Events
Registration: If you would like to experience one of the following events please register your attendance with our Online Event Registration.
However, if contact details are provided with an event then please use those and not the Online Registration.
Forthcoming Events
21st February 2012
Sustainability and Bamboo
Dr Andrew Flynn, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
Seminar hosted by the Environment Research Group
4pm in Glamorgan Building Room 1.65
6th March 2012
Innovation for Sustainability
Michael Goodfellow-Smith, Representative of Manchester United Football Club and Director of Quest for Future Solutions
Public Lecture hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit
5.30pm drinks for 6pm lecture in Glamorgan Building Committee Rooms
8th March 2012
The Glamorgan Lecture Series
Co-operation: The Past, Present and Future of an Empowering Idea
A Conversation with Robin Murray (London School of Economics) and Professor Stephen Yeo (Chair of the Co-operative Heritage Trust)
Public event hosted by Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning and Cardiff School of Social Sciences
5:30pm drinks for 6pm lecture in Glamorgan Building Committee Rooms
13th March 2012
The Greenest Government Ever? Planning and Sustainability in England after the May 2010 Elections
Dr Richard Cowell, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
Seminar hosted by the Environment Research Group
4pm in Glamorgan Building Room 1.65
20th March 2012
Consumer Perspectives on the Regulation of GMOs and Nanotechnology-Findings from a Comparative Research Project
Dr Peter Feindt, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
Seminar hosted by the Environment Research Group
4pm in Glamorgan Building Room 1.65
11th April 2012
Sustainable Places Research Institute Seminar
Professor Phil Jones, Head of Welsh School of Architecture and Principal Investigator at the Sustainable Places Research Institute
1-2pm in Glamorgan Building Committee Room Two
To register for this event: Contact Natalie Slow (Email: SlowNS@cardiff.ac.uk)
8th May 2012
Planning as if People Really Mattered
Professor Hugh Barton, University of the West of England
Public Lecture hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit
5.30pm drinks for 6pm lecture in Glamorgan Building Committee Rooms
Recent Events
9th February 2012
The Future of Homelessness Policy in Wales: Learning Lessons from the States and the Scots
Professor Dennis Culhane (University of Pennsylvania), Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick (Heriot-Watt University) and Huw Lewis AM (Minister for Housing, Regeneration and Heritage)
Public Lecture jointly hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
24th January 2012
Thinking About Social Sustainability: Relationships Between Mobility and Social Structure in Rural Areas
Luis Camarero, Director of the Department of Theory, Methodology and Social Change at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia
Seminar hosted by the Environment Research Group
12th January 2012
’Interdependent and Unplanned’? A Spatial Strategy for the Cardiff City-Region
A discussion and exhibition of final year undergraduate planning students’ project work to establish a spatial strategy for South-East Wales.
14th December 2011
Introducing the WISERD GeoPortal - A Tool for Geographical and Spatial Planning Research
Dr Scott Orford (Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning), Dr Rob Berry and Dr Rich Fry (University of Glamorgan)
Seminar hosted by the Spatial Analysis Research Group
6th December 2011
Local Food and Farmers Markets - Essential for a ‘Sustainable City’ or an Indulgence for the Privileged Few?
