About the Cities Group
The Cities Group at King's has a wide intellectual agenda that seeks to influence urban policies at both national and international levels in a variety of fields, including governance, regeneration, health and education.
The group has 10 academic staff, 5 post doctoral researchers, and over 30 PhD research students, and it is committed to the advancement of scholarship in relation to the understanding of cities, education, inequality and comparative urbanism. The Group has a wide portfolio of research projects, including the study of gentrification in London, brown field regeneration in UK cities, the role of regulation in influencing urban design, the healthy city, social and economic changes in global cities, the ‘reputation economy’ of ‘cultural clusters’, and sustainable urbanism. Its research is international in scope including comparative analyses of major world cities, primarily in Europe, North America, Pacific-Asia, and parts of Africa and Latin America.
In terms of research and other training, the Cities Group runs three Masters programmes, the MA Cities and, the MSc Sustainable Cities (together with the Environmental Monitoring and Modelling Research Group), and the MA/ MSc Creative Cities (together with CMCI). Urban internships have been set up to complement these programmes. The members of the Cities Group also supervise a thriving and dynamic PhD programme. If you are interested in potential PhD study you may contact any of the staff members below, either with your own topic idea or about one of the potential projects identified as part of the Group's portfolio. The Group is also open to motivated and dynamic researchers wishing to explore possibilities for Fellowship or visiting researcher positions.