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Town and Regional Planning's research vision is: To extend and enhance its reputation as a provider of high quality research in the field of spatial planning and to play a major role in shaping academic, policy and practice debates in this area.
The following areas reflect our current research priorities. However, they are not exclusive. As you will see by looking at the research activities of the School of Environmental and Social Sciences, we are part of a vibrant research community in which many of the research interests of staff and students can be pursued through workshops and seminars shared with geographers, environmental scientists and economists.
Governance issues, concerning the inter-relationships of actors and agencies in the formulation and implementation of public policy, have become a topic of extensive academic and political debate. Spatial planning, a concept developed within the European Union and adopted by the RTPI in its New Vision for Planning in 2001, offers a new approach to understanding the spatial implications of public policy and the methods used to shape the future of specific places. Research related to this theme will explore the role of spatial theory and practice in the formulation and realisation of policy outcomes, focusing on the analysis and evaluation of new instruments of governance at Scottish, UK, EU and international levels.
Research activity draws on established and on-going work on housing and homelessness , crime and policing; community planning; organisational interaction ; strategic planning ; governance of resource-based communities ; and devolved governance in Scotland and Australia.
"Sustainable development is a concept easy to subscribe to, harder to put into practice" (Scottish Executive, 2005: 5). These words, presented in the foreword to the Scottish Sustainable Development Strategy, launched in December 2005, highlight one of the key problems facing those in pursuit of sustainable environments: the difficulty of moving from a commitment to sustainable development set out in strategies, policies and plans, to the implementation of practical, human scale projects which deliver sustainable outcomes. Research related to the theme of sustainable environments will seek to address the way in which theories of sustainable development are operationalised, with a particular focus on issues of sustainability in conservation and regeneration, environmental assessment, and sustainable development education.
This theme builds on the research into conservation of the built environment; conservation and management of structural residues of the European porcelain industry ; articulating experience and perception of the built environment ; the application of environmental assessment procedures and related tools of assessment at differing levels and sustainable development education.
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