School of Social & Political Sciences

Dr Alison McCandlish

  • Lecturer in City Planning (Urban Studies & Social Policy)

Biography

I am a Lecturer in City Planning. I have an academic background in Environmental Planning, European Urban Conservation, Education and Creative Media Practice, and my PhD looked at revealing hidden heritage through creative research methods and the role of digital cultural asset mapping in bidding for City of Culture Status. I am a member of the Institute of Historic Building Conservation (IHBC), a chartered town planner (MRTPI), and a recognised Historic Environment Service Provider under the IHBC HESPR scheme.

Research interests

  • Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)
  • Creative techniques for community engagement in town planning, culture and heritage
  • Practice based research and industry engagement with education
  • Design, heritage and planning
  • Cultural heritage and regeneration

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 35.

2026

McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2026) Podcasting as Creative Process in Higher Education and Professional Development. Improving University Teaching Conference: Connecting Across Cultures: Collaboration, Compassion, and Creativity, Glasgow, UK, 15-17 July 2026.

McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2026) Podcasting as Creative Process in Higher Education and Professional Development. |mproving University Teaching, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, 15-17 July 2026.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Sturzaker, John (2026) Engagement, (Mis)understanding and Outreach- Do we Have the Education and Skills we Need to Plan for Adaptive Re-use? IHBC Webinar, Online, 05 June 2026.

Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846, McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274, McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634, Han, Xuan and Trosclair, Bria Angelle (2026) Special episode - in conversation with two Phd Students from the School of Education. [Audio]

Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2026) Talking all things SoTL with Nick Quinn. [Audio]

2025

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 (2025) SoTL Journeys- The Chemistry of SoTL and the SoTL of Chemistry. [Audio]

Odedra, Smita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1783-0468, Soler, Linnea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4859-594X, McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 (2025) The Chemistry of SoTL and the SoTL of Chemistry. [Audio]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) IHBC’s CPD Blog from #IHBCShrewsbury2025: Some ‘Academic Reflections on the IHBC Annual School… and participation’ from Dr Alison McCandlish IHBC, University of Glasgow. [Website]

Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) Highlights from the Learning and Teaching Festival April 2025. [Audio]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) Revisiting the Art of Town Planning: What Can Archives Teach Us About the Pedagogy of Design? AESOP Annual Congress 2025, Istanbul, Turkey, 07-11 July 2025. pp. 106-107.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634, McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and Currie, Lynn (2025) SoTL Journeys - Creating a culture of scholarship in the School of Education. [Audio]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) Ludic landscapes: investigating the potential role of playful ideas for energy creation. Journal of Imaginary Research, 10, pp. 70-71.

Currie, Lynn, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846, McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) SOTL Journeys with Professor Jo Edson Ferrie. [Audio]

McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) The Learning, Teaching and Scholarship Podcast: Choose your own SoTL adventure. [Audio]

Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846, Currie, Lynn, McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) SoTL journeys with Sarah Honeychurch and Nathalie Tasler. [Audio]

Madgin, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0323-8212, Howcroft, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1171-6122 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) The Felt Experiences of Place Resource Kit. Documentation. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.371694).

2024

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2024) Rewind and fast forward. SO FI ZINE(16), pp. 23-24.

Docherty, Frances ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9897-9939, Pringle Barnes, Gayle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2857-9259, McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Cowan, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5089-5231 (2024) A-Z of Active Learning. University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference 2024, Glasgow, Scotland; Online, 27 Mar & 09 Apr 2024.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2024) Simultaneous exchanges of meantime—a quantitative study. Journal of Imaginary Research, 9, pp. 55-56.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Iyer, Sunita (2024) The Sounds of Scholarship. [Website]

2023

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Tasler, Nathalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-4595 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2023) SoTLWriMo: a collaborative reflection. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Zihms, Stephanie (2023) The Power Hour of Writing: A flexible, vibrant writing community format. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Mack, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0746-3794 (2023) The Learning and Teaching Bookclub. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2023) The menagerie service: a study of the nature of frustratory and dedicatory memory. Journal of Imaginary Research, 8, pp. 29-30.

