Newcastle University

Introduction

Andrew has a background in natural and social sciences. His current work sits at the interface of Science and Technology Studies and Environmental Planning.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Biology, University of York
MSc (Distinction) Rural Resource and Countryside Management, Newcastle University
PhD, Newcastle University

Honours and Awards

Awarded 2008 Ashby Prize for most innovative paper in Environment and Planning A.

Research Interests

My research focuses on the ways in which we understand and organize our relationships with the biophysical environment.  

There are currently three strands to this work:

• The framing, formation and management of environmental problems and controversies, especially the way in which these are portrayed and acted upon as ‘interdisciplinary’ concerns.  Recently this work has taken flood risk management as a case study.

• The operation, regulation and understanding of the materialities of animal production and processing, especially as ‘vital systems’, ‘critical infrastructure’ or ‘metabolic infrastructure’ that underpin and produce contemporary environments and ways of life. This work builds on and encompasses my previous research on animal diseases and biosecurity.

• Land in a technological society, including the development and function of experts in land management, and the enactment of strategy and regulation.

Postgraduate Supervision

Elizabeth Charles "Community Supported Agriculture in North East England"

Paul Cowie "In-Migrant Networks and Knowledge Economies in Rural England" 

Completed

Dr Justin Armstrong "Veterinary Expertise in the Rural Economy and Policy Making" (Completed 2011)

Dr Richard Lee "Setting Science-Based International Food Standards: Defining Dietary Fibre in the Codex Alimentarius Commission" (Completed 2010)

Dr Katy Wilkinson "Bureaucracy and other stories: Organizing policymaking in DEFRA" (Completed 2009)

Dr Gary Bosworth "Entrepreneurial in-migrants and economic development in rural England" (Completed 2008)

Undergraduate Teaching

TCP1025 Social Worlds

TCP2023 Understanding Sustainable Development

TCP2027 Research Skills

TCP2028 Understanding Cities

Postgraduate Teaching

TCP8901 The Reflexive Practitioner

TCP8910 Planning Theory (module leader)

TCP8911 Evaluation, Analysis and Research (module leader)

TCP8923 Planning Practice and Climate Change 

TCP8929 Stakeholders and Participation

TCP8932 Planning for Climate Change 

TCP8934 Cities, Security and Resilience

TCP8099 Dissertation (module leader)

HSS8003 Dissertation Preparation (Faculty research training programme)

• Donaldson A, Lane SL, Ward N, Whatmore SJ. Overflowing with issues? The poltical trajectories of flooding. Environment and Planning C 2012. In Press.
• Proctor A, Donaldson A, Phillipson J, Lowe P. Field expertise in rural land management. Environment and Planning A 2012, 44(7), 1696-1711.
• Donaldson A. Surveillance and Non-Humans . In: Ball, K., Haggerty, K., Lyon, D, ed. Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. Routledge, 2012. In Press.
• Proctor A, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Field Advisers as Agents of Knowledge Exchange. University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, 2011. Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Policy and Practice Note Series 30.
• Proctor A, Lowe P, Phillipson J, Donaldson A. Veterinary field expertise: using knowledge gained on the job. Veterinary Record 2011, 169(16), 408-410.
• Enticott G, Donaldson A, Lowe P, Power M, Proctor A, Wilkinson K. The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: B 2011, 366(1573), 1955-1965.
• Donaldson A, Ward N, Bradley S. Mess Among Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in environmental research. Environment and Planning A 2010, 42(7), 1521-1536.
• Wilkinson K, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Beyond Policy Networks: Policy Framing and the Politics of Expertise in the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Crisis. Public Administration 2010, 88(2), 331-345.
• Donaldson A. Biosecurity after the event: Risk politics and animal disease. Environment and Planning A 2008, 40(7), 1552-1567.
• Donaldson A, Murakami Wood D. Avian influenza and events in political biogeography. Area 2008, 40(1), 128-130.
• Stassart P, Bradley S, Donaldson A. Running an interdisciplinary competency group. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008. Centre for Rural Economy Discussion Paper Series 19.
• Donaldson A. Socialising animal disease risk : inventing traceback and re-inventing animals. Genomics, Society and Policy 2007, 3(2), 57-69.
• Lee R, Ward N, Wilkinson K, Donaldson A. Foot and mouth - five years on : the legacy of the 2001 foot and mouth crisis for farming and the British countryside. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, 2006. Discussion Paper Series 6.
• Eden S, Donaldson A, Walker G. Green groups and grey areas: Scientific boundary-work, nongovernmental organisations, and environmental knowledge. Environment and Planning A 2006, 38(6), 1061-1076.
• Donaldson A. Performing regions: Territorial development and cultural politics in a Europe of the regions. Environment and Planning A 2006, 38(11), 2075-2092.
• Donaldson A, Heathwaite L, Lane S, Ward N, Whatmore S. Holistic approaches to understanding diffuse land management issues: a framework for interdisciplinary working. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2005. CRE Discussion Paper 2.
• Eden S, Donaldson A, Walker G. Structuring subjectivities? Using Q methodology in human geography. Area 2005, 37(4), 413-422.
• Ward N, Donaldson A, Lowe P. Policy framing and learning the lessons from the UK's foot and mouth disease crisis. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2004, 22(2), 291-306.
• Donaldson A, Wood D. Surveilling strange materialities: Categorisation in the evolving geographies of FMD biosecurity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2004, 22(3), 373-391.
• Ward N, Donaldson A, Lowe P. The 2001 Foot and Mouth Crisis and the Management of Lesson Learning. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, 2002. Centre for Rural Economy Working Paper 67.
• Donaldson A, Lowe P, Ward N. Virus-crisis-institutional change: The foot and mouth actor network and the governance of rural affairs in the UK. Sociologia Ruralis 2002, 42(3), 201-214.
• Bennett K, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Ward N, Cattermole A, Donaldson A, Elliott C, Midgely J, Thompson N. The Impact of the Foot and Mouth Crisis on Rural Firms: A Survey of Microbusinesses in the North East of England. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, 2001. Centre for Rural Economy Research Report.
• Donaldson A. Linguistic Minorities in Rural Development: A Case Study of the Cornish Language and Cornwall. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, 1999. Centre for Rural Economy Working Papers 42.