Dr
Yu-Tung
Wu
(he/him)
School of Geography and Planning
Research Associate
Full contact details
Geography and Planning Building
- Profile
-
I am a Research Associate specialising in housing and urban geography. I first joined the School as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow in 2024, before joining my current research project in 2025, which examines housing policy in the UK, with a particular focus on commonhold, leasehold, and social housing. I completed my PhD in Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield in 2024. My doctoral research examined how financialised, state-led urban policies have shaped the everyday lives and housing circumstances of war-displaced migrants and their descendants living in Taiwan's Military Dependents' Villages, and how these processes have reshaped urban development. Prior to this, I was awarded the degree of MSc in Cities and Global Development by the University of Sheffield in 2020, and obtained a BSc in Urban Planning from National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan, in 2018.
- Research interests
-
My research explores how housing policy and urban change shape everyday life, community relations, and socio-spatial inequalities over time. My current research interests centre on three areas: housing financialisation, urban verticalisation, and housing tenure and property rights.
- Publications
-
Journal articles
- Embryonic financialization: the privatization of Military Dependents’ Villages in Taiwan. Housing Studies, 1-26.
- Bridging disciplines and unveiling urban inequalities: the Emerging Urban Inequalities Conference 2025, Sheffield, 26–27 June and 3 July 2025. Town Planning Review, 1-6.
Reports
- Preparing for commonhold in England and Wales: Understanding the challenges for Housing Associations
- Supporting Housing Associations to prepare for commonhold
- Policy briefing: Supporting resident-led governance in multi-occupancy buildings
- Governing multi-occupancy buildings: learning from the international evidence base
- Embryonic financialization: the privatization of Military Dependents’ Villages in Taiwan. Housing Studies, 1-26.
- Grants
-
- 2024: Principal Investigator, ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship: Housing transformations and financialisation: The everyday urbanism of housing for war immigrants "Military Dependents' Villages" (£97,777)
- 2024: University of Sheffield PGR Publication Scholarship (£4,655)
- Teaching interests
-
My teaching primarily covers topics related to informal housing, housing inequalities, and housing financialisation.