Ran Liu is Associate Professor at the College of Resource Environment and Tourism, Capital Normal University, Beijing, China. She holds a Ph.D. in Human Geography from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She holds an M.A. degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. Her research interests include the urban village (chengzhongcun), low-income housing policy, land reform, China’s urbanization and migration issues.
Her research on urban village redevelopment won the 2018 “Case Study Award” from the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. The work is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC No. 42071201, 41701188), the Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education of China (No. 16YJCZH060), and the Beijing Philosophy and Social Science Planning Program and the Social Science Research Key Program of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (No. SZ202010028016).
She has published in international peer-reviewed journals (including Environment and Planning A, Cities, Habitat International, Applied Geography, Urban Policy and Research, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, etc.). She has also published the monograph Spatial Mobility of Migrant Workers in Beijing, China (Springer, 2015) and chapters in the book The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, the City and Urban Society (Routledge, 2020) and Population Mobility, Urban Planning and Management in China (Springer, 2015).