SPACE wins 2011 Scottish Irish Student Planning Quiz. Congratulations to planning students Stephanie Palmer, Aisling Murphy, Alan McCarten and Neil Galway who won the Planning Magazine's 2011 Student Planning Quiz for Ireland and Scotland. The quiz took place at Glasgow university on 1st December and picked up a winning prize of £500.

The launch of the Architecture Student Journal 2010-11, will take place at PLACE, 40 Fountain Street Belfast BT, on Thursday 17th November, 6.00-7.00pm.

Launch of the 'Shared City 2011' map, based on research carried out for the BCRC by the Forum for Alternative Belfast that proposed a new interpretation of shared space and connection in Belfast.

To reserve a place contact Jessica Blomkvist

12.30pm, Belfast City Hall

The Centre for Progressive Economics seeks to promote a genuine debate within our political, policy andpublic/media discourse about the economy' and ?economics'. At this time of global economic crisis and the literal bankruptcy and socially negative impacts of ?business as usual 'economics there is a pressing need for fresh thinking about our economic future. There is an alternative and the Centre for Progressive Economics will seek to provoke debate as to that future in the Northern Ireland regional economy and beyond.

Peter Froggett Centre, Queen's University Belfast.

One day Seminar on the Responses to the Coalition Government’s Policies and their Impact on the North of the UK.

Victoria Hall
University of Liverpool
1 Brownlow Street
Liverpool L69 3GL

Planning: Lifecourse Matters

5.00pm, LG24, David Keir Building
Reception in Clock Tower Foyer aftewards

Lindsay Egner visited New York City on a William & Betty MacQuitty Travel Scholarship for a trip to  to carry out research for her MSc thesis. Lindsay  studied the approaches the city has taken to ensure environmental sustainability and identifying lessons for Belfast.’

Read Lindsay's report here

A new ISEP Working Paper has been published. Rural Support Networks in the UK and Canada: The Influence of the Patrilineal Culture of Family Farming by Dr Linda Price which draws on insights from gender theory, agricultural geography and rural studies to develop a greater understanding of the nature of rural support organisations and the support they provide.

The paper is available to download here or for an hard copy and other alternative formats on request. Please contact Mrs Roslyn Barnes

ISEP working papers provide the opportunity for contributions to scholarly debate through early availability of work in progress. Papers are invited from ISEP members, their research collaborators, and visiting and emeritus scholars. The ISEP Working Papers editorial team is Jenny Muir and David Houston.

Lindsay Egner visited New York City on a William & Betty MacQuitty Travel Scholarship for a trip to  to carry out research for her MSc thesis. Lindsay  studied the approaches the city has taken to ensure environmental sustainability and identifying lessons for Belfast.’

Read Lindsay's report here

Planning lecturer Jenny Muir is organising a second hand book stall in aid of Practical Action Sudan in the Clock Tower Foyer of the David Keir Building from 10.30am – 3.00pm.

Prof Mark Tewdwr-Jones, Professor of Spatial Planning and Governance, University College London.

10.30am in the Senate Room, Lanyon Building

Understanding Environment and Development in India: Getting rich without pollution

Dr Suresh Kumar Rohilla, Centre for Science and Environment, New Dehli, India

Seminar Room 1, Level 3, David Keir Bldg, 2.00pm

For Abstract click here

Titanic Heritage & Memory

Centenary Conference will take place in the Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast on the 31st May 2011

For more details contact Michael Murray

For Conference Brochure click here

Conceptions of Space and Place in Planning

Prof Simin Davoudi, Professor of Environmental Policy & Planning, University of Newcastle.

Seminar Room 1, David Keir Building, 1.00pm

Strawberry fools?  Planners, protestors and poly tunnels

Professor Nick Evans, University of Worcester

Seminar Room 1, David Keir Building, 1.00pm

Ultra Low Energy Construction in Practice

Ramada Plaza Hotel, Shaw's Bridge, Belfast at 6.15pm

An exhibition of Student Work by 3rd year architecture students from the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering is openning on the 5th May at 100 Sandy Row, Belfast.

Click here for more details

Climate Science and Urban Design

Professor Michael Hebbert, University of Manchester

Seminar Room 1, David Keir Building, 1.00pm

An exhibition that attempts a new process of planning and regeneration for the city. North Belfast is strategically cut off from the city and a new process of fully linking the three national motorways is now underway by Roads Service, the York Street Interchange. This project can relink the surrounding arterial routes that were blighted since the 1960's. Communities, professionals and other groups are encouraged to contribute to this process, leading the way to restoring our vital city links and arteries.

The exhibition runs between the 28th April - 21st May 2011 at the Golden Thread Gallery

The 2011 Housing Studies Association conference at the University of York, organised by Kim McKee (St Andrews) and Jenny Muir (QUB), provided a lively forum for discussing the impact of the economic downturn on housing policy and practice. The conference theme was Housing in Hard Times: class, poverty and social exclusion, and it attracted nearly 100 delegates and over 65 papers from across academia, policy and practice. Keynote addresses were delivered by Prof. Ian Cole (Sheffield Hallam), Prof. Chris Hamnett (KCL), Mr Andy Milne (Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum), Dr Gerry Mooney (Open University), Dr Kirsteen Paton (Glasgow University), and Dr Jackie Smith (Shelter). A special issue of the journal Housing, Theory and Society is in preparation.

Papers and presentations are here from the conference website:

New Regionalism: A Critical Reflection on its Role and Relevance in Planning Today

Professor David Douglas, University of Guelph

3rd Floor Studio Room, David Keir Building, 1.00pm

Prof. Des McCafferty, School of Geography,University of Limerick.

Residential Segregation and Housing Policy in the Gateway Cities

Seminar Room 1, David Keir Bldg, 1.00pm

For abstract details click here

MSc in Spatial Regeneration student Lindsay Egner has won a William & Betty MacQuitty Travel Scholarship for a trip to New York City to carry out research for her MSc thesis.

Lindsay said: ‘this trip will allow me to explore the approach taken to planning and sustainable development in one of the world’s most prestigious cities. I’ll be looking at the approaches the city has taken to ensure environmental sustainability and identifying lessons for Belfast.’ In her four weeks in the city, Lindsay will analyse the city’s urban form and structure, and will conduct interviews with various statutory agencies and planning authorities.

Director of Education Aileen Stockdale said: ‘Funding for student travel is hard to come by and we are delighted at Lindsay’s success. She joins the increasing number of Planning students at both undergraduate and postgraduate level who take the opportunity to study abroad. We hope Lindsay enjoys her stay in New York City and we look forward to seeing the results of her research’.

In order to reduce the carbon footprint of her trip, Lindsay intends to volunteer for the New York Restoration Project, which reclaims and restores New York City parks, community gardens and open space, and has a target of planting one million new trees throughout the city’s five boroughs by 2017.