Dr Katherine V. Gough
MA (Cambridge), PhD (University College London)
Reader in Human Geography
email: K.V.Gough@lboro.ac.uk
Tel : +44 (0)1509 222790
Fax: +44 (0)1509 223930
Room NN.1.25, Martin Hall building, East Park
Career
2010 - Reader in Human Geography, Loughborough University
1997 – 2010 Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen
Research interests
My research focus on urban issues in the global South cuts across the fields of social, economic and development geography. In particular I have contributed to debates concerning: housing and home; youth, mobility and entrepreneurship; rural-urban dynamics; governance and planning; and comparative urbanism. Initially my primary research area was Latin America, subsequently it became West Africa, and more recently I have also worked in the Asia-Pacific region and East Africa. I have a particular interest in conducting comparative research and longitudinal studies.
Current research projects
Youth and employment: the role of entrepreneurship in African economies (YEMP), Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU), 6.2 million DKK for a 4 year project 2009-2013. I am the PI on this major research project which is based in the Department of Geography, University of Copenhagen. The aim of the project is to analyse the role of entrepreneurship in generating youth employment in Ghana, Uganda and Zambia. Copenhagen Business School, Makerere University Business School, University of Ghana and University of Zambia are all collaborators in the project. The research team consists of 14 staff members and 6 PhD students. Webpage: http://geo.ku.dk/yemp/
Pereira revisited: the consolidation of low-income housing in Colombia, Carlsbergfondet, 75,000 DKK for one year project 2010 (sole investigator). I revisited low-income settlements in the Colombian city of Pereira where I previously conducted research in 1987 and 1997. Conducting interviews in the same houses has generated data on housing consolidation over a 23 year period highlighting the capacities of, and challenges faced by, low-income inhabitants in their attempts to create decent housing for themselves and their families.
Land management system, urban governance and leadership: the future of urban Tanzania, Consultative Research Committee for Development Research (FFU), 4.96 million DKK for 3 year project 2010-2012. This project is led by the Institute of Development Studies, University of Dar es Salaam in collaboration with the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Copenhagen. The aim is to investigate the dynamics of the urban land management system, urban governance and leadership in urban areas of Tanzania. I am the co-leader of the Danish team. Webpage: http://geo.ku.dk/urbtan/
Urban growth and poverty in mining Africa, ESRC/DFID, approx. £400,000 for 3 year project 2010-2013. This project, led by Deborah Bryceson, University of Glasgow, explores the relationship between mining and urbanization in large and small-scale mining settlements in Angola, Ghana and Tanzania. I am responsible for the Ghana part of the project. Webpage: http://web2.ges.gla.ac.uk/upima/
African rural-city connections, EU-FP7, £2.36 million for 4 year project 2012-2016. This major research project is a collaboration between researchers based in Denmark, the Netherlands, France, UK, Ghana, Tanzania, Rwanda and Cameroon and is led by the University of Copenhagen. The aim is toexplore the connections between rural transformations, mobility, and urbanization processes and analyse how these contribute to an understanding of the scale, nature and location of poverty in sub-Saharan Africa. I lead the work package 'Urban growth dynamics and livelihood opportunities' and the Loughborough University team.
Publications (since 2008)
Books and special issues
Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. (eds) 2010 Rural-urban dynamics: livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers, London and New York, Routledge.
Hansen, K.T.H., Dalsgaard, A.L., Gough, K.V., Madsen, U.A., Valentin, K. and Wildermuth, N. 2008 Youth and the City in the Global South: urban lives in Brazil, Vietnam and Zambia, Bloomington, Indiana University Press.
Gough, K.V., Bayliss-Smith, T., Connell, J. and Mertz, O. (guest editors) 2010 Small island sustainability in the Pacific, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 31(1): 1-129.
Gough, K.V. (guest editor) 2008 Geographies of children and youth, Geografiska Annaler, 90B(3): 217-303.
Peer reviewed articles
Gough, K.V. and Rigg, J. (in press) Re-territorialising rural handicrafts in Thailand and Vietnam: a view from the margins of the miracle, Environment and Planning A
Gough, K.V. (in press) Reflections on conducting urban comparison, Urban Geography
Gough, K.V. and Yankson, P.W.K. 2011 A neglected aspect of the housing market: the role of caretakers in peri-urban Accra, Ghana, Urban Studies, 48: 793-810.
Gough, K.V. 2010 Continuity and adaptability of home-based enterprises: a longitudinal study from Accra, Ghana, International Development Planning Review, 32(1): 45-70.
Gough, K.V., Bayliss-Smith, T., Connell, J. and Mertz, O. 2010 Guest editorial introduction: Small island sustainability in the Pacific, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 31: 1-9.
Bayliss-Smith, T., Gough, K.V., Christensen, A.E., and Kristensen, S.P., 2010 Managing Ontong Java: social institutions for production and governance of atoll resources in Solomon Islands, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, 31: 55-69.
Langevang, T. and Gough, K.V. 2009 Survival through movement: the mobility of urban youth in Ghana, Social and Cultural Geography, 10(7): 741-756.
