PERN Bulletin 9/10
22-Jul-10
Call to Planning Schools: Disseminating research to planners
RTPI Research and RTPI Education are joining efforts to disseminate research from the RTPI accredited planning schools to planners. If you have information about the research projects undertaken or underway by your department, please send it to research@rtpi.org.uk by 30 July. More…
Pre-announcement of Next Round of ESPON Calls
ESPON is a five-year programme for applied research into all aspects of European territorial development. Its next round of calls for research proposals will be launched on 24 August 2010. It will invite proposals for two stakeholder-led projects (one on airports and one on the impact of R&D policies). It also will invite proposals for the second phase of the ESPON Database Project. More…
RTPI Young Planner of the Year Award
This award from the Royal Town Planning Institute is intended to seek out and acclaim the brightest younger planners in the profession. To see the entry criteria and submit your nomination please visit this page. Closing date: 27 September 2010.
2010 Planning Summer School, York, 7-11 September 2010
The overall theme for this year’s school is “Planning to live within our means”. Booking is now open. Find out more…
Beyond PPS25 - should uncertainty in flood risk mapping make a difference? A joint CCN/RTPI event, Lancaster, 28 September 2010
This workshop aimed at planners with an interest or involvement in development planning and flooding will give an overview of the importance of visualizing an uncertain flood risk within decision making. More… See also this year’s CCN Annual Conference outputs below.
Young Planners' Conference, Cardiff, 15-16 October 2010
Booking is open for this year’s young planners’ conference. Brochure and booking form can be downloaded at www.rtpi.org.uk/ypconference.
MORE NETWORK NEWS
Carbon management & climate change learning module
Reducing carbon is crucial to successful, sustainable place making. The HCA’s integrated learning programme and resources provide practical solutions to support professionals to adapt communities to the changing climate. More…
New Grants for Cross-Disciplinary “Time Out”
A new EPSRC scheme is offering 3 – 12 month “Discipline Hopping Grants” to encourage researchers to develop imaginative ways of using techniques or expertise from the engineering and physical sciences to tackle economic and social research questions. It provides contact time between engineers, physical scientists and economic and social scientists by awarding them funds to effectively ‘buy out’ their own time and allow them to immerse themselves in a new discipline. More…
Catchment Change Network (CCN) Annual Conference, 6 July – Outputs
This meeting, which attracted over 90 delegates, was designed to take forward the debate around catchment management in an uncertain future and explore challenges and opportunities for research to fill current gaps. More...
Sustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University
Cardiff University has recently created the Sustainable Places Research Institute which seeks to combine the academic talents of ten scientific disciplines, with the aim of tackling the challenges of climate change and diminishing social and economic resources. More…
Take a look at your water environment
What are the nutrient levels in your coastal waters or nearby lake? Do you live/work in an area where urban waste water treatment fails to meet the EU requirements? The European Environment Agency (EEA) provides the answers through its interactive maps, which have been updated with new water quality data. Read more...
AHRC/ESRC Public Policy Fellowships
The ESRC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) have announced a co-funded pilot Public Policy Fellowship Scheme which provides opportunities for social science and arts and humanities researchers to spend time within partner organisations to undertake policy-relevant research and facilitate knowledge exchange within government, public sector organisations and various academic networks. More…
RCUK Natural Hazards Mitigation Programme
The UK Research Councils (RCUK) is commissioning a new interdisciplinary programme of research on natural hazards resilience and mitigation. The new investment of £7 million will run for five years and will support new interdisciplinary natural, physical and social science research. The goal of the programme is to build physical, social and economic resilience in earthquake-prone and volcanic regions, by reducing risks from multiple natural hazards. Updates on the progress of the programme will be available, in due course, via the ESRC website.
New ESRC Centre for Population Change
The £5 million Centre was launched last year with the aim of improving our understanding of the key drivers and implications of population change within the UK. It is a joint initiative between the University of Southampton and a consortium of Scottish universities, in partnership with the Office for National Statistics and the General Register Office for Scotland. More…
New FP7 Marine environment projects page
“Sustainable management of marine environments” is an important sub-activity of the research theme on the environment (including climate change). It focuses on improving our understanding of the impacts of human activities on the ocean and seas and on marine resources. More…
Sustainable Uplands Films
The Sustainable Uplands project, managed by Dr Mark Reed from the University of Aberdeen, is for anyone that lives, works, plays or has an interest in upland environments. By combining experience and new ideas from local people with cutting edge natural and social science, the project aims to anticipate, monitor and sustainably manage rural change in UK Uplands. Two films about the future of the uplands have just been released. More…
CALLS
Calls for Special Issue Papers on Crowds, Climate Change and Higher Education
The Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences 21st Century Society has issued calls for papers for a number of special issues:
- Papers on understanding and managing crowd events, a fundamental challenge for the design and functioning of cities, are invited by 6th December 2010. For more information, contact Dr Clifford Stott at c.stott@liverpool.ac.uk
- Papers on challenge, change and crisis in global higher education are invited by 14th January 2011. The Special Editor is Professor Miriam David who can be contacted at m.david@ioe.ac.uk
- Original papers on any aspect of climate change in the social sciences are also invited by 14th January 2011. For more information contact Professor David Uzzell at d.uzzell@surrey.ac.uk
21st Century Society aims to provide a digest of the most important issues within the social sciences and promotes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approaches, including links to other areas or disciplines. Information on submissions is available here.
