Alexandra Gomes is a Research Officer at LSE Cities, where she is responsible for coordinating the Centre’s socio-spatial analysis across a range of projects. Focusing on urban studies, global cities, comparative socio-spatial analysis, urban inequalities, public space and urban walkability. She has research experience across different scales of analysis and within different geographies, from Europe to the Middle East, Asia and Africa. Since 2010, she has been teaching urban planning modules at the UCL’s Bartlett School of Planning, where she is developing a multi-sensory framework to the analysis of urban public space. She holds an MSc (Res) in Sociology and Development Planning and an MEng in Urban Engineering from the University of Lisbon in Portugal.