Departmental homepageProfessor Hall is an economic geographer whose research develops geographically sensitive cultural economy approaches to the economy in order to shape academic, public and policy debate at a time of profound economic disruption. Supported by funding from the ESRC, The British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation, the majority of her research is focused on the UK and its relations with the EU, the USA and China. Her research has been covered by leading media outlets including The Financial Times, the BBC, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph and Wired magazine. She is currently Deputy Director and a Senior Fellow at the UK in a Changing Europe where she's focusing on UK-EU relations and the changing economic geography of the UK. She is co-Editor-in-Chief of Geoforum and held a British Academic Mid-Career Fellowship (2016-17). In 2020, she was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Professor Hall teaches on economic geography courses within the Geography Tripos that are relevant to her areas of research.
Her research interests centre on the changing economic geography of the UK, its relations with the USA, the EU and China. She is particularly interested in how academic research can be used to further academic, popular and public debate.
Hall, S., 2023. Locating state capitalism: Financial centres and the internationalisation of Chinese banks in London. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, vol. 55, issue 5, p.1239-1254.
Hall, S. and Heneghan, M., 2023. Brexit and ‘missing’ financial services jobs in the United Kingdom. Contemporary Social Science, vol. 18, issue 2, p.235-249.
Hall, S. 2021. Respatialising Finance: Power, Politics and Offshore Renminbi Market Making in London. London, Wiley
Hall, S. 2017. Global Finance: places, spaces and people. London, Sage
