Geoff Vigar is Senior Lecturer at School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University. Currently he is the Director of Global Urban Research Unit

Global Urban Research Unit

Global Urban Research Unit is a research centre established in 2002 at the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, England.- The formation :...

 at the university.

Research interests

His research focuses on strategy development and implementation in land-use and transport planning, and the role and incorporation of social

Social

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 and environmental

Environmentalism

Environmentalism is a broad philosophy, ideology and social movement regarding concerns for environmental conservation and improvement of the health of the environment, particularly as the measure for this health seeks to incorporate the concerns of non-human elements...

 issues into governance

Governance

Governance is the act of governing. It relates to decisions that define expectations, grant power, or verify performance. It consists of either a separate process or part of management or leadership processes...

 practices in particular. His research centres on how governance institutions influence different policy

Policy

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 pathways both in relation to planning

Planning

Planning in organizations and public policy is both the organizational process of creating and maintaining a plan; and the psychological process of thinking about the activities required to create a desired goal on some scale. As such, it is a fundamental property of intelligent behavior...

 and transport policy but also in wider City strategy-making.

Research projects

• Development of Regional Transport Strategies in England
  England
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   including participant observation of the preparation process in North East England
  North East England
  North East England is one of the nine official regions of England. It covers Northumberland, County Durham, Tyne and Wear, and Teesside . The only cities in the region are Durham, Newcastle upon Tyne and Sunderland...
  
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• SINGOCOM: Social innovation
  Social innovation
  Social innovation refers to new strategies, concepts, ideas and organizations that meet social needs of all kinds - from working conditions and education to community development and health - and that extend and strengthen civil society....
  
   in territorial development funded through the European Commission
  European Commission
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  ’s Fifth Framework Programme.

Publications

• with Porter,G., (2005), Regional Governance and Strategic Transport Policy: the case of North East England, European Spatial Research and Policy, 12(1) pp89–108.
• with Graham,SDN., and Healey, P., (2005), Searching for the City in Spatial Strategies, Urban Studies, 42(8), July. view abstract/article
• with Haggett, C. (2004), Tilting at Windmills, Town and Country Planning, October, 73 (10), pp288–290.
• (2004), Researching Wind Energy Developments: Perspectives from Planning Theory, Working Paper for ESRC Tilting at Windmills project, Newcastle University: Newcastle.

External links

• SINGOCOM