Professor Sarah Hall
Professor Sarah Hall
1931 Chair in Geography, College Lecturer in Geography
Geography
Professor Hall is a public economic geographer whose work focuses on the uneven spatial implications of profound macro economic change including Brexit, the changing economic position of China internationally and the rise of finance led capitalism. She uses her research findings to contribute to academic, public and policy debate.

Supported by funding from the ESRC, the British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation, the majority of Professor Hall's research centres on the impacts of financial services in the UK, London's international financial district and its relations with Europe, China and North America. Her research has been covered my leading media outlets including The Financial Times, the BBC, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph and Wired magazine.

Professor Hall is currently a Senior Fellow with The UK in a Changing Europe where she is focusing on Brexit, the UK's financial services sector and the changing nature of the UK's economic geography. She was appointed an Editor of Geoforum in 2013 and held a British Academy Mid Career Fellowship (2015-2017). She was elected a Fellow of The Academy of Social Sciences in 2020 and has served as an Adviser to the House of Lords European Affairs Committee.

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