Qiujie Shi

Researcher

Qiujie Shi is currently a DPhil student in the School of Geography and Environment at the University of Oxford, and a Clarendon Scholar. She received her Bachelor’s (first-class) degree in Urban Planning, and Master’s degree in Human Geography, both from Peking University.

Her current work compares inequalities in Beijing and London, and highlights how such a comparison can broaden our urban knowledge and advance a more global urban agenda.

She has a wide range of research interests, including migration and citizenship, global cities, comparative urbanism and postcolonialism.

qiujie.shi@ouce.ox.ac.uk

PKU

Beijing

Projects & Outputs

Mega-city region and metropolitan area development

Migration and Cities

PKU

We will put forward a new theoretical framework to study the development of mega-city regions and metropolitan areas under the recent national strategy of new-type urbanization and rural vitalization.

Internal migration and urbanisation in China

Migration and Cities

PKU

We aim to understand the dynamics of China’s internal migration and urbanisation by developing a socio-spatial framework and applying it to multi-scalar empirical investigations.

Changes in population movement make COVID-19 spread differently from SARS