Changes of Rural Life Space and Its Impacts on Human Settlement

Rongrong Zhuo was born and grew up in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, China. She has studied at Central China Normal University (Wuhan, China) for 12 years. She did her undergraduate degree in law (B.A., 2013) before going to the School of Urban and Environmental Sciences to do her M.Sc. (Human Geography, 2016) and Ph.D. (Human Geography, 2021). During her Ph.D. study, she has been a visiting student in the Department of Geography and Planning at Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). She is currently a lecturer at Zhejiang University of Finance & Economics and also a post-doctoral researcher at Chinese Academy of Sciences. Rongrong is interested in rural spatial-social mobilities, rural transformation and restructuring, and activity-based rural gentrification. In the field of rural studies, she have been engaged in a series of studies examining changing rural territorial functions, changes in rural household’s everyday life and accessibility of rural life space under the context of urbanization within central China. She has led research projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, the Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation of Ministry of Education of China, Foundation of Educational Committee of Zhejiang Province of China. Her team is now starting new projects on the rural gentrification from a perspective of mobility, capitalization of rural space, global countryside in the developed area of China, such as Zhejiang Province.