Dr. Ya Ping Wang is Chair Professor in Global City Futures at the School of Social and Political Sciences, University Glasgow. He is Director and Principal Investigator of the Centre for Sustainable, Healthy and Learning Cities and Neighbourhoods (SHLC), a multi-national collaborative project funded by the UKRI Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF). Professor Wang’s research focusses on urbanisation, housing, rural to urban migration, urban poverty and neighbourhood changes in China and other developing countries. He is author/co-author of Housing Policy and Practice in China; Urban Poverty, Housing and Social Change in China, and Planning and Housing in the Rapidly Urbanising World.  Professor Wang recently led several major international collaborative research projects on urban transformation and neighbourhood studies involving over 100 researchers from UK, China and six other Asian and African Countries.  Professor Wang is Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS).