Professor Paul James is the Director of the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He is a social theorist with three overlapping areas of research focus. The first is globalisation and its impact upon social relations, from national community to local community. The second is social change and the…
Dr Liam Magee is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University. His principal research interests focus on the application of social methods and information technology to the areas of urban development and sustainability. His doctoral dissertation, completed in 2010, examined the importance…
Professor Brendan Gleeson joined Melbourne University in January 2012 as Professor of Urban Policy Studies, having previously worked in senior academic leadership positions in Australia and New Zealand. In 2014 he was appointed Director of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute. Professor Gleeson has made significant scholarly contributions in urban and social…
Bruce is a qualified town and regional planner who has worked in the public and private sectors in both South Africa and Ireland. He is currently based in Ireland. Whilst in Ireland he has been directly involved in spatial data matters. For two years he was a Senior Advisor: Spatial Data…
Edward Ng is an Architect and currently the Professor of Architecture in the School of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). His expertise is in environmental and sustainable design and in urban climatology for city planning. He is the Director of the M.Sc. Sustainable and Environmental Design Programme at…
ProfessorJohn Wiseman is Deputy Director of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne and Professorial Fellow, Melbourne School of Global and Population Health. He is also a Fellow at the Centre for Policy Development. Professor Wiseman has worked in diverse academic and public sector settings including as Foundation Director of…
Michael Abraham studied urban and regional planning at the Technische Universiät Berlin and as the recipient of a DAAD scholarship, he undertook further research in the field of architecture at Montana State University, USA. Since 2006 he has based his work as a city and regional planner in the city of Berlin.…
As an independent UN and EU expert, Ulrich Graute (www.ugraute.de) works in the fields of Urban, Metropolitan and Regional Development and Cooperation, Public Administration and Development Management and International Governance (UN/EU). In 2017 Graute joined the Regional and Metropolitan Planning Unit at the Headquarters of UN-Habitat in Nairobi, Kenya. He also worked…
Thomas Honeck is interested in the interface between academia, politics and practice. At Berlin’s Senate Department for Environment, Transport and Climate Protection, he is in charge of international network policies. As a researcher, Thomas specialises in innovation processes in urban planning and policy-making and sustainability governance within urban contexts. He…
Meritxell Martell is the owner and founder of Merience, a consultancy based in Barcelona, specialised in undertaking research and advice on communication and stakeholder engagement in complex environmental decision-making processes, in areas such as energy, nuclear energy, radioactive waste, carbon capture and storage and environmental remediation. She undertook her PhD in…