Steve Garrett, Special Projects Manager, Riverside Community Market Association
Public Lecture hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit
6th December 2011
'Temple Grandin' Autism gave her a vision, she gave it a voice'
Film screening and discussion
Dr Gareth Enticott and Dr Mara Miele, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
Seminar hosted by the Environment Research Group
29th November 2011
Capturing the Moving Relations Between People and Place
Dr Jon Anderson, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
Seminar hosted by the Environment Research Group
17th November 2011
Resilience: Opportunities and Limitations
Simin Davoudi, Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University
Research Seminar hosted by the Sustainable Places Research Institute and supported by the University Graduate College
16th November 2011
Doing it Differently: Wales, Mbale (Uganda) and Climate Change
Hilary Thomas, Visiting Professor, Faculty of Advanced Technology, University of Glamorgan
Public Lecture hosted by the Royal Geographical Society and the Innovation & Engagement Unit
8th November 2011
The Opportunity and Benefits of Local, Sustainable Procurement
Pete Bradshaw, Head of Infrastructure Development / Corporate Responsibility, Manchester City Football Club
Public Lecture hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit
3rd November 2011
The Glamorgan Lecture Series
Place, Community and Identity
A Conversation with Madeleine Bunting (The Guardian) and Phil George (Green Bay and National Theatre Wales). Introduced by Gareth Williams (Cardiff School of Social Sciences)
Public Event hosted by the Cardiff School of Social Sciences and Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
3rd November 2011
Revisiting Suwan Prasid 2: Eviction and Resettlement in Bangkok
Honorary Professor Yap Kieo Sheng, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
Seminar hosted by the Housing Research Network
28th-29th October 2011
AESOP (Cardiff) 3rd Sustainable Food Planning Thematic Group Meeting: Food Planning and Sustainable Places
Organised by the Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning and Sustainable Places Research Institute
18th October 2011
Transformative Innovation - The Policy Challenge for a Low Carbon Transition
Fred Steward, Professor of Innovation and Sustainability, Policy Studies Institute
Public Lecture hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit
18th October 2011
Neighbourhood Governance
Dr Madeleine Pill, Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
Seminar hosted by the Urban and Regional Governance Research Group
5th October 2011
Local Governance for Sustainable Well Being: An Insider’s Refection on Community Planning and Strategic Risk Management in Welsh Local Government
Stephen Williams, Honorary Research Fellow, Sustainable Places Research Institute (PLACE)
Research Seminar hosted by the Sustainable Places Research Institute
20th September 2011
The Connected University: The Promise and the Practice
Professor John Goddard, Emeritus Professor of Regional Development Studies at Newcastle University
Public Lecture hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit
30th June 2011
Issues in Sustainability Governance: Tar Sands, Carbon Capture and Storage, and the Canadian Experience
Professor James Meadowcroft, Carleton University, Canada
Seminar jointly hosted by the Sustainable Places Research Institute and Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
28th-29th June 2011
Knowing Wales: Social, Economic and Political Perspectives
Professor Charlotte Williams, Keele University and Professor Gareth Rees, Director of the Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
Conference hosted by WISERD
23rd June 2011
Interpretive Policy Analysis in Practice
Maarten Hajer, University of Amsterdam and Environmental Assessment Agency (NL)
This lecture was part of the 6th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis
23-25 June 2011
6th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis: Discursive Spaces. Politics, Practices and Power
Hosted by the Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning
17th June 2011
Sustainability as How not What?
Professor Melanie DuPuis, University of California plus additional speakers
Jointly hosted by the Centre for Business Relationships, Accountability, Sustainability and Society (BRASS) and the Sustainable Places Research Institute
15th June 2011
Injustice, Unfairness and Voting in Britain
Professor Danny Dorling, Department of Geography, University of Sheffield
Public Lecture jointly hosted by the School of Social Sciences and the School of City and Regional Planning
9th June 2011
Universities in Crisis
Professor Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
A Cardiff University Distinguished Lecture
This lecture was preceded at by seminar presentations from the School of Social Sciences, the School of City and Regional Planning and Cardiff Business School
8th June 2011
Putting Nature Back in Place: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on Biodiversity Conservation (part of Wales Biodiversity Week)
Professor Susan Baker, Cardiff School of Social Sciences and Professor Mike Bruford, Cardiff School of Biosciences
Public Seminar hosted by the Sustainable Places Research Institute
2nd June 2011
Green Jobs for Wales. Achieving the Aspiration
Colin Hines, Co-Author of Green New Deal and member of Green New Deal Group
Joint Seminar Series hosted by the Centre for Regeneration Excellence Wales (CREW) and Wales Institute of Social & Economic Research, Data & Methods (WISERD)
27-28 May 2011
2nd International Conference on China's Urban Transition and City Planning
Organised by the Cardiff School of City and Regional Planning and sponsored by the Economic Social and Research Council (ESRC) and UK Department for International Development (DFID)
17th May 2011
Why Social Scientists Should Engage with Natural Scientists
Professor Philip Lowe OBE, Newcastle University
Public Lecture hosted by the Innovation & Engagement Unit
5.30pm drinks for 6pm lecture in Glamorgan Building Committee Rooms
10th May 2011
Sam Romaya Memorial Lecture in Urban Design
Shared Space: International Perspectives and Challenges for British Practice
Ben Hamilton Baillie, Director of Hamilton-Baillie Associates Ltd, Bristol
An Innovation & Engagement Unit Public Lecture