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Research
Latest papers
Disrupted spaces, adaptive lives: Unequal impacts of Hanoi's first urban railway lines.
Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2026 · senior author
Creative hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Transgressive spaces in a socialist state?
Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland) · 2022 · senior author
The utterly unforeseen livelihood shock: COVID-19 and street vendor coping mechanisms in Hanoi, Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang.
Singapore journal of tropical geography · 2021 · first author
Latest funding
- $51,994
The Borderwall: Livelihood Shocks in the Northern Vietnamese Borderlands
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $92,287
Multispecies Politics in the Borderlands: conservation, livelihoods, and territoriality in India and Vietnam
SSHRC · 2025 · Co-investigator
- $36,000
Primate behavioural plasticity in response to anthropogenic change at multiple scales
NSERC · 2024 · Principal investigator
5 publications.
Disrupted spaces, adaptive lives: Unequal impacts of Hanoi's first urban railway lines.
Kee M, Turner S
Creative hubs in Hanoi, Vietnam: Transgressive spaces in a socialist state?
Labbe D, Zuberec C, Turner S
The utterly unforeseen livelihood shock: COVID-19 and street vendor coping mechanisms in Hanoi, Chiang Mai and Luang Prabang.
Turner S, Langill JC, Nguyen BN
Informal motorbike taxi drivers and mobility injustice on Hanoi's streets. Negotiating the curve of a new narrative.
Turner S
Challenges and dilemmas: fieldwork with upland minorities in socialist Vietnam, Laos and southwest China.
Turner S
The Borderwall: Livelihood Shocks in the Northern Vietnamese Borderlands
Principal investigators: Michaud, Jean
Keywords: borders; border wall; livelihoods; resistance; infrastructural violence; uplands; Vietnam
Multispecies Politics in the Borderlands: conservation, livelihoods, and territoriality in India and Vietnam
Principal investigators: Gagné, Karine
Keywords: Multispecies ethnography; conservation; human-animal relations; borderlands; territoriality; India; Vietnam
Primate behavioural plasticity in response to anthropogenic change at multiple scales
Principal investigators: Turner, Sarah
Keywords: macaca fuscata; physical impairment; movement ecology; social behaviour; conservation biology; behavioural plasticity; sapajus libidinosus; sapajus flavius; rehabilitation and release; climate change
Primate behavioural plasticity in response to anthropogenic change at multiple scales
Principal investigators: Turner, Sarah
Keywords: macaca fuscata; physical impairment; movement ecology; social behaviour; conservation biology; behavioural plasticity; sapajus libidinosus; sapajus flavius; rehabilitation and release; climate change
Negotiating Childhoods in Small Asian Cities: A Multi-generational Analysis.
Principal investigators: Turner, Sarah
Keywords: Childhood; Small cities; Southeast Asia; Multi-generational study; Urban form change; Urban environments; Childhood play; Childhood mobility; Qualitative methods; Photo elicitation
Trauma, loss, and COVID-19: A longitudinal examination of coping
Principal investigators: Morstead, Talia
Keywords: stress; coping; health psychology; interpersonal relationships; social support; trauma; grief
Coping with Infrastructural Curves: Marginalized Citizens Challenging State Plans in India and Vietnam
Principal investigators: Messier, Philippe
Keywords: infrastructure; mobility; roads; marketplaces; wireless technologies; comparative; marginalised communities; state policies; socialist; democratic; modernization; visual and multimodal methods
Urban agriculture and state visions for modern Vietnamese cities: Opportunities, dilemmas, and negotiations
Principal investigators: Pham, Thi Thanh Hien
Keywords: urban food growing; urban planning; motivations; food policy; food systems
Urban agriculture and state visions for modern Vietnamese cities: Opportunities, dilemmas, and negotiations
Principal investigators: Pham, Thi Thanh Hien
Keywords: urban food growing; urban planning; motivations; food policy; food systems
Coping with Infrastructural Curves: Marginalized Citizens Challenging State Plans in India and Vietnam
Principal investigators: Messier, Philippe
Keywords: infrastructure; mobility; roads; marketplaces; wireless technologies; comparative; marginalised communities; state policies; socialist; democratic; modernization; visual and multimodal methods
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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