Dr Charlotte Goodburn is a a Reader in Chinese Politics and Development. Before coming to King's, Charlotte was a post-doctoral researcher in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge. She completed her PhD in the Department of Land Economy at Cambridge, and holds a BA (in History) and an MPhil (in Contemporary Chinese Studies), also from Cambridge.

Charlotte studied Mandarin at Peking University and at Taiwan Normal University, and has spent several years working, studying and conducting fieldwork in China. 

She was appointed as Deputy Director of the Lau China Institute in 2016. She is also teaches in the Department of International Development.

Research

• Chinese politics and development
• Rural-urban migration and urbanisation
• Comparative development in Asia, especially of China and India
• Gender and household dynamics
• Childhood and intergenerational poverty
• Population and development
• Urban and rural change
• Migration studies
• Social welfare

There is a strong comparative dimension to her work: she is interested in the political economy of a wide range of developing countries and in issues in politics, migration and development more generally. In her current work, she compares rural-urban migration in China and in India.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• International Development BA

Postgraduate

• China and Globalisation MSc

PhD supervision 

Charlotte is interested in supervising on the following topics:

• Chinese politics and development
• Rural-urban migration and urbanisation
• Comparative development in Asia, especially of China and India
• Gender and household dynamics
• Childhood and intergenerational poverty
• Population and development
• Urban and rural change
• Migration studies
• Social welfare
• Identity registration systems
• Policy transfer and the 'China model'

Further details

See Charlotte's research profile

See Charlotte's website