BA (Honours) Planning and Geography
Previously known as Urban and Environmental Planning
Part-time
This course is subject to approval
Location • City Campus
Subject area • Planning, housing and regeneration
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We designed this course for people who are working in a planning, regeneration, housing, environmental or other built environment field and who would like to go back to education to get a degree and become a professional planner. You may be a • technician • administrator • enforcement officer • trainee • planning assistant.
The course is practice-oriented with a strong academic and theoretical basis. You gain a thorough foundation in spatial planning and the opportunity specialise in specific areas of planning including • regeneration • urban design • environmental issues.
You also develop the communication, strategic thinking and analytical skills needed to work at a professional level.
The course involves a large amount of project and practice-oriented work, including study visits outside Sheffield. You are encouraged to draw on your work experience in completing assignments.
Our staff have planning expertise in a range of areas and many of them have worked in the public and private sectors, which means they can help provide real projects for you to work on.
This course provides partial accreditation by the Royal Town Planning Institute. We also run a Master in Urban and Environmental Planning which is fully accredited. At the end of the course you can transfer onto the Masters in Urban and Environmental Planning.
Related courses
Part-time – typically six years
Complete the application form available at www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
2013/14 academic year
Typically £4,500 a year
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
• essays • examinations • research projects • planning and design briefs • professional practice reports • case studies
This course is partially accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute. To be eligible for full membership you must transfer onto the Master in Urban and Environmental Planning.
Dr. Camila Bassi
Course leader for MSc Regeneration
Camila graduated from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1997 with a first-class honours degree in geography, and was awarded a DPhil from the University of Sheffield in 2003. Her Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)-funded PhD was in the field of social geography, more specifically, it explored the interrelationships of 'racial', ethnic and sexual identities as linked to commercial space and political economy.
Research interests
• minority culture to urban political economy
• competing histories of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Teaching interests
• development in Africa and the Middle East
• globalisation debate
• global perspectives on regeneration
• introduction to human geography
• social inclusion and cohesion
• urban change and conflict
Author of
• Bassi C 2010 ''The anti-imperialism of fools': A cautionary story on the revolutionary left vanguard of England’s post-9/11 anti-war movement' ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies, 9(2), 113-137. Download the article (pdf)
• Bassi C 2008 'Book Reviews: Risky pleasures? Club cultures and feminine identities by Fiona Hutton' Gender, Place & Culture, 15(4), 445-455.
Dr Rionach Casey
Course leader for MA Housing Policy and Practice
Rionach graduated with a first class honours degree in politics and contemporary history and an MSc in housing policy and practice (with distinction) from the University of Salford. Rionach completed a PhD on housing managers' professionalism and occupational identity in 2005 (University of Salford).
Rionach has extensive research experience in the housing profession, homelessness, housing markets, minority ethnic groups, social exclusion and anti-social behaviour. She has a particular interest in the needs and aspirations of the Irish community in Britain.
Rionach has worked in housing management for a local authority and as a community development research officer in the voluntary sector. She has co-authored research reports commissioned by a range of organisations and government departments including the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Scottish Government, the Welsh Assembly Government and the Federation of Irish Societies.
She has research interests in housing profession and occupational identity, housing pathways of socially excluded and migrant groups, policy responses to anti-social behaviour, homelessness and gender, and the Irish community in Britain.
Her teaching interests are around professional skills in housing management, homelessness and gender, housing and social policy, and qualitative research methods in the social sciences.
Selected reports
Pawson H, Davidson E, Sosenko F, Flint J, Nixon J, Casey R and Sanderson D (2009), Evaluation of Intensive Family Support Projects in Scotland: www.scotland.gov.uk/socialresearch
Casey R and Flint J (2009), The Health Needs of the Irish aged 50+ in Calderdale, Calderdale: Calderdale NHS
Karen Escott
Principal Lecturer
Karen is the academic leader for the Planning and Regeneration group at Sheffield Hallam University and Head of Planning.
Prior to joining the university in 2002, Karen worked at the Centre for Public Services (1989-2002) providing research expertise and strategic advice to national and regional agencies, local authorities, trade unions and community groups.
She worked for Sheffield City Council's Department of Employment and Economic Development (1982-1989), developing local economic appraisals and labour market studies, and as a researcher in local economic development at Middlesex University (1978-1982).
Karen is a member of the Academy of Urbanism and a trustee of public arts organisation BEAM
Research interests
• Social and economic analysis including evaluation of anti-poverty and regeneration initiatives
• Public service management
• Equal opportunities including gender and local labour markets
Teaching interests
• Planning policy evaluation
• Urban regeneration practice
• Global perspectives on regeneration
• Public management and organisational change
Recent publications
Escott, K. & Buckner, L. (2009) Jobs for local communities: does economic investment work? Vol 3:3 PPP online
Escott, K. (2008) ‘Access to work’ in S. Yeandle (ed) Policy for a Change: Local Labour Market Analysis and Gender Equality. Bristol. Policy Press.
Escott, K. Grant, L. & Buckner, L. (2007) Young women on the margins of the labour market. Paper to Work, Employment and Society Conference, Aberdeen 12-14th September.
Dr Angela Maye-Banbury
Principal lecturer
Angela is a principal lecturer in urban and regional studies. Angela has lectured in housing and regeneration for around 20 years. She has undertaken research and consultancy for a range of organisations in the statutory and voluntary sectors.
Angela is joint learning, teaching and assessment (LTA) co-ordinator for urban and regional studies, award leader for the Certificate Housing Practice programme and is the co-ordinator for the European Network of Housing Researchers (ENHR)
Her teaching interests are centered oncomparative housing policy - transferable lessons to England. But she also specialises in homelessness legislation; neighbourhood management and relevance to regeneration; housing exclusion: issues on gender; youth and minority ethnic communities andhousing rights; housing needs: themes of policy discourse
Research interests
• comparative housing research, notably Europe and China
• housing exclusion: issues relevant to gender; youth and minority ethnic communities
• gender and housing policy
• impact of selected demolition on communities
• notions of citizenship and housing rights
Author of
Maye-Banbury, A. (2009) 'A Tale of Three Cities: Gender and European Homelessness Systems', Paper to be presented at ENHR Conference, Prague 2009.
Maye-Banbury, A. (2008) Woman of Influence, Inside Housing, 18 July.
Maye-Banbury, A. (2008) The People’s Republic? Inside Housing, 9 May.
Alison Nimmo
Visiting professor
Alison Nimmo CBE, FRICS is a Visiting Professor at Sheffield Hallam. She is a chartered surveyor and town planner who specialises in managing and delivering complex city projects and was awarded a CBE for services to urban regeneration in 2004. Later that year she was awarded an honorary degree from Sheffield Hallam University.
Alison was Director of Design and Regeneration at the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA) from 2006-2011 where she had responsibility for delivering the overall design and early delivery of many of the sports venues, Olympic Park and long term legacy for the London 2012 games. She took over as the chief executive of The Crown Estate in January 2012.
Alison's previous roles have included working for the London 2012 bid team, Chief Executive of Sheffield One, a city centre regeneration programme for Sheffield and Project Director of Manchester Millennium Ltd responsible for the regeneration of Manchester city centre following the terrorist bombing in 1996.
Dr Darren Bell
Visiting Lecturer for MSc Urban Regeneration
Darren is a Chartered Town Planner with extensive experience in the public and private sector. He is currently the Dissemination Manager at the Advisory Team for Large Applications (ATLAS), which is part of the Homes and Communities Agency. He is responsible for sharing learning from projects via events and the web-based guide.
His role also involves providing direct support to local authorities and their partners on large and complex planning applications.
Previously he worked at David Lock Associates working on large scale urban development and growth proposals on behalf of private and public sector clients. He also work at Sheffield Hallam University as a visiting lecturer and is qualified and experienced in teaching at high education level and is a RTPI Licentiate Mentor.
Jane Petrie
Course leader for BSc (Hons) Housing
I started off studying law at the University of Kent and then moved back North to do an MA in Criminology at the University of Sheffield. I then worked in the voluntary sector for Women's Aid and the Gypsy Support group, before I returned to the law and qualified as a solicitor in 1984. I then worked as a housing lawyer until 2005.
When in practice I mainly worked in law centres acting for housing users (tenants and owner occupiers) but also spent a couple of years working for a large local authority as a housing solicitor. I also work as a freelance trainer on housing law issues.
Whilst working as a lawyer I took a number of part-time and distance learning courses. I did a Postgraduate Diploma in Women's Studies at Sheffield Hallam University and later did an MA in Housing Studies at the University of York. I also took an Open University course on managing voluntary organisations
In 2005 I came to Sheffield Hallam. My teaching interests are housing law which I teach on undergraduate and postgraduate courses and anti-social behaviour and community safety. I teach postgraduate modules on anti-social behaviour law and practice and community safety. My research interests are around housing law and policy and anti-social behaviour.
Barry Goodchild
Professor
Barry is an experienced researcher and teacher who has completed numerous projects and possesses an international reputation.
His research focuses on housing quality, neighborhood quality and liveability, planning for housing, Anglo-French comparisons in housing and urban policy and housing and environmental sustainability.
Barry's teaching interests are centered around planning for the future with specialisms including planning theory: planning for housing, policy evaluation and housing futures
Author of
Goodchild, B. (2008) Homes, Cities and Neighbourhoods, Ashgate
2007-2008: Le déploiement des «nouveaux métiers» de la politique de la ville, comparaison franco-britannique/ Emergence of new professional positions in neighbourhood renewal. A comparison of new approaches in Great Britain and France. Research project, funded by la Délégation interministérielle à la ville (Paris).
Mervyn Jones, Chief Exectutive of Yorkshire Housing
Visiting Lecturer for MSc Urban Regeneration
Mervyn joined Yorkshire Housing as Chief Executive in June 2008. He has worked in housing for over 30 years in London, the North West and Yorkshire. His previous role was Chief Executive at Willow Park Housing Trust in Manchester, an award-winning housing and regeneration organisation revitalising of one of the most deprived communities in England.
Mervyn is a visiting fellow at Sheffield Hallam University and a former board member of the National Housing Federation
Dr Catherine Hammond
Course leader for the BA(hons)/Master in Urban and Environmental Planning
Cate is a qualified planner. She has been a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam since November 2006.
Cate is also active in regional governance and planning as the environment sector representative on the Regional Assembly for Yorkshire and the Humber, and as deputy chair of the Regional Planning Board.
Before coming to Sheffield Hallam Cate held a teaching fellowship at Sheffield University after completing a PhD on the integration of regional policy at Newcastle University in 2003.
Cate also has a range of practical planning experience. She began her planning career in 1991 as a policy officer for Hull City Council where she did information gathering and research for policy development. From 1997 - 1999 and from 2002 - 2004 she worked as a regional policy officer for the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) where she participated in the regional planning and policy processes from an environmental and rural perspective.
Her key research interests are regional and sub-regional governance; policy integration; environmental / sustainability integration and strategic spatial planning.
Her specialist teaching areas are strategic planning, spatial planning, research methods and planning and environmental policy.
Author of
Hammond C 2002 New Approaches to Regional Spatial Planning? in Rydin R & Thornley A (eds) Planning in the UK: Agendas for the New Millennium, Aldershot, Ashgate.
Rob Stevens
Senior Lecturer
My academic background is in urban planning, economics and political science. I also have six years professional experience working at Southampton and Cardiff councils, as well as time spent in the private sector.
I spent a year at the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in Whitehall working for the urban policy unit, and have also worked at the University of Leuven in Belgium on a Federal Government financed project.
After arriving at Sheffield Hallam in 2002, I spent two years as a researcher in UK neighbourhood renewal and european urban policy and governance before joining the teaching staff.
I am a full accredited member of both UK Professional Institutes for Spatial Planning (Royal Town Planning Institute) and Economic Development (Institute of Economic Development) and also a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy.
My teaching interests
• economic development
• economic geography
• economic regeneration
• spatial planning
• strategic planning
• comparative and cross national study
Examples of writing
German Institute of Urban Affairs (2006) ‘Soziale Stadt info 19: Local economy in disadvantaged urban districts- a survey of 5 countries’ pp 18- 24 England Country Profile
Stevens R,. (2005) EU sixth framework three year programme Re Urban Mobil: Report on Proposed Governance, Legal and Economic Instruments for Leipzig, Ljubljana, Bologna and Leon EU / Re Urban Mobil / Sheffield Hallam UniversitY
European Union and stadt leipzig (2005) Final Report to the Commission Re Urban Mobil Project pp 42- 48
Kaeren Harrison
Course leader for MSc Urban and Regional Planning
Kaeren joined the Planning Subject Group in 2007. Kaeren's first degree is in Archaeology and Classics from University of Nottingham before undertaking postgraduate qualifications in MA Landscape Architecture and MSc in Urban Planning.
She had previously worked as an urban designer for Local Authority, a regeneration Manger for the East Midland Development Agency, a Project Planner within the City Centre Urban Design team for Nottingham City Council and as a Landscape Architect.
Kaeren is a panel member of the Sustainable Urban Design Panel for Sheffield City Council and has also used her professional skills to be a CABE enabler (2009-11.)
Teaching interests
• urban design
• planning
• landscape architecture
Research interests
• urban design and planning process
• landscape and townscape character
• public realm and residential design
• place, character and local identity
• history of urban design
• design cultures
• historic environment
Stephen Kempka
Course leader for MSc Transport Planning and Management
Stephen joined the planning subject group in 2007. He has twenty years of local government practice working in land use planning and transport planning. Prior to joining the university he worked as a transport planner at Durham County Council.
Stephen is a qualified planner with chartered status and a transport specialism. He has also studied management theory.
Teaching interests
• strategic and local planning policy
• consultancy project
• development management
• transport policy and practice
Recent consultancy
Establishing distance learning materials in Transport and GIS (2010)
Jenny Fortune
Senior Lecturer
Jenny completed her degree at Bartlett school of Architecture, University College London. She then completed her Diploma and professional qualification in Architecture at the University of Sheffield.
She was a senior architect with Sheffield City Council for 13 years, responsible for major new build and re-development housing, also schools and nurseries, before becoming a lecturer at Sheffield Hallam University in 1999.
Teaching interests
• housing and regeneration
• urban design and inner city living
• design of low energy and flexible housing
Author of
Women and the Built Environment. CEBE 2004.
Reversing Skills shortages in the construction industry. ULURC & JIVE. 2005-7.
Dr Rob Hunt
Senior Lecturer
I started work in the early 1980s as a commercial valuation and development surveyor. A change of path led to a return to university and the completion of an urban studies degree at Sheffield Hallam University in 1988. Between then and 2005, I worked in local authority and RSL housing management, and I've taught professional and academic housing courses at a variety of organisations in London.
I teach on a number of courses including economics, urban regeneration, research development and housing finance. I also coordinate our housing distance learning programme, and I am currently supervising a PhD examining Nigerian housing finance.
Teaching interests
• housing policy
• housing finance
• economic regeneration
• housing management
• research methods and dissertation supervision
Research interests
• public policy implementation (topic of PhD research)
• the role of public and private finance in housing and regeneration
• housing policy development
• social housing allocation
• residents' experiences of change
Author of
Hunt R and Parsons P (2009) Redefinition of Public Space within the Privatisation of Cities. Paper delivered at the 5th International Conference of the Private Urban Governance and Gated Communities Research Network: Redefinition of Public Space within the Privatization of Cities, March 30 - April 2 2009, University of Chile.
Hunt R and Jones P (2009) Exclusion of young people from the housing market: the role of interest rate setting. Paper delivered at the ISA International Housing Conference, 1 – 4 September 2009, University of Glasgow
Beth Meeds
Principal Lecturer
Beth's first degree was in civil engineering at Sheffield City Polytechnic (now Sheffield Hallam University). Beth then carried out three years research into urban drainage at Sheffield Hallam and completed her PhD in urban drainage in 1995.
She joined Sheffield Hallam as a lecturer in 1996 teaching hydraulics and water engineering. She has just completed an MSc in Urban Regeneration and currently teaches information, communication technology and research development.
Beth is the undergraduate programme leader for the urban and regional environment programme and is a member of the Higher Education Academy.
Her main research interest is in urban drainage. This is reciprocated into her teaching interests, where she specialises in water engineering, water management, urban drainage and data analysis and interpretation.
Author of
Meeds B and Balmforth D J, ‘Full-Scale Testing of Mechanically Raked Bar Screens’, Journal of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, Vol 9, No. 6, December 1995
Meeds B, ‘Investigation of the Performance of Combined Sewer Overflow Screens’, PhD Thesis, December 1995
Sam Moorwood
Senior lecturer in planning and development
Sam has a varied background of experience as a chartered surveyor, with a focus on planning and development. As a planning consultant he advised on development policy, sustainability and strategy at all levels of Government and then later also worked for Yorkshire and Humber Assembly as part of the planning team. Roles as a development surveyor for Bath and later Sheffield City Council involved close working with a range of developers to oversee the valuation and sale of development opportunities for regeneration. After working for a year as an associate lecturer, Sam was drawn into teaching because of its day to day rewards, working with aspiring young people seeking to enter a challenging and fascinating profession.
Research interests
• A conference presentation in Hong Kong on the relationship between sustainability and property valuation.
• Views on community infrastructure levi presented to the Royal Institute of Town Planners.
• Presented a draft paper on the new localism bill - impacts on the planning system at the Sheffield Hallam Built Environment Conference.
Sam is currently completing a dissertation on the impact of novel learning environments, looking at how the Istanbul planning system and urban environment has affected masters learning experiences
His previous academic studies include the role of professional competence in university education and the role of studio approach to teaching built environment subjects, with papers lodged at the Centre for Education in the Built Environment.
Teaching interests
• Planning and development in practise including negotiations and interdisciplinary working
• The use of residual valuation and other related techniques to assess the value of development land
• The evolution and impact of planning policy in practise
Daniela Hawryliuk
Principal Lecturer
Daniela has been a lecturer in housing at Sheffield Hallam since 2005 and is the academic leader for the housing and community development group.
Earlier in her career she worked for Sheffield City Council (1986-2004) in a variety of managerial roles in housing and regeneration including housing management, partnership and community development, policy formulation and strategic planning. Specific responsibilities/projects included Burngreave New Deal for Communities, conservation planning for Park Hill and the managements of the RSL development programme.
Daniela spent 12 months working in the voluntary and community sector at Sheffield’s Black Community Forum. She also worked as a consultant for the Housing Diversity Network (2004-2008) working with housing organisations on equality and diversity training, organisational reviews and impact assessments.
Her research interests are around understanding and responding to inequalities in housing, the implementation of equalities legislation within the social housing sector, cultural awareness and public service modernisation.
Her teaching interests are strategic management and organisational change, community engagement and development, housing policy development and implementation and housing exclusion particularly in relation to disability and BME communities.
Author of
Equality and diversity organisational and strategic reviews; to assist in the development of long term strategies and action plans - Sunderland Housing Group (2005) Accent Housing Group (2006) Johnnie Johnson Housing Trust (2006) Accent Peerless (2007), Shoreline (2007) Cross Keys Homes (2007), Leeds and Yorkshire Housing Association (2008).
Anna Hawkins
Senior Lecturer
Anna joined Sheffield Hallam University in 2007 following a career as a regeneration project manager.
Her teaching interests are centered on community development with specialisms in sustainable communities, urban and neighbourhood regeneration, project management and housing and community development.
