Simin Davoudi

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is ''Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning'' at

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. She is Past President of the

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(

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) and, as coordinator of the Planning Research Network, advised the

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on its research priorities until 2007. Currently, she is a member of the DCLG Expert Panel on

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and

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, and is expert advisor for the DG Environment of

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for Urban Environment. At Newcastle University, she is affiliated wit
School of Architecture, Planning and LandscapeInstitute for Research on Environment and Sustainability
and

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Career

Simin has a degree in architecture ( B.Arch, 1982) from

Iran National University Shahid Behesti University ( fa, دانشگاه شهید بهشتی , Dāneshgāh-e Shahid Beheshti) (formerly known as the National University of Iran) is a public research university in Tehran, Iran. The university offers many programs at Bache ...

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the Capital city, capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is th ...

. In 1988, she completed

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in Town and Country Planning at Newcastle University where she also worked as a Research Associate until 1996 while working as a part-time Planning Officer with

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. She was subsequently appointed as Lecturer at

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University College London , mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £143 million (2020) , budget = � ...

. In 2000, she became Professor of Planning and Environment, and Director of Centre for Urban Development and Environmental Management, at

Leeds Metropolitan University Leeds Beckett University (LBU), formerly known as Leeds Metropolitan University (LMU) and before that as Leeds Polytechnic, is a public university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It has campuses in the city centre and Headingley. The unive ...

. In 2006 she moved to Newcastle.

Affiliations

She is member of The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), The Regional Studies Association (RSA), and The

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(TCPA). She is also the founding member of the Editorial team of the 21st Century Society: Journal of the Academy of Socials Sciences, at Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS).

Distinguished positions

* Wibaut Visiting Professor, Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan and International Development Studies,

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, 2007 * Senior Vice-president, Association of European Schools of Planning (

) 2006–07 * President, AESOP 2004–06 * Co-ordinator, Planning Research Network, advising Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG), 2003–07

Publications

Journal articles

Evidence-Based Planning: Rhetoric and Reality
DISP 2006, 165(2), 14–24.
The evidence – policy interface in strategic waste planning for urban environments: the 'technical' and the 'social' dimensions
Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2006, 24(5), 681–700. * (with Neil Evans
The challenge of governance in regional waste planning
Environment and Planning C: Governance and Policy 2005, 23(4), 493–517.
Polycentricity in European Spatial Planning: From an Analytical Tool to a Normative Agenda
European Planning Studies 2003, 11(8), 979–999.

Books and chapters

* (with Strange, I.) (eds.) Conceptions of Space and Place in Strategic Spatial Planning, The RTPI Library Series, London: Routledge, 2009. * Territorial Cohesion, European social model and spatial policy research. In: Faludi, A, ed. Territorial cohesion and European model of society. Cambridge, Mass: Lincoln Institute for Land Policy, 2007, pp. 81–104. * (with Layard, A and Batty, S.) (eds.). Planning for a Sustainable Future. London: Spon, 2001.

External links

Simin Davoudi's profile
o
Newcastle University
website

on DCLG's Planning Research Network website {{DEFAULTSORT:Davoudi, Simin Living people Academics of Newcastle University Alumni of Newcastle University 1957 births Iranian emigrants to the United Kingdom Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences