About
Professor Sarah Hall serves as the 1931 Professor of Geography and a Fellow at St John’s College, University of Cambridge. She is a Senior Fellow and Deputy Director at UK in a Changing Europe, where she examines UK-EU relations and the economic geography of post-Brexit financial services. Her research integrates cultural economy and political economy frameworks to analyze the spatial impacts of global financial shifts on cities, particularly focusing on London’s role as a financial hub and its evolving ties with China and the EU.
- Education: MA, PhD
Her work, funded by the ESRC, British Academy, Leverhulme Trust, and Nuffield Foundation, explores how macroeconomic transitions—such as Brexit, China’s financial rise, and finance-led capitalism—reshape regional economies. She employs geographically sensitive approaches to bridge academic, public, and policy debates.
Research Trends across her 2023–2015 publications emphasize:
- Post-Brexit financial services job displacement and regulatory divergence
- State capitalism’s role in Chinese banking expansion into London
- Interlocking corporate-policy networks between EU financial centres
- Offshore RMB market dynamics in the UK
- Marketization of higher education and elite recruitment
Scientific Recognition:
- British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship (2016–17)
- Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2020)
She contributes to Geoforum as Co-Editor-in-Chief and mentors prospective PhD students in economic geography and financial geopolitics.
