Liyuan has two M.Sc. degrees (International Planning Studies; and Urban and Housing Practice) from the University of Glasgow. Liyuan also completed her PhD in Urban Studies in 2022, and her research work is related to neighbourhood attachment, social participation and urban governance in Chinese cities. Liyuan has lectured and tutored on more than 10 undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Urban Studies. She is also a reviewer of the ethics committee for the School of Social and Political Sciences. 

• Social and public policy

• Neighbourhoods, residential mobility and spatial segregation

• Social cohesion and participation

• Chinese Cities

Research groups

• Socio-Environmental Action
• Place & the Built Environment

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I am very happy to supervise PhDs in:

• Urban policy
• Neighbourhoods and urban segregation, residential mobility, neighbourhood attachment and neighbourhood effects
• Social participation
• Chinese Cities

I work primarily with qualitative methods.

I am currently supervising PhDs:

• Yuxiao Li (with Prof Nick Bailey) Understanding the informality and formality in China’s rental-dominated neighbourhoods.

• Yuhui Du (with Dr Ross Beveridge and Prof Annette Hastings): From Urban Regeneration to Urban Governance: Research on the Democratisation and Public Interest in China's Common Participatory Urban Regeneration Regime.

• Li, Yuxiao
  State Involvement in Governing Housing Informality: Changes and Impacts in Urban China

Course Convenors:

Urban Design & Development (URBAN 5098)

Research Design, Methods, and Ethics (URBAN 5119)

Undergraduate Teaching Contributuions:

SPP 1B Understanding Glasgow (PUBPOL 1011)

SPP 1A Foundations of Welfare (PUBPOL 1010) 

Environment and Climate justice (UG Honours Course) 

Postgraduate Teaching Contributuions:

Urban Conservation(URBAN 5126)

Research Design (SPS5034) 

Sustainable Urban Futures (URBAN5093)

Regenerating Cities (URBAN5041) 

Global Cities (URBAN5014) 

City Planning Theory & Practice (URBAN5099) 

Dissertation Supervision:

PGT Public Policy Programme (URBAN5080P)

PGT City Planning Programme (URBAN5054)

PGT Nankai Programme

UG dissertations for Social and Public Policy