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Centred in the Geography Department at Loughborough University, this research network focuses upon the external relations of world cities. Although the world/global city literature is premised upon the existence of world-wide transactions, most of the research effort has gone into studying the internal structures of individual cities and comparative analyses of the same. Relations between cities have been neglected by world cities researchers; the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) Research Network has been formed to aid in rectifying this situation (see Multiple GaWCs - a brief introduction to the multi-facetted nature of GaWC - and Formative Missions for GaWC).

Members of GaWC at Loughborough (UK)

Ed Brown Mail brings a 'development' focus to GaWC's work. He is a Central American specialist and interested in those regions seemingly at the margins of the world city network.

Jon Cloke Mail has researched micro-credit and corruption and is extending our financial services research into formal credit expansion in major Latin American cities.

John Harrison Mail is a political-economic geographer with interests in the institutionalisation and governance of new regional state spaces. This research has been supported by empirical work focusing on the institutionalisation of England's Northwest region.

Michael Hoyler Mail is an urban geographer who is particularly interested in processes of European world city formation, the emergence of polycentric city-regions, and the impact of cultural policies on urban development. He is Associate Director of GaWC (European Cities Research) and editor of the GaWC website.

Heike Jöns Mail explores the historical and contemporary geographies of knowledge production in city-systems through the lens of transnational mobility and academic networks in higher education.

Mark Szegner Mail is the Department Information Technician who helps with our  electronic and cartographic needs.

David Walker is Visiting Fellow at GaWC. He is exploring Turkish links in terms of Istanbul mixing third world 'mega-city' characteristics with world city tendencies.


Research Students

Julia Großpietsch Mail is investigating the changing conceptualisations and practices of town twinning in Europe.

Raf Verbruggen Mail is a historical geographer studying the relations between world cities in late medieval and early modern Europe, and especially in the Low Countries.

Kelly Wakefield Mail is investigating global networks of pedagogic practice and research.

Allan Watson Mail is investigating the cultural economy of the UK music industry, with particular emphasis on the agglomeration economies/clustering of music industry companies in London.


Members of GaWC at Northumbria University (UK)

Peter Taylor Mail is the inventor and Director of GaWC. He is Professor in the School of the Built and Natural Environment, Northumbria University, and Emeritus Professor at Loughborough University. He is particularly interested in world cities defining a new global-level social structure and the political implications of this for territorial states.


Members of GaWC at Ghent (Belgium)

David Bassens' Mail research is building on earlier writings on world cities and financial geographies to analyse 'alternative' circuits of intermediation and accumulation in financial services such as the fast-growing Islamic financial services (IFS) sector.

Ben Derudder Mail is Professor of Human Geography and Associate Director of GaWC (Transport & Production Research).

Anneleen De Vos Mail is studying connectivity change in the world city network.

Lomme Devriendt's Mail research is focusing on the digital accessibility of cities in the global economy.

Heidi Hanssens Mail is investigating some of the conceptual and empirical relations between global commodity chain and world city network research through an analysis of producer/buyer relations in business services.

Piet Saey Mail is Emeritus Professor of Social Geography.

Joren Sansen is GaWC Assistant Webmaster for Publications.

Stephanie Vervaet Mail is working on the conceptual relations between global production networks and world city networks in the diamond sector by focusing on Antwerp and its Jewish community.

Frank Witlox Mail is Professor of Economic Geography and Associate Director of GaWC (Transport & Production Research).


Members of GaWC at CASS (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), Global Urban Competitiveness Project (GUCP)

NI Peng-Fei is Professor at CASS

SHEN Zhi-Qun, Beijing Normal University

LU Feng-Yong, Chinese Foreign Affairs University

HUANG Jin, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication

CHAI Hua, CASS


Members of GaWC at other places

Rolee Aranya Mail is Associate Professor at the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim. She has been studying urban transformation related to global economic integration in cities of the developing world.

