Newcastle University

Completed Projects

• (KATARSIS) Growing Inequality and Social Innovation: Alternative Knowledge and Practice in Overcoming Social Exclusion in Europe
  Project Leader(s): Professor Jean Hillier; Professor Frank Moulaert
• Characterising the Post-Industrial City: a Case Study of Housing in Newcastle upon Tyne
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury
   Elli Suntioinen CASE Studentship
• Cultures of Urban Surveillance
  Project Leader(s): Dr. David Murakami-Wood
  In global cities, everyday life is subject to multiple forms of surveillance and a 'surveillance society' is said to be emerging. This project examines the forms of, and responses to, this surveillance society in four major cities.
• DCLG Planning Research Network (PRN)
  Project Leader(s): Professor Simin Davoudi
• Development Models and Logics of Socio-Economic Organization in Space (DEMOLOGOS)
  Project Leader(s): Professor Frank Moulaert
  The general objective of DEMOLOGOS is to improve substantially the methodology for analysing the development of socio-economic systems at various spatial levels, within the global industrialised world.
• Elder Count: Developing the Agenda
  Project Leader(s): Rose Gilroy
  A study of quality of life issues raised by older people commissioned by Joseph Rowntree Foundation and carried out in Summer 2009. The findings of this study may lead to teh development of a database measuring QOL for older people.
• Enabling environments: reducing barriers for low-income disabled people
  Project Leader(s): Graham Tipple
• European Development Opportunities in Rural Areas (EDORA)
  Project Leader(s): Mark Shucksmith
• Everyday Sanitation: a comparative study of Mumbai's informal settlements
  Project Leader(s): Dr Colin McFarlane
• From Homogeneity to Diversity: The Heritage of Mass Housing and Housing Market Renewal
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury
  David Webb CASE studentship
• How to Promote the Role of Youth in Rural Areas of Europe
  Project Leader(s): Professor Mark Shucksmith
  Professor Mark Shucksmith has prepared a briefing paper which was discussed by the European Parliament's Committee for Agriculture and Rural Affairs (COMAGRI) on Tuesday 30th November 2010.
• In-Migrant Networks and Knowledge Economies in Rural England
  Project Leader(s): Professor Mark Shucksmith (Supervisor)
  This is an ESRC CASE studentship in conjunction with One North East. The aim of this research is to investigate in-migrants' contribution to the economies of remoter rural areas, and the scope for increasing this contribution.
• Integrated Spatial Planning, multi-level governance and state rescaling
  Project Leader(s): Dr Geoff Vigar
• Intra-regional Co-ordination: Through the lens of housing strategy making
  Project Leader(s): Dr Suzannah Gunn
  This research explores the conceptual and operational understanding of 'co-ordination' at the intra-regional / local level through the lens of planning for housing.
• Local Authority Elected Members Design Training
  Project Leader(s): Georgia Giannopoloulou
• Marine Spatial Planning - Reflecting on new agendas for planning
• Obesogenic Environments and Adolescence
  Project Leader(s): Tim Townshend
  The relationship between urban form, diet and physical activity and their role in the genesis of obesity in adolescents.
• Planning and Affordable Rural Housing: the social and micro-spatial effects in rural England of new planning policies.
  Project Leader(s): Professor Mark Shucksmith
  John Sturzaker CASE Studentship
• Planning for the Ageing Countryside in Britain and Japan: City-Regions and the Mobility of Older People
  This project explores the impact of ageing populations in Japan and the UK and seeks to determine whether lessons from Japan - a hyper ageing society - can be translated into a UK context.
• Responding to change: An investigation into the processes of rural place-making in the face of ageing
  Based on previous research this study conducts empirical analysis of the transformatory experience of older in-migrants in the selected rural localities in Japan (Hokkaido) and UK (the North East of England).
• Review of Transport Governance in the Tyne & Wear City Region
  Project Leader(s): Geoff Vigar
  To prepare proposals for improvements in the arrangements for governance of local transport within the Tyne-Wear city region.
• Science in the Field: Understanding the Changing Role of Expertise in the Rural Economy
  Project Leader(s): Jeremy Phillipson
• Social Innovation (Fellowship)
  Project Leader(s): Professor Frank Moulaert
  This research addresses social innovation in a variety of scientific disciplines and existential spheres (households, work, local community and neighbourhood, polity governance and public administration). The concrete objective is to produce a single auth
• Social Platform on Cities and Social Cohesion (Social Polis)
  Project Leader(s): Prof. Jean Hillier; Prof. Frank Moulaert
• Staging and Performing Emergencies: The Role of Exercises in UK Preparedness
  Project Leader(s): Dr Ben Anderson
• State of Iraqi Cities
  Project Leader(s): Dr Graham Tipple
  Review of urban environmental conditions and policy in Iraqi Cities
• Supporting the Development of a Social Science Strategy for the joint Department of Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and Environment Agency (EA) Research Programme on Flood and Coastal Erosion Risk Management (FCERM)
  Project Leader(s): Professor Simin Davoudi
  The overall aim of this project is to develop a clear vision and draft strategy for social science research within the Joint DEFRA / EA FCERM research programme over the next five years.
• Territorial Impact Package for Transport and Agricultural Policies (TIPTAP)
  Project Leader(s): Guy Garrod - Centre for Rural Economy
• The Changing Nature of Professionalism in Spatial Planning
  Project Leader(s): Geoff Vigar
• The Development of Townscape as an Urban Design and Conservation Pedagogy: The Architectural Review and the work of Thomas Sharp
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury
• The Everyday Life of Surveillance
  Project Leader(s): David Murakami Wood
  An ESRC Seminar Series, which aims to discuss what living in a society in which surveillance is normal means for individuals, workplaces, homes, cities, and society
• The Institutional and Regulatory Framework for Planning
  Project Leader(s): Professor Simin Davoudi
• Town and Townscape: The Work and Life of Thomas Sharp
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury
• Valuing the Historic Environment: Concepts, Instrumentalisations and Effects
  Project Leader(s): John Pendlebury