Maggi Leung

WP 6 co-lead

Prof. Dr. Maggi Leung co-leads WP 6: Urban Precarious Outdoor Workers' Weather- and Climate-related Knowledge ∞ Action Networks. She also takes active part in the Climares Academy.

Maggi Leung is Professor of International Development Studies and Chair of the Governance and Inclusive Development research group. Maggi is a geographer and migration scholar by training. Her research aims to account for the prevailing uneven socio-spatial impact of the flows that define our interconnected world. She endeavours to produce insights that contribute to more just and sustainable futures. Working with multi-scalar, intersectional and translocal perspectives, her main research interests are: (i) opportunities and challenges of migration and mobilities (especially in peripherised areas and contexts particularly affected by climate and environmental changes) (ii) Chinese transnationalism and its impact on global development, and (iii) internationalisation of education and knowledge mobilities.

Expertise: Migration and mobilities, Chinese transnationalism, climate change and livelihoods, internationalisation of education