Sarah Hall

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Biography

My research focuses on the uneven spatial implications of profound macro economic change including Brexit, the changing economic position of China internationally and the rise of finance led capitalism. I am particularly interested in advancing cultural political economy approaches that bring a focus on social and cultural processes into closer dialogue with the political economy of global finance.

Supported by funding from the ESRC, the British Academy, The Leverhulme Trust and the Nuffield Foundation, the majority of my research centres on financial services in the UK, London's international financial district and its relations with Europe, China and North America. My research has been covered my leading media outlets including The Financial Times, the BBC, The New York Times, The Daily Telegraph and Wired magazine.

I am currently a Senior Fellow with The UK in a Changing Europe where I'm focusing on Brexit, the UK's financial services sector and the changing nature of the UK's economic geography .I was appointed an Editor of Geoforum in 2013 and held a British Academy Mid Career Fellowship (2015-2017). I was elected a fellow of The Academy of Social Sciences in 2020.

Research Summary

Research projects

2023-2025 ESRC Senior Fellowship with UK in a Changing Europe 'Levelling up? Implications and impacts of changing geopolitical landscapes for the UK's economic geography' £402,000

2023-2025 Deputy Director, UK in a Changing Europe funded by the ESRC £281,000

2019-2023 ESRC Senior Fellowship with The UK in a Changing Europe 'Financial services in a changing Europe: Brexit and financial centres across the UK' £461,000

2022 ESRC 'Real time data to understand local conditions, needs and potential' £145,000 (John Gathergood PI)

2015-2017 British Academy Mid Career Fellowship 'New mobile elites: motivations, experiences and trajectories of highly skilled Chinese migrants in London'. £102,515

2015-2019 Leverhulme Trust Programme Grant on Sustaining Urban habitats: an interdisciplinary approach (Co-investigator, PI Professor Darren Robinson, total grant £1.75m)

2011-2014: British Academy 'Globalizing for-profit business education service firms and the making of education markets in the UK and US

2008-2010: ESRC First Grant 'Spaces of business education and the (re)production of financial theory in practice'. £189,350.

2009: Financial Services Research Forum 'The wholesale-retail finance interface' with Prof Jon Beaverstock (Co-I), £8,690.

2009: Financial Services Research Forum 'Scoping the private wealth management of the high net worth market in the UK's financial services industry'. Co-investigator with Prof Jon Beaverstock (P-I), £9,950.

2006-2007: ESRC, 'The globalization of the executive search industry in Europe'. Co-investigator with Prof Jon Beaverstock (P-I) and Dr James Faulconbridge (Co-I, Lancaster University). £44,968.

2005-2007: The Nuffield Foundation, 'Geographies of quantitative finance: American business schools and investment banking in London's financial district'. £7,456.

Selected Publications

• HALL, S, 2017. Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: renminbi internationalisation in London's financial district Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 42(4), 489-502
• TÖPFER, L-M and HALL, S, 2018. London’s rise as an offshore RMB financial centre: state–finance relations and selective institutional adaptation Regional Studies. 52(8), 1053-1064
• HALL, S, 2018. Regulating the Geographies of Market Making: Offshore Renminbi Markets in London’s International Financial District Economic Geography. 94(3), 259-278
• HALL, S, 2017. Global Finance: places, spaces and people Sage.

