2025

Yizhao Du joins the SPUR Team from the Delft University of Technology as a visiting doctoral researcher. His research primarily addresses the complexities of mega-regional governance while highlighting the importance of smaller urban entities conceptualized as secondary cities.

Dr. Sarah Schilliger joins the SPUR team as a senior researcher in the project ‘Urban Essential Workers’ (NRP-80 of Swiss National Science Foundation) where she investigates the working realities and politics of regulation in the sectors of cleaning, urban transport, childcare and food retailing.