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Index of Titles

A complete list of all conference contributions. Use the alphabetical filter or the search box below to find specific submissions. Click on any contribution to view its session details.

Contribution Title	Author(s)	Session
‘For the Public with the Public’: A Participatory Foresight framework for Spatial Planning and Sustainability Transitions	Weir, Louise (1); Farrell, Maura (1); Murtagh, Aisling (1); Kuhmonen, Tuomas (2)	Resilient Sustainable Futures
(Environmental) Planning Theory, Governance and Practice Revisited	Carter, Claudia (1); Inch, Andy (2); Twedwr-Jones, Mark (3); Sturzaker, John (4)	Roundtable: (Environmental) Planning Theory, Governance and Practice Revisited
20 Minutes for Whom? Rethinking Accessibility Through Walking Isochrones	Duffy, Martin	Mobility Transitions
A Critical Realist Perspective on City Region Spatial Planning: Lock-in or Transformation?	Carter, Claudia	Sustainability Challenges
Addressing rural housing poverty in low‑income Cornish communities through the provision of affordable and low‑carbon homes	LO, CHIENLING; Malik, Sana; Lee, Tim; Stone, Frederick	Neighbourhood Renewal
Addressing the “skills gap” in planning – where does the responsibility lie?	Sturzaker, John (1); Parker, Gavin (2); Hickman, Hannah (3); Ellis, Hugh (4); Bristow, Gillian (5)	Addressing the “skills gap” in planning – where does the responsibility lie?
Artificial Intelligence in Planning Education – exploring tutors’ perceptions around the boundaries of acceptability	Croft, Nick	Reimagining Planning Pedagogy
Back to the future? Local regeneration and ‘Levelling Up’ in north-west England	Richardson, Robert (1); Kerr, Rachel (1); Jones, Paul (2); Sykes, Olivier (3); Buchanan, Lesley (2); Hardman, Mike (2)	Transforming Places, Remembering Pasts
Beyond Best Practices: Reinterpreting Hong Kong’s Rail-Plus-Property Model through Property Governance	Yip, Ka Chi	Infrastructure, Mobility and Development
Beyond Compliance: Reconciling National Infrastructure Delivery and Meaningful Public Participation	Hickman, Hannah; McClymont, Katie	Making Voices Heard
Beyond Evidence: Insights from the Urban Retrofit Project on How Research Reassures, Socialises, and Shapes Practice	Hickman, Hannah (1); Zhu, Jingyi (2)	Social Justice and Planning Practice
Beyond the Map: Integrating Arts-Based and Digital Mapping in Place-Based Youth Engagement in Wales	Khan, Matluba (1); Smith, Tom (1); Lee, Maya (2)	Making Voices Heard
Breaking Disciplinary Boundaries- sometimes its a Hack(athon)	Edmonds, Elaine	Reimagining Planning Pedagogy
Capturing Land Value for Metro Infrastructure: A Comparative Study of London and Hong Kong	Sun, Guibo	Delivering Urban Transformation
Changes to planning legislation through the lens of procedural and substantive policy tools	Corrigan, Jordana	Governance in Practice
Cinematic pedagogies: teaching urban planning through film	Hoolachan, Andrew	Rethinking Planning Education
Conceptual Model for Explaining Self-defined Neighbourhoods	Badawy, Aya	Knowledge Production and Planning Futures
Conceptual notes on a ‘plan-less’ system: examining the contemporary role, relevance and nature of plans	Harris, Neil	Planning and Delivery
Conceptualising the Future of Green Belt within the context of ‘Grey Belt’ and 1.5 million new homes	Goode, Charles	Housing Challenges
Cross-Border Strategic Spatial Planning on the Island of Ireland: Assessing Alignment, Divergence and the Future of Collaboration	Rafferty, Gavan (1); McElduff, Linda (1); Creamer, Caroline (2)	Planning Through Time
Cultural Communities as Co-Shapers of Place in Digbeth's Regeneration	Hassan, Sara	Communities, Knowledge and Planning
Dancing the Impossible City: women spatial Imaginaries in Bristol	Karimnia, Elahe	Women Shaping Cities
Determining the facts that matter in complex decision-making: a critical realist framework of identifying valid knowledge in planning	Ivins, Andrew	Knowledge Production and Planning Futures
Developer Contributions and Value Capture in Northern Ireland: Insights from Early Implementation	Rafferty, Gavan (1); McElduff, Linda (1); Buck, Malachy (2)	Planning and Delivery
Does brownfield regeneration still contribute to green infrastructure provision? Exploring the change in English planning policies since the 1990s	Schulze Baing, Andreas	Managing Urban Growth and Development
