Newcastle University

Introduction

Dr Graham Tipple is Reader in Housing Policy and Development and Director of CARDO in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. He has over 30 years experience in housing and urban development issues in developing countries at national and regional (city) level. He spent seven years working in Africa (Zambia and Ghana). He has published over a hundred papers on urban policy in Africa and the developing world in general. He is joint editor with Ken Willis of “Housing the poor in the developing world: methods of analysis, case studies

Qualifications

Bachelor of Arts, 1970 and Master of Arts (and exemption from RTPI finals) 1972, University of Sheffield, Department of Town and Regional Planning,
Doctor of Philosophy, 1984, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Dept. of Town and Country Planning

Previous Positions

1978-83: Lecturer, Department of Town and Country Planning, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, on secondment (1978-82) to the Dept. of Planning, University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana on the IUC (now British Council Higher Education Division) Home-Based Scheme.
1975-78: Senior Assistant Planner, Structure Plans Section, North Yorkshire County Planning Department, Northallerton.
1972-75: Town Planner, City Engineer's Department, City Council of Kitwe, Zambia; including ten months on secondment to the National Housing Authority (Kitwe office) and two months as Acting Town Planning Officer.

Memberships

Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute

Languages

English
Basic French

• Tipple G, Speak S. Definitions of homelessness in developing countries. Habitat International 2005, 29(2), 337-352.
• Tipple G. Pollution and waste production in home-based enterprises in developing countries: Perceptions and realities. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 2005, 48(2), 275-298.
• Kellett P, Tipple AG. Researching domestic space and income generation in developing cities. In: Vestro, DU; Hurol, Y; Wilkinson, N, ed. Methodologies in Housing Research. London: Urban International Press, 2005, pp. 204-221.
• Tipple G. The place of home-based enterprises in the informal sector: Evidence from Cochabamba, New Delhi, Surabaya and Pretoria. Urban Studies 2005, 42(4), 611-632.
• Tipple AG, Speak SE. Attitudes to and interventions in homelessness: insights from an international study. In: Adequate & Affordable Housing for All : Research, Policy, Practice [International Housing Research Conference]. 2004, Toronto: CUCS Press.
• Speak S, Tipple G. Housing and Homelessness in Developing Countries. In:Levinson, D., ed. Encyclopedia of Homelessness.London, UK:Sage Publications Ltd.,2004, pp. 270-277.
• Tipple AG, Jensen I, Lacroux S, Erguden S, Parmentier C, et al, ed. Strategies to combat homelessness. Nairobi: UNCHS (Habitat), 2000.