Janice Morphet is a Fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and a member of the Political Studies Association. She has been a trustee of several bodies including the RTPI and TCPA.
Her varied professional career has included time in local government as a Chief Executive and in urban and rural local authorities. She was Professorial Head of the School of Planning and Landscape at Birmingham Polytechnic and Secretary of SERPLAN. She has been a senior advisor on local government in Central Government and a consultant to the public and private sectors on governance, management, change and improvement. She has undertaken consultancy in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as England.

Janice has been an External Examiner for undergraduate and post graduate programmes and for PhD candidates. She has been a member of the REF and of the Planning Committee for the London 2012 Olympic Games. She has published widely on planning, the EU, governance, management and infrastructure in books, articles, blogs and short articles for the technical press.