DCLG Planning Research Network - Network Coordination Team






		Network Coordination Team
		Network Coordination Team
		Simin Davoudi Professor of Environmental Policy & Planning Simin Davoudi, B.Arch. M.Phil. MRTPI Simin Davoudi is Director of Social Systems in the Institute for Research on Environment and Sustainability (IRES) at Newcastle University. She has previously conducted research and taught in University College London and Newcastle University. Her research has focused on the UK and European spatial planning, urban policy and regeneration, institutional relationships and governance, and sustainability and strategic waste planning. She has undertaken research and consultancy for a wide range of national and international organisations including the EU, ESRC, DCLG, and local and regional agencies. This research has been disseminated in numerous books, book chapters, articles, research reports, conference papers and invited speeches at international and national events. Simin has been appointed by the Department for Communities and Local Government to establish and co-ordinate a network of senior planning researchers to facilitate links between policy and research and to act as a think tank for the DCLG's planning policies and research priorities. She is a member of: the Council of the Association of the European Schools of Planning (AESOP) representing the UK planning schools; the Selection Committee of the AESOP Prize Paper; the Research and Knowledge Committee of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI); the Expert Group for the DG Joint Research Centre working on one of the Thematic Strategies of the EU 6th Environment Action Programme, the European Spatial Planning Observation Network (ESPON); and, the UK government's delegation on the UNECE conference on Urban and Regional Research. Simin is the Research Report Editor of the Planning Practice and Research Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of Regional Review for Yorkshire and Humber. She is also a member of the Leeds Environment City Partnership (part of Leeds Local Strategic Partnership), Chair of the Leeds Waste Management Task Group, and a member of the Partner Group advising the Green Leeds Board on allocation of landfill tax. Selected Publications Davoudi, S. and Healey, P., 1995, City Challenge: Sustainable Process or Temporary Gesture, Environment & Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 13, pp.79-95. Healey, P., Cameron, S., Davoudi, S., Graham, S. and Madanipour, A. (eds), 1995, Managing Cities, The New Urban Context, London: John Wiley, 322p. Davoudi, S., Hull, A. and Healey, P., 1996, Environmental Concerns and Economic Imperatives in Strategic Plan-making, Town Planning Review, Vol. 67(4), pp.421-436 Cameron, S., Davoudi, S. and Healey, P., 1997, Medium-sized Cities in Europe, the European Foundation, CEC Luxembourg. Davoudi, S. and Atkinson, R., 1999, Social Exclusion and the British Planning System, Planning Practice and Research, Vol. 14(2), pp.225-237. Davoudi, S., 2000, Planning for Waste Management: The Changing Discourses and Institutional Relationships, Progress in Planning, Vol. 53(3), pp.165-216 Davoudi, S., 2000, Sustainability: A New 'Vision' For the British Planning System, Planning Perspectives, Vol. 15(2), pp. 123-137 (selected as the best article in 2000 volume for inclusion in the AESOP prize paper) Vigar, G., Healey, P., Hull, A., and Davoudi, S., 2000, Planning, Governance and Spatial Strategy in Britain, London: Macmillan, 314p. Layard, A., Davoudi, S. and Batty, S. (eds), 2001, Planning for a Sustainable Future, London: Spon. Davoudi, S, and Stead, D., 2002, Urban-Rural Relationships: an introduction and a brief history, Built Environment, 28(4) pp. 269-277 Davoudi, S., 2003, La partecipazione nella pianificazione per la sostenibilità (Participation in Planning for Sustainability), Urbanistica, No. 120 January, pp. Davoudi, S., 2003, Polycentricity in European Spatial Planning: From an analytical tool to a normative agenda, European Planning Studies, forthcoming. Selected Research Projects 1989-90 Urban Regeneration, the Development Process, and the Urban Fabric, funded by the Newcastle University Research Committee 1989-1990 Availability of Flexible Training Provision within Employment Training, commissioned by the Tyneside Training and Enterprise Council 1991-95 Monitoring and Evaluation of the City Challenge Initiative in Newcastle and North Tyneside, commissioned by the City Challenge authorities 1995-97 Development Plans and the Regulatory Forms of the Planning System, funded by the ESRC 1996-97 Medium-sized Cities and Environmental and Socio-Economic Developments in the Regions of the EU, funded by the European Foundation for Improvement of Living and Working Conditions 1998-00 SPESP: Study Programme on European Spatial Planning, funded jointly by the EU DGXVI and DETR 1998-01 BEQUEST: Building Environmental Quality Evaluation for Sustainability trough Time, funded by the EU DGXII Framework Programme 4 2001-04 Regionalisation and the New Politics of Waste, funded by the ESRC 2002-04 Urban-rural relationships in Europe, funded by the EU under European Spatial Planning Observatory Network (ESPON) Programme 2002-04 Role of cities as nodes of polycentric development, funded by the EU under the ESPON programme 2003-06: Planing Research Network Co-ordinator, funded by the ODPM.