Land Economy
Land Economy at Pembroke
Pembroke has long established links with the Department of Land Economy: the Department was founded by Professor Donald Denman, who was a Fellow of the College. Pembroke currently has two Fellows in Land Economy, Professor Maria Abreu and Professor Colin Lizieri. The Department, located in Silver Street, is only two minutes’ walk, from the College.
Pembroke Land Economy Teaching Staff
Professor Maria Abreu - Director of Studies
Maria is Associate Professor in Land Economy, and her research covers urban and regional economics and policy, particularly regional and international development, labour markets, entrepreneurship, innovation, and urban problems such as social exclusion and crime. Prior to coming to Cambridge she worked for the World Bank in the areas of poverty, education, and health, in Jakarta, Indonesia. Maria teaches several undergraduate courses in the Department, including Land, Development and Sustainability (Part 1A), Land and Urban Economics (Part 1B and Part II) and Land Policy and Development Economics (Part II), in addition to supervising undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations. She is Director of Studies in Land Economy and Deputy Director of Teaching in the Department, and holds a number of academic appointments, including Chair of the Regional Science Association International – British and Irish Section (RSAI-BIS), Co-Editor of the journals Spatial Economic Analysis (SEA) and Regional Science Policy and Practice (RSPP), and Advisory Editor of the journal Research Policy. She has done extensive consulting work with UK government departments and international development organisations.
Professor Colin Lizieri
Colin is the Grosvenor Professor of Real Estate Finance. He is also a Fellow of The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and of the Royal Geographical Society. Colin’s research has focussed on real estate investment in global cities, office market dynamics and the relationships between finance and property prices. He chaired the World Economic Forum industry panel on the Future of Real Estate and Urbanisation and has served on the research committees of the Investment Property Forum and the European Public Real Estate Association. He has acted as an expert advisor and consultant to the European Union, the UK and Norwegian governments, the Corporation of London, the City of Toronto and numerous private sector organisations. He has appeared as an expert witness in the Lands Tribunal and the Australian federal courts on real estate matters. Colin contributes to real estate and finance related courses on the undergraduate programme, including the Land, Development & Sustainability and Fundamentals of Finance and Investment.
Further Information
The Department was ranked first in the country in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF), according to the Times Higher Education, with 67% of the work in the joint submission with Architecture rated as 'world leading', ahead of the Cambridge average of 62%.
The Department is particularly proud of the employment record of its graduates, which is amongst the strongest in the University, with graduates going into real estate development, law, finance, banking and management consultancy, international development, the not-for-profit sector, as well as going on to further study. Our students and graduates receive support from our alumni (the Cambridge University Land Society – CULS – is the largest specialist alumni group in Cambridge) and our Advisory Board which consists of senior managers from industry, government and the built environment professions.
For further information, please see the Department website or the page about Land Economy on the University website. To find out what it could be like to study Land Economy at Pembroke, click to read a day in the life of Thomas, one of our recent graduates.