Zhiwu Wei is Leverhulme Trust and Isaac Newton Trust Early Career Fellow at the Department of Land Economy, and Governing Body Fellow of Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. He is also affiliated with Cambridge’s Lab of Interdisciplinary Spatial Analysis. His research applies big data, GIS, and causal inference methods to understand the causes and consequences of spatial inequality, as well as how new technologies and regional development strategies shape spatial inequality.
Zhiwu received his Ph.D. in Land Economy from the University of Cambridge with no corrections, his M.Sc. in Development Economics from Birmingham University, and his B.A. in Information Management and Information Systems from Renmin University of China. He has done occasional research for the International Inequalities Institute and the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics, the Cambridge Judge Business School, Tsinghua University’s Institute for China Sustainable Urbanization, and Peking University’s Institute of New Structural Economics. Outside of academia, he has provided consulting services for international organizations including the OECD and the Asian Development Bank.
During his visit at DSPI, Zhiwu will work with Professor Jane Gingrich to investigate how perceptions of spatial inequality shape individuals’ attitudes, behaviours, and political preferences through survey experiments.
