Jin Zhu

Dr Jin Zhu is an Assistant Professor at Department of Real Estate and Construction and Department of Urban Planning and Design, University of Hong Kong. Previously, he worked as an Assistant Professor at City University of Hong Kong. His research interests span housing and land policy, urbanisation and migration, sustainable built environment and urban governance. He completed his PhD (Planning and Urban Development) at University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia and received his bachelors and masters degrees in urban planning from Zhejiang and Tongji Universities, China. Before his PhD, Jin worked as a town planner at Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Institute and consulted widely for different levels of government in mainland China. During his PhD at UNSW, he also worked as a part-time researcher at the university’s City Futures Research Centre and Social Policy Research Centre.

Dr Zhu is accepting applications for PhD students with similar research interests. Applicants can send CVs and research proposals to jinzhu@hku.hk and explore the possibility.

Fields of Interest

• Housing Policy (housing with ambiguous property rights, public housing, transitional housing, migrant housing, student housing and homelessness, etc.)
• Land Policy (Chinese land system, rural land consolidation, land acquisition and disputes, etc.)
• Urban Planning and Governance (planning system reform, spatial planning and housing market dynamics, planning decision-making and intergovernmental bargaining, planning for sustainability and resilience, etc.)

Education

• Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) UNSW Australia (2016 — 2020)
• Master of Engineering (M.Eng.) Tongji University (2012 — 2015)
• Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Zhejiang University (2007 — 2012)

Companies

• Assistant Professor The University of Hong Kong (2022)
• Assistant Professor (Urban and Housing Studies), Department of Public Policy City University of Hong Kong (2021 — 2022)
• Research Associate, Social Infrastructure for Equity and Wellbeing (SIEW) Lab The University of Hong Kong (2020 — 2021)
• Research Assistant, City Futures Research Centre UNSW (2019 — 2020)
• Sessional Academic, School of Architecture and Design UNSW (2017 — 2019)
• Research Assistant, Social Policy Research Centre UNSW (2017 — 2018)
• Town Planner Shanghai Urban Planning and Design Research Institute (2015 — 2016)