Staff Profile
Qianqian Qin
Associate Lecturer
- Email: qianqian.qin1@ncl.ac.uk
- Address: 8.01 Henry Daysh Building
Current Office Hours : Tuesdays 10am-12pm.
I am a human geographer and town planner interested in Chinese politics and urban space. My first degree was in Human Geography and Planning at Shanghai Normal University (Shanghai, China). I then did a masters in Urbanization and Development at the London School of Economics (LSE). Currently, I contribute to teaching on planning and geography based modules in the school of APL.
I am a native Mandarin speaker and I am fluent in English.
My main research interest in contempopray Chinese urban space and politics in urban development.
Funded Research Projects:
Urban National Parks Project (funded by Catherine Cookson Foundation , PI: Maggie Roe)
Period: October 2017 to March 2018, duration of work: 15 weeks
The Hanfu Project (funded by British Council of Art; PI: Dr. Andrew Law)
Period: July 2015 to September 2015
I am currently contributing to the following modules:
Semester 1
TCP1027 Shaping Towns and Cities (Study skills Session Tutor)
APL1002 Study Skills Session (Lead teacher)
TCP8034 Planning and Sustainability (Guest Lecturer)
TCP3099 Dissertation (Supervisor)
Semester 2
TCP2036 The Global Course (Module Leader)
TCP7021 Spatial Strategies (Main contributor)
TCP8097 Green Infrastructure and Landscape Planning (Main contributor)APL3004 Chinese Cultural History and Urban Development (Guest Lecturer)
TCP3099 Dissertation (Supervisor)
Other modules that I have contributed to in the past:
TCP2035 Study Trip (Key organizer of the China Trip)
TCP3061 Contemporary Planning Issues (Course Organizer)
TCP2034 Urban Design: How Public is Public Space? (Guest Lecturer)
TCP3054 Planning Theory and Politics (Guest Lecturer)
TCP2030 Urban Poverty: A Global Perspective (Seminar Teacher)
- Qin Q, Law A. The Case of the North Lake (Beihu) Ecological New Town in Jining, Shandong: Discourses of Class, Taste, Luxury Consumption and ‘Conduct’. In: Abdulai, RT; Azuah, KGB, ed. Sustainable Real Estate in the Developing World. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2021, pp.83-114.
- Townshend T, Roe M, Davies C, Qin Q. National Park City: Salutogenic city?. WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment 2018, 217, 203-211.
- Law A, Qin Q. Searching for economic and cosmopolitan roots: the historical discourse of “Hankou Merchant Port Nostalgia” in the central Chinese city of Wuhan 武汉. METU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture 2018, 35(2), 173-195.
- Roe MH, Townshend T, Davies C, Ward Thompson C, Gulsrud NM, Qin Q. Urban National Parks or National Park Cities?. Town and Country Planning 2018, 87(7).