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Mission

To provide an interdisciplinary centre of international excellence for spatial planning education, research and policy advice meeting the diverse needs of academia, the planning profession and stakeholders including community groups.

Culture and ethos

The ethos of research in CPEM recognises interdisciplinarity as the glue, which binds planning and other disciplinary synergies within geosciences. Research outputs inform academic, professional and wider public audiences set within individually negotiated staff research plans and agendas.

Structure

The CPEM research structure is rooted within the School of Geosciences. Given the presence of planning, geography, geology and archaeology (proposed 2008) within Geosciences and emerging relationships with other schools including law, property, economics and sociology we see CPEM as a further mechanism to improve interdisciplinarity within and across the institution.

Research in spatial planning is located within the wider research theme of the School of Environment, Space and Society (ESS), uniting both geographers and planners in the school. The Environment, Space and Society theme represents the main focus for human and environmental geography and spatial planning research within the School and is best presented in terms of three porous sub-themes which are the fundamental research clusters within the discipline. These act as foci for the development of interdisciplinary projects with international collaborations:

Urban and regional development: Bill Neill, William Walton, Gill Wall

Human environment interactions: Gill Wall, Marsaili Aspinall, Scott Kelman, Mark Reed

Rural social change and transport: William Walton

In addition there are a number of postgraduate students pursuing a PhD in spatial planning.

Spatial Planning and Rural Surveying · School of Geosciences · University of Aberdeen
Elphinstone Road · Aberdeen · AB24 3UF · Scotland, UK
Telephone: +44 (0)1224 273856  · Fax: +44 (0)1224-272331  ·  Email: n.hardie@abdn.ac.uk