2022

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Hoolachan, Andrew (2022) Walking as pedagogy: Tackling urban issues through experiential learning. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2022) Popcorn writing and the benefits of movie nights. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2022) Architectural regeneration: edited by A. Orbasli and M. Vellinga, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020, 384 pp., £64.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-119-34033-1. Journal of Urban Design, 27(1), pp. 151-153. (doi: 10.1080/13574809.2021.1981643)[Book Review]

2021

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2021) Collage for Sustainable Housing Development - Learning and Reflecting through Collaboration, Document Analysis and Collage. (doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.17158178.v1) [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McPherson, Gayle (2021) Promoting tangible and intangible hidden cultural heritage: local communities influencing civic decision-making and international cultural policy. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(5), pp. 683-698. (doi: 10.1080/10286632.2020.1822348)

2019

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Thomas, Antonia (2019) When is Graffiti, Graffiti? Exploring and Recording Heritage and Heritage Crime, Young People Have their Say. 4th Public Archaeology Twitter Conference: Archaeology: Access, Barriers and Participation - Online, Conference took place on Twitter (#PATC4) on 5 Sept 2019

2017

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2017) Revealing Hidden Cultural Heritage through Digital Cultural Asset Mapping. In: Paper presented at Conference on Cultural Heritage And New Technologies, Vienna City Hall, Vienna, Austria, 8-10 Nov 2017,

2016

McGillivray, D., McPherson, G., Jones, J. and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2016) Young people, digital media making and critical digital citizenship. Leisure Studies, 35(6), pp. 724-738. (doi: 10.1080/02614367.2015.1062041)

2014

McGillivray, David, Jones, Jennifer, McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McPherson, Gayle (2014) Digital commonwealth: Telling stories case study. In: Lockton, D., Greene, C., Casey, A., Raby, L. and Vickress, A. (eds.) Creative Citizens’ Variety Pack: Inspiring Digital Ideas From Community Projects. Royal College of Art: London, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781907342974 (electronic)

McGillivray, David, Jones, Jennifer M., McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McPherson, Gayle (2014) Digital Commonwealth: Handbook of Digital Storytelling. University of the West of Scotland.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2014) Digital storytelling at the annual school. Context(136), p. 12.

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Number of items: 35.

Articles

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) Ludic landscapes: investigating the potential role of playful ideas for energy creation. Journal of Imaginary Research, 10, pp. 70-71.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2024) Rewind and fast forward. SO FI ZINE(16), pp. 23-24.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2024) Simultaneous exchanges of meantime—a quantitative study. Journal of Imaginary Research, 9, pp. 55-56.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2023) The menagerie service: a study of the nature of frustratory and dedicatory memory. Journal of Imaginary Research, 8, pp. 29-30.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McPherson, Gayle (2021) Promoting tangible and intangible hidden cultural heritage: local communities influencing civic decision-making and international cultural policy. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 27(5), pp. 683-698. (doi: 10.1080/10286632.2020.1822348)

McGillivray, D., McPherson, G., Jones, J. and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2016) Young people, digital media making and critical digital citizenship. Leisure Studies, 35(6), pp. 724-738. (doi: 10.1080/02614367.2015.1062041)

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2014) Digital storytelling at the annual school. Context(136), p. 12.

Books

McGillivray, David, Jones, Jennifer M., McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McPherson, Gayle (2014) Digital Commonwealth: Handbook of Digital Storytelling. University of the West of Scotland.

