MA Politics and
Sociology (1998),
PhD Town Planning (Forthcoming)
Lecturer in European Spatial Planning and Urban Sociology
Prior to becoming a full-time Lecturer at the Bartlett in 2005, I worked for three years as Project Developer for the European Union Programme INTERREG IIIB North-West Europe, which funds transnational co-operation projects in spatial planning across 8 European countries, and also taught part-time at the Bartlett between 2001 and 2004.
My research interests focus around four main themes:
Urban and Regional Governance
• Changes in the governance of planning and urban development in a
European (comparative) perspective, with a particular focus on: new
forms of urban entrepreneurialism and urban marketing; new scales of
governance in city-regions (UK, Germany, France).
• The politics of urban development in Berlin since 1989.
Culture, Identity and Urban Regeneration
• The contested politics of 'culture and urban regeneration' linked
with mega-events and flagship projects, such as European Capital of
Culture.
• Collective memory, urban cultures, identity(ies) and the development
of new urban landscapes in cities in transformation (including
post-socialist cities).
European Spatial Planning
• The emergence of a European spatial planning agenda and the impact
of the EU on spatial planning practices across Europe.
• INTERREG and trans-boundary cooperation networks between cities and
regions in the enlarged EU.
Urban Sociology
• The impact of urban policies on gentrification, segregation and
social mix in European cities.
Funding body: Jospeh Rowntree Foundation
Principal Investigator: URBED London
Role: Local Researcher for the Lille, Roubaix case-study.
• 1998-2004: Urban marketing and the politics of urban development in the New Berlin (doctoral research)
Funding bodies: EU-funded Research Training Network 'Urban Europe'; Foundation for Urban and Regional Studies (FURS); University College London Graduate School; British Council / Entente Cordiale Association.
• 2000-2001: A research study in European Spatial Planning - designing the curriculum of a new MSc in European Spatial Planning.
Funding body: Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR).
Principal Investigator: Harry Dimitriou
Role: Researcher.
• I am currently preparing a comparative research project on urban policies, gentrification and social mix in European cities.
• Production of the Built Environment (BSc UPDM, Year 1)
• Cities and Social Change (BSc UPDM, Year 2)
• European Institutions and Spatial Policy (MSc Specialism)
• Pillars of Planning - Urban sociology (MSc Spatial/International Planning Core Course)
I am a member of the French & British Planning Study Group, a network of academics and practitioners from both sides of the Channel founded in 1997 to discuss research
issues of current interest.
I am a member of the Advisory Group on Metropolitan Cooperation in the Lille city-region, set up in 2005 by the Lille Urban Planning Agency (France).
I regularly do consultancy or voluntary expert work for INTERREG projects and programmes (INTERREG is a European Union funded Programme supporting cross-border and transnational co-operation projects in spatial planning and territorial development)