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

Professor Martin Boddy
Pro Vice-Chancellor, Research and Knowledge Exchange

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 Jo Bushell
Research Associate

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
Research Associate

Dr Stephen Hall
Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning

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

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 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

Dr Andrew Tallon 
Senior Lecturer in Urban Policy

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

Dr Rebecca Windemer 
Lecturer in Environmental Planning

• End-of-life of renewable energy
• Social acceptance of renewable energy
• Planning and climate change

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

Mark Drane

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