Dr. Godwin Arku is an associate professor in the Department of Geography at Western University. His research broadly revolves around the local impacts and community responses to global economic, social, and political changes. Within this broad research field, Dr. Arku looks at specific issues such as transnationalism and immigrants housing experiences, impacts of economic liberalization on housing markets, local impacts and policy responses to plant closures, municipal economic development policies, and economic reforms and built environment changes.