Jon Beaverstock Mail is Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Nottingham and Associate Director of GaWC (Financial & Professional Services Research). He is particularly interested in the globalization and organizational strategy of advanced producer services and associated professional labour markets in the world economy and international financial centres.

Richard Bostock Mail is a GaWC research fellow working at the Office for Fair Trading.

Francisco Castañeda Mail is a Lecturer in the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration at Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), with research interests in economic development and industrial organization.

Gilda Catalano Mail is a lecturer in urban sociology at the Dipartimento di Sociologia e Scienza Politica, Università degli Studi della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Cosenza (Italy) and a GaWC research fellow. She is particularly interested in the impact of new technologies on urban spaces and in transformations of social space and social time.

Anupa Chadha is an independent researcher and GaWC Research Fellow.

Marcus Doel Mail is professor of geography at the University of Wales Swansea and contributes to GaWC through his experience of research on contemporary developments in the Pacific-Asia region. He is particularly interested in the cultural aspects of cities.

James Faulconbridge Mail is a senior lecturer in economic geography at Lancaster University and a GaWC research fellow. He is particularly interested in the role of professional service firms in the 'knowledge economy'.

Nicholas Gane is a reader in sociology at the University of York. He was a research associate working on the "World City Network Formation: Global Connections Audit and Analysis" project.

Cándida Gago García Mail is a GaWC research fellow at the Departamento de Análisis Geográfico Regional y Geografía Física, Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She researches global airline patterns.

Sarah Hall Mail is a lecturer in economic geography at the University of Nottingham. Her research combines work from economic geography, the social studies of finance and new economic sociology to study contemporary financial services.

Phil Hubbard Mail is Professor of Urban Studies at the University of Kent. An urban geographer who is exploring cultural links between world cities, he is particularly interested in city marketing, night-time economies and city governance.

Xingjian Liu Mail is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. His PhD research aims at understanding the changing geography of the world city network in contemporary globalization with advanced analytical methods.

Oli Mould Mail is a Lecturer in Geography at the University of Salford and GaWC research fellow for cultural/creative cities. He was a research associate working on the Leverhulme project Cities in Economic Expansion and Current Crisis of the Modern World-System.

Caroline Nagel Mail is a social-political geographer at the University of South Carolina, researching transnational migration and the politics of identity and citizenship in global cities.

Kathryn Pain Mail is ALDAR Professor of Real Estate Development at Reading University and Associate Director of GaWC (Applied Studies). She is a professional urban planner with interests in inter-city relations in contemporary economic globalization and the implications for sustainability and policy.

Eliana Consoni Rossi Mail is a researcher at the Production Engineering Programme at COPPE/UFRJ who investigates Brazilian cities in globalization.

Wei Shen Mail is an Assistant Professor at the École Supérieure des Science Commerciales d'Angers (ESSCA) Graduate School of Management in Angers, France. His main research interests include China 's global cities, international migration of students and elites, as well as transnationalism and transnational networks more generally.

John Rennie Short Mail is Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (USA). He was Leverhulme Visiting Professor at GaWC.

James D. Sidaway Mail is Professor of Political and Cultural Geography at the University of Amsterdam. He is interested in the intersections of geopolitics, development and GaWC.

Richard Smith Mail is a Director of the Centre for Urban Theory at the University of Wales Swansea and is a GaWC research fellow.  His current research concerns the poststructuralist city.

Sandra Vinciguerra is a researcher at Reading University. She was the research associate working on the ESRC project Benchmarking the World City Network: City Connectivities on the Eve of the Current Financial Crisis.

Allan Watson Mail is a lecturer in human geography at Staffordshire University and a GaWC research fellow. His research interests are centred around the cultural economies of global cities, especially knowledge networks and culturally creative labour, with a particular focus on the music industry.

