Research Profile
Dr Andrea Frank
Selected Publications
Frank, A., I Mironowicz, and D. Kurth. (2012) Accreditation and Quality Assurance of Professional Degree Programmes: comparing approaches in three European Countries. Quality in Higher Education 18 (1): 75-95.
Peel, D. and A. Frank (2008). The internationalisation of planning education: issues, perceptions and priorities for action. Town Planning Review 79 (1): 87-123.
Frank, Andrea I. (2007). Entrepreneurship and enterprise skills: A missing element of planning education? Planning Practice and Research 22 (4): 635-648.
Frank, Andrea I. and Fred Buining (2007). A practice-based approach to developing creativity in Higher education. CEBE Transactions 4 (2): 8-26.
Frank, Andrea I. (2006). CPL Bibliography 376: Three decades of Thought on Planning Education. Journal of Planning Literature 21 (1): 15-67.
Other Recent Publications
Chapters in books
Stiftel, B., Demerutis, J., Frank, Andrea I. et al. (2009) Chapter 10: Planning Education. In Planning Sustainable Cities, pp 185-198. 2009 UN Global report on Human Settlements: Earthscan.
Frank, Andrea I. and B. Symonds (2009). ‘Facilitating Internationalisation in Real Estate and Surveying Education through Institutional Cooperation.’ In Mändle, M. (ed.) Beiträge zum Kooperationswesen. Hamburg: Hammonia.
Frank, Andrea (2003). ‘Chapter 10: Graphic Communication.’ In H. Dandekar (ed.) Planner’s Use of Information – 2nd Ed. Chicago: APA Press.
Frank, Andrea I. (2002) ‘Using Measures of Spatial Autocorrelation to Describe Socio-economic Structures in Urban Areas.’ In D. Kidner, G. Higgs and S. White (eds.) Socio-Economic Applications of Geographic Information Science. GIS Innovations Series. London: Taylor & Francis.
Other publications (e.g., articles in professional journals, reports, encyclopedia contributions)
Frank, A. and Kurth, D. (2010) 'Planning Education in Germany: Impacts of the Bologna Agreement', DisP, 182, 3, 25-35
Frank, A. (2010) 'Making a case for complementarity of student learning from yearlong work based placements in town planning', Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, 4,2.
Frank, A. and D. Kurth (2009) Planerausbildung in Deutschland: Eine Zwischenbilanz 10 Jahre nach Bologna. PlanerIn 4 (August 2009): 5-7.
Frank, Andrea I. and Izabela Mironowicz (2009). ‘Planning Education in Poland.’ Case study prepared for Revisiting Urban Planning. Global Report on Human Settlements 2009.
Frank, Andrea I. (2005) ‘Developing entrepreneurship skills in the context of higher education.’ Keynote of 2005 BEECON conference. Published as report by the National Council for Graduate Entrepreneurship.
Frank, Andrea I. (2005) ‘Sense of Place.’ In Roger W. Caves (ed.) Encyclopedia of the City. London: Routledge.
Frank, Andrea I. (2005) ‘Megacity.’ In Roger W. Caves (ed.) Encyclopedia of the City. London: Routledge.
Bookreviews
Frank, Andrea I. (2012) ‘Metropolitan Governance. Different Paths in Contrasting Contexts: Germany and Israel by H Heinelt, E Razin, K Zimmerman (eds).’ Bookreview. European Planning Studies 20 (8).
Frank, Andrea I. (2007). ‘Die Neunte Stadt: Wilde Grenzen und Städteregion Ruhr 2030’ [The Ninth City: Untamed boundaries and the City Region Ruhr 2030] by Benjamin Davy. Bookreview. Planning Theory 6 (1): 86-91.
Frank, Andrea (2004). ‘Culture and Settlements by M. Miles and N. Kirkham (eds.)’ Bookreview. Landscape Research 29 (2): 226-227.
Conference Presentations
New Structures of Planning education in Europe. With Mironowicz. WPSC conference. 4-9 July 2011, Perth, Australia.
Programme Accreditation and Quality Assurance: a comparison of approaches in Germany, UK and Poland. With Mironowicz,and Kurth. AESOP conference. 7-10 July 2010, Helsinki, Finland.
GIS provision in UK planning programmes. With Richard Kingston and Alastair Rae. UK-Ireland Planning Research conference. 7-9 April 2010, Chelmsford, UK.
Global Planning education provision. With Prof. Bruce Stiftel, Vanessa Watson, Ali Memon et al.Asian Planning Schools Association conference, 24-27 November 2009, Ahmedabad, India.
Planning Education in Germany Post Bologna. With Prof. Detlef Kurth (HfT Stuttgart). AESOP Conference, Liverpool 15-18 July 2009.
A Comparison of the Link Between Planning Education and Planning Practice in Two EU Countries. With Izabela Mironowicz.(Wroclaw University) AESOP Conference, Liverpool 15-18 July 2009.
Should Planning Schools cooperate in delivering Planning Education Programmes? ACSP/AESOP Conference, Chicago 6-11 July 2008.
Roundtable Planning Schools Inventory: Planning Schools and planning programmes in Europe - ACSP/AESOP Conference, Chicago 6-11 July 2008.
Facilitating Internationalisation in Real Estate and Surveying Education through Institutional Cooperation? With Barry Symonds (LSBU) European Real Estate Society conference - ERES, 18-21 June, Crakow, Poland, 2008
Global versus Local Competencies. Workshop. Built Environment Education Conference (BEECon), London, Westminster. 12-13 September 2007.
Rethinking long-term Placements: the UK experience. Paper. AESOP conference, Naples, Italy, 10-14, July 2007
Unravelling the Paradox of the Internationalisation of Learning: Implications.with D. Peel. AESOP Congress, Naples, Italy, 10-14 July, 2007.
GIS and Planning: Examples from UK Local Authorities and Government – Implications for planning education. Invited paper for Geddes Seminar 8 May 2007, Dundee University, Scotland.