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Research students

The research cluster also includes an active group of PhD students:

Current students

Name Phd title and details Supervisor(s)
Neeraj Baruah (Thesis title will be available in due course.) Prof Bob Haining,
Dr Mike Bithell
George Chorafakis Technological development and complex evolutionary dynamics of emerging and innovative clusters in the periphery of the European knowledge economy. Funding: Self-funded. Began 2005. Prof Ron Martin
Iain Evans The Evolution of Knowledge in Emerging Clusters: clean-tech clusters in the UK. Funding: ESRC. Began 2007. Prof Ron Martin,
Dr Tim Vorley
Yijing Li Geography of crime in China since 1978 - a multiscale analysis. Funding: CSC Cambridge Scholarship. Began 2008. Prof Bob Haining
Xingjian Liu (Thesis title will be available in due course.) Prof Bob Haining
Shino Shiode (Thesis title will be available in due course.) Prof Bob Haining
Chian-Yue (Andy) Wang New Economic Geography - An Empirical Study on its Wage Equation. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust and Self-funded. Began 2007. Prof Bob Haining,
Prof Ron Martin
Yu (Matthew) Wang GIS-based study of community health care in Jinan city (China): access to services and health outcomes. Funding: Cambridge Overseas Trust, and Greenleaf Foundation of Columbia University. Began 2008. Prof Bob Haining

Recently completed

Name Phd title and details Supervisor(s)
Kirsten Purcell Supporting, Justifying & Contesting Labour Education Policy Discourses: The Case of Academies. Funding: ESRC. Dr Molly Warrington

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