The Higher Research Seminar (SASNET – co-sponsor): Glyn Williams, LU Human Geography - "Renegotiating Lockdown: collective life and the control of Covid-19 in India’s low-income urban neighbourhoods"

Glyn Williams

"I was appointed Professor of Development Geography at Lund University in February 2025, after previous academic posts at Keele University (1994-2002), King’s College London (2003-2006), and the University of Sheffield (2006-2025). My research is concerned with making development sensitive to, and inclusive of, the agency and practices of marginalised groups. Its focus is on the ‘everyday governance’ of development: the ideas and motives behind development interventions, the practices of government and other actors engaged in implementing them, and the ways these are reworked and contested on the ground. This work has been empirically grounded in qualitative fieldwork to address three core themes: marginalisation, participation and empowerment; democracy and the reproduction of political authority; and socially just urban transitions. I have primarily worked in India, and from May 2026 will be co-leading a UK-funded research project, From Housing Beneficiaries to Urban Citizens, looking at the effects of state-sponsored rehousing on urban citizenship in China, India, and South Africa."

The Higher Research Seminar is the main collective seminar of the Department. The research staff and invited national and international leading scholars present ongoing research and analyses of a broad range of exciting topics of relevance for Political Science.

The Higher Research Seminar is held on Wednesdays, 13.15 to 14.30 in Eden 367, unless otherwise indicated. PhD Mid-term seminars 13:15 to 14:45. 

Convenors: Robert Klemmensen and Jonathan Polk

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