Patsy Healey, CV

Em.Prof. of Town & Country Planning, Newcastle University, GB

Patsy Healey is professor emeritus in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle
University, UK. She holds degrees in geography and in planning from University College London,
University of Westminster and the London School of Economics. She is a specialist in planning theory
and the practice of planning and urban regeneration policies. She has undertaken research on how
planning strategies work out in practice and on partnership forms of neighbourhood regeneration
experiences. In recent years, she has been developing approaches to collaborative planning practices,
linked to an institutionalist analysis of urban socio-spatial dynamics and urban governance. She
has been involved in research consultancy work for the British Government, the European Union,
and UN-Habitat. She has received research awards from many funding bodies. She has undertaken
empirical research work in the UK, in other European countries and in Latin America. Recent books
include Collaborative Planning: shaping places in fragmented societies (1997, 2nd edtn 2006). Urban
Complexity and Spatial Strategies (2007), and Making Better Places (2010). She has co-edited with
Jean Hillier the 3-Volume Ashgate collection of Critical Essays in Planning Theory (2008), and the
accompanying Companion to Planning Theory (2010). She was Senior Editor of the Journal, Planning
Theory and Practice, until 2009. She has also served on a number of organisations, including the
British ESRC, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the Royal Town Planning Institute. She was a
founder member of AESOP, and was its President from 1993/4-1995/6. She was awarded the OBE in
1999, became an Honorary Fellow of the Association of European Planners in 2004, and was awarded
the RTPI Gold Medal in 2006. She is currently chair of the Glendale Gateway Trust, a community
development trust in the locality where she lives.