Research interests - 研究兴趣

As a social and cultural geographer Mark’s research is focused on imagining and exploring innovative pluralist relational ontologies and comparative epistemologies that advance critical understanding of urban life. 

Publication of 11 books, and 100 journal articles, book chapters and official reports etc., which have been cited around 7250 times, has been achieved via empirical research undertaken in the UK, Ireland, Slovakia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Australia, USA, and China. 

Mark is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences. This honour was conferred through peer nomination and rigorous review by an interdisciplinary council of distinguished professors. Awarded in recognition of intellectual and professional esteem this title is the highest accolade in the field of social sciences.

The key overlapping theoretical and empirical terrain of Mark’s work includes:

• Worlding urban theory - by developing new relational ontological frameworks to study diverse and cosmopolitan urbanisms. This work challenges interdisciplinary urban studies paradigms that remain overly dominated by research focused large global cities in Europe and North America by focusing on small cities, urban theory‘beyond the West’, and Chinese urbanism.

• Urban Consumption and consumer culture - including groundbreaking research on topics such as alcohol, drinking, drunkenness, comfy fashion and people-watching which explores how spatialities of consumption have been a defining feature of urban life that has proliferated around the world since the late-nineteenth century.

• Distinctive and connected urban worlds - by advancing theoretical and empirical understanding of territorial and relational geographies including discussion of city twinning, urban regeneration, creativity,(in)formal housing, and migration to shed light on economic and socio-cultural interconnections of people, capital, ideas, things etc. 

• More-than-qualitative epistemologies - that offer original ways to think, talk, and write about how geographic thought happens and how geographers become geographers.

Previously employed at the Universities of Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham, Cardiff, and Staffordshire in the UK and having worked in Geography, Sociology and Cultural Studies departments, Mark is committed to the idea that geographic imaginations, research, and teaching are an interdisciplinary project.

I am happy to supervise students interested in topics such as:

• Chinese urbanism
• Consumption and consumer culture
• Urban theory
• Everyday life
• Alcohol, drinking, drunkenness
• Urban fashion and sub-cultural style
• Small cities
• Cultural and creative industries
• City twinning
• Urban regeneration

Please email me to discuss your research ideas.

Education

PhD in Sociology, Staffordshire University, UK, 1997-2001.

Geographies of Consumption and Urban Regeneration: a Case Study of Stoke-on-Trent (Staffordshire University Scholarship).

MA in Geography, University of Sussex, UK, 1993-1995.   

BA (Hons) in Geography, Sociology and Social Anthropology,

University of Keele, UK, 1989 -1991.

Upper Second Class Honours. 

教育经历

博士1998- 2001      英国斯塔福德郡大学社会学

硕士1993-1995       英国苏塞克斯大学地理学

学士1988-1991        英国基尔大地理学、社会学和社会人类学

Previous employment

Professor of Human Geography, School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, Wales. 2015-2019, full-time, permanent post.

Reader in Human Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, 

University of Manchester, UK. 2013-2015, full-time, permanent post. 

Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Environment, Education and

Development, University of Manchester, UK. 2011-2013, full-time, permanent post. 

Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, 

University of Manchester, UK. 2007-2011, full-time, permanent post.

Lecturer in Human Geography, School of Environment, Education and Development, 

University of Manchester, UK. 2005-2007, full-time, temporary post. 

Research Fellow, School of Geography, University of Leeds, UK. 2005, full-time, 

temporary post.

Research Associate, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, UK.  

2004 full-time, temporary post. 

Creative Industries Development Project Leader, Cultural Trends Unit, Staffordshire University, UK. 2002-2004, full-time, temporary post.

Teaching Fellow, Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology, University of Birmingham, UK. 2001-2002, full-time, temporary post. 

Research Associate, Cultural Trends Unit, Staffordshire University, UK. 2001-2002, 

part-time, temporary post.

Lecturer, Department of Cultural Studies, Staffordshire University, UK. 1997-2001, part-

time, temporary post.

工作经历

教授2015-2019     英国卡迪夫大学

副教授2013-2015     英国曼彻斯特大学

高级讲师2011-2013     英国曼彻斯特大学

讲师2005-2011     英国曼彻斯特大学

研究员2005               英国利兹大学

助理研究员2004               英国谢菲尔德大学

创意产业发展项目负责人2002-2004     英国斯塔福德郡大学

教师2001-2002     英国伯明翰大学

讲师1997-2001     英国斯塔福德郡大学

Publications -刊物

Books -图书

Jayne, M., Wu, S., and Wu, C. (2025) Building the City: Everyday Lives of Migrant Workers. Routledge: London.

مصرفمارکجین, شهرهاومصرف 

Jayne, M. (2019) Cities and Consumption, translated into Persian.

ジェーン、 Gヴァレンタイン、ホロウェイ(2019) アルコール・飲酒・酩酊―（無）秩序の空間

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2019) Alcohol, Drinking, 

Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces, translated into Japanese.

Jayne, M. (ed.) (2018) Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives, Routledge, 

London. 

Jayne, M. and Ward, K. (eds.) (2017) Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives, 

Routledge, London. 

Jayne, M. and Valentine, M. (2016) Childhood, Families, Alcohol, Aldershot:

Ashgate. 

Edensor, T. and Jayne, M. (eds.) (2012) Urban Theory Beyond ‘The West’: A World 

of Cities, London: Routledge. 

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2011) Alcohol, Drinking, 

Drunkenness: (Dis)Orderly Spaces, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds.) (2006) Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the 

Metropolis, London: Routledge. 

Jayne, M. (2005) Cities and Consumption, London: Routledge.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds.) (2004) City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the 

Contemporary City, Aldershot: Ashgate. 

Journal Articles - 期刊文章

Jayne, M., Wu, S. and Wu, C. (2026) More-than-qualitative epistemologies: new ethical opportunities? Subjectivity 33 (1): 17-51.

Jayne, M., Wu, S. and Wu, C. (2026) Unsettling relationalities: migrant couples’ geographies of attachment. Eurasian Geography and Economics (OnlineFirst)

Jayne, M., Wu, S. and Wu, C. (2025) Undoing manual labour: the performative force of female building workers. Social & Cultural Geography 26 (6): 629-657.

Jayne, M., Wu, S. and Wu, C. (2025) Consumption, migration, and urban life. Journal of Consumer Culture25(4): 405-432.

Jayne, M., Wu, S. and Wu, C. (2025) Mundane urban (im)mobilities: the work, domestic, and family lives of migrant building-workers in China. Urban Geography 46 (1): 201-230. 

Jayne, M., Wu, S. and Wu, C. (2025) Building urban lives: female migrant workers emotional counter-topographies in China. Eurasian Geography and Economics 66 (4-5): 606-635. 

Jayne, M., Wu, S. and Wu, C. (2024)Traversing precarity: the socio-economic mobility of female migrant building-workers in China. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 114 (7): 1546-1567. 

Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2024) Beyond moralizing, disciplining and normalizing discourses: re-thinking geographies of alcohol, drinking, drunkenness. Dialogues in Human Geography 14 (1): 94-116. 

Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2024) Pluralist relational congenic ontologies and comparative epissedemologies:Towards new knowledge complexes for critical geographies for alcohol, drinking, drunkenness. Dialogues in Human Geography 14 (1): 135-139. 

马克·杰恩，凯文·沃德：(2023)《都市理论导论：21世纪的视角》(段颖杰译，刘岩《文化研究》，51: 3-25.

Jayne, M. and Ward, K. (2023) A twenty-first century introduction to urban theory (Translated by Duan Yingjie and Liu Yan). Cultural Studies 51: 3-25. 

Jayne, M. (2023) ‘Consuming the city: people-watching and dialectics of everyday urban life’, Journal of Consumer Culture 23 (2): 444-464.

Jayne, M. (2023) ‘People-watching and urban life: towards a research agenda, Geography Compass’, 17 (1): 1-12.

Liu, C. and Jayne, M. (2022) ‘At home’ with alcohol: new insights into young people’s domestic practices in China’ Social & Cultural Geography 24 (10) 1827-1845.

Jayne, M., Liu, C. and Valentine, G. (2022): “鱼龙混杂 yúlóng-hùnzá” – fish and dragons (bad and good people) mixing together: young people, urban life and alcohol, drinking, drunkenness in China, Urban Geography, 43 (10): 1580-1609.

Jayne, M., Liu, C. and Valentine, G. (2022) ‘Alcohol, drinking, drunkenness and everyday financial lives: relational geographies of family and work in China’, Geoforum, 129, 118-130.

Jayne, M. (2022) ‘Playing the game’: Contemporary landscapes of alcohol policy and faith-based service-users everyday lives, International Journal of Drug Policy, 99: 1-30.

Jayne, M. and Williams, A. (2020) ‘Faith-based alcohol treatment in England and Wales: New evidence for policy and practice’. Health & Place, 66: 1-18.

Jayne, M. and Hall, S. M. (2019) ‘Urban assemblages, (in)formality and housing in 

the Global North’, Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 109 (3),

685-704. 

Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2017) “‘It makes you go crazy’: children’s knowledge 

and experience of alcohol consumption’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 17 (1), 85-

104. 

Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2016) ‘Alcohol-related violence and disorder: new 

critical perspectives’, Progress in Human Geography, 40 (1): 67-87. 

Hall, S. M. and Jayne, M. (2016) ‘Make, mend and befriend: austerity, crafting and friendship in contemporary cultures of dressmaking’ Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography, 23 (2) 216-237.

Jayne, M. and Leung, H.H. (2015) ‘Embodying Chinese urbanism: towards a 

research agenda’, Area, 46 (3), 256-267.

Jayne, M. and Ferencuhova, S. (2014) ‘Comfort, identity and fashion in the post–socialist city’: Assemblages, materialities and context’, Journal of Consumer Culture, 15 (3): 329-350. 

Ferencuhova, S. and Jayne, M. (2014) ‘Každodenná spotreba a prisposobovanie si socialistického sídliska‘, (Everyday consumption in the socialist city), Cesky Lid, 100 (3), 313-318. 

Jayne, M.  (2013) ‘Ordinary urbanism – neither trap nor tableaux: a response to Richard G. Smith’, Environment and Planning A, 45, 2305-2313.

Valentine, G., Jayne, M. and Gould, M. (2013) ‘The proximity effect: the role of the affective space of family life in shaping children’s knowledge about alcohol and its social and health implications’Childhood: a Journal of Global Child Research 21 (1), 103-118.

Jayne, M., Hubbard, P. and Bell, D. (2013) ‘Twin cities: territorial and relational

geographies of worldly Manchester’, Urban Studies, 50 (2), 239-254. 

Jayne, M., Gibson, C., Waitt, G and Valentine, G. (2012) ‘Drunken mobilities: alcohol, backpackers and ‘doing’ place’, Tourist Studies, 12 (3) 1-21. 

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Gould, M. (2012) ‘Family life and alcohol consumption:  the transmission of ‘public’ and ‘private’ drinking cultures’, Drugs: Education, Policy and Prevention, 19 (3), 192-200. 

Jayne, M. (2012) ‘Mayors and urban governance: discursive power, identity and local politics’, Social and Cultural Geography, 13 (1), 29-47.

Jayne, M. (2012) ‘From actor to avatar: the place of mayors in theories of urban governance’, Geography Compass (5), 801-810.

Valentine, G., Jayne, M. and Gould, M. (2012) ‘As I say, or as I do? The affective space of family life and the generational transmission of drinking cultures’,Environment and Planning A 44, 776-792. 

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2011) ‘What use are units? Critical geographies of alcohol policy’,Antipode 44 (3) 828-846.

Jayne, M., Hubbard, P. and Bell, D. (2011) ‘Worlding a city: Twinning and urban 

theory’, City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy and Action, 15 (1), 

25-41.

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2010) ‘Emotional, embodied and 

affective geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness’,Transactions of the 

Institute of British Geographers 35 (4), 540-554. 

Jayne, M., Gibson, C., Waitt, G and Bell, D. (2010) ’The cultural economy of small cities’, Geography Compass, 4 (9), 1409-1417. 

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2010) ‘The creative countryside? Policy and practice in the UK rural cultural economy’, Journal of Rural Studies 26, 209-218. 

Valentine, G., Jayne, M. and Holloway, S. L. (2010) ‘Generational patterns of

alcohol consumption: continuity and change’, Health and Place 16, 916-925. 

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2009) ‘Small cities? Towards a research agenda’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 33 (3), 683-699.

Holloway, S. L., Valentine, G., and Jayne, M. (2009) ‘Masculinities, femininities and the geographies of public and private drinking landscapes’, Geoforum, 40 (5), 821-831. 

Valentine, G, Jayne M. and Holloway, S. L. (2009) ‘Contemporary cultures of abstinence and the night–time economy: Muslim attitudes towards alcohol and the implications for social cohesion’, Environment and Planning A. 42 (1), 8-22.

Holloway, S. L., Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2008) ‘‘‘Sainsbury’s is my local’’: 

English alcohol policy, domestic drinking practices and the meaning of home’. 

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33, 532-547. 

Jayne, M., Valentine, G., and Holloway S.L. (2008) ‘Geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness: a review of progress’, Progress in Human Geography, 32 (2), 247-263. 

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2008) ‘Fluid boundaries – ‘British’ 

binge drinking and ‘European’ civility: alcohol and the production and consumption 

of public space’, Space and Polity, 12 (1), 81-100. 

Jayne, M., Valentine, G., and Holloway S.L. (2008) ‘The place of drink: 

geographical contributions to alcohol studies’, Drugs: Education, Prevention and 

Policy, 1-14. 

Valentine, G., Holloway, S. L., Knell, C. and Jayne, M. (2007) ‘Drinking places: young people and cultures of alcohol consumption in rural environments’, Journal of Rural Studies, 24, 28-40. 

Jayne, M., Holloway, S. L. and Valentine, G. (2006) ‘Drunk and disorderly: alcohol, urban life and public space’, Progress in Human Geography, 30 (4), 451-468.

Jayne, M. (2006) ‘Cultural geography, consumption and the city’, Geography: An International Journal, 91 (1), 34-42.

Jayne, M. (2006) ‘Creative industries: the regional dimension?’ Environment and Planning A 23, 537-556.

Jayne, M. (2004) ‘Culture that works: creative industries development in a working–class city’, Capital and Class, 84, 199-210.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2003) ‘Assessing the role of design in local and regional economies’, The International Journal of Cultural Policy, 9 (3), 285-304.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2003) ‘Design–led urban regeneration: a critical perspective’, Local Economy,18 (2), 121-134. 

Jayne, M. (2003) ‘Too many voices, ‘‘too problematic to be plausible’’: Representing multiple responses to local economic development strategies?’, Environment and Planning A, 35 (6), 959–981.

Book Chapters –书籍章节

Jayne, M. (2021) ‘Comfort, identity and fashion in the post-socialist city’, inPrice, L, 

McNally, D and Crang, P. (Eds) Comforting Geographies, Ashgate: Aldershot. 

pp.173-193.

Jayne, M. (2020) ‘Consuming places’, in Edensor, T., Kothari, U. and Kalindides, A. 

(Eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Place London: Routledge. pp. 573-584.

Jayne, M. (2020) ‘Urban Geography: Urban Order’, in Ho, E (Ed) The International 

Encyclopedia of Human Geography, London: Elsevier. 

Jayne, M. (2018) ‘An introduction to critical perspectives on Chinese urbanism’, in 

Jayne, M. (ed). Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives, London: Routledge. 

Jayne, M. and Leung, H. H. (2018) ‘Embodying Chinese urbanism’, in Jayne, M. 

(ed). Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives, London: Routledge. 

Jayne, M. (2018) ‘Afterword: critical Chinese urbanism for the twenty-first century’, in Jayne, M. (ed). Chinese Urbanism: Critical Perspectives, London: Routledge. 

Jayne, M. (2017) ‘Sharon Zukin’, in Latham, A. and Koch, R. (Eds) Key Thinkers on 

Cities, Sage London. 249-255.

Jayne, M. and Ward, K. (2017) ‘Afterword’, in Jayne, M and Ward, K. (Eds). Urban 

Theory: New Critical Perspectives, London: Routledge. 302-305.

Jayne, M. and Ward, K. (2017)‘A twenty-first century introduction to urban theory’ in 

Jayne, M and Ward, K. (Eds). Urban Theory: New Critical Perspectives, London: 

Routledge. 1-17.

Jayne, M., Hubbard, P. and Bell, D. (2017) ‘Twin cities: territorial and relational 

geographies of worldly Manchester’, in Hannigan. J. and Richards, G. (eds) SAGE 

Handbook of New Urban Studies, Sage: London. 63-77.

Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2017) ‘Rounds and relationships: alcohol, reciprocity 

and ethics of care and sharing’, in Hall, S. M and Ince, A. (Eds.), Sharing, Gifting, 

Reciprocity: Everyday Moral Economies and Politics of Crisis, Routledge: London. 

66-88.

Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2016) ‘Drinking dilemmas: making a difference?, in 

Thurnell-Read, T. (Ed). Drinking Dilemmas: Sociological Approaches to Alcohol 

Studies, Routledge: London. 205-218.

Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2016) ‘Alcohol consumption and geographies of 

childhood and family life’, in Skelton, T, Horton, J., and Evans, B. (Eds), 

Geographies of Children and Young People: Play Recreation, Health and Well-

being, Springer: London. 545-560.

Jayne, M, Valentine, G, and Holloway, S. L. (2016) ‘Consumption and Context’, in 

Kolind, T., Thom, B. and Hunt G. (Eds) Handbook of Drug and Alcohol Studies: 

Social Science Perspectives, Sage: London. 352-364.

Jayne, M, Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2016) ‘Geographical perspectives on 

drug and alcohol studies’, in Kolind, T., Thom, B. and Hunt G. (Eds) Handbook of 

Drug and Alcohol Studies: Social Science Perspectives, Sage: London. 117-132.

Edensor, T. and Jayne, M. (2011) ‘Afterword: A World of Cities’ in Edensor, T. and 

Jayne, M (Eds). Urban Theory Beyond ‘The West’: A World of Cities, London: 

Routledge, 1-28.

Edensor, T. and Jayne, M. (2011) ‘Introduction: Urban Theory Beyond ‘The West’ in

Edensor, T. and Jayne, M (Eds). Urban Theory Beyond ‘The West’: A World of 

Cities, London: Routledge, 329-333.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2009) ‘Urban Geography: Urban Order’, in Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N. (Eds) The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, London: Elsevier 20-28. 

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2008) ‘Fluid boundaries - ‘British’ binge drinking and ‘European’ civility: alcohol and the production and consumption of public space’, in Rumsford, C. (Ed) Boundaries and Europe, London: Routledge, 81-100.

Bell, D., Holloway, S.L., Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2008) ‘Pleasure and leisure’, in Hubbard, P., Hall, T. and Short, J-R., (Eds) The Sage Companion to the City, London: Sage, 167-184.  

Dodge, M., Jayne, M., Mackian, S., Perkins, C and Smyth, F. (2008) ‘EBL from the very first day: developing new senses of place’, in Case Studies: Centre for Excellence in Enquiry Based Learning- Supported Projects, 2006–07, Centre for Excellence in Enquiry Based Learning: University of Manchester, 47–87. 

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2006) ‘Conceptualizing small cities’, in Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (Eds.) Small Cities: urban experience beyond the metropolis, London: Routledge, 1-18.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2006) ‘Afterword: sizing up small cities’ Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (Eds) (2006) Small Cities: urban experience beyond the metropolis, London: Routledge, 245-248. 

Jayne, M. (2004) ‘Globalization and third-tier cities: the European experience’, in Eckardt, F. and Hassenpflug, D. (Eds), Urbanism and globalization, Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 65-86.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2004) ‘Conceptualizing the city of Quarters’, in Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (Eds) (2004):City of quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city, Aldershot: Ashgate, 1-14. 

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2004) ‘Afterword: thinking in quarters’, in Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (Eds) (2004): City of quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city, Aldershot: Ashgate, 249-256. 

Jayne, M. (2001) ‘The cultural quarter: (Re)locating urban regeneration in Stoke-on-Trent - a ‘city’ in name only’, in Edensor, T. (Ed), Reclaiming Stoke–on–Trent: leisure, space, and identity in The Potteries,Stoke-on-Trent: Staffordshire University Press, 19-41.

Holliday, R. and Jayne, M. (2001) ‘The potters holiday’, in Edensor, T. (Ed), Reclaiming Stoke-on-Trent: leisure, space, and identity in The Potteries. Stoke-on-Trent:Staffordshire University Press, 177-200. 

Jayne, M. (1999) ‘Imag(in)ing a post-industrial Potteries’, in Bell, D. and Haddour, A. (Eds) City visions. Harlow: Prentice Hall, 8-19.

Official Reports – 政府研究报告

Jayne, M., Williams, A., Webb, D. (2019) Faith in Recovery: Service User 

Evaluation of Alcohol Treatment, London, Alcohol Change UK.

Valentine, G., Jayne, M. and Gould, M and Keenan, J. (2010) Family Life and Alcohol Consumption: The Transmission of Drinking Cultures, York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Valentine, G., Holloway, S. L., Jayne, M. and Knell, C. (2008) Drinking places: Where people drink and why. York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

Hill, J., Jayne, M. and Bell, D. (2005) Bridging the Gap: Knowledge and skills for neighbourhood renewal, Neighbourhood Learning in deprived Communities Evaluation Report, Stoke-on-Trent 2003/04, Stoke-on-Trent: Learning and Skills Council. 

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2005) Regen School Feasibility Study, Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle-under-Lyme NHS/Health Action for Stoke.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2004) Staffordshire University Regional Strategy, Stoke-on-Trent: Staffordshire University. 

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2004) Creative Industries Development in Shropshire, Shrewsbury: Shropshire County Council. 

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2003) A Study of Creative Industries Development Initiatives in Staffordshire, Stafford: Staffordshire County Council. 

Jayne, M. and Bell, D. (2003) Stoke-on-Trent: a Creative City? Stoke-on-Trent, StokeWorks/Advantage West Midlands.

Jayne, M. and Bell, D. (2003) A Creative Economy: Creative Industries Development in Stafford Borough, Stafford: Stafford Borough Council/ Advantage West Midlands. 

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2002) Culture that Works: Stoke-on-Trent’s Local Cultural Strategy 2003-08, Stoke-on-Trent: Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2002) Lichfield District Council’s Local Cultural Strategy. Lichfield: Lichfield District Council.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2001) North Staffordshire Design Initiative:  Stoke-on-Trent City Council/Advantage West Midlands.

PhD student’s -博士生

Wu Chenhui ‘Memory, heritage and identity: the case study of Hainan Island’, 

full-time, 2020-2024.

Amy Walker, ‘Post-memory and industrial heritage’, ESRC 1+3 Open Award, full

time, (Minor Corrections), 2016-2021.

Liu Cao, ‘Historic Chinese urbanism: governance and public participation - a case 

study of Laochengnan District, Nanjing, Self-funded, Full-time (Minor Corrections), 

2016-2019.

Jennifer Owen, 'Out of Sight, Out of Mind' - The Hidden Life of Belongings: Self-

storage, Attachment and Divestment’.ESRC 1+3 Open Award. Full-time, (Minor

Corrections), 2015-2019.

Julia Mills, ‘Geographies of alcoholic recovery: space, place, networks and identities’, 

Leverhulme Scholarship and ESRC +2 Open Award, Part-time, (Minor Corrections), 

2013-2018.

Clancy Wilmott, ‘Mapping the postcolonial city’, (with Dr. C. Perkins), University of 

Manchester Scholarship, Full-time, (Minor Corrections), 2012-2016.

Alexandra Buckland-Wright,’Transnational retail in Southeast Asia: Transformation 

and Regulation in the national retail markets of Malaysia and Thailand’, (with Dr. M. 

Hess). University of Manchester Scholarship, Part-time (Minor Corrections), 2010-

2016.              

Dawn Cole, ‘Housing Biographies in North Manchester’, (with Prof. K. Ward). Self-funded/Oldham Rochdale Housing Market Renewal, Part-time (Minor Corrections), 2010-2016.

Laura Pottinger, ‘Cultivating alternatives: crafting, sharing and propagating seed-

saving practices in the UK’, (with Prof. N. Castree and Dr. S. M. Hall). University of

Manchester Scholarship, Full-time (Minor Corrections), 2010-2015. 

Samantha Wilkinson, ‘Young people, alcohol and urban life’, (with Dr. F. Smyth and 

Dr. B. Evans). ESRC CASE award, Full-time, (Minor Corrections), 2012-2015.

Catherine Wilkinson, ‘Connecting communities though youth-led radio’ (with Dr. B. 

Evans), ESRC CASE award, Full-time, (Minor Corrections), 2012-2015.

Jana Wendler, ‘Experimental Urbanism: alternatives spaces, learning and innovation 

in the city’ (with Dr. J. Evans), Brian Robson Scholarship, Full-time (Minor 

Corrections), 2010-2014.

Nadia Von Benzon, ‘Disabled Children’s experiences and perceptions of nature’ (with 

Dr. F. Smyth), ESRC Funded (Open Competition), Part-time, (Minor Corrections), 

2009-2014.

Yue Wang, 'Exploring retail transnational corporations (TNCs) and supply chains 

transformation in Shanghai, China', (with Prof. N. Coe and Dr. M. Hess), University 

of Manchester Scholarship, Full-time, (Minor Corrections), 2009-2013.

PhD Examiner –博士生面试官

Hilton Penfold, ‘The tiny house: political ecologies of household water, energy and

food practices’, University of Wollongong, Australia, 2022.

Shi Yuanyuan, ‘An Exploration of Cross-generational Childhood Outdoor Play

Experiences in Chinese Communities, Taking Wuhan as an Example’, University of 

Sheffield, UK, 2021.   

MinKi Jeong, ‘Refractive Spatialisation: The Digital Picturesque, the Online-Reality 

Gap and Gentrification in Seoul’, University of Sheffield,UK, 2021.

Yajing Ning, ‘Artists and Gentrification in Post-Reform Shanghai’, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2018.

Pin-Cu Chen, ‘The exploration of urban daily life: practicing the cultural life circuit in East Asian Urban redevelopment’, Durham University, UK, 2018.   

Junseon Han, ‘Relations, viewpoints, knowledge and boundaries in the multicultural city: a study of London and Seoul, Swansea University, Wales, 2018.  

Peta Wolfison, ‘Sydney at night: people, places and policies of the neoliberal city’, University of New South Wales, Australia, 2018.  

Ningning Chen, ‘Rethinking rurality: the reproduction of lineage landscapes in Rural 

Wenzhou’, China’, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 2017.

Junfang Xie, ‘Urban Planning and Everyday Use of Green Space: A Cast Study of

Huangpu District, Shanghai’, University of Sheffield, UK, 2016.

Frederik Bøhling, 'Desires of the Night: and ethnography of urban alcohol and other 

drug assemblages.' Centre for Drug and Alcohol Research, Aarhus University, 

Denmark, 2015.

Donald Poland, ‘Hospitality and consumption in a small city: the case study of 

Hartford, Connecticut’, University College London, UK, 2015.

Soren Smidt–Jenson, ‘Danish medium–sized cities and the place-based experience 

economy’, Copenhagen University, Denmark, 2011.  

Peter Campbell, ‘A catacherisis of creativity? Liverpool 2008 and the inevitability of 

the creative industries’ University of Liverpool, UK, 2011. 

Susan Fitzpatrick, ‘Constructing Creative Communities: Negotiation of the creative

Act Amongst Multiple Publics, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, 2010. 

Journal Editorships and Board Memberships – 期刊编委

Editorial board member, Urban Geography, 2024-       

Editor, Geography Compass - Urban Section, 2012-2015

Reviews Editor, Journal of Consumer Culture, 2012-2016

Editorial board member, Drugs: Education, Prevention, Policy, 2009-2023.

Editorial board member, Geography Compass – Urban Section, 2008-2013.

Guest Editor, Drugs: Education, Prevention, Policy. Special edition, ‘The place of drink: geographic contributions to alcohol studies’, 2008.

Honorary and Visiting Fellowships–访问学者

Visiting Fellow, School of Geography and Planning, Sun Yat-Sen University, 2018.

Visiting Fellow, Department of Geography, University College London, 2014- 2015.

Visiting Fellow, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, 

New Zealand (July–September), Funded by Massey University, 2014. 

Visiting Fellow, Department of Sociology, State University of New York, Oneonta, USA (April), 2014. 

Honorary Fellow, Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, 2012- 2016.

Visiting Fellow, Marie Curie Research Fellow, Department of Urban and Regional 

Planning, Nanjing University, China (June-July), Funded by FP7 Euro-Chinese

Urban and Regional Bi- Continental Research Scheme (ECURBS), 2012. 

Visiting Fellow, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of 

Wollongong, Australia (September-October). Funded by the GeoQuest Research

Centre, University of Wollongong, 2009.

Visiting Fellow, Division of Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Masarky 

University, Czech Republic (November). Funded by EU Erasmus Staff Mobility, 

2009.

Research Grants – 主持的科研项目

Comparison between China and the west on Cultural Geography’, Chinese Ministry 

of Science and Technology, No G2021162010L, ¥400,000, Sole-Investigator, 2022-

2024. 

The Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory(Zhuhai), ‘Human geography of South China Sea and Its Surrounding Countries: process and apparatus’, No: 99147-42080011, ¥10,000,000, Co-Investigator, 2019. 

‘Mobilities theory and practice in contemporary western criticism’ with Dr Jie Zhang, 

Chinese National Social Science Foundation funding (Western project), 18XZW004’. 

¥300,000 RMB, 2018. 当代西方批评中的“移动性”理论与实践研究（西部项目）

Sun Yat-Sen University, Visiting Scholar Research ‘Young people and alcohol 

consumption in China’, School of Geography and Planning, Fund ¥60,000 RMB. 

(with Dr Liu Chen), Principal Investigator, 2018.

Faith in recovery? Service-user evaluation in faith-based alcohol treatment. Project 

value £60,000, Alcohol Research UK/Alcohol Concern, Principal Investigator (with Dr 

A Williams, Cardiff University), 2017. 

Alcohol Consumption and older people: a study of everyday life in Manawatu, New 

Zealand. Project value $6000, Massey University Research Fund, Principal 

Investigator, 2014.

Live-in-Guardians, housing, young people and middle-class austerity: A pilot study of 

London, Dublin and New York, Faculty of Humanities. Project value £16,000, 

Strategic Investment Research Fund, University of Manchester, Principal Investigator 

(with Dr S. M. Hall, University of Manchester), 2014.

Family life and alcohol consumption: a study of the transmission of drinking practices. 

project value £100,000, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Co-Investigator (With Prof. G. 

Valentine and Dr M. Gould, University of Leeds), 2008.

Twin cities: geographies of global Manchester. Project value £3,000, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, Research Support Fund, Sole Principal Investigator, 2016-2007.

European Commission Fellowship in Urban Studies. Project Value £2,500, European Commission, Sole Principal Investigator, 2006-2008.

Drinking Places: Social Geographies of Consumption. Project value: £120,000. Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Research Fellow (Led by Prof. G. Valentine and Prof. S. L. Holloway), 2004-2007.

An Evaluation of Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities. Project value £15,000. Learning and Skills Council, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2003.

Regen School Feasibility Study. Project value £24,000, Newcastle-under-Lyme NHS/Health Action for Stoke,Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2003.

Staffordshire University Regional Strategy. Project value £5,000, Staffordshire University, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2003.

Creative Industries Development in Shropshire. Project value £20,000, Shropshire County Council, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2003.

A Study of Creative Industries Development Initiatives in Staffordshire. Project Value £9,000, Staffordshire County Council, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2003.

Stoke-on-Trent Creative Industries Development, Project value £62,000, StokeWorks/Advantage West Midlands, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2003.

Stoke-on-Trent Creative Industries Development, Project value £62,000, StokeWorks/Advantage West Midlands, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2003.

Culturegen: Creative Industries Development in Stafford Borough.Project Value£6,000, Stafford Borough Council/ Advantage West Midlands, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2002.

Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Local Cultural Strategy, Project Value, £14,000, Stoke-on-Trent City Council, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2002.

Lichfield District Council’s Local Cultural Strategy, Project Value £11,000, Lichfield District Council, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2002.

Staffordshire’s County–Wide Local Cultural Strategy, Project Value £20,000, Staffordshire County Council, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2002.

North Staffordshire Design Initiative, Project Value £56,000, Advantage West Midlands, Joint Principal Investigator (with Dr. D. Bell), 2001.

Keynote Lectures –会议主旨报告

‘Building the belt and road: mundane geographies of labour’, Postgraduate Summer 

School Conference, School of Geography and Planning, Sun-Yat Sen University, 14-

17^th July 2024.

‘Theorising urbanism beyond the metropolis’, Secondary Cities: The Urban Middle 

Ground, University of Basel, Switzerland, 5-6^th May 2017.

‘Alcohol consumption, sharing and ‘urban crisis’, RGS-IBG Urban Geography 

Research Group Annual Conference, Cardiff University, Wales, 7-8^th April 2016.

‘What use are units? Critical geographies of alcohol policy’, Alcohol Warning Labels: 

Theoretical and Policy Debates, Bangor University, Wales, 20^th January 2016.

‘Urban theory: new critical perspectives’, We Have Never Been Urban, Institute for 

European Anthropology and the International Research Centre for Cultural Studies, 

Vienna, Austria, 7-9^th October 2015.

