Planning Research Seminars
Semester One 2011-2012
Tuesdays at 4pm - Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street (HBS)
4 October 2011
Joint Planning and Geography Seminar
Planning for the new ‘regional world’: on being caught between territory and networks
Dr John Harrison (University of Loughborough)
18 October 2011
Can One Actually Say What One Wants? – Adaptive Preferences in the Negotiation Process - an empirical study on negotiation and power in a Glasgow cases
Dr HaeRan Shin (UCL)
31 October 2011
Tips and Advice on Successful ESRC grant applications
Prof Phil Allmendinger (University of Cambridge, and Visiting Hallsworth Professor, 2011-12)
1 November 2011
Planning under New Labour. Learning from and not living in the past?
Prof Phil Allmendinger (University of Cambridge, and Visiting Hallsworth Professor, 2011-12)
15 November 2011
Flood Risk Management, Spatial Planning, and the Institutional Politics of Decision-Support
Dr James Porter (KCL)
13 December 2011
Joint Planning and Geography Seminar
Making environmental publics
Dr Sally Eden (University of Hull)
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Semester Two 2011-2012
Wednesdays at 4pm - Hanson Room, Humanities Bridgeford Street (HBS)
8 February 2012
Joint Planning, Geography and cities@manchester event
When all the World’s a City
Prof Michael Batty (UCL)
22 February 2012
'Smart Citizens' make cities smarter? The use and abuse of technology tools in public policy
Jenni Viitanen and Richard Kingston (University of Manchester)
7 March 2012
Joint Planning and MARC event
Carbon control and the urban business model
Dr Aidan While (University of Sheffield)
21 March 2011
Purposes and Paradigms: Accountability and Sustainability in Environmental Assessment Law, Policy and Practice
Dr William Sheate (Imperial College)
18 April 2012
Joint Planning and GURC event
Asset planning in cities of the global South: Experiences from Cartagena and Pondicherry
Dr Alfredo Stein (University of Manchester)
2 May 2012
Localism, Democracy and the State: an interpretive analysis of a Neighbourhood Planning Frontrunner
Dr Geoff Vigar (University of Newcastle)