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Suzanne Hall
Suzanne Hall is an urban ethnographer and has practised as an architect in South Africa. Her research and teaching interests focus on everyday formations of global migration in the context of inequality, discrimination and resistance, particularly migrant economies and urban multi-culture. From 1997 to 2003 her practice engaged with the role of design in marginalised and racially segregated areas in Cape Town. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the 2006 Venice Architectural Biennale, and the 2005 Sao Paulo Biennale of Architecture and Design. She was awarded an ESRC Future Research Leaders grant (2015–2017) for a comparative project on ‘Super-diverse Streets: Economies and spaces of urban migration in UK Cities’, which emerges out of her LSE Cities research project on ‘Ordinary Streets’. She is a recipient of an LSE Teaching Award (2017), the LSE’s Robert McKenzie PhD Prize (2010), and the Rome Scholarship in Architecture (1998–1999). She is author of City, Street and Citizen (2012), and The SAGE Handbook of the 21st Century City, co-edited with Ricky Burdett (2017).
Alasdair Jones
Alasdair Jones is an Assistant Professor in Qualitative Research Methodology in the LSE’s Department of Methodology. He is an alumnus of the doctoral programme at the LSE’s Cities Programme and completed his ESRC-funded PhD there in 2008. This was an ethnographic account of the socio-spatial production of urban public space on London’s South Bank during the ongoing physical transformation of that area. Building on his doctoral studies, Alasdair’s research interests broadly concern the relationship between built form in cities and social practices, and his research to date has centred on public space, public transport and the ways that citizenship is experienced in urban settings. The current research he is working on develops these interests by exploring the fit between sustainable design features of masterplanned developments and the living practices of residents of those developments.
On completion of his PhD studies, Alasdair initially worked in the third sector (at Living Streets and the Royal Society of the Arts) before returning to academia to work for the ‘Transport and Health Group’ at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Alasdair was then appointed the UH-Lafarge Research Fellow at the University of Hertfordshire’s Centre for Sustainable Communities and he has recently completed a US-UK Fulbright Commission scholarship at the Center for Ethnographic Research (formerly the Center for Urban Ethnography), UC Berkeley, and a Visiting Fellowship at the City Futures research centre, UNSW.
David Madden
David Madden is Assistant Professor in LSE’s Department of Sociology. He is a sociologist and urbanist who has conducted qualitative, ethnographic and historical research in New York City and London on topics including public housing, public space, urban politics, cultural development, gentrification, urban theory and global urbanisation. Madden teaches in the MSc City Design and Social Science and the MSc Culture and Society programmes. He has previously taught at New York University, Bard College and Columbia University, where he received his PhD. His work has appeared in journals including International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, City and Community, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space and CITY, where he is an Editor. He has also written for The Guardian.
Kathleen Scanlon
Kathleen Scanlon is Assistant Professorial Research Fellow at LSE London. She has a wide range of research interests including comparative housing policy (across all tenures–social and private rented housing as well as owner-occupation), comparative mortgage finance, and migration. Her research is grounded in economics but also draws on techniques and perspectives from other disciplines including geography and sociology, and aims at improving the evidence base for policy decisions at national or local level. Since 2015 she has focused on ways of accelerating new housing development in London, looking at a range of solutions from cohousing and other collaborative approaches to the potential of large-scale private rented schemes. She recently edited an authoritative book on Social Housing in Europe (Wiley, 2014). She has worked with a number of national and international institutions including the Council of Europe Development Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank and Denmark’s Realdania foundation. She has lived and worked in the USA, Spain, Denmark, Yugoslavia, Kuwait and Peru, and speaks Spanish, Italian, Serbian, Danish and a bit of French.
Don Slater
Don Slater is associate professor at LSE Sociology and works with Mona Sloane and Joanne Entwistle on the Configuring Light Programme at LSE Cities. His research focuses on relation between culture and economy, ethnographies of new media and digital culture in the third world, and visual culture. Within Configuring Light, he draws on actor-network theory and material culture studies to investigate how light, as a material, is configured into social, technical and spatial forms. He is currently developing a comparative research project on urban lighting in the Global South.
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Christine Whitehead
Professor Christine Whitehead is an internationally respected applied economist whose research is well-known in both academic and policy circles. She directs a multi-disciplinary centre including anthropologists, sociologists and geographers. She has conducted an extensive programme of research on various aspects of the housing market, with special reference to housing finance and subsidies, social housing provision and land use planning, as well as on urban, industrial policy and privatisation issues. Major themes in her recent research have included analysis of the relationship between planning and housing, notably with respect to the S106 policy; housing needs assessments; the role and financing of social housing in the UK and Europe; developments in private finance; policy evaluation; and more generally the application of economic concepts and techniques to questions of public resource allocation with respect to housing, education, policing and urban regeneration.
Austin Zeiderman
Austin Zeiderman is an interdisciplinary scholar who specialises in the cultural and political dimensions of cities, with a specific focus on Latin America. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University as well as a Master of Environmental Science degree from Yale University and a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Colgate University. His book, Endangered City: The Politics of Security and Risk in Bogotá (2016, Duke University Press), focuses on how security and risk shape the relationship between citizens and the state in the self-built settlements of the urban periphery. Austin is also beginning a new research project on urban, environmental, and infrastructural transformations motivated by the promise of a post-conflict future in Colombia. From 2012 to 2014, he coordinated the Urban Uncertainty project at LSE Cities, where he remains a Research Associate. Raised in Philadelphia, he has previously worked on urban and environmental issues in Baltimore and San Francisco.