‘Live-in-Guardians: housing, young people and middle-class austerity’, (with Dr. S.M. Hall) Empty Property - What is it Costing You? 4^th Annual Vacant Property Conference, Hatton Garden, London. 12^th June 2014.

‘Hospitality and city twinning: territorial and relational urbanism’, City Development, 

Preservation and Hospitality’, 4C5M Studio, UNESCO World Heritage Institute of 

Training and Research for Asia and the Pacific Region, College of Architecture and 

Urban Planning Tongji University and Shanghai Urban Planning Design Institute, 

Tongli Town, China. 13-15^th June 2014.

‘Family life and alcohol consumption’, Inaugural meeting of the Families and Alcohol 

Alliance, (led by two major UK charities Alcohol Concern and Families, Drugs and 

Alcohol), London. 11^th February 2014.

‘Drinking dilemmas: making a difference?’, Drinking Dilemmas: Social and Cultural 

Approaches, British Sociological Association Alcohol Study Group Annual 

Conference, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Wales, 10-13^th December 2013.

‘Place luck and lifestyle? The cultural economy of small cities’, Quality City: The 

Challenges of Developing Small Cities, Academy of Social Sciences in Cixi, 

Zhejiang, China, June 4^th-7^th June 2012.

‘Children, alcohol and family life: influencing attitudes and behaviour towards alcohol’ 

(with Prof. G. Valentine), Drinkaware Trust Research Seminar, University of Leeds, 

14^th July 2012.

‘Alcohol and the family: continuity and change’, (with Prof. G. Valentine, G.) 2nd 

Annual Symposium, Drink and the Lifecycle, Warwick Drinking Studies Network, 

Institute of Advanced Studies, University of Warwick, 23^rd September 2011.

‘What use are units? Critical geographies of alcohol policy’, BSA Sociology of Alcohol Study Group Inaugural Conference, Imperial Wharf, London, 2^nd December 2011.

‘Family life and alcohol consumption’ (with Prof. G. Valentine)’, Drinkaware Trust Annual Conference, London,16^thFebruary 2011.

‘Alcohol Controversie’, (with Prof. G. Valentine) Royal Geographical Society, House of Commons, London, 8^thDecember 2010.

Where people drink and why’, Home Drinking: Responding to Shifts in Consumption, AERC Alcohol Academy and the Department of Health, Government Office for the West Midlands, 2^nd December 2010. 

‘As I say, or as I do? Parenting, family life and alcohol consumption (with Prof. G. Valentine). Generation Alcohol: Is drinking damaging childhood? Alcohol Concern Annual Conference, London,2^nd November 2010.

‘Why there is no such thing as a medium-sized city: critical geographies of urbanity’, The Future of Australia's Mid-Sized Cities - Policy Workshop, La Trobe University, Australia, 28-30^th September 2010.

‘Cultural economy beyond the metropolis’ The Future of Australia's Mid-Sized Cities - Policy Workshop, La Trobe University, Australia, 28-30^th September 2010.

‘Alcohol policy in the UK’ (with Prof. G. Valentine), Drinking Spaces and Places: Environment and Society Forum, Royal Geographical Society, London, UK, 10^th February 2010.

Refereeing and reviewing – 期刊评审专家和科研项目评审专家

I have refereed articles for Antipode, Progress in Human Geography, Social and Cultural Geography, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Journal of Consumer Culture, Sociology, Geoforum, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Urban Studies, Cities, Environment and Planning C: Planning and Policy, Environment and Planning A, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Geografiska Annaler B, Journal of Geography in Higher Education, European Urban and Regional Studies, Geography Compass, City: Analysis of Urban Trends, Culture, Theory, Policy and Action, Body and Society, Local Government Studies, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, Health and Place, Food, Culture and Society, Annals of Leisure Review, Ageing and Society, City and Society, Gender, Place and Culture, City, Culture and Society, ACME: An International E–Journal for Critical Geographies, Journal of Australian Studies, Planning Theory and Practice, Addiction Research and Theory, Leisure Studies, Habitat International,International Journal of Social  Research Methodology, Ageing and Society, Journal of Consumer Culture, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Journal of Adolescent Health, Emotion, Space and Society, Tourism Studies, the British Journal of Sociology, Crime, Law and Social Change and the Journal of Contemporary Asia.

I have reviewed book series, proposals and/or manuscripts for Routledge, and Polity Press, Sage, Ashgate, Palgrave, Manchester University Press, University of North Carolina Press and Wiley-Blackwell.

I have also been reviewed research proposals and raptor evaluations for the:

• Economic and Social Research Council

• Arts and Humanities Research Council

• Leverhulme Trust

• National Lottery BIG research   

• Austrian Research Council

• Australian Research Councils, 

• Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Council for the Humanities

• Swiss National Science Foundation 

• Polish National Science Centre

• US Geography and Spatial Sciences, Program at the U.S. National Science Foundation 

I have also acted as a reviewer of the Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers ‘Hong Kong Research Grants’.