Staff Profile:Mr Joe Doak
- Name:
- Mr Joe Doak
- Job Title:
- Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning and Development
- Responsibilities:
- Director of Teaching and Learning for School of Real Estate & Planning
- E-Learning Co-ordinator for School of Real Estate & Planning
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CCMS Fellow
- Areas of Interest:
- Research groups / Centres:
- Publications:
- Qualifications:
- BA Geography (UCL, 1980)
MPhil Town Planning (UCL, 1982)
Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (1985)
Profile
Joe is a chartered town planner with interests in the formulation and implementation of spatial planning policy, concentrating on sustainability, local economic development and the property development process. Other academic interests include theoretical perspectives on the planning and development process, housing markets and planning practice and urban regeneration.Joe has recently taken over the new roles of Senior Tutor and E-Learning Co-ordinator after a number of years as Director of Postgraduate Planning Programmes.
Joe is actively involved in the Editorial Board of Planning Practice and Research, the Reading Green City, Waterways and Open Spaces Forum and a number of international research networks focusing on complexity, climate change, regeneration, participation and planning. He has acted as a 'critical friend' and advisor to a number of UK local authorities and central government agencies.
Selected Recent Publications
Karadimitriou, N., Doak, J. and Cidre, E. (2009) 'Rethinking Brownfields: Discourses, Networks and Space-Time Relations', in Silva, E., Karadimitriou, N. and De Roo G. (eds.) A Planners Meeting with Complexity, Ashgate
Doak, J. (2009) 'Fora, Networks and Public Examinations: Building Sustainable Development for South East England', in Coenen, H.J.M. (Ed.). Public Participation and Better Environmental Decisions: The Promise and Limits of Participatory Processes for the Quality of Environmentally Related Decision-making, Dordrecht: Springer
Doak, J. and Karadimitriou, N. (2007) 'Actor Networks: The Brownfield Merry Go Round', in Dixon, T., Lerner, D. andRaco, R. (eds.) From Problem Spaces to Liveable Places: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration, Blackwells
Al-Tabbaa, A., De Munck, C., Dixon, T., Doak, J., Garvin, S.L. and Raco M. (2007) 'Climate Change, Pollutant Linkage and Brownfield Regeneration', in Dixon, T., Lerner, D. and Raco, R. (eds.) From Problem Spaces to Liveable Places: An Integrated Approach to Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration, Blackwells
Doak, J. and Karadimitriou, N. (2007) '(Re)development, Complexity and Networks: A Framework for Research', Urban Studies, Vol. 44.2, pp.209-229
Raco, M., Parker, G. and Doak, J. (2006) 'Reshaping Spaces of Local Governance? Community Strategies and the Modernisation of Local Government in England', Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 24, pp. 475-496
Doak, J. and Parker, G. (2005)'Networked space? The Challenge of Meaningful Community Involvement in the New Spatial Planning', in Planning Practice and Research, Vol. 20:1, pp.23-40, 2005
Recent Research
(2007-09) Writing a book on Key Concepts in Planning, with Gavin Parker (Sage)
(2003-2007) Property Investment and Brownfield Redevelopment in the UK (EPSRC)
(2003-2007) Impact of Climate Change on Brownfield Pollutant Linkages (EPSRC)
(2003-2004) Community Strategy Formation and Local Governance Under New Labour (UoR Research Endowment Trust Fund)
(2001-2002) Evaluating the Performance of Sub-Regional Economic Partnerships (Hertfordshire CC)
(2000-2001) The Fenlands Local Economic Strategy (Cambridgeshire CC)
(2000-2002) The Property Aspects of Science Parks (Turnberry Consulting and the Association of Science Park Managers)
(2000-2001) Best Value and Economic Development (Hertfordshire CC)