Gough, K.V. and Tran, H.A. 2009 Changing housing policy in Vietnam: emerging inequalities in a residential area of Hanoi, Cities, 26: 175-186.
Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. 2009 Global-local interactions: Socio-economic and spatial dynamics in Vietnam's coffee frontier, Geographical Journal, 175(2): 133-145.
Rigg, J., Bebbington, T., Gough, K.V., Bryceson, D.F., Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Tacoli, C. 2009 The World Development Report 2009 'reshapes economic geography': geographical reflections, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 34(2): 128-136.
Bryceson, D., Gough, K.V., Rigg, J. and Agergaard, J. 2009 Critical Commentary: The World Bank Development Report 2009, Urban Studies, 46(4): 723-738.
Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. 2008 From smallholders to transnationals: the impact of changing consumer preferences in the EU on Ghana's pineapple sector, Geoforum, 39: 1687-169.
Gough, K.V. 2008 Guest editorial introduction: Nordic Geographies of Children and Youth, Geografiska Annaler, 90(3): 217-226.
Gough, K.V. 2008 'Moving around': social and spatial mobility of youth in Lusaka, Geografiska Annaler, 90(3): 243-255.
Book chapters
Gough, K.V. (in press) Home as workplace, in Smith, S.J. (editor in chief) The International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Elsevier.
Gough, K.V. and Olwig, M. (in press) Debating resilience: temporal and spatial scales, in Rigg, J. and Oven, K.J. (eds) Resilience: an interdisciplinary dialogue, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Gough, K.V., Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Møller-Jensen, L. 2010 Conceptualising and performing comparison of rural-urban dynamics in Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. Rural-urban dynamics: livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers, London and New York, Routledge 9-22.
Gough, K.V. and Fold, N. 2010 Changing livelihoods and settlement growth in Ghana's pineapple frontier, in Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. Rural-urban dynamics: livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers, London and New York, Routledge 59-73.
Gough, K.V. and Anh, D.N. 2010 Handicrafts in Vietnam: rural urbanization in the Red River Delta, in Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. Rural-urban dynamics: livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers, London and New York, Routledge 116-133.
Gough, K.V. and Rigg, J. 2010 Conceptualising the rural and urban in the handicraft and manufacturing frontier, in Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. Rural-urban dynamics: livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers, London and New York, Routledge 151-157.
Agergaard, J., Fold, N, and Gough, K.V. 2010 Introduction, in Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. Rural-urban dynamics: livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers, London and New York, Routledge 1-8.
Fold, N., Gough, K.V. Agergaard, J., 2010 Conclusion, in Agergaard, J., Fold, N. and Gough, K.V. Rural-urban dynamics: livelihoods, mobility and markets in African and Asian frontiers, London and New York, Routledge 198-205.
Gough, K.V. 2008 Writing a PhD as (published) papers in Blunt, A. and Souch, C. (eds) Publishing in Geography: a guide for new researchers, London, RGS/IBG, 21-22.
Gough, K.V. 2008 Youth and the home, in Hansen, K.T.H., Dalsgaard, A.L., Gough, K.V., Madsen, U.A., Valentin, K. and Wildermuth, N., Youth and the City in the Global South: urban lives in Brazil, Vietnam and Zambia, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 127-150.
Gough, K.V., Tipple, A.G. and Napier, M. 2008 Effect of situational contingencies on home-based enterprises in Ghana and South Africa, in Gupta, V., Levenburg, N. Moore, L.L., Motwani, J. and Schwartz, T.V. (eds) Culturally-sensitive models of family business in sub-Saharan Africa, Hyderabad, Icfai University Press, 111-131.
Editorial work
Editor of International Development Planning Review
Associate Editor of Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
Current teaching
Undergraduate
Year 1 Tutorials
Year 2 Researching Human Geographies
Geographies of Social Difference
Year 3 Urbanization in the Global South
Postgraduate (taught)
Globalization: Key Debates and Issues
Doing Global Research
PhD supervision (current)
I welcome applications from potential PhD students centred on any of my core research themes.
Loughborough University
Stephanie Gregorius: The everyday lives of young people with disabilities in Accra, Ghana
Norah Penawou: Environmental and socio-economic impacts of oil exploration activities on children in the Niger delta
Mathew Dix: Corruption in development work
University of Copenhagen
Mette Olwig: How global and local organizations shape local social resilience in the face of flooding in northern Ghana
Irene Velez-Torres: Internal migration and socio-environmental conflicts in Colombia
YEMP project
Robert Afutu-Kotey: Youth livelihoods within the mobile telephony sector in the city of Accra, Ghana
Edith Basalirwa: Entrepreneurship education, social competences and entrepreneurial proclivity among university graduates in Uganda
Marshall Kala: Entrepreneurship and poverty reduction: the case of the youth in small-scale mining in Ghana
Moonga Mumba: Informal support networks and youth self-employment in Zambia
Agnes Nassuna: Intrapreneurial environment and innovation in micro-finance institutions in Uganda
Mulenga Nkula: An Assessment of Community Banking and Youth Access to Finance in Zambia
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