PhD Student in Land Economy
[Principal Supervisor: Dr Shailaja Fennell]
Land Economy PhD Representative, 2019-2020
Technical Advisor on Migration, ASEAN Development Outlook
PhD Researcher, Centre for the Study of Global Human Movement
Convenor, Cambridge Chinese Migration Studies Group
Member, Cambridge Migration Society
Biography:
Joseph Hongsheng Zhao is a PhD student based in the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. He gained his first degree in Bachelor of Social Science in Urban Studies from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (1 Hon) with a Capstone Thesis on Hong Kong Homeless People before obtaining an MPhil in Planning, Growth and Regeneration at Cambridge with a Merit dissertation on Planning Institutions in Hong Kong. He also served as a former Undergraduate Research Assistant at the Department of Architecture, School of Design and Environment, National University of Singapore and a Lanson Exchange Scholar at McGill University, Canada. He was a visiting student at Yuanpei College at Peking University, Sun Yat-Sen University and James College at the University of York.
Termination details:
PhD Student in Land Economy
PhD Researcher, Centre for Global Human Movement
Principal Supervisor: Dr Shailaja Fennell
Research Interests
Migration Studies
Chinese Rural-Urban Migration
Urban Planning and Design
Urban Theories and Practice
Research Supervision
I am interested in the internal migrant workers in China between the rural area and different tiers of cities under the current household registration (hukou) system, especially their adaptations and impacts on the local culture and building environment.
I am an actively local research assistant based in Guangzhou, Dongguan, and Zhongshan in the academic year of 2020-2021.
Collaborators
Key Publications
Zhao, H. & Ng, M. K. (2020). An inclusive Hong Kong through public spaces for urban homeless. Proceeding of International Conference of Urbanism. Jakarta, 2019.
Other Publications
Zhao, H. & MacDonald, K. (2020). Planner’s practice of power under institutional codes: A case study of Hong Kong’s Lantau tomorrow vision (forthcoming).
Chen, L. & Zhao, H. (2020). Study on optimization of cultivated land pattern in Heilongjiang province based on cultivated land system security (forthcoming).
Wang, H., Liu, X., Fu, X. & Zhao, H. (2020). Spatial differentiation of land ecology-production-living carrying capacity in Chongqing city (forthcoming).