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Can Cui

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    • Department: Human Geography
    • Gender: female
    • Post: Professor
    • Graduate School: Utrecht University
    • Degree: Doctor
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    • Email: ccui@geo.ecnu.edu.cn
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    WorkExperience

    2021 ~            Professor, East China Normal University

    2016 ~ 2021   Research Professor, School of Urban and Regional Science, East China Normal University

    2015 ~ 2018   Assistant Researcher (part-time), Urbanization Research Institute, Sun Yat-Sen University

    2015 ~ 2016   Pollman Postdoc Fellow, Department of Urban Planning and Design, Harvard University


    Education

    Resume

    Can Cui is a professor in the School of Geographic Sciences at East China Normal University (ECNU). She graduated from the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning of Utrecht University in 2015. Her doctoral research investigated skilled migrants’ housing behaviour in post-reform Chinese cities. Prior to joining ECNU, she worked as Pollman Fellow at Graduate School of Design in Harvard University. Her major research interests include housing, migration, and socio-spatial inequalities. Her work has been published in journals such as Urban Studies, Housing Studies, and Environment and Planning A.


    Other Appointments

    Secretary of Dean, Institute for Talent Development Strategy, ECNU

    Board member, International Sociological Association RC43 Housing and Built Environment 

    Member of China's Real estate 30 young scholars forum

    Committee member of the Association of Spatial Planning, Chinese Society of Natural Resources

    Research Fields

    Housing Studies; Migration; Social-spatial inequality; Urban geography; GIS; the application of GIS to urban studies


    Enrollment and Training

    Course

    Population Geography

    Academic writing in Human Geography

    Research design and writing

    Yangtze River Delta Region

    Shanghai Field Course


    Scientific

    2023   - 2025

    Geographical  mobility and housing differentiation from an integrated perspective of people and cities, Research project funded by Ministry of Education, Principal  investigator.

    2022   ~ 2025

    Human capital migration in the context of urban competition: Spatio-temporal evolution and the driving forces underlying the choice of destination. National Social Science Foundation of China (42171233), Principal  investigator.

    2020   ~ 2024

    Urban Housing of Migrants in China and the Netherlands, Collaborative Research Program between the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) and the Research Council of the Netherlands (NWO)

    2020   ~ 2021

    Construction of Shanghai Talent Highland in the Context of Urban Talent Competition, Shanghai Science and Technology Innovation Action Plan Soft Science Key Project, Principal investigator

    2018   ~ 2019

    Intergenerational transmission of housing inequality in Shanghai. Peking University-Lincoln Institute, Center for Urban Development and Land Policy Research Funding, Principal investigator.

    2018   ~ 2020

    Housing career disparities from the life course perspective: the case study of  Shanghai. National Natural Science Foundation of China (41701176), Principal investigator.

    2017   ~ 2020

    Housing trajectory divergence between skilled migrants and locals. Social Science Funding from East China Normal University (2017ECNU-HWFW046), Principal investigator.


    Academic Achievements

    Cui C.*, Yu C., Chen N. & Deng X. (2024). Moving into higher education: An examination of student mobility under the Independent Freshman Admission Program in China. Population, Space and Place, e2812.

    Cui J.*, Arundel R., & Cui C. (2024). The intergenerational transfer of housing advantage: Examining tenure and residential location outcomes. Cities, 153, 105300.

    Mu X., Cui C.*, Cui J.R. (2024). Housing differentiation from the spatial opportunity structure perspective: An empirical study on new-generation migrants in China. The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 11, 3.

    Cui C.*, Yu S., Chen J. and Li J. (2023). How home buyers finance their homeownership in post-reform urban China? Changing dynamics of variegated financial pathways. International Journal of Housing Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2189865 

     Qiang Wang, Can Cui*, Chengyuan Yu, Yifan Wang. (2023). From domicile to university to work: the sequential migration of young educated people in the context of the battle for talent in China. Population Research and Policy Review, 42(6), 92

    Mu X., Cui C.*, Cui J. (2023). Migration up and down the urban hierarchy: The mediating effects of geographic mobility on migrants’ homeownership. Population, Space and Place, 29(5), e2663. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2663 

    Lu T.T., Cui C.*, Cai, Y.N. and Li Z.Y. (2023). Homeownership-based segregation and urban amenity differentiation in Shanghai. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 16(4), 1417-1441. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-023-09516-z 

    Cui C.*, Yu S. and Huang Y.Q. (2023), His house, her house? Gender inequality and homeownership among married couples in urban China. Cities, 134, 104187. 

    Cui J.R., Cui C.*, Mu X.Y. and Hao P. (2022). Home in the big city: Does place of origin affect homeownership among the post-80s in Shanghai? Housing Studies, 37(9), 1546-1565. DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2020.1853070 

    Mu X., Cui C.*, Xu W. and Cui J. (2022). Generational variations in the timing of entry into homeownership in Shanghai: The role of family formation and family of origin. Urban Studies, 59(13), 2695-2718. DOI: 10.1177/00420980211040947

    Ye, C., Schröder, P., Yang, D., Chen, M.*, Cui, C., & Zhuang, L.* (2022). Toward healthy and liveable cities: a new framework linking public health to urbanization. Environmental Research Letters, 17, 064035

    Cui C.*, Wang Y., Wang, Q. (2022). The interregional migration of human capital: The case of first-class university graduates in China. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 15(2), 397-419. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-021-09401-7 

    Yu S., Cui C.* (2021). Difference in housing finance usage and its impact on housing wealth inequality in urban China. Land, 10(12), 1404. https://doi.org/10.3390/land10121404 

    Cui J.R., Cui C.*, Ronald R., Yu S. and Mu X.Y. (2021). The dynamics of gender in the intergenerational transmission of  homeownership: A case study of young couples in Shanghai. Population, Space and Place, 27(6), e2428. https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2428 

    Cui C., Deng W.J. and Lu T.T.* (2021).  Pathways to homeownership in urban China: Transitions and generational fractures. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 36(1), 9-27. DOI: 10.1007/s10901-019-09664-0 

    Cui C., Wu X.L., Liu L. and Zhang W.Y.* (2020). The spatial-temporal dynamics of daily intercity mobility in the Yangtze River Delta: An analysis using big data. Habitat International, 106, 102174.DOI: 10.1016/j.habitatint.2020.102174

    Cui C., Huang Y.Q. and Wang F. L.* (2020). A relay race: intergenerational transmission of housing inequality in urban China. Housing Studies, 35(6), 1088-1109. DOI: 10.1080/02673037.2019.1648771 

    Cui C.* (2020). Housing career disparities in urban China: A comparison between skilled migrants and locals in Nanjing. Urban Studies, 57(3), 546-562. DOI: 10.1177/0042098018800443 

    Liu Y., Dijst M., Jan F, Geertman S. and Cui C.* (2017). Healthy urban living: Residential environment and health of older adults in Shanghai. Health & Place, 47C, 80-89. 

    Liu Y., Dijst M., Geertman S., Cui, C*. (2017). Social sustainability in an ageing Chinese society: Towards an integrative conceptual framework. Sustainability, 9, 658. 

    Cui C.*, Geertman S. and Hooimeijer P. (2016). The mediating effects of parental and peer pressure on the migration intentions of university graduates in Nanjing. Habitat International, 57, 100-109. 

    Cui C., Wang J.*, Wu Z., Ni J. and Qian T. (2016). The socio-spatial distribution of leisure venues: A case study of karaoke bars in Nanjing, China. International Journal of Geo-Information, 5(9), 150; doi: 10.3390/ijgi5090150 

     Cui C.*, Geertman S. and Hooimeijer P. (2016). Access to homeownership in urban China: A comparison between skilled migrants and skilled locals in Nanjing. Cities, 50, 188-196.

     Wang J.*, Ni H., Rui Y., Cui C. and Cheng L. (2016). A WebGIS-based teaching assistant system for geography field practice. British Journal of Educational Technology, 47(2), 279-293. 

    Cui C.*, Hooimeijer P., Geertman S. and Pu Y. (2015). Residential distribution of the emergent class of skilled migrants in Nanjing. Housing Studies, 30(8), 1235-1256. 

    Cui C.*, Geertman S. and Hooimeijer P. (2015). Residential mobility of skilled migrants in Nanjing, China. Environment and Planning A, 47(3), 625-642. 

    Cui C.*, Geertman S. and Hooimeijer P. (2014). The intra-urban distribution of skilled migrants: Case studies of Shanghai and Nanjing. Habitat International, 44, 1-10.

    Wang J.*, Cui C., Rui Y., Cheng L., Pu Y., Wu W. and Yuan Z. (2013). A parallel algorithm for constructing Voronoi diagrams based on point-set adaptive grouping. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 26(2), 434-446. 

    Cui C., Wang J.*, Pu Y., Ma J. and Chen G. (2012). GIS-based method of delimitating trade area for retail chains.  International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 26(10), 1863-1879.


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