Dr Catherine Hammond MA, PhD
Senior Lecturer in Town Planning
Summary
I am a spatial planner, particularly interested in environmental planning. My teaching and research focus on the tensions between delivering development and environmental protection and enhancement, and the mechanisms available to achieve both. I am course leader for the undergraduate component of our Chartered Town Planning Higher Degree Apprenticeship. Before joining Sheffield Hallam University in 2006 I worked in a range of roles in planning practice and continue an applied approach to my teaching and research activities.
About
After graduating with a Geography degree from Swansea University in 1990, I stared my career in planning practice. While working for Hull City Council in urban regeneration and policy related research roles, I completed an MA in Urban and Regional Planning part-time at Sheffield Hallam University. From 1997 I was a Policy Officer for the CPRE, participating in regional planning and policy processes from an environmental, as well as campaigning for environmental protection. I was 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 until its abolition.
I completed a PhD on the integration of regional policy at Newcastle University in 2003, after which I held a teaching fellowship at Sheffield University, specialising in environmental planning and working on an ESRC funded international project on integrated spatial planning.
Since joining Sheffield Hallam in 2006, I have continued my interest in the role the planning system has to play in environmental protection and enhancement, the ways in which different interests work together - or don't work together - to achieve this, and the very challenging ethical dilemmas this results in. My research focuses on the delivery of environmental and wider benefits through the planning system including multifunctional green and blue infrastructure, Biodiversity Net Gain and nature friendly farming.
I am committed to linking research to practice and am a member of the Town and County Planning Association Policy Council, the South Yorkshire Local Nature Partnership and engaged with the Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission.
Teaching
Sheffield Institute of Social Sciences
College of Social Sciences and Arts
I am course leader for the Degree Apprentice University Certificate and Advanced Diploma in Urban Planning
Geography, Environment and Planning
MSc Urban Planning
DA MSc Urban Planning
DA University Advanced Diploma in Urban Planning
DA University Certificate in Urban Planning
BSc Climate, Sustainability and Environmental Management
Undergraduate:
DA Building a Sustainable Future (module leader)
DA Work Based Investigation for Town Planning Apprentices (module leader)
DA Reflective Skills for Professional Apprentice Performance Town Planning (module leader)
DA Planning Sustainable Cities
Leave No-one Behind
Postgraduate:
MSc / DA Applied Research Methods (module leader)
MSc / DA Environment and Infrastructure (module leader)
MSc / DA Sustainable Masterplanning
DA Implementing Policy and Change (module leader)
DA Applied Research Project (module leader)
Planning Research Project (module leader)
Research
My research interests reflect my wider interests in the interaction between planning and environmental protection, both conceptually, for example in blue and green infrastructures and in tensions, creative resolution and integration.
Nature Recovery Farming: Supporting The Transition.
Recent conference presentations:
- Planning and Nature Recovery, UK / Ireland Planning Research Conference, Glasgow, September 2023
- Environmental compensation and lessons for Biodiversity Net Gain in planning for Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects, UK / Ireland Planning Research Conference, Reading, September 2024
Guest Editor for a special feature on biodiversity, planning and development across ecological solutions and evidence, Journal of Applied Ecology and People and Nature.
Publications
Journal articles
Glentworth, J., Hawkins, A., Bennett, E., Webb, S., & Hammond, C. (2024). Nature Recovery Now: How the new UK Government needs to act to address the biodiversity crisis with five key priorities. People, Place and Policy, 18 (2), 69-81. http://doi.org/10.3351/ppp.2024.7875874494
van Vliet, K., & Hammond, C. (2021). Residents’ perceptions of green infrastructure in the contemporary residential context: a study of Kingswood, Kingston-upon-Hull, England. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 64 (1), 145-163. http://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2020.1756757
Conference papers
Glentworth, J., Hammond, C., Hawkins, A., Webb, S., Bird, S., & Pilbeam, R. (2023). What does a transition to a nature-based economy look like to English upland farmers? [abstract only]. In XXIXth European Society for Rural Sociology Congress Crises and the futures of rural areas, Rennes, France, 3 July 2023 - 7 July 2023. https://esrs2023.institut-agro-rennes-angers.fr/program/2023-07-06/wg-24-rewilding-transformative-solution-rural-crises-across-europe
Reports
Crowe, L., Hammond, C., & Wilson, N. (2016). An Examination of the Development and Implementation of Planning Policy Relating to Major Development in the English and Welsh National Parks. Sheffield Hallam University for the Campaign for National Parks. http://www.cnp.org.uk/SHU-planning-research
Crowe, L., Hammond, C., & Wilson, N. (2016). An Examination of the Development and Implementation of Planning Policy Relating to Major Development in the English and Welsh National Parks. Sheffield Hallam University for the Campaign for National Parks. http://www.cnp.org.uk/SHU-planning-research
Theses / Dissertations
Shaba, F. (2020). Urban expansion, land management and development in Tripoli, Libya. (Doctoral thesis). Supervised by Rotherham, I., & Hammond, C. http://doi.org/10.7190/shu-thesis-00350
Presentations
Hammond, C., & Van Vliet, K. (2023). Planning and Nature Recovery: a review of the integration between Green Infrastructure and Nature Recovery’. Presented at: UK Ireland Planning Research Conference in Glasgow, Glasgow
Other activities
External Examiner for the BA in Planning and plannig and Geography at Newcatle Univetsity
Member of the Town and Country Planning Association Policy Council
Member of the South Yorkshire Local Nature Partnership
Postgraduate supervision
I supervise around 7 DA and MSc Urban Planning Masters level research projects annually.
I am Director of Studies for 2 PhD students researching:
- Planning for the Biodiversity Duty in Areas of Large-Scale Growth
- The Impacts of Planning Reforms on the Role and Remit of Statutory Consultees