Complete list of contributors to the GaWC site

For individual contributions to GaWC Research Bulletins, see GaWC Author Index

Tomasz Achrem (Konsorcjum Metropolia Poznań)
Michele Acuto (The Australian National University)
Peter Adey (Keele University)
Uljana Agibetova (Rennes 2 University)
Francisco Alcalá Olid (University of Jaén)
Arthur Alderson (Indiana University)
John Allen (Open University)
Dennis Altman (La Trobe University)
Lindsey Appleyard (University of Nottingham)
Rolee Aranya (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim)
Marek Bańczyk (Konsorcjum Metropolia Poznań & Poznan University of Economics)
David Bassens (Ghent University)
Tüzin Baycan Levent (Istanbul Technical University)
Jon Beaverstock (University of Nottingham)
Jason Beckfield (Harvard University)
A.M. Beerda (University of Amsterdam)
Michael Bentlage (Munich University of Technology)
Carlos Betancourth
Clare Blake (Loughborough University)
James Boardwell
Andrew Boulton (University of Kentucky)
Richard Bostock (Office for Fair Trading)
Lise Bourdeau-Lepage (Université de Bourgogne)
Pablo Brañas Garza (University of Jaén)
Carrie Breitbach (Syracuse University)
Werner Breitung (Zhongshan University)
Neil Brenner (New York University)
Ed Brown (Loughborough University)
Stanley Brunn (University of Kentucky)
Steven Buckman (Syracuse University)
Lucy Budd (Loughborough University)
Tim Bunnell (National University of Singapore)
Martijn J. Burger (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Gilda Catalano (Università degli Studi della Calabria)
Hua Chai (CASS, Beijing)
Igal Charney (University of Haifa)
Christopher Chase-Dunn (University of California, Riverside)
Peter Charlton (Clifford Chance)
Gordon Clark (University of Oxford)
Andrew Cook (Newcastle University)
Gary Cook (The University of Liverpool)
György Csomós (University of Debrecen)
Vincent Das (Hasselt University)
Patrick De Groote (Limburgs Universitair Centrum)
Bastiaan de Goei (University of Cambridge)
Gerardo del Cerro Santamaría (The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York)
Robert Denemark (University of Delaware)
Philippe Denier (Universiteit Hasselt)
Ben Derudder (Ghent University)
Annaleen De Vos (Ghent University)
Lomme Devriendt (Ghent University)
Marcus Doel (University of Wales, Swansea)
Danny Dorling (University of Sheffield)
Fábio Duarte (PUCPR, Curitiba)
César Ducruet (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), UMR 8504 Géographie-cités, Paris)
Denis Eckert (Université de Toulouse Le Mirail)
Chris van Egeraat (NUI Maynooth)
Ewald Engelen (University of Amsterdam)
Jamey Essex (Syracuse University)
David Evans (Loughborough University)
James Faulconbridge (Lancaster University)
Adrian Favell (UCLA)
Daniel Felsenstein (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Søren Find (Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark)
Ann Firth (Curtin University of Technology)
Karin Fischer (Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung, Vienna)
Robert Fossaert
Alan Freeman (Greater London Authority)
Tim Freytag (University of Heidelberg)
Simone Gabi (City of Zurich)
Nicholas Gane (University of York)
Cándida Gago García (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Bahar Gedikli (Middle East Technical University, Ankara)
Ulrike Gerhard (University of Würzburg)
Andrew Gillespie (Newcastle University)
Lars Glanzmann (ALSTOM (Schweiz) AG, Baden)
Viktor Goebel (Swiss Federal Statistical Office, Neuchâtel)
Ian Gordon (London School of Economics)
Stephen Graham (University of Durham)
Richard Grant (University of Miami)
Troy Gravitt (Virginia Tech)
Nick Green (University of Manchester)
Olga Gritsai (University of Amsterdam)
Michel Grossetti (Université de Toulouse Le Mirail)
Anna Growe (TU Dortmund)
Carl Grundy-Warr (National University of Singapore)
Josef Gugler (University of Connecticut)
Michael Gusmano (International Longevity Center - USA)
Mark Günter (University of Bern)
Ludovic Halbert (LATTS, Paris)
Peter Hall (The Bartlett, UCL)
Peter V. Hall (Simon Fraser University)
Sarah Hall (University of Nottingham)
Heidi Hanssens (Ghent University)
John Harrison (Loughborough University)
Caroline Heinrich (IRS Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning, Erkner)
Brita Hermelin (Stockholm University)
Andrew Hewitson (Lancaster University)
Matthew Hoffmann (University of Toronto)
Trevor Hogan (La Trobe University)
Sarah Holloway (Loughborough University)
Song Hong (Wuhan University)
Christopher Houston (La Trobe University)
Michael Hoyler (Loughborough University)
Jin Huang (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication)
Phil Hubbard (University of Kent)
Fieke Huisman (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Jean-Marie Huriot (Université de Bourgogne)
Karen Imhof (Institut für Stadt- und Regionalforschung, Vienna)
Wouter Jacobs (Utrecht University)
László Jeney (Corvinus University of Budapest)
Sian Joel (Napier University)
Heike Jöns (Loughborough University)
Ron Johnston (University of Bristol)
Andrew Jonas (University of Hull)
Andrew Jorgenson (University of California, Riverside)
Aykut Karaman (Mimar Sinan University)
Bas Karreman (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Roger Keil (York University)
Ramin Keivani (South Bank University)
Paul Kennedy (Manchester Metropolitan University)
Baruch A. Kipnis (University of Haifa)
Michael Kitson (University of Cambridge)
Robert C. Kloosterman (University of Amsterdam)
Bert van der Knaap (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Paul Knox (Virginia Tech)
Ewa Korcelli-Olejniczak (Polish Academy of Sciences)
Hans R.A. Koster (University of Amsterdam)
Zoltán Kovacs (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Stefan Krätke (European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder)
Christian Kruse (Bank Morgan Stanley AG, Zurich)
Lambert van der Laan (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Karen Lai (University of British Columbia)
Bart Lambregts (University of Technology Delft)
Jared Lang
Robert E. Lang (Virginia Tech)
Peter W. de Langen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Jennifer B. LeFurgy (Virginia Tech)
Tse-Kang Leng (Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei)
Chi Kin Leung (California State University, Fresno)
Wangming Li (Zhejiang University)
Xingjian Liu (University of Cambridge)
Yaolin Liu (Wuhan University)
Colin Lizieri (University of Cambridge)
Travis R. Longcore
Hayden Lorimer (University of Glasgow)
Stefan Lüthi (Munich University of Technology)
Feng-Yong Lu (Chinese Foreign Affairs University)
Christoph Mager (University of Heidelberg)
Sami Mahroum
Hélène Martin-Brelot (Université de Toulouse Le Mirail)
Kevin Matthews (Virginia Tech)
Christian Wichmann Matthiessen (University of Copenhagen)
Elizabeth Mavroudi (Loughborough University)
Carmen McWilliams
Evert Meijers (Delft University of Technology)
Izak J. van der Merwe (University of Stellenbosch)
Erin Milfeit (Virginia Tech)
Diana Mitsova (Florida Atlantic University)
Robina Mohammad (University of Plymouth)
Oli Mould (University of Salford)
Jakub Mroz (Konsorcjum Metropolia Poznań)
Robert Musil (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna)
Sako Musterd (University of Amsterdam)
Hamzah Bin Muzaini (Durham University)
Daniel Muzio (Leeds University)
Vlad Mykhnenko (University of Glasgow)
Caroline Nagel (University of South Carolina)
Zachary Neal (Michigan State University)
Peng-Fei Ni (CASS, Beijing)
Jan Nijman (University of Miami)
Leonid Nikitin (Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University)
Theo Notteboom (ITMMA, Antwerp)
Patricia Noxolo (Loughborough University)
Kevin O'Connor (The University of Melbourne)
Kris Olds (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Asli Ceylan Oner (Florida Atlantic University)
Seow Eng Ong (National University of Singapore)
Kathryn Pain (University of Reading)
Rong Pan (Hangzhou Municipal Institute of Urban Planning and Design)
Naresh Pandit (Norwich Business School)
Christof Parnreiter (University of Hamburg)
