Postgraduate opportunities in the Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments

The Centre for Sustainable Planning and Environments (SPE) welcomes applications from students wanting to gain a PhD in any of the following themes:

• Urban regeneration
• Regional development
• Brownfield land
• Local governance
• Urban design
• Emancipatory design
• Inclusive placemaking
• Urban resilience and climate change
• Community involvement
• Community spaces/asset
• Community-led and alternative housing
• Co-production of green infrastructure
• Ethics and planning theory
• Values in regulation/decision-making
• Planning for multi-faith/multiculture
• Cemeteries, deathscape and memorialisation
• Youth masterplans
• Land regeneration
• Street trees
• Green infrastructure planning
• Green infrastructure management and maintenance
• Human responses to green infrastructure
• Interactions between the environment, and health and wellbeing
• Urban meadows as a nature-based solution
• Nature connectedness
• Participatory governance in the global south  
• Urban design in the Middle East
• Comparative study (European Union)

For further information about these research areas please email Danielle Sinnett at Danielle.Sinnett@uwe.ac.uk.

Visit our postgraduate research study information to apply for a research opportunity or view more opportunities.

Postgraduate courses

The SPE staff contributes teaching to the following courses:

• MSc Urban Planning
• MSc Planning and Urban Leadership
• MSc Construction Project Management
• MSc Real Estate Management