Book Sections

McGillivray, David, Jones, Jennifer, McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McPherson, Gayle (2014) Digital commonwealth: Telling stories case study. In: Lockton, D., Greene, C., Casey, A., Raby, L. and Vickress, A. (eds.) Creative Citizens’ Variety Pack: Inspiring Digital Ideas From Community Projects. Royal College of Art: London, pp. 1-6. ISBN 9781907342974 (electronic)

Book Reviews

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2022) Architectural regeneration: edited by A. Orbasli and M. Vellinga, Oxford, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020, 384 pp., £64.95 (hardback), ISBN 978-1-119-34033-1. Journal of Urban Design, 27(1), pp. 151-153. (doi: 10.1080/13574809.2021.1981643)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Madgin, Rebecca ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0323-8212, Howcroft, Michael ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1171-6122 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) The Felt Experiences of Place Resource Kit. Documentation. University of Glasgow. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.371694).

Conference or Workshop Item

McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2026) Podcasting as Creative Process in Higher Education and Professional Development. Improving University Teaching Conference: Connecting Across Cultures: Collaboration, Compassion, and Creativity, Glasgow, UK, 15-17 July 2026.

McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2026) Podcasting as Creative Process in Higher Education and Professional Development. |mproving University Teaching, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, 15-17 July 2026.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Sturzaker, John (2026) Engagement, (Mis)understanding and Outreach- Do we Have the Education and Skills we Need to Plan for Adaptive Re-use? IHBC Webinar, Online, 05 June 2026.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) Revisiting the Art of Town Planning: What Can Archives Teach Us About the Pedagogy of Design? AESOP Annual Congress 2025, Istanbul, Turkey, 07-11 July 2025. pp. 106-107.

Docherty, Frances ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9897-9939, Pringle Barnes, Gayle ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2857-9259, McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Cowan, Robert ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5089-5231 (2024) A-Z of Active Learning. University of Glasgow Learning and Teaching Conference 2024, Glasgow, Scotland; Online, 27 Mar & 09 Apr 2024.

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Thomas, Antonia (2019) When is Graffiti, Graffiti? Exploring and Recording Heritage and Heritage Crime, Young People Have their Say. 4th Public Archaeology Twitter Conference: Archaeology: Access, Barriers and Participation - Online, Conference took place on Twitter (#PATC4) on 5 Sept 2019

Conference Proceedings

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2017) Revealing Hidden Cultural Heritage through Digital Cultural Asset Mapping. In: Paper presented at Conference on Cultural Heritage And New Technologies, Vienna City Hall, Vienna, Austria, 8-10 Nov 2017,

Audio

Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846, McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274, McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634, Han, Xuan and Trosclair, Bria Angelle (2026) Special episode - in conversation with two Phd Students from the School of Education. [Audio]

Quinn, Nick ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1021-0602, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2026) Talking all things SoTL with Nick Quinn. [Audio]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 (2025) SoTL Journeys- The Chemistry of SoTL and the SoTL of Chemistry. [Audio]

Odedra, Smita ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1783-0468, Soler, Linnea ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4859-594X, McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 (2025) The Chemistry of SoTL and the SoTL of Chemistry. [Audio]

Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) Highlights from the Learning and Teaching Festival April 2025. [Audio]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634, McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846 and Currie, Lynn (2025) SoTL Journeys - Creating a culture of scholarship in the School of Education. [Audio]

Currie, Lynn, Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846, McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) SOTL Journeys with Professor Jo Edson Ferrie. [Audio]

McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) The Learning, Teaching and Scholarship Podcast: Choose your own SoTL adventure. [Audio]

Soussi, Eilidh ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-6186-3846, Currie, Lynn, McQuade, Marie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-0526-6274 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) SoTL journeys with Sarah Honeychurch and Nathalie Tasler. [Audio]

Website

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2025) IHBC’s CPD Blog from #IHBCShrewsbury2025: Some ‘Academic Reflections on the IHBC Annual School… and participation’ from Dr Alison McCandlish IHBC, University of Glasgow. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Iyer, Sunita (2024) The Sounds of Scholarship. [Website]

