Dr Callum Ward

Management School

Lecturer in Valuation and Governance

Callum Ward.
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Callum.Ward@sheffield.ac.uk
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B049, Sheffield University Management School

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Dr Callum Ward
Management School
B049
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
Profile

Callum undertook a PhD in Geography at KU Leuven, Belgium, as a Flemish Research Foundation Fellow, on the the political economy of land rent and real estate financing. Upon completing his PhD, Callum joined York University, Canada, as a Fellow in Innovation and Rentiership investigating assetisation in the digital economy.

In 2019 Callum joined the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. He was the research fellow on the ORA-ERC project 'What is Governed in Cities' (WHIG) led by Prof Mike Raco in collaboration with the University of Amsterdam and Sciences Po Paris. He subsequently worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Geography and Environment, LSE (2021-22), and the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University (2022-24).

In 2024 Callum joined CRAFiC at Sheffield University Management School, where he continue to pursue an agenda utilising corporate research methods to offer insight on debates in land economy, asset formation, and issues of governance.

Research interests

Callum uses corporate research methods to contribute to debates in economic and urban geography. Much of his work has focused on financing and governance in land development, but within a broader agenda interested on the reconfiguration of state-market relations and their mediation by asset forms. As such, his research elaborates on issues of accountability in the housing market, as well as the evolving nature of governance more generally.

Publications

Journal articles

  • Ward C, Brill F, Deruytter L & Pike A (2024) . Finance and Space, 1(1), 318-339.
  • Ward C (2024) . Housing, Theory and Society, 41(1), 42-46.
  • Ward C & Brill F (2024) . Antipode, 56(1), 353-373.
  • Birch K & Ward C (2024) . Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(1), 47-50.
  • Birch K & Ward C (2024) . Dialogues in Human Geography, 14(1), 9-29.
  • Birch K & Ward C (2023) . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(6), 1429-1437.
  • Purcell TF & Ward C (2023) . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(6), 1600-1617.
  • Ward C, Brill F & Raco M (2023) . Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 55(3), 742-759.
  • Brill F, Raco M & Ward C (2023) . European Urban and Regional Studies, 30(1), 50-65.
  • Birch K, Ward C & Tretter E (2022) . Competition & Change, 26(3-4), 407-414.
  • Raco M, Ward C, Brill F, Sanderson D, Freire-Trigo S, Ferm J, Hamiduddin I & Livingstone N (2022) . Progress in Planning, 166.
  • Ward C (2022) . Urban Studies, 59(9), 1837-1854.
  • Birch K, Cochrane DT & Ward C (2021) . Big Data & Society, 8(1).
  • Ward C (2021) . International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(2), 249-265.
  • Ward C (2020) . Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(2), 191-194.
  • Ward C (2019) . Radical Housing Journal, 1(2), 207-210.
  • Ward C, Van Loon J & Wijburg G (2019) . Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie [Journal of Economic and Human Geography], 110(2), 123-137.
  • Ward C & Swyngedouw E (2018) . Antipode, 50(4), 1077-1097.
  • Ward C & Aalbers MB (2016) . Urban Studies, 53(9), 1760-1783.

Book chapters

  • Brill F & Ward C (2025) , Reimagining Urban Marxisms (pp. 124-132). Routledge
  • Brill F & Ward C (2025) , Reimagining Urban Marxisms Rethinking Thinkers Texts and Challenges (pp. 124-132).
  • Ward C & Zacarés JM (2024) , Global Rentier Capitalism (pp. 111-124). Routledge
  • Swyngedouw E & Ward C (2022) , The Political Economy of Land (pp. 40-55). Routledge
Research group

Centre for Research into Accounting and Finance in Context (CRAFiC)

Teaching interests

At the heart of Callum's teaching is the principle of 'constructive alignment'. This means that students learn through practical application of knowledge, so what they do and how it is assessed must be closely aligned with the skills they need to succeed at university and in further employment. This entails a variety of strategies aimed at activating students and fostering a vibrant learning community, including student-led case studies, self-guided fieldtrips, roleplay debates in the classroom, and use of multimedia sources in the online learning environment.

Callum has taught at KU Leuven, University College London, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Uppsala University. He attained a Post-Graduate Certificate in Higher Education from the LSE in 2022. In 2021, won the university-wide teaching award LSESU Award for Personal and Professional Development based on student nominations.

Professional activities and memberships

Early Career and Digital Media Editor for Finance and Space

PhD Supervision
  • Land
  • Housing
  • Urban regeneration
  • Real estate
  • Assetisation
  • Wealth chains

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