Staff profiles
Dr Stephen Dobson
Phone 0114 225 3174
E-mail s.dobson@shu.ac.uk
Steve is a research fellow in the Centre for Business and Management, Sheffield Business School. He is vice-chair of the 'Governance' working group for the European Science Foundation COST Action: TU0902 'Integrated Assessment for the Sustainable Development of Urban Areas'.
He has practice-based experience of geo-demographic and sustainability research and policy analysis whilst working previously as a researcher for the Chief Executive's Directorate at Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council (RMBC). His doctoral research, undertaken in the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Sheffield, focused on Action Research projects with RMBC and Sheffield City Council exploring urban landscape character and 'place' in policy and practice.
Steve also taught geographic information systems (GIS), computer-aided design (CAD) and landscape recording methods for nine years at the University of York and is an academic member of the Landscape Institute. Steve is also an editorial board member of 'The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice.'
Research interests
- civic society and urban planning policy and practice
- evaluation research in the voluntary, public and higher education sectors
- action research, applied research
- GIS, local information systems
- locality, place, identity and landscape
- local sustainability and the historic environment
Forthcoming Publications
Dobson, S. (2012) ‘Characterizing the Evolution of Commercial Organizational Spaces’ International Journal of Organizational Analysis
Dobson, S. (2012) 'Managing urban change: The culturally sustainable city – 'a daunting task' The Historic Environment
Recent Publications
Dobson, S. (2012) 'The Reflexive Practitioner: Knowledge discovery through Action Research' in S. Brüggemann and C. d’Amato (Eds) Collaboration and the Semantic Web: Social Networks, Knowledge Networks, and Knowledge Resources IGI Global
Dobson, S. (2012) 'Historic Landscape Characterisation in the Urban Domain' Urban Design and Planning 165(1), 11-19
(Revised by) Dobson, S. and Niven, K. (2011) Computer Aided Design: A Guide to Good Practice, AHDS, University of York
Dobson, S. (2011) 'Sustaining Place through Community Walking Initiatives' The Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development, 1(2) 109-121
Dobson, S. (2011) 'Remembering in the City: Characterising urban change' Town Planning and Architecture, 35(2), 104-109
Dobson, S. (2010) 'Exploring Informal and Adaptive Ontologies for Communicating Urban Time-depth in Strategic Planning' in J. Teller, A. Cutting-Decelle and R. Billen (Eds.) Future of Urban Ontologies Université de Liège, Belgium
Dobson, S. (2008) ‘Exploring Ontologies of Historic Landscape Characterisation: Towards an approach for recognising the impact of incremental change to historic legibility in urban areas’ in J. Teller; C. Tweed; G. Rabino (Eds.) Conceptual Models for Urban Practitioners Società Editrice Esculapio, Bologna
Dobson, S., Gregory, D. & Matthiesen, H. (2008) 'Geophysics and in situ Preservation: Experiences at Nydam Mose, Denmark' Geoarchaeological and Bioarchaeological Studies 10, 123-30
Campos, G., Howard, D.M. and Dobson, S. (2002) 'Acoustic reconstruction of music performance spaces using three-dimensional digital waveguide mesh models' in Computer Applications in Archaeology CAA2001 ed G Burenhult. BAR Int Series 1016 2002, 173-176
