisation", on 22 June 2016, in the Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Summer School on Applied Statistical Methods for Analysing Segregation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | The Summer School, organised during 1st-4th August 2017, offered a four day well designed training courses to postgraduate students from the CASS Institutes and UK Universities, on cutting-edge quantitative methods analysing urban segregation. Speakers include leading researchers in the field, such as Dr David Manley, Dr Duncan Lee, and Prof. Gwilym Pryce. All 25 funded places were filled through competition; 10 students came from CASS and the rest from the UK. The summer school was well received by participants who reported increased knowledge and skills in the area. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/smi/conferences-and-events/esrc-summer-school-analysing-segregation-ineq... |
Description | Taiwan National Chengchi University Presentation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was invited by the Department of Land Economics of the National Chengchi University at Taipei to give a seminar on "Climbing the Urban Housing Ladders under Fast Urbanisation". on 5 May 2016. Followed the seminar I conducted some fieldwork on similar housing issues in Taipei and other cities in Taiwan |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Tianjin Eco-City Forum Invited Key Note Speak |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Tianjin Eco-City Forum was organised by Tianjin Binhai New Areas Government and Nankai University. It was held in October 2016. I was invited to give a key note speak on "Edinburgh: an Eco-City and Sustainable City? Experiences from Scotland" on 21 Oct 2016. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Urban China Conference at UCL |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | About 50 academics and PhD students attended the session with question and discussion at the end. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe & China: Book Launch and seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | While the literature on both segregation and inequality has traditionally been dominated by European and North American studies, there is growing interest in these issues in the Chinese context. Economic liberalization, rapid industrial restructuring, the enormous growth of cities, and internal migration, have all reshaped the country profoundly. What have we learned from the European and North American experience of segregation and inequality, and what insights can be gleaned to inform the burgeoning interest in these issues in the Chinese context? How is China different in terms of the nature and the consequences of segregation and inequality? And what are the implications for future research and policy? Given the continued rise of China's significance in the world, and its recent declaration of war on poverty, Gwilym Pryce (University of Sheffield), Ya Ping Wang (University of Glasgow) and Yu Chen (University of Sheffield) introduce key findings from their new open access book published by Springer Nature, "Urban Inequality and Segregation in Europe and China: Towards a New Dialogue." With the goal of fostering an ongoing dialogue between scholars in Europe and China, the edited volume brings together an impressive team of international researchers to shed light on the entwined processes of inequality and segregation, and the implications for urban development. The authors seek to offer a timely contribution to scholarship, identifying the core insights to be learned from existing research, and providing important guidance on future directions for policy makers and researchers. Through a rich collection of empirical studies at the city, regional and national levels, the book explores the impact of migration on cities, the related problems of social and spatial segregation, and the ramifications for policy reform. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/urban-inequality-and-segregation-in-europe-china-book-launch-tickets-... |
Description | Urban Neighbourhood Governance under Different Political Systems in Asia and Africa, Professor Ya Ping Wang's talk at Tianjin Forum 2023 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professor Ya Ping Wang was invited to attend the 'Tianjin Forum 2023: China and the World in the New Digital Era' 20-21 Oct 2023. The talk was very well received with active discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
Description | Urban Transformation in China Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | We organised The 2018 International Conference on China Urban Development - Urban Transformation and 'New Style' Urbanisation in China. 9-12 July 2018, University of Glasgow. The events benefited from ESRC support and attracted 180 people, with 140 paper presentations. About half of the papers were presented by researchers from China, the rest were from UK and other part of the world. The conference includes 5 keynote papers, two round table discussions with 10 senior academics, and 25 different sessions around the conference theme. Most delegates attended the post-conference field study trips to Edinburgh, and central rural Scotland. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/socialpolitical/events/2018internationalconferenceonchinaurbandevelopm... |
Description | Urbanising Africa and Asia: Challenges and Opportunities for Geographers. Professor Ya Ping Wang Talk at Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | Professor Ya Ping Wang was invited to visit Shaanxi Normal University and share research findings. This talk was given to a group of postgraduate students and academic staff, which was very received with active discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2024 |
Description | Urbanising Asia and Africa: Challenges and Opportunities for Geographers. Professor Ya Ping Wang's keynote speech at International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability 2023, Beijing, China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Professor Ya Ping Wang was invited to give this keynote paper at the International Workshop on Geography and Sustainability 202327-28 October 2023, Beijing, China. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2023 |
URL | https://geosus2023.scievent.com/speakers/ |
Description | Workshop at York 2018 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was invited to talk about migrants' integration experience in Chinese cities at the Symposium on 'Mobile citizens, portable rights: Social and political inclusion of internal migrants' at the University of York. The symposium focuses on migration in developing countries, especially India. Practitioners from some international organisations were invited. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Workshop in Tongji University Shanghai China |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | I was invited to talk on migration and neighbourhood development in Chinese cities at the School of Planning, Tongji University in Shanghai China. Staff and students at the planning school attended the workshop, and we had a good discussion about urban development in China. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |