RTPI Awards for Research Excellence 2026

Now in their twelfth year, these prestigious awards celebrate high quality, impactful spatial planning research by planning academics and practitioners.

The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence celebrate the best spatial planning research from RTPI-accredited planning schools, highlight the implications of academic research for policy and practice, recognise the valuable contribution of planning consultancies to planning research and promote planning research generally.

The awards open for entries on 17 March and close on 10 May 2026.

Awards will be conferred on 7 September at the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference in Cardiff. The deadline for abstracts for the Conference is 8 June 2026.