Honeychurch, Sarah ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9931-6827, Tasler, Nathalie ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9822-4595 and McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2023) SoTLWriMo: a collaborative reflection. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Zihms, Stephanie (2023) The Power Hour of Writing: A flexible, vibrant writing community format. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Mack, Colin ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0000-0746-3794 (2023) The Learning and Teaching Bookclub. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 and Hoolachan, Andrew (2022) Walking as pedagogy: Tackling urban issues through experiential learning. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2022) Popcorn writing and the benefits of movie nights. [Website]

McCandlish, Alison ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4904-2634 (2021) Collage for Sustainable Housing Development - Learning and Reflecting through Collaboration, Document Analysis and Collage. (doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.17158178.v1) [Website]

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Supervision

Current PhD students

  • Bernadett Papp (2020-2025) "The integration of tourism governance into the wider urban agenda in European city destinations. From sustainable cities to sustainable urban destinations" (Second supervisor, Principal Supervisor Professor Simon Joss) 
  • Papp, Bernadett
    Breaking the Policy Silos Examining Integrative Public Governance in Urban Tourism Across Four European Cities

Teaching

Current teaching and leadership contributions

  • Programme covnvenor- MSc City Planning and Real Estate Development 
  • Course Convenor- Urban Conservation (URBAN 5118)
  • Course Convenor- Designing Resilient Places (URBAN 5010) 
  • Dissertation supervision- Real Estate and Planning (URBAN 5054P)
  • Major project supervision- Real Estate and Planning (URBAN5150P) 
  • Sustainable Spatial Strategies Lab (URBAN5046)
  • Applied Built Environment Research (URBAN5155)
  • Sustainable Housing Development (URBAN5097)

Previous teaching and leadership contributions

  • Acting Programme Convenor- MSc City Planning and MSc City Planning and Real Estate Development (2022)
  • Course Convenor -Urban Conservation (URBAN 5118/ URBAN 5126)
  • Course Convenor- Urban Design and Development (URBAN5098) (Joint Graduate School Course with Nankai University)
  • Course Convenor- Designing Places (URBAN 5010)
  • Course Convenor- Evidence, Evaluation and Policy (URBAN 5083) (2020/21)
  • Urban Studies Researching and the Dissertation (URBAN 5119)
  • Qualitative Methods (SPS5037)
  • Sustainable Housing Development (URBAN 5049)
  • Spatial Planning Strategies (URBAN 4056)
  • Urban Design Policy and Practice (URBAN 5050)
  • Urban Conservation (URBAN 5118, URBAN 5126)
  • Development Process (URBAN 5037)
  • Researching the City (SPS3003)
  • Dissertation supervision (URBAN 5054P, URBAN5080P) 

 

Professional activities & recognition

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2022 - 2022: UNESCO People´s Global Summit, Summit contribution reviewer
  • 2021 - 2021: Austrian Academy of Sciences, Heritage Science Austria funding programme reviewer
  • 2021 - 2021: Royal Town Planning Institute, Panel Member, Schools Competition Judge
  • 2021 - 2021: Independent Social Research Foundation, Reviewer

Professional & learned societies

  • Chartered Member, Royal Town Planning Institute
  • Full Member, Institute of Historic Building Conservation
  • Recognised Historic Environment Service Provider, Institute of Historic Building Conservation

Selected international presentations

  • 2025: 37th Association of European Schools of Planning Congress (Istanbul, Turkey)
  • 2023: 1st International Creative Research Methods Conference (Manchester, UK)
  • 2022: 2nd Global Festival of Active Learning (Online, Global)
  • 2022: 5th International Active Learning Conference (Online, International)
  • 2022: UK Ireland Planning Research Conference (Manchester, UK)
  • 2017: 22nd Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (Vienna, Austria)

Supplementary

  • Built Environment Forum Scotland Conservation Officers Forum Chair (2023- present)

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