Tom Gillespie and Seth Schindler

Tom Gillespie is Lecturer in Global Urban Development and Hallsworth Research Fellow at the University of Manchester. His research sits at the intersection of urban geography, political economy and development studies, and is driven by a commitment to understanding and addressing global urban inequalities. His work has been published in journals such as Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research and Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.

Seth Schindler is Senior Lecturer of Urban Development and Transformation at the University of Manchester. He is the Co-Director of Research with the African Cities Research Consortium, and the co-founder of the Second Cold War Observatory. He previously coordinated the Global Studies Programme at Humboldt University of Berlin.