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Dr Matthew Wargent

Lecturer in Urban Planning and Development

School of Geography and Planning

Email
WargentM@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 75281
Campuses
Glamorgan Building, Room 1.52, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA

Overview

With a background in political sociology, I now specialise in urban governance and planning. My primary research focus concerns the politics of community engagement and its role within urban governance.

My latest research project, Just Neighbourhoods?, explores social and environmental justice in under-represented neighbourhoods across the UK's four nations. Further recent research projects have focused on the impact of community-led planning on housebuilding, epistemic justice and the transformation of street space, and the influence of private sector expertise in urban governance.

I am currently Course Director for the BSc Urban Planning and Development and serve as Book Review Editor for Town Planning Review.

I joined the School of Geography and Planning in October 2021. Prior to this, I was British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Reading and Research Fellow at the Bartlett School of Planning, UCL. I completed my PhD funded by the ESRC at the University of Sheffield in 2017.

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2015

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