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Staff Profile

Danny Oswell

Lecturer in Planning

  • Telephone: 0191 208 6000
Background

I have enjoyed a highly varied and successful career in music, Housing Management, Housing Policy and Strategy, Regeneration, University Teaching/Research, Corporate Management and Private Consultancy. I have worked at all levels, in both private and public sectors, including CEO and non-executive Director roles. Key recent career highlights include

  • Working as School Academic Lead for Employability and Enterprise; working with colleagues in the Careers Service to refresh our Employability and Enterprise Strategy
  • Collaborating with senior colleagues to grow both the quality and range of my research output
  • Delivering a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, including core content on economics, as well as leading on several regeneration and urban design modules
  • Successfully operating my own Community Regeneration Consultancy, delivering significant new community capacity in the Town of Ashington from 2010 onwards.
  • Actively shaping the progress of Isos Housing Ltd and Isos Developments Ltd (now Karbon Homes) as a Board Member/Director, through a period of huge organisational change.
  • Setting up and then fully establishing the Tyne and Wear Strategic Housing Partnership. Delivering £23m of strategic housing spend across the five authorities.


Research

I have two main areas of research interest right now. The first is a collaboration with Dr N. A. Powe, looking at the role community enterprises might play in helping to facilitate place-based leadership, in areas suffering from decline and degeneration.


The second is a collaboration with Dr Georgiana Varna, looking at how the Covid19 pandemic may have changed the ways in which we view public space; and how we might apply those lessons - through a process of experimental urbanism - to support peripheral communities in this "new normal."

Teaching


I am very passionate about teaching and learning and have a wide range of teaching responsibilities. These include working as Module Leader on the following:


TCP8917 - Regenerating Places

TCP1019 - Economics of Development (undergraduate)

TCP8918 - Regenerating Places Project

TCP7023 - Economics of Development (postgraduate)

TCP3059 - Strategies Into Action: Urban Design


I also teach into and/or act as moderator for a further range of modules, including:

TCP4002 - Practice Issue Report

TCP4003 - Practice Issues Presentation

TCP8950 - Valuation and Appraisal For Planning

TCP8953 - Politics of Urban Government

TCP1025 - Social Worlds

TCP2025 - Researching Local Economics

TCP2005 - Houses and Homes

ARC8115 - Design Studio

TCP8090 - Principles and Practice of Urban Design


I also mentor students through both undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations on the following modules:

TCP3099 - Undergraduate Dissertation

TCP8099 - Postgraduate Dissertation


I also run the Urban Planning PARTNERS Summer School in July of each year. And I deliver a range of outreach activities, including the Bitesize Uni events in Urban Planning that the University offers to Year 12 students.


I also currently work as Academic Lead for Employability and Enterprise within the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape.



 

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