Dr Sue Brownill

Principal Lecturer

Department of Planning - Faculty of Technology, Design and Environment

Research activities

The themes of my research

Health and environment / Cultures and communities / Leadership and citizenship / Global responsibility

Details of my research

A member of the Urban Policy and International Development Group (UPID), which is part of the Oxford Institute for Sustainable Development. Visit http://www.brookes.ac.uk/schools/be/oisd/urbanpolicy/upm/ for more details.

  • Urban regeneration, particularly in relation to critical perspectives on regeneration; neighbourhood and social regeneration, and evaluating the effects of regeneration programmes
  • Community participation in regeneration and planning
  • Urban governance, particularly in relation to the role of governance in the delivery and achievement of sustainable communities, and the governance of regeneration
  • Cities and diversity, including gender and urban development, gender and regeneration and race and urban governance

Recent research projects include an Evaluation of National Planning Aid (for the Royal Town Planning Institute); Thames Gateway Evidence Review (for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister), and the evaluation of regeneration projects in Oxford, London and Birmingham.

Recent publications

  • Brownill, S . ( 2010 ). London docklands revisited: The dynamics of waterfront development . . Routledge () View more details »
  • Brownill, S and Carpenter, J . ( 2009 ). Governance and 'integrated' planning: the case of sustainable communities in the Thames Gateway, England. Urban studies. (2) View more details »
  • Carpenter, J and Brownill, S . ( 2008 ). Approaches to democratic involvement: widening community engagement in the English planning system. Planning theory and practice. (2) View more details »

Brownill, S. (2007) New Labour’s Evolving Regeneration Policy. Local Economy, 22(3) pp 261-278.

Brownill, S. and Carpenter, J. (2007) Participation and planning: dichotomies, rationalities and strategies for power. Town Planning Review, 78 (4), pp 401-428.

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