Luke Green

Project description

Luke’s research interests span urban and economic geographies, but chiefly lie in understanding how financial actors and processes (re)shape urban spaces and (re)configure urban governance arrangements. His PhD research studies financial restructuring in the UK higher education sector, and considers what this means for the ways in which universities undertake urban development projects. In looking specifically at the development portfolios of the University of Manchester (England) and the University of Edinburgh (Scotland), two of the largest investors in real estate development among UK universities, his project seeks to understand how their real estate projects are funded, financed and governed – and what this means for their host cities and communities.

Teaching

• GEO2099 Economic Geography
• GEO3114 Local and Regional Development
• GEO3160 Crises of Economy: Money and Labour

Academic qualifications, memberships and achievements

Academic qualifications

• BSc Geography (Hons), University of Edinburgh, 2014-2018
• MA Human Geography Research, Newcastle University, 2018-2019

Memberships

• Postgraduate Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)
• Member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society

Awards

• Miller Prize for the highest performance in the HASS Researcher Education and Development Programme, Newcastle University, 2019
• Jessie Watson Prize for Best All-round Student of Geography, University of Edinburgh, 2018