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• HALL, S, 2023. Anticipating Sino-UK fintech networks and the changing geographies of money as infrastructure Environment and Planning A.
• HALL, S and HENEGHAN, M, 2023. Brexit and 'missing' financial services jobs in the United Kingdom Contemporary Social Science.
• HALL, S, LEAVER, A, SEABROOKE, L and TISCHER, D, 2023. The changing spatial arrangements of global finance: financial, social and legal infrastructures Environment and Planning A.
• HALL, S and HENEGHAN, M, 2023. Interlocking corporate and policy networks in financial services: Paris-London relations post Brexit Advances in Economic Geography.
• HALL, S, 2022. The economics of UK financial services post Brexit. In: PORTES, J, ed., The economics of Brexit: what have we learned? CEPR.
• HALL, S, 2022. Locating state capitalism: Financial centres and the internationalisation of Chinese banks in London Environment and Planning A.
• HENEGHAN, M and HALL, S, 2021. The emerging geography of European financial centres: Fragmentation in the European Union and concentration in the UK? European Urban and Regional Studies.
• HALL, S, 2021. Cultural Economy of Finance. In: KNOX-HAYES, J and WOJCIK, D, eds., The Routledge Handbook of Financial Geography Routledge. 84-102
• HALL, S, 2021. Brexit: financial services face continued uncertainty - here's why Available at: <https://theconversation.com/brexit-financial-services-face-continued-uncertainty-heres-why-153486>
• HALL, S, 2021. Respatialising finance: power, politics and offshore renminbi market making in London RGS-IBG Book Series. Wiley Blackwell.
• GEOFORUM EDITORS, 2020. Revisiting open access publishing Geoforum. 112, 1-2
• HALL S, 2019. Reframing labour market mobility in global finance: Chinese elites in London’s financial district Urban Geography. 40(5), 699-718
• PAN, F, HALL S and ZHANG, H, 2019. The spatial dynamics of financial activities in Beijing: agglomeration economies and urban planning Urban Geography.
• TÖPFER, L-M and HALL, S, 2018. London’s rise as an offshore RMB financial centre: state–finance relations and selective institutional adaptation Regional Studies. 52(8), 1053-1064
• HALL, S, 2018. Regulating the Geographies of Market Making: Offshore Renminbi Markets in London’s International Financial District Economic Geography. 94(3), 259-278
• HALL S, 2018. Placing the state within geofinance Dialogues in Human Geography. 8(3), 281-284
• HALL S and WOJCIK, D, 2018. 'Ground zero' of Brexit: London as an international financial centre Geoforum.
• HALL, S, 2017. Elite Labour. In: CASTER, N, GOODCHILD, M, LIU, W, KOBAYASHI, A and MARSTON, R, eds., The International Encyclopaedia of Geography Wiley.
• FAULCONBRIDGE J R, BEAVERSTOCK J V and HALL, S, 2017. Corporate spatial organization and producer services. In: CASTER, N, GOODCHILD, M, LIU, W, KOYABASHI, A, MARSTON, R and RICHARDSON, D, eds., The International Encyclopaedia of Geography Wiley.
• HALL, S, 2017. Rethinking international financial centres through the politics of territory: renminbi internationalisation in London's financial district Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 42(4), 489-502
• HALL, S, 2017. (Post)graduate education markets and the formation of mobile transnational economic elites. In: GLUCKLER, J, LAZEGA, E and HAMMER, I, eds., Knowledge and networks Springer. 103-116
• HALL, S, 2017. Global Finance: places, spaces and people Sage.
• BEAVERSTOCK J V and HALL, S, 2016. Super-rich capitalism: managing and preserving private wealth management in the offshore world. In: HAY, I and BEAVERSTOCK, J V, eds., Handbook in wealth and the super-rich Edward Elgar. 401-421
• HALL, S, 2016. Variegated geographies of finance: international financial centres and the (re)production of financial working cultures. In: ERTURK, I and GABOR, D, eds., The Routledge Companion to Banking regulation and reform Routledge.
• HALL, S, 2016. Book Review, Liquidity Lost by Paul Langley Journal of Cultural Economy. 9(1), 105-107
• HALL, S, 2015. Financial networks and the globalisation of transnational corporations: the case of educational services Journal of Economic Geography. 15(3), 539-559
• BEAVERSTOCK, J V,, FAULCONBRIDGE, J, R, and HALL, S, 2015. The globalization of executive search: professional services strategy and dynamics in the contemporary world Routledge.
• FAULCONBRIDGE J R, BEAVERSTOCK J V and HALL, S, 2015. Executive Search Agencies. In: NEEDLE D and GUEST D, eds., Wiley Encyclopedia of Management Vol 5 Human Resource Management. Wiley. 1-4
• HALL, S, 2015. Financialisation and the production of new financial elites through business education. In: PETERS, M, PARASKEVA, J and BESLEY T, eds., The global financial crisis and educational restructuring Peter Lang Publishing. 265-284
• HALL, S, 2015. Geographies of marketisation in English higher education: territorial and relational markets and the case of undergraduate student fees Area. 47(5), 451-458
• HALL, S, 2014. Money and finance. In: CLOKE, P, CRANG, P and GOODWIN, M, eds., Introducing human geographies 3rd. Routledge. 369-377
• FAULCONBRIDGE, J, R and HALL, S, 2014. Reproducing the City of London’s institutional landscape: the role of education and the learning of situated practices by early career elites Environment and Planning A. 46(7), 1682-1698
• HALL, S, 2014. Entanglements between finance, corporate power and state sovereignty Geopolitics. 19(3), 740-745
• BEAVERSTOCK, J.V., HALL, S. and WAINWRIGHT, T., 2013. Servicing the super-rich: new financial elites and the rise of the private wealth management retail ecology Regional Studies. 47(6), 834-849
• HALL S, 2013. Geographies of Money and Finance III: financial circuits and the 'real economy' Progress in Human Geography. 285-292
