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Andrew Ivins

Mr Andrew Ivins

Teaching Associate

School of Geography and Planning

Email
IvinsA1@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 29208 76560
Campuses
Glamorgan Building, Room -1.02, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA

Overview

I am a Teaching Associate and PhD researcher with particular interests in the impact of the built environment on subjective wellbeing, sustainable place making, public participation, and the use of data in urban plan making. My PhD research seeks to explore how various consultation data become valued (or not) by individual actors and local planning authorities, and how wider factors of structure and agency impact the determination of value. 

In 2022 I was awarded a Royal Town Planning Institute Early Career Small Research Grant for a project titled "Families, free-time, and car dependency: identifying the qualities of family and leisure mobility decisions" with co-investigator Dr Justin Spinney. The project was conducted from February - September 2023 and explored the factors influencing family/leisure mobility decision making. The research highlighted the importance of encumbrance (accompanying children and load carrying) in privileging car use, particularly where commutes are bookended by school drop off/collection.

Research

My PhD research seeks to explore the role of public participation in planning, and how consultation data is valued by local planning authorities. Drawing on the theory of critical realism, this research links the interaction of institutions and organisational structures, the agency of practitioners, and how antagonism and backlash to previous planning interventions present themself in the consultation process, in a framework of value determination. The research argues that until this value making process is understood, the impact of public participatory data in the planning process will remain uncertain.

Research grants awarded

Royal Town Planning Institute Early Career Small Research Grant - 'Families, free-time, and car dependency: identifying the qualities of family and leisure mobility decisions'

Awarded for project period: February 2023 - September 2023. Co-investigator: Dr Justin Spinney

Conference presentations and workshops

'The importance of load carrying and accompanied journeys in family and leisure mobility decisions: implications for transport planning and vehicle design', presented at the UK and Ireland Planning Research Conference 2023, 04-06 September 2023, Glasgow, UK.

'Families, free-time, and car dependency: identifying the qualities of family and leisure mobility decisions', workshop delivered at the RTPI Cymru Wales Planning Conference 2023, 22 June 2023, Cardiff, UK.

'How public participatory data becomes valued (or not): framing the value making process', presented at the UK and Ireland Planning Research Conference 2022, 05-07 September 2022, Manchester, UK.

Book reviews

'Posthuman Architectures: a catalogue of archetypes' by Jacopo Leveratto. Review published in Urban Design Journal, Issue 164, Autumn 2022.

Teaching

My current (2023/24) teaching includes

Undergraduate teaching and supervision

  • Year 1 - Society, diversity, and planning
  • Year 1 - Making knowledge: evidence and practice
  • Year 1 - Designing places and plans
  • Year 1 - Key issues in urban planning
  • Year 3 - Planning theory and practice
  • Year 3 - Digital planning
  • Year 3 - Dissertation supervisor

Postgraduate teaching and supervision

  • Planning for sustainability
  • Critical planning practice and research
  • Dissertation supervisor

My previous teaching has included

Postgraduate

  • Live project for eco-city deveopment

Biography

Qualifications

  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Cardiff University, UK (2023)
  • MSc Social Science Research Methods (Environmental Planning), Distinction, Cardiff University, UK (2021)
  • BA (hons) History, University of Wales Swansea, UK (2006)