Dwelling through the just transition: the Lived Experience of the Niddrie Road tenement Retrofit in Glasgow.	Hoolachan, Andrew; Serin, Bilge; White, James	Making Voices Heard
Educating for Resilience: Re-Engineering Postgraduate Planning Pedagogy to Meet the Green Infrastructure Skills Deficit	Jerome, Gemma	Reflective Practice and Planning Education
Empowering the Disempowered? Place-based Knowledge of (In)Formal Spaces and Self-mobilised, Community-led Plan-making in Hong Kong	Yip, Ka Chi	Community Knowledge and Social Inclusion
Encountering, Navigating, and Reclaiming the City: Spatial Negotiations of Muslim Refugee Women	Elnady, Reem	Women Shaping Cities
Engaging the Awkward Squad: Community Science, Counter-Expertise and Contentious Environmental Planning	Hacking, Nick	Communities, Knowledge and Planning
Environmental Justice Struggles and Neoliberal Intervention in Access to Sustainable Housing of Marginalised Communities -A Study of Mumbai’s Rehabilitation and Resettlement Housing Policy’	Mokale, Priyanka	Social Justice and Planning Practice
Evaluating Planning-Health Integration in Northern Ireland: The 4 E's Framework for Emergent Governance Contexts	evans, gemma	Governance in Practice
Framework for AI-enabled Transport Digital Twin Development: Case Study of Liverpool and Busan	Kwon, Heeseo Rain (1); Ballantyne, Patrick (1); Balog, Akos (1); Jang, Jinhyeok (2); Son, Heejoo (2); Hwang, Jinuk (3,4); Singleton, Alex (1)	Governing Cities Through Digital Technologies
From Concept to Context : Translating Explicit and Implicit Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) in Malaysia and Wales	Abdullah, Aminah Wati; Orford, Scott; Potoglou, Dimitris	Infrastructure, Mobility and Development
From words into reality? Power, disciplinarity, and the social construction of green infrastructure knowledge	Flynn, Andrew; Hacking, Nick	Planning and Place
Getting Houses Built: The Role of Local Authority Planners in Managing Market-Led Housing Delivery	Guo, Qingyuan	Managing Urban Growth and Development
Green Infrastructure and Urban Centre Repurposing: Learning Lessons from the West Midlands	Goode, Charles	Nature, Health and Place
Housing vulnerable people: Does size matter?	James, Daniel	Housing Challenges
How Does Planning Theory Engage with Property Rights? Revisiting Ten Planning Paradigms	Shahab, Sina (1); Hengstermann, Andreas (2)	Theories and Practices of Planning Governance
Impact of Birmingham Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) on safety and perceived safety, particularly for women	Hutchison (née Atchison), Cerys	Mobility Transitions
In honour of Malcolm Tait (1972-2026)	Beebeejaun, Yasminah (1); Chapman, Kiera (2); Clifford, Ben (3); Inch, Andy (4); McClymont, Katie (5)	In honour of Malcolm Tait (1972-2026)
Inclusive Urban Mobility for Post-Stroke Survivors: Considering Urban Environmental Factors in Belfast.	Dedduwa Pathirana, Viduni; Balsas, Carlos J. L.; Rafferty, Gavan	Resilient Sustainable Futures
Institutional coordination and implementation gaps in Transit-Oriented Development: Evidence from Jakarta	Mori, Hiromitsu	Delivering Urban Transformation
Is there - and should there be - a moral imperative for planning	MacDonald, Kelvin	Theories and Practices of Planning Governance
Land take, compact cities, and the green transition across Europe	Sandu, Alexandra	Planning Sustainable Transitions
Learning to make a change: Going beyond living labs as a concept to living labs as a way of working	Ruiz del Portal, Angela; Patel, Hiral; Khan, Matluba; Skeels, Anna; Costa, Mafalda	Reflective Practice and Planning Education
Local Area Energy Plans in Wales: an effective tool for the spatial challenges of Net Zero transitions?	Croft, Stephen	Planning Sustainable Transitions
Making the Transition Work: The Hidden Labour of Nature-Recovery Farming	Hawkins, Anna (1); Glentworth, Joseph (2); Cary, Emma (3); Bennett, Ellen (1); Hammond, Catherine (1); Stephanie, Webb (3)	Climate Transitions, Adaptation and Resilience
Marginalisation of gender in national planning policy in the UK and Ireland	Morphet, Charlotte (1); Dutton, Jenna (2); Watt, Kirsty (3)	Inclusive Planning and Social Justice
Metamorphosis: Enabling Older Homeowners to Age-in-Place through Housing Adaptation	Moore, Michelle; Roche, Jim; Reid, Odran	Community Knowledge and Social Inclusion
Mitigation and additionality: examining the role of Planning Obligations in the delivery of Social Value in England	Buck, Malachy	Social Justice and Planning Practice