• BEAVERSTOCK, J.V., HALL, S.J.E. and WAINWRIGHT, T., 2013. Overseeing the fortunes of the global super-rich: the nature of private wealth management in London's financial district. In: HAY, I., ed., Geographies of the Super-Rich 1st. Edward Elgar. 43-60
• HALL, S and LEYSHON, S, 2013. Editorial: Financialization, space and place Regional Studies. 47(6), 831-833
• HALL, S, 2013. Business education and the (re)production of gendered cultures of work in the City of London Social Politics. 20(2), 222-241
• HALL, S, 2012. Geographies of money and finance II: financialisation and financial subjects Progress in Human Geography. 36(3), 403-411
• FAULCONBRIDGE J R and HALL S, 2012. Business knowledges within and between the world city. In: DERUDDER, B, HOYLER M, TAYLOR P J and WITLOX F, eds., International Handbook of Globalization and World Cities Edward Elgar. 230-239
• BEAVERSTOCK JV, FAULCONBRIDGE JR and HALL, S, 2012. Executive Search. In: RITZER, G, ed., The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization Blackwell. 615-621
• HALL, S, 2012. Theory, practice and crisis: changing economic geographies of money and finance. In: BARNES, T J, PECK, J and SHEPPARD, E, eds., The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Economic Geography Wiley-Blackwell. 97-103
• BEAVERSTOCK JV and HALL, S, 2012. Competing for talent: global mobility, immigration and the City of London's labour market Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 5, 271-287
• HALL, S, 2012. Making space for markets in economic geography Dialogues in Human Geography. 2(2), 142-145
• HALL, S and APPLEYARD, L, 2012. Financial business education and the remaking of gendered investment banking subjects in the (post-crisis) City of London Journal of Cultural economy. 5(4), 457-472
• HALL, S. and APPLEYARD, L., 2011. Commoditising learning: cultural economy and the growth of for-profit educational service firms in London Environment and Planning A. 43(1), 10-27
• HALL S, 2011. Educational ties, social capital and the trans-local reproduction of MBA alumni networks Global Networks. 11(1), 118-138
• HODGSON D, MUZIO D, FAULCONBRIDGE JR, BEAVERSTOCK JV AND HALL S, 2011. Towards corporate professionalization: the case of project management, management consultancy and executive search Current Sociology. 59(4), 443-464
• HALL S, 2011. Geographies of money and finance I: cultural economy, politics and place Progress in Human Geography. 35(2), 234-245
• HALL S AND APPLEYARD L, 2011. Trans-local academic credentials and the (re)production of financial elites Globalisation, Societies and Education. 9(2), 247-564
• HALL S, 2010. Linda McDowell. In: HUBBARD, P and KITCHEN R. AND VALENTINE G, eds., Key thinkers on space and place 2nd ed. London: Sage. 207-314
• BEAVERSTOCK, J.V., FAULCONBRIDGE, J.R. and HALL, S.J.E., 2010. Professionalization, legitimization and the creation of executive search markets in Europe Journal of Economic Geography. 10(6), 825-843
• FAULCONBRIDGE, J.R., BEAVERSTOCK, J.V., HALL, S. and HEWITSON, A., 2009. The 'war for talent': The gatekeeper role of executive search firms in elite labour markets Geoforum. 40(5), 800-808
• HALL, S, BEAVERSTOCK, J. V, FAULCONBRIDGE, J.R. and HEWITSON, A., 2009. Exploring cultural economies of internationalization: the role of 'iconic' individuals' and 'brand leaders' in the globalization of headhunting Global Networks. 9(3), 399-419
• FAULCONBRIDGE, J. R and HALL, S., 2009. Educating professionals and professional education in a geographical context Geography Compass. 3(1), 171-189
• FAULCONBRIDGE, J. R and HALL, S., 2009. Organisational geographies of power: Introduction to special issue Geoforum. 40, 785-789
• HALL, S. and APPLEYARD, L., 2009. 'City of London, city of learning'?: placing business education within the geographies of finance Journal of Economic Geography. 9(5), 597-617
• FAULCONBRIDGE J. R. AND HALL, S., 2009. Economics and human geography. In: KITCHEN, R and THRIFT, N., eds., International Encylopedia of Human Geography 3. Oxford: Elsevier. 332-337
• HALL, S., 2009. Ecologies of business education and the geographies of knowledge Progress in Human Geography. 33(5), 599-618
• HALL, S., 2009. Financialized elites and the changing nature of finance capitalism: investment bankers in London’s financial district Competition and Change. 13(2), 175-191
• HALL, S., 2008. Geographies of business education: MBA programmes, reflexive business schools and the cultural circuit of capital Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 33(1), 27-41
• FAULCONBRIDGE, J. R., HALL, S. and BEAVERSTOCK, J.V., 2008. New insights into the internationalization of producer services: organizational strategies and spatial economies for global headhunting firms. Environment and Planning A. 40, 210-234
• HALL, S., 2007. Knowledge makes the money go round: conflicts of interest and corporate finance in London’s financial district Geoforum. 38(4), 710-719
• HALL, S., 2007. ‘Relational marketplaces’ and the rise of boutiques in London’s corporate finance industry Environment and Planning A. 39(8), 1838-1854
• 2007. New insights into the internationalization of producer services: organizational strategies and spatial economies for global headhunting firms. Environment and Planning A Pion Ltd. Available at: <http://dx.doi.org/10.1068/a3924>
• HALL, S., 2006. What counts? Exploring the production of quantitative financial narratives in London's corporate finance industry Journal of Economic Geography. 6(5), 661-678
• BEAVERSTOCK, J. V., HALL, S. and FAULCONBRIDGE, J. R., 2006. The internationalization of Europe's contemporary transnational executive search industry. In: HARRINGTON, J. W. and DANIELS, P. W., eds., Knowledge-based services, internationalization and regional development Ashgate. 125-152
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