Members of the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments (SPE)

Professor Danielle Sinnett
Director; Professor in Sustainable Built Environments

• Green infrastructure
• Contaminated and brownfield land
• Healthy places

Dr Michael Buser
Associate Professor in Participatory Community Practice

• Arts-led research and creative methodologies
• Water security and climate change
• Supporting wellbeing through the arts

Dr Maria Casado-Diaz
(Acting) Associate Head Student Experience

• Contemporary leisure-related mobility, including international retirement migration
• Tourism geographies
• Collaborative consumption in tourism

Nick Croft 
Senior Lecturer in Planning and Sustainability

• Delivery and implementation challenges in plan making
• The planning of medieval settlements
• Pedagogical issues relating to assessment offences

Dr Carla De Laurentis
Lecturer in Environmental Management

• Low carbon innovation processes
• Energy geographies and the role of regions
• Innovation in the circular economy

Ijeoma Emeghe
Senior Lecturer in Real Estate

• Health, well-being and social valuation in housing
• Planning and sustainability in the urban environment
• Economics of housing, health and happiness

Dr Hooman Foroughmand Araabi
Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning and Design

• Urban design theory
• Inclusivity in urban design
• Decolonising urbanism

Dr Zaky Fouad
Lecturer in Architecture and Sustainability

• Educational spaces
• Greenspaces
• Social sustainability

Dr Amir Gohar
Senior Lecturer and Programme Leader (MSc Planning and Urban Leadership)

• Landscape planning
• Ecotourism in protected areas
• Tactical urbanism and placemaking

Dr Stephen Hall
Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning

• Urban regeneration
• Regional development
• Comparative study (Europe)

Dr Owain Hanmer
Research Associate

• Urban gardening, community gardens, and allotments
• Commons, commoning, and grassroots governance
• Retirement and critical lifecourse research

Hannah Hickman
Associate Professor in Planning Practice

• Professional practice and ethics
• Project implementation - from planning to delivery
• Planning for housing and national infrastructure

Dr Sarah Hills
Senior Lecturer in Geography and Environmental Management

• Food policy networks
• Sustainable local food systems
• Community-centred food initiatives

Dr Katy Karampour
Lecturer in Urban Planning

• Planning for conservation and urban heritage
• Planning for housing (including the provision of modular housing for people experiencing homelessness and delivery of net zero housing)
• Density in urban planning and design

Dr Elahe Karimnia
Lecturer in Critical Urban Practice

• Just Urban Design? Politics of design processes
• Designing publicness: counterpublics and competing priorities
• Appropriations: creative spatial practices, resisting inequalities

Dr Gloria Lanci
Lecturer in Environmental Management

• Cartography and arts practices: counter mapping and narratives of urban spaces
• Urban futures: sustainability challenges, smart cities and data driven urbanism
• Urban cultural studies, including urban heritage and tourism

Cat Loveday 
Lecturer in Planning and Development

• Professional practice and ethics 
• Neighbourhood planning, development management and major projects
• Climate change adaptation and mitigation

Professor David Ludlow 
Professor in European Smart Cities

Dr Katie McClymont 
Associate Professor in Urban Planning

• Planning Theory
• Community spaces and community-led activities
• Regulation of space - values and practices

• Inclusive design in the built environment
• Bioclimatic (passive) design
• The body in the space: Human comfort and well-being

Dr Amanda Ramsay
Research Associate

• Community-led planning/neighbourhood planning
• Social inclusion
• Political trust

Dr Aditya Ray
Lecturer in Human Geography

Dr Heather Rumble
Senior Lecturer in Healthy Urban Environments

• Urban nature
• Green infrastructure and nature-based solutions
• Healthy places

Dr Andrew Tallon 
Senior Lecturer in Urban Policy

• Urban regeneration and policy
• Global cities
• Carnival and creativity

Dr Jo Zhou
Senior Lecturer in Real Estate Economics

Shahla Aliyari

• Green infrastructure
• Contaminated and brownfield land
• Healthy places

Dean Bell

The impact of engineered tree pit solutions on street tree growth and establishment.

• Just transition
• Racial capitalism
• Social impact of green policies

Jo Bushell

• Sustainable food systems in everyday life
• Migration and diversity for inclusive cities
• Creative research methodologies, incorporating values, practices and stories.

Mark Drane

Jenna Dutton

Gender inequality in the city: the role and potential of urban planning.

• Gender equity within the profession and practice of planning
• Planning policy and community development
• Socially just and sustainable approaches to urban resilience

Anna Hope

Reinterpreting community: an exploration of the concepts of ‘community’ and ‘benefit’ within the context of community-led housing in England.

• Community-led housing
• Meanings and experiences of community
• Public policy and political agendas

Samuel Kyei

Maximising the potential benefits of UWE Bristol’s Greenspaces to Improve student mental health.

• Restorative and health benefits of greenspaces
• Behaviours, engagement and use of greenspaces
• Greenspace characteristics and design preferences in the Built Environment

Sara Melasecchi

Is Bristol embarking in a Just Transition? Case study of the One City Climate Strategy.

• Just transition
• Racial capitalism
• Social impact of green policies

Judith Parry

Exploring the wellbeing benefits of Community-Led Housing, focusing on the influence of green space and green infrastructure upon the mental wellbeing of residents.

• Mental health and wellbeing benefits of Community-Led Housing
• Green infrastructure and mental wellbeing
• Green infrastructure within innovative housing settings

Celia Robbins

George Rowland

Nick Smith