Jean Hillier is Professor of Town and Country Planning at School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape, Newcastle University.

Research interests

Her main research interest lies in extending the frontiers of planning theories

Planning Theory

Planning Theory is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of planning and development. The journal's editor-in-Chief is Michael Gunder...

 which are praxis-based and in discursive and relational analyses of participatory planning strategies. Other research interests include social exclusion

Social exclusion

Social exclusion is a concept used in many parts of the world to characterise contemporary forms of social disadvantage. Dr. Lynn Todman, director of the Institute on Social Exclusion at the Adler School of Professional Psychology, suggests that social exclusion refers to processes in which...

, the impact of planning decisions on women and marginalised groups and discursive environmental planning

Environmental planning

Environmental Planning is the process of facilitating decision making to carry out development with due consideration given to the natural environmental, social, political, economic and governance factors and provides a holistic frame work to achieve sustainable outcomes.-Elements of environmental...

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Research projects

• Analysis of facilitation of community transformation, economic redevelopment and housing issues in declining areas in England and Poland.
• Industrial restructuring in the UK.
• ARC research in the south-west of Western Australia
  Western Australia
  Western Australia is a state of Australia, occupying the entire western third of the Australian continent. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Great Australian Bight and Indian Ocean to the south, the Northern Territory to the north-east and South Australia to the south-east...
  
   on the social and economic impacts of restructuring in the timber industry
• Two AHURI
  AHURI
  Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute is a national research organisation, specialising in housing and urban research and policy...
  
   projects, on regional disadvantage and strengthening communities respectively.
• Analysis of the impact of urban renewal of public housing estates on Indigenous households and econometric modelling of risks associated with public sector home ownerhip schemes for economically marginal households.
• Presently working on KATARSIS

Prizes and Awards

• University of London
  University of London
  -20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...
  
  , Arts Prize, 1972
• Bedford College, University of London, Geography Prize, 1973
• Curtin University WEXDEV Award, 1993
• Chair of Urban and Regional Studies, Curtin University of Technology
  Curtin University of Technology
  Curtin University is an Australian university based in Perth, Western Australia, with additional campuses in regional Western Australia and at Miri , Sydney and Singapore...
  
  , 2000
• Curtin Student Guild’s Excellence in Teaching Award 2001 nomination for Planning Theory.
• Curtin Student Guild’s Excellence in Teaching Award 2002 nomination for Planning Theory.

Books

• with Cryle D. (2005), Consensus and Consent, edited collection, API Network, Perth. ISBN 1-920845-12-7
• with Rooksby E. (2005), Habitus: A Sense of Place, edited collection, Ashgate, Aldershot (second edition - updated and paperback, ISBN 0-7546-4564-9 (1st edition 2002).
• (2004) But Tight Jeans are Better! In Lee R. (ed) Geographies and Moralities: International Perspectives on Development, Justice and Place, Blackwell, Oxford: 211-227. ISBN 1-4051-1637-4

Journal articles

• with Gunder M. (2005), Not Over Your Dead Bodies! A Lacanian Interpretation of Planning Discourse and Practice, Environment & Planning A, 37(6): 1049-1066

• with Moulaert. F
  Frank Moulaert
  Frank Moulaert is Professor of Spatial Planning at the Department of Architecture, Urban Design and Regional Planning at Catholic University of Leuven. He is Director of the Urban and Regional Planning Research Group and chairs the Leuven Space and Society Research Centre at the University...
  
   and Nussbaumer J. (2004) Trois Essais sur le Rôle de l'Innovation Sociale dans le Développement Territorial, in Géographie, Économie, Société, 6(2): 129-152.

See also

• 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 :...
  
  
• KATARSIS
• 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....