Completed PhD Projects

Completed PhD Projects
Name Completion Supervisor Team PhD Thesis Title
Peiao Tan 2026 Rui Wang (XJTLU), Olivier Sykes (UoL) Reassessing Decentralization in China, a local public good provision perspective
Xiaohan Yu 2026 Hyung-Chul Chung (XJTLU), Alex Lord (UoL), Sophie Sturup (XJTLU) Accessibility, Congesetion, and Air Pollution in the Housing Market in Suzhou, China
Ning Cui 2026 Yiwen wang (XJTLU), Sebastian Dembski (UoL), Juan Carlos Dall’Asta (XJTLU) Still a Place to Call Home? Conserving the Changing Values of Heritage Places: A Comparative Study of Zhujiajiao and Tongli Water Towns, China
Siyu Chen 2025 Ying Chang (XJTLU), Fei Chen (UoL), Richard Dunning (UoL), Bing Chen (XJTLU) Built Environment Configuration and Health Related Activities of the Elderly: a Health Niche Model Approach
Da Huo 2025 Bing Chen (XJTLU), Fei Chen (UoL), Healing Landscape that supports Healthy Ageing-in-place in Suzhou, China

 

Zaozao Wang 2025 Joon Sik Kim (XJTLU), Neil Macdonald (UoL), Yiping Dong (XJTLU) Towards a Flood Resilient Delta: Learning from the Complex Adaptive System of the Jiangnan Area, the Yangtze River Delta, China (14th-21st Century)
Jiayi Li 2025 Yiwen wang (XJTLU), Sebastian Dembski (UoL), Joon Sik Kim (XJTLU) Institutionalising Urban Design Control to Enhance Built Environment Quality: A Case Study of Shanghai’s Huangpu River Waterfront
Shaohua Hu 2025 Sophie Sturup (XJTLU), Olivier Sykes (UoL), Rhiannon Corcoran (UoL) Getting Public Transport Networked: How to Improve the Implementation of this “Wicked” Problem
Wenquan Gan 2025 Bing Chen (XJTLU), Manuela Madeddu (UoL), Katia Attuyer (External) Ageing-Friendly Cities: Understanding how to support “Healthy Ageing-in-Place” in Neighbourhoods through the Renovation of Old Residential Communities – Case studies in Suzhou, China.

 

Kunlun Ren 2025 Bing Chen (XJTLU), Manuela Madeddu (UoL), Junjie Xi (XJTLU) A Study on University Campus Outdoor Environments Promoting Students’ Mental Well-Being

 

Yanting Fan 2025 Joon Sik Kim (XJTLU), Alex Lord (UoL), Hyung-Chul Chung (XJTLU) Towards an Applied Urban Form Approach: Temporal Dynamics and Context-Dependent Effects of Urban Form on Air Quality in China
Puyue Gong 2024 Bing Chen (XJTLU), Cheng Zhang (XJTLU), Spyridon Stravoravdis (UoL) Evidence-Based Design by Using Data-Driven Multi-Factorial Analysis Mode in Healthcare Environment
Yuqing Zhang 2024 Hyung-chul Chung (XJTLU), Alex Nurse (UoL), Eddy Fang (XJTLU), Shih-Yang Kao (XJTLU) Unequal School, School District and Residential Segregation in Suzhou, China
Mengchuan Liu 2024 Yiwen Wang (XJTLU), Dave Shaw (UoL) Rural Restructuring Through Top-Down Rural Programmes in China: Mechanisms, Actors And Responses
Yueming Yang 2024 Hyung-chul Chung (XJTLU), Alex Nurse (UoL), Eddy Fang (XJTLU), Joon Kim (XJTLU) Housing Submarkets for Families with School-Age Children: Submarket Choices and Neighbourhood Dynamics in Suzhou, China
Yanru Feng 2024 Joon Kim (XJTLU), Dave Shaw (UoL), Hyung-chul Chung (XJTLU) WeChat Matters: How and Why the Digital Divide Influences the Social Support for Construction Migrant Workers (CMWs) in Chengdu, China
Geng Ma 2024 Paola Pellegrini (XJTLU), Stephen Jay (UoL) The Assessment of Vitality of Pocket Parks in Typical Cities in Southwest China: Contemporary Spatial Features, Social Performance, and Design
Yuanyi Zou 2024 Lin Lin (XJTLU), Thomas Fischer (UoL), Jianli Hao (XJTLU) Exploring the Impact of Online-to-Offline Take-out Food Consumption on Overweight, Obesity, and Subjective Well-being of Urban Adults in China: Dual Perspectives of Traditional Food Environment and Digital Food Environment
Tianjie Jiang 2024 Bing Chen (XJTLU), Thomas Moore (UoL) Planning Education Reforms in Support of China’s New Urbanisation: the Case of the Yangtze River Delta
Hui Wang 2024 Shih-yang Kao (XJTLU), Mark Riley (UoL), Yiwen Wang (XJTLU) When Film Festivals Arrive Small Cities: The Changing Geography of Chinese Film Production and Marketing and Its Impacts on Urban Development in China’s Inland Region
Tianjie Jiang 2024 Bing Chen (XJTLU), Thomas Moore (UoL) Approach to Competitive Strategy of Planning Education Differentiation
Hong Ni 2023 Yiwen Wang (XJTLU), Sebastian Dembski (UoL), Sheng Zhong (external) Regional Governance through Administrative Annexation: The Case of City–County Annexation in China
Nan Yang 2023 Bing Chen (XJTLU), Junjie Xi (UoL) A Design Research on Contemporary Vernacular Architecture That Can Facilitate The Rural Development in Yunnan, Southwest China [PhD by Design]
Gao Du 2023 Yiwen Wang (XJTLU), Barry Godfrey (UoL), Zoey Alker (UoL) Is It Still Dark? The Social Construction of Dark Heritage Tourism: A Case Study of Lvshun Prison Museum in China
Lujie Wang 2023 Anna Sophie Sturup (XJTLU), Dave Shaw (UoL), Adam Cross (XJTLU) Moderation, harmony and Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) in the Chinese context
Jinliu Chen 2023 Paola Pellegrini (XJTLU), Gareth Abrahams (UoL) Densification as a Design Tool
for Sustainable Regeneration
– Research on Residential Communities in Suzhou
Qichao Ban 2018 Bing Chen (XJTLU), Stephen Sharples (UoL) End-User Centred Participatory Design for Community–Based Healthcare Environments in China
Lei Sun 2016 Sheng Zhong (XJTLU) Public Participation in the Urban Regeneration Process – A comparative study between China and the UK