Modalities of time and temporality in and for planning: an overview and agenda	Parker, Gavin; Dobson, Mark	Knowledge Production and Planning Futures
More homes in smaller spaces: how acceptable is suburban densification to civic societies?	Smith, Mark (1); Maidment, Christopher (2); Chettiparamb, Angelique (3); Dembski, Sebastian (4)	Housing Challenges
Multivocal Fishponds: Community-led narratives of places towards Just Regeneration in Post-Industrial Suburbs	Karimnia, Elahe	Governance in Practice
New development in England is unlikely to be providing enough access to greenspace	Sinnett, Danielle	Nature, Health and Place
Participation, power and lived injustice in Stainforth’s neighbourhood planning experience	Lynn, Tessa Jayne (1); Parker, Gavin (1); Sturzaker, John (2); Wargent, Matthew (3)	Social Justice and Planning Practice
Paws for Thought: Animal Rescue Centres at the Margins of Planning, Sustainability and Multispecies Urbanism	Duke, Jessica	Planning and Place
Planning After Harm: Redevelopment, Memory and the Governance of Former Sites on Institutional Abuse in Ireland	O'Halloran, Sandra	Transforming Places, Remembering Pasts
Planning Consultants in Urban Governance: A Systematic Review of Roles and Implications	Ellefsen, Eilert Berre	Theories and Practices of Planning Governance
Planning education, public health and illegal drugs	Boland, Philip	Reimagining Planning Pedagogy
Planning for ‘good growth’? Charting the diverse outcomes of London’s Opportunity Areas	Tallman, Eric (1); Ferm, Jessica (1); Freire Trigo, Sonia (1); Moore-Cherry, Niamh (2)	Managing Urban Growth and Development
Planning for Social Connectedness: Spatial Stories from Later Life	Grove, Hannah (1); Everett, Georgina (2)	Community Knowledge and Social Inclusion
Planning for Uncertainty: Reflecting on Coastal Planning in England and Northern Ireland	Buck, Malachy (1); McElfduff, Linda (2)	Climate Transitions, Adaptation and Resilience
Planning future renewable energy infrastructure: Potential to explore public acceptance in left-behind places?	Singleton, Aled	Communities, Knowledge and Planning
Planning History: Obstacles and opportunities	Mountain, David	Planning Through Time
Planning Law, Governance, and the Ethics of Scale in Urban Transformation: The Case of the Göztepe Risky Area, Bagcilar, Istanbul	SÖNMEZ ÖZDEMİR, Sevgiye	Transforming Places, Remembering Pasts
Planning students and experiential learning; developing planning competencies through structured feedback and reflection.	Mahon, Marie (1); Weir, Louise (1); Dunne, Brendan (2)	Reflective Practice and Planning Education
Platform Urbanism: How the State, Capital, and Digital Platforms Reshape Space	Guo, Jie	Governing Cities Through Digital Technologies
Producing Enclave in the Representation of Space: Rural Planning Practice in China	Feng, Han	Knowledge Production and Planning Futures
Public Art as Social, Situational, and Relational Practice	Price, Emma	Place, Identity and Urban Experience
Public trust in planning systems: implicit and explicit dimensions of trust formation	Lanphier, Nicole; Fox-Rogers, Linda; Murphy, Enda	Theories and Practices of Planning Governance
Pursuing Housing Justice by Tackling Gendered Inequalities through Inclusive Planning and Housing Policy in Taiwan	LO, CHIENLING	Inclusive Planning and Social Justice
Queering the New Towns: Designing research methods that centre the LGBTQIA+ communities' experiences of New Towns in the past, present and future	Llewellyn, Charlotte	Inclusive Planning and Social Justice
Re-conceptualising child-centred urbanism: children’s experiences across diverse urban contexts	Khan, Matluba	Place, Identity and Urban Experience
Rebuilding Planning Knowledge In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence: Urban Datarization And The Future Of Planning In The Global South	Ibrahim, Abdulsalam Shema (1); Yunusa, Mustapha Abdulmunafi (2); Alfa, Muhammed Tauheed (3); Abdulmalik, Halima (1); Kasim, Noordin Yusuf (1)	Planning in the Digital Age
Reframing ‘community’ in planning: translating the PORTAL framework into practice	Hope, Anna Rose	Communities, Knowledge and Planning
Reframing Participatory Planning: A Conceptual Framework for Evaluating Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Practice	FitzLarkin, Tiernan; Blair, Neale; McElduff, Linda	Governing Cities Through Digital Technologies
Regional pavement parking research project (mobility, design and accessibility)	Clark, Michael	Planning and Place
