Staff Profile:Professor Gavin Parker
- Name:
- Professor Gavin Parker
- Job Title:
- Professor of Planning Studies
- Responsibilities:
- Areas of Interest:
- Research groups / Centres:
Centre for Real Estate Research
- Publications:
- Qualifications:
- PhD (Bristol); MPhil (London); BSc Hons (London); MRTPI
Profile:
Gavin is a chartered planner and fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He is the Chair of Planning Studies at Reading and director of Planning programmes. He has a strong interest in policy instruments revolving around citizenship, participation and governance - an interest that spans the urban and rural divide and a number of policy fields. He has been actively researching community and neighbourhood planning with reports and publications that have been shaping policy agendas in this regard. Keen to ensure that his research and academic life is keyed into practice Gavin was Chair of the Community Council for Berkshire from 2006 to 2011, he sits on the council of partners for the North Wessex Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and he is also a director of the True Food Coop. Gavin was external examiner at Oxford Brookes University in the period 2003-2007. He has also developed a particular interest in land use and policy in Japan with several publications in this area and he was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo 2004-05, 2008-09 and 2010-11.Gavin is also currently researching aspects of affordable housing, decision making in planning, and local economic development. He is happy to discuss possible PhD research proposals linked to any of the above areas.
Prof Parker is the co-author of Key Concepts in Planning (Sage), see: http://www.uk.sagepub.com/books/Book232314
Selected Recent Publications:
Lynn, T. and Parker, G. (2012) Localism and growth? Neighbourhood planning and new housing. Town and Country Planning, January 2012, Vol. 83(1): p15-19
Parker, G. (2012) The agrarians and the arcadians: active citizenship and rural governance in England, in Reflections on Rural Change in Britain and Europe. Eds. Curry, N. and Moseley, M. CCRI, Gloucester.
Pearson, D., Henryks, J., Trott, A., Jones, P., Parker, G., Dumaresq, D. and Dyball, R. (2011) Local food: understanding consumer motivations in innovative retail formats, British Food Journal, Vol. 113(7): 886-899.
Parker, G. and Murray, C. (2012) Beyond tokenism? Community-led planning and rational choices: findings from participants in local agenda-setting at the neighbourhood scale in England, Town Planning Review, Vol. 83(1): 1-28.
Parker, G. and Doak, J. (2011) Key Concepts in Planning. Sage, London.
Murayama, M. and Parker, G. (2011) 'Fast Japan, slow Japan': shifting to slow tourism as a rural regeneration tool in Japan, in S. Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, K. and Erica Wilson, E. (Eds.) Slow Mobilities: Experiencing Slow Travel and Tourism, Channel View Press, Jersey.
Ravenscroft, N., Church, A. and Parker, G. (2011) Whose land is it anyway? Deconstructing the nature of property rights and their regulation, in (Eds.) The Politics of Space and Place, CAPPE Brighton.
Parker, G. (2010) Michi-no-eki - an opportunity for the rural economy? Town and Country Planning, Vol. 79(7):346-350
Parker, G. and Beedell, J. (2010) Land-based economic clusters and their sustainability: the case of the horseracing industry, Local Economy, Vol. 25(3): 220-233.
Brownill, S. and Parker, G. (2010) Why bother with good works? The relevance of public participation(s) in planning in a post-collaborative era, Planning Practice and Research, Vol. 25(3): 275-282.
Brownill, S. and Parker, G. (2010) Same as it ever was? Reflections on a practitioner roundtable on participation, Planning Practice and Research, Vol. 25(3): 407-413.
Parker, G. and Amati, M. (2009) Institutional Setting, Politics and Planning: Private Property, Public Interest and Land Reform in Japan, International Planning Studies, Vol. 14(2): 141 - 160
Parker, G. (2008) Parish and community-led planning, local empowerment and local evidence bases. An examination of 'good practice', Town Planning Review Vol. 79(1): 61-85.
Parker, G. (2008) The politics of countryside access under New Labour. Nothing to CROW about? In Woods, M. (Ed.) New Labour's countryside: Rural politics in Britain since 1997. Policy Press, Bristol.
Parker, G. and Takata, A. (2007) Governance and community management of public assets: the experience of Musashino, Japan. Review of Asian Pacific Studies Vol. 32: 69-91.
Parker, G. (2007) The negotiation of leisure citizenship: leisure constraints: moral regulation and the mediation of rural place. Leisure Studies Vol. 26(1): 1-22.
Amati, M. and Parker, G. (2007) Containing Tokyo's Growth. In Miller, C. and Roche, M. (Eds.) Past matters: planning history and heritage in the pacific rim. Cambridge Scholars Press, London
Parker, G. (2006) The Country Code and the ordering of countryside citizenship. Journal of Rural Studies Vol. 22(1): 1-16.
Doak, A. and Parker, G. (2005) Networked space? The challenge of meaningful participation and the new spatial planning in England. Planning Practice and Research Vol. 20(1): 23-40.
Parker, G. and Murayama, M. (2005) Doing the Groundwork? Transferring a UK environmental planning approach to Japan. International Planning Studies Vol. 10(2): 1-24.
Moseley, M., Parker, G. and Wragg, A. (2004) Multiple service outlets in rural England; the co-location of disparate services. Planning Practice and Research Vol. 19(4): 375-391.
Park, J, Mortimer, S, Stabler, M, Jones, P. and Parker, G. (2004) The use of a multiple criteria decision analysis to evaluate the effectiveness of landscape and habitat enhancement mechanisms: an example from the South Downs. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, Vol. 47(5): 620-635.
Crouch, D. and Parker, G. (2003) Digging-up Utopia? Space, place and land use heritage. Geoforum, Vol. 34(3): 395-408.
Parker, G. (2003) 'Joined-up, Stretched-out? Observations on (joint) rural services provision in England', in Higgs, G. (Ed.) Social Exclusion and Rural Services. European Regional Research Series Vol. 12.Pion, London.
Parker, G. (2002) Citizenships, Contingency and the Countryside. Routledge, London.
Parker, G. and Ravenscroft, N. (2001) Land, rights and the gift: the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 and the negotiation of citizenship. Sociologia Ruralis, Vol. 41(4): 381- 398.
Recent Research Topics:
The role of intermediaries in rural economy and society
Owner-tenants and shared ownership housing
Community led planning and rationality
Neighbourhood planning and localism
Community-led planning and rural affordable housing
Sustainable rural clusters
