Dr Meadhbh Maguire is a practicing planner and planning researcher with over 10 years of experience. Holding a PhD from McGill University, her doctoral thesis examined how the planning system could be used to intervene in regulatory retail environments following the Canadian legalisation of Cannabis, and was awarded the RTPI Early Career Research Excellence Award. She has worked in partnership with Nesta and Public Health Scotland to explore how the planning system can intervene in food environments since the adoption of National Planning Framework 4. Dr Maguire has most recently received the RTPI Early Career Research Grant to investigate how health-focussed planning policy clusters form, using the case of takeaway food outlet regulation in four local government areas in the North East.