Regions in Evolution: A History of Regional Planning	Harrison, John (1); Galland, Daniel (2); Tewdwr-Jones, Mark (3)	Planning Through Time
Rethinking “green infrastructure” from a rural perspective - competing principles, nature-centric policies, and action	Mell, Ian	Nature, Health and Place
Rethinking Authentic Assessment Design in the Era of Generative Artificial Intelligence – A Case Study from Town and Regional Planning Education	Shi, Yuan	Rethinking Planning Education
Retrofit, conservation areas and climate transitions: evidence from local planning authorities in England	Karampour, Katy	Sustainability Challenges
Retrofitting cities for sustainable futures: Towards a new planning agenda	Wang, Ying (1); Zhu, Jingyi (2); Inch, Andy (2); White, James (2)	Planning Sustainable Transitions
Scaling Urban Food Futures: Community-Based Food Initiatives, Planning Knowledge and Participatory Governance in Kraków	Krawczyk, Aleksandra; Kopczyńska, Ewa	Resilient Sustainable Futures
State Of The Art Review of Greyfield - Led Suburban Regeneration in Ireland	Bauman, Grusa; Keenaghan, Garrett; Roche, Jim	Neighbourhood Renewal
Students’ agency in campus greenspace: How guerrilla use informs the design of university greenspace	Woolf, Yarden	Place, Identity and Urban Experience
Suburban Densification in England: Where, What and Why (Not)?	Dembski, Sebastian	Managing Urban Growth and Development
Temporal Misalignment in Planning Education: Curriculum, Knowledge, and the Case for Temporal Reflexivity	Al Khalidi, Marwa	Rethinking Planning Education
Temporality and urgency in the planning and delivery of mega-events: A case study of the Birmingham Commonwealth Games	Goode, Charles; Barber, Austin	Planning and Delivery
The digitalisation of planning and dependence on consultant procurement	Kayanan, Carla Maria	Planning in the Digital Age
The economic impacts of brownfield redevelopment on neighbourhoods	Sinnett, Danielle (1); Weisser, Reinhard (1); Cranshaw, Owen (1); Miner, Paul (2)	Neighbourhood Renewal
The effectiveness of hybrid forum approaches to policy mediation: a case study of community asset transfer in Wales	Flynn, Andrew; Hacking, Nick	Governance in Practice
The institutionalisation of the Urban Climate Transition into urban policy in UK secondary cities	O'Brien, Phil (1); Zhu, Jingyi (1); White, James (1); Wang, Ying (2)	Climate Transitions, Adaptation and Resilience
The Planning Tsar Hustings- Voting for a vision of Planning Education	Edmonds, Elaine (1); Reid, Odran (1); Hoolachan, Andrew (2); Nunes, Richard (3); Ivins, Andrew (4)	Planning Tzar Hustings for Planning Education
The Potential for Digital Planning to Ease Resource Pressures and Improve Planning Outcomes in Wales	Potts, Ruth (1); Webb, Brian (2)	Planning in the Digital Age
The Role of Business Improvement Districts as Place-makers in Contemporary Urban Governance – Potential, Perils and Planning Implications in Birmingham	Barber, Austin	Place, Identity and Urban Experience
The Spatial Paradox of Long Commutes: Public Transport Commuting and Subjective Wellbeing in Greater Jakarta, Indonesia	Drestalita, Naya Cinantya	Infrastructure, Mobility and Development
Un-Naming the Plotlands: On What Foundations Do We Build Planning Up?	McClymont, Katie (1); Bower, Richard (2)	Un-Naming the Plotlands: On What Foundations Do We Build Planning Up?
Urban Retrofit – a restorative approach to post-growth planning?	White, James (1); Hickman, Hannah (2)	Sustainability Challenges
Urban Transformation and Residential Mobility: rethinking urban regeneration in Bugaoli Neighborhood in shanghai	DING, PEI	Delivering Urban Transformation
What’s new? Continuity, change, ‘grit’ and irony in the UK and Ireland’s planning systems	Slade, Daniel (1); Fitzsimons, Jeanette (2); Rafferty, Gavan (3); Shepherd, Edward (4); Morphet, Charlotte (5); Macari, Kirsty (6)	Roundtable: What’s new? Continuity, change, ‘grit’ and irony in the UK and Ireland’s planning systems
When exceptions shift norms: explaining transitions to environment-oriented transport policy using orders of worth	Virtanen, Mirka Johanna; Cowell, Richard	Mobility Transitions
Women as System-Builders: Leadership Archetypes for African Urban Governance and Planning	Davis, Tiffany (1); Tshuwa, Lesego (2)	Women Shaping Cities
Zines for Building Planning Up	Button, Cat	Roundtable: Zines for Building Planning Up

UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2026

7th-9th September 2026

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Index of Titles