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: