Research Profile
Dr Andrea Frank
Career Profile
Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University, (2009 - Present).
Deputy Director for CEBE (Housing, Planning, Transport), Cardiff University (2009 - 11).
Lecturer, Teaching & Learning Coordinator, Research Fellow, Cardiff University, (2000 - 2009).
Research and Teaching, University of Michigan - Introduction to Urban Geographic Information Systems/ Spatial Data Accuracy/ Intelligent Transportation Systems Application Case Study, (1995 - 1999).
Consultant, Haas + Partner, Stuttgart, Germany - International Standardisation of 3D Data Exchange, (1995 - 1995).
Research Assistant, University of Michigan - Developing a Policy Exercise for the sustainable development of the Great Lakes Ecosystem, (1992 - 1995).
Computer Aided Design in Architecture/Urban Design, RIB - Recheninstitut fürs Bauwesen, Stuttgart Germany, (1989 - 1991).
Designer, Team 23, Güglingen Germany, (1985 - 1989).
Awards and Prizes
8 Week DAAD Visiting Scholarship to Stuttgart Germany to develop relations and research governance structures (May – June 2011).
Finalist of RTPI Teaching Excellence Prize 2011.
6 month Innolecture Guest Professor Award of the Stifterverband der Dt Wissenschaft (June-November 2012).
Memberships / External Activities
Executive committee member of Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
- Track chair for the Planning Education track in the annual conferences of AESOP
- Jury member for AESOP Prize for Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Chair of the coordinating Committee of the Global Planning Association Network (GPEAN).
Editorial Board Member: CEBE Transactions and Journal for Education in the Built Environment.
Advisory Board Member of SAGSAGA (Swiss Austrian German Simulation and Gaming Association).
Teaching Profile
Andrea teaches on the following modules at the School of City and Regional Planning
- CP0121 Places and Plans (BSc CRP, year 1) - an introductory module to land use planning and urban design on the BSc City and Regional Planning.
- CP0334 Spatial Strategy Making (BSc CRP, year 4)
- CPT851 Studio II (MA Urban Design) Public participation techniques for community involvement in planning and design on the Master of Urban Design course
- Field Study Visits to European cities (e.g., Berlin, Paris, Dortmund and Ruhr Area).
Outside Cardiff, Andrea has been invited to lecture on sustainable urban design at the Universidad del Bió-Bió in Concepción (Chile) as part of a British Council Link and at the Catholic University of Portugal in Lisbon on issues of teaching quality assurance in HE and the use of GIS in planning practice. Under the Erasmus staff exchange scheme, Andrea teaches regularly at the Hochschule fur Technik (Stuttgart, Germany) where she was awarded a Mathilde-Planck Grant (for 3 years) to cover two modules in the Master of Urban Planning Programme titled "English for Planners" and "International Planning Principles.
Administrative Roles
Deputy director of CPLAN’s Teaching and Learning committee.
Member of Cardiff University’s quality assurance and standards committee.
Member on School IT committee (SITCOM).