Research associates

Professor Ivan Turok

Professor, Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow
Email: I.Turok@socsci.gla.ac.uk

Ivan Turok is Professor in the Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow. His research interests include the growth of Chinese cities - economic, social and environmental sustainability, and economic development in China and the implications for European cities.

Selected publications
Turok, I. (2005) 'China's Economic Boom', New Agenda, 17, pp.80-82.
Turok, I. (2004) 'China offers growth lesson', Planning, 3 December, p.18.
Turok, I. (2004) 'Its boom time for urban China, but growing pains loom', Sunday Herald, 24 October, p.18.

Dr Xu Ying

Lecturer, School of International Studies, Renmin University, Beijing
Email: xuyingdawai@sina.com

Xu Ying research is in two key areas, Chinese and international organizations, particularly NGOs, and China’s foreign diplomacy. She recently worked together with Jane Duckett on a Leverhulme Trust-funded research project, ‘NGOs and the making of Health Policy in China’ (2006-07). 

Selected publications

‘INGOs’ Governance and its Inspiration for China’, Journal of University of International Relations , No.3, 2004.
‘NGO Advocacy in China’, China Development Brief Special Report, September 2006 (with Robin Wexler and Nick Young).

Dr Jonathan Oldfield

Senior Lecturer, Department of Central and Eastern European Studies
Email: j.oldfield@lbss.gla.ac.uk

Jon Oldfield is interested in issues related to the interaction between society and the wider environment and with specific reference to socialist and former socialist countries. His main empirical focus is the Russian Federation. Current work is concerned predominantly with the
historical roots and particularities of Russian environmental thought and Russia-EU environmental relations. His interest in Russia's relations with China centre on issues associated with hydrocarbon (and associated natural resource) developments in the Russian Far East.

Dr Caroline Hoy

Principal Consultant, Hall Aitken, 3F 93 West George Street, Glasgow G2 19PB
Email: caroline.hoy@hallaitken.co.uk

Caroline Hoy combines working in private practice with researching social science issues in China. Her PhD from the University of Leeds examined migration and reproductive health issues in Beijing. She continues to look at health in China but also examines ethnic relations, demography and migration in urban and rural China. Caroline has undertaken consultancy work in China for ERM/Shell and the UNDP and is a frequent speaker on the BBC.

Selected publications

Hoy, CS (forthcoming) ‘Migration in China: Reproductive and Sexual Health Issues’, Chapter 5 in Labour Migration and Social Development in China ed. Murphy, R, London: Routledge.

Hoy C., and Ren, Q., (2003) Socio-Impacts of Uyghur Movement to Beijing, Chapter 8 in China's Minorities on the Move: Selected Case Studies Edited by: Robyn Iredale; Naran Bilik; Fei Guo, ME Sharpe, Armonk, NY.

Hoy, CS, (2001), Adolescents in China, Health and Place, 7, 261-271.

Iredale, R., Bilik, N., Guo, F., Wang, S., Hoy, C., (2001) Contemporary Minority Migration, Education and Ethnicity in China, London: Edward Elgar.

In 2007 Caroline took part in a debate about migration in China on BBC Radio 4 with Laurie Taylor Nigel Harris, Will Hutton and Fulong Wu. You can hear this programme by following this link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/thinkingallowed/thinkingallowed_20070411.shtml