Ali Parsa (South Bank University)
Jamie Peck (University of British Columbia)
Wim Pelupessy (Tilburg University)
Renato Aristides Orozco Pereira (Institute for Managerial Development, Brazil)
Paolo Perulli (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
Margarita Pérez Negrete (Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City)
David Prosperi (Florida Atlantic University)
Otto Raspe (Utrecht University)
Beate Reszat (Hamburg Institute of International Economics)
Ranald Richardson (Newcastle University)
David Robinson
Victor Rodwin (New York University)
Jeremy Roels (Ghent University)
Alexander Romashov (Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University)
Eliana Consoni Rossi (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Jonathan Rutherford (LATTS, Paris)
Piet Saey (Ghent University)
Monica Salomon (Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro)
Michael Samers (University of Kentucky)
Ivan Samson (UPMF Grenoble)
Simón Sánchez Moral (Spanish Council for Scientific Research, Madrid)
Saskia Sassen (Columbia University)
Eike W. Schamp (University of Frankfurt)
Elisabeth Schein (Munich University of Technology)
Annette Winkel Schwarz (Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark)
Allen Scott (University of California, Los Angeles)
Steve Sel (University of Antwerp)
Arie Shachar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Wei Shen (ESSCA Graduate School of Management, Angers)
Zhi-Qun Shen (Beijing Normal University)
Kyoung-Ho Shin (Northwest Missouri State University)
John Rennie Short (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
James Sidaway (University of Amsterdam)
Loo Lee Sim (National University of Singapore)
Wilfred Sleegers (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Dariusz Śmiejkowski (Konsorcjum Metropolia Poznań)
David A. Smith (University of California, Irvine)
Dennis Smith (Loughborough University)
Richard Smith (Swansea University)
Martin Sokol (Queen Mary, University of London)
Matthew Sparke (University of Washington)
Lynn Staeheli (University of Edinburgh)
Bruce Stanley (Huron University USA in London)
Lawrence Steen (University of Leuven)
Roger Sugden (Birmingham Business School)
Yifei Sun (California State University, Northridge)
Mark Szegner (Loughborough University)
Zilai Tang (Tongji University)
Peter Taylor (Northumbria University / Loughborough University)
Alain Thierstein (Munich University of Technology)
Bethan Thomas (University of Sheffield)
Adam Tickell (Royal Holloway)
Michael Timberlake (Kansas State University)
Irina Tolkunova (Chelyabinsk State Pedagogical University)
Emmanouil Tranos (Newcastle University)
Ivan Turok (University of Glasgow)
Clovis Ultramari (PUCPR, Curitiba)
Nathalie Van Nuffel (Ghent University)
Frank G. van Oort (Utrecht University)
Alessandra Vecchi (Trinity College Dublin)
Raf Verbruggen (Loughborough University)
Laetitia Vereecken (Ghent University)
Ann Verhetsel (University of Antwerp)
Vinciguerra, Sandra (Reading University)
Jaap Vos (Florida Atlantic University)
Thomas Wainwright (Kingston University)
David Walker (Loughborough University)
Ronald Wall (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Kevin Ward (University of Manchester)
Allan Watson (Staffordshire University)
Michael J. Watts (University of California, Berkeley)
Yehua Dennis Wei (University of Utah)
Daniel Weisz (International Longevity Center - USA)
James Wickham (Trinity College Dublin)
Brendan Williams (University College Dublin)
James Wilson (Birmingham Business School)
Frank Witlox (Ghent University)
Fulong Wu (Cardiff University)
Herman van der Wusten (University of Amsterdam)
Xiaolan Yang (Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication)
Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore)
Hasan Yonten (Neumann University)
Bassam Younis (University of Sharjah)
Ora Zehavi (University of Haifa)
Miaoxi Zhao (Tongji University)
Yu Zhou (Vassar College)

 

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