Dr Paul Jones
Senior Lecturer
Paul has taught at Sheffield Hallam University for four years. He is part of the Planning group in the Department of Architecture and Planning.
Prior to joining the University Paul worked for four years as Research Fellow at the University of Warwick, where he worked on a number of high profile research projects in the Institute for Employment Research. Prior to working at Warwick, Paul had been employed variously in a teaching capacity at University of Essex and Suffolk College and as a Research Associate at University of Bristol.
Paul has a PhD in Economics from University of Essex. His doctoral thesis was based on estimating stochastic models of local unemployment. He still maintains an active research profile and currently receives research funding from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam. He has written recent papers on unemployment, job creation, the business cycle and on housing economics.
Research interests
• job creation and destruction
• labour markets
• housing economics;
• urban segregation and clustering.
Teaching specialisms
• economics;
• statistics;
• quantitative methods;
• research methods
• spatial analysis
• econometrics
Recent articles
Coles, Melvyn., Jones, Paul & Smith, Eric (2010), 'A Picture of Stock-Flow Unemployment in the United Kingdom'. Macroeconomic Dynamics. Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2010, vol. 14, issue 04, pages 427-453.
Jones, Paul S. and Green, Anne E. (2009), 'The quantity and quality of jobs: changes in UK regions, 1997-2007', Environment and Planning A 2009, volume 41, pages 2474-2495.
Jones, Paul S. (2009), 'Local workplace employment and the quality of jobs framework', People, Place & Policy Online (2009): 3/2, pp. 92-108
Profiles
Dr. Camila Bassi
Course leader for MSc Regeneration
Dr Rionach Casey
Course leader for MA Housing Policy and Practice
Karen Escott
Principal Lecturer
Dr Angela Maye-Banbury
Principal lecturer
Alison Nimmo
Visiting professor
Dr Darren Bell
Visiting Lecturer for MSc Urban Regeneration
Jane Petrie
Course leader for BSc (Hons) Housing
Barry Goodchild
Professor
Mervyn Jones, Chief Exectutive of Yorkshire Housing
Visiting Lecturer for MSc Urban Regeneration
Dr Catherine Hammond
Course leader for the BA(hons)/Master in Urban and Environmental Planning
Rob Stevens
Senior Lecturer
Kaeren Harrison
Course leader for MSc Urban and Regional Planning
Stephen Kempka
Course leader for MSc Transport Planning and Management
Jenny Fortune
Senior Lecturer
Dr Rob Hunt
Senior Lecturer
Beth Meeds
Principal Lecturer
Sam Moorwood
Senior lecturer in planning and development
Daniela Hawryliuk
Principal Lecturer
Anna Hawkins
Senior Lecturer
Dr Paul Jones
Senior Lecturer
Professional Links
Strong professional links support our planning, transport and regeneration courses making our teaching vocationally relevant. Our graduates are employed throughout the UK and overseas. Our academic staff have worked in planning and regeneration practice and maintain close links with national organisations, local government, consultancies and the voluntary sector.
The professional bodies we work with include
• Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport
• Royal Institute of British Architects
• Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
• Royal Town Planning Institute
We also have links with the Association of Geographical Information
We are one of the main partners in the Royal Town Planning Institute's Yorkshire conference series of continuing professional development. These events attract a wide range of practitioners and academics from planning and related sectors including architecture, environmental management and urban design.
We work closely with the Homes and Communities Agency, CABE, Integreat Yorkshire (Yorkshire Forward's Regional Centre of Excellence for regeneration and renaissance) and BEAM.
We are also instrumental in the Sheffield Urban Think-Tank - an important initiative bringing together Sheffield City Council, Creative Sheffield, Integreat Yorkshire, Sheffield Hallam University, and the University of Sheffield. Sheffield Urban Think-Tank aims to make Sheffield and the surrounding region an exemplary model for the use of learning, research, training and practical experience. As well as directing planning and thinking about cities and their surrounding regions. The annual Sheffield Urban Design Week provides an example of this activity. For further information contact the Academy of Urbanism