EPSRC Energy Networks Grand Challenge – Call For Proposals
The RCUK Energy Programme, led by the EPSRC, invites proposals that address the Grand Challenge of preparing the UK’s Energy Infrastructure for 2050. Applicants are encouraged to look 20 to 40 years in the future and think what could be achieved on this time-scale if researchers from different research groups, disciplines or institutions were to work together. The closing date for proposals is 4pm on 29th September 2010. Find out more…
ESRC workshop: Sub-Contracting Risk: Neoliberal Policy Agendas and the Changing Nature of Flood Risk Management. Call for papers and bids for conference bursaries, 16 September 2010, University of Hull.
- Abstracts for papers and offers of posters are now invited. Papers can be on work in progress. We are open to ideas in the broad areas of flood risk and related natural hazards.
- There are five ESRC-funded bursaries of up to £300 each to support early career researchers (post-graduate and post-doctoral) to attend the event
- Registration for this free event is now open – please email Graham Haughton directly. Places are limited and will be offered on a ‘first come, first served’ basis.
Offers of papers (c.200 words should suffice) and applications for the bursaries (a short one paragraph statement and one page CV will suffice) should be sent by 11 August to either Prof Graham Haughton (g.f.haughton@hull.ac.uk) or Prof Greg Bankoff (g.bankoff@hull.ac.uk), or Prof Tom Coulthard (t.coulhard@hull.ac.uk).
PUBLICATIONS
Academy of Social Sciences - The Challenges of an Ageing Population
The second issue of Making the Case for the Social Sciences on the topic of ageing was launched at the House of Commons on 20 July. This issue has been prepared in conjunction with the British Society of Gerontology and Age UK (formerly Age Concern and Help the Aged). Download the report…
Housing Praxis for Urban Sustainability
The final report from the HOPUS (Housing Praxis for Urban Sustainability) project has been published, entitled 'Housing for Europe: Strategies for quality in urban space, excellence in design, performance in building'. This completes the EU funded URBACT project, and contains a chapter by Matthew Carmona (Lead Expert on HOPUS) entitled 'Decoding Design Coding.’ More…
Using participatory mapping to explore participation in three communities
This report by the Pathways through Participation project team introduces readers to the history of participatory mapping as a versatile research tool, demonstrating its potential use in a variety of scenarios. Download…
Publication: Communicating research for evidence-based policymaking
This guide by the European Commission Research Directorate is specifically tailored to meet the needs of those involved in EU-funded socio-economic research projects and offers practical advice on how to develop communications between researchers and policymakers. More…
Technological society and the London Plan
Yvonne Rydin explores the influence of the sustainable development agenda on planning, as demonstrated in the London Plan, in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. More…
Brownfield Residential Development In England
The report by Cecilia Wong and Andreas Schulze-Bäing and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation examines: the trends and spatial patterns of brownfield land reuse for housing development across different English regions, including the reuse of more problematic vacant and derelict land; the differing patterns of brownfield residential development in four different types of deprived neighbourhood; and, how policy has affected these neighbourhoods' changing housing market conditions, population growth, and relative economic deprivation. Download report…
MORE EVENTS
Effects of demographic change on urban structures, Hungary, 13-14 September 2010
The 3rd annual European Urban Knowledge Network conference brings together stakeholders for an interactive exchange of strategies, experiences and knowledge. More…
OPEN DAYS European Week of Regions and Cities, Brussels, 4-7 October 2010
Participation is free, with 130 specialist seminars to choose from. The official website includes details of all the seminars and workshops, speakers, dates and venues, as well as a step-by-step guide on how to apply.
Research Information Network Autumn events, various dates, London
The RIN series of free Autumn events have now been confirmed for 11 October, 18 November and 13 December at the Royal College of Physicians in London. Themes will cover: the future of scholarly publishing, research data, and quality assurance. For further information and details of how to register for the events, please visit this website.
- Author:
- Research Team
- Publisher:
- The Royal Town Planning Institute
- Date:
- 22-Jul-10
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- PERN
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