Our Editorial Team

Heather Campbell was the journal’s founding Interface Editor.  She is currently Professor and Director of the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia.  Until 2018 she was Professor of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield, where she was Head of Department and supported the Vice-Chancellor and Chair of Council on strategic matters related University/Community partnerships.  Her research interests focus on how public policy interventions concerned with cities and regions can produce more socially just outcomes, and how research can better support transformational change.  She was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2010 and is a Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.  

John Forester is Professor of City and Regional Planning at Cornell University. His best known books include Planning in the Face of Power (1989), The Deliberative Practitioner (1999), and Planning in the Face of Conflict (2011). His most recent book is How Spaces Become Places (2021).

Robert Upton was Director of Planning in the former Hong Kong Government, Secretary-General of the Royal Town Planning Institute, and Senior Examining Inspector for National Infrastructure at the Planning Inspectorate. He is currently a member of the Advisory Council supporting Nuclear Waste Services’ project to build a Geological Disposal Facility for high-level radioactive waste.

Jill L Grant FCIP is Professor Emeritus of Planning at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. Her research has examined innovative approaches to city building with a focus on themes such as sustainable community design, neighbourhood change, new urbanism, and healthy communities.

Jill is the author or editor of six books: Changing Neighbourhoods: Social and spatial polarization in Canadian cities (2020, UBC Press), Seeking Talent for Creative Cities (2014, University of Toronto Press), Reader in Canadian Planning (2008, Nelson), Planning the Good Community: New urbanism in theory and practice (2006, Routledge), Towards Sustainable Cities (2004, Ashgate), The Drama of Democracy: Contention and dispute in community planning (1994, U of T Press).

Mee Kam Ng is Vice-chairman of the Department of Geography and Resource Management, the Director of the Urban Studies Programme, Associate Director of the Institute of Future Cities and the Hong Kong Institute of Asian Pacific Studies at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is a fellow of the Royal Town Planning Institute, a fellow of the Hong Kong Institute of Planners and academic advisor of the Hong Kong Institute of Urban Design. She was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom in 2016. In 2021, she was selected as an Honorary Member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Hong Kong Chapter. Her publications have earned her six Hong Kong Institute of Planners’ Awards and the 2015 Association of European Schools of Planning Best Published Paper Award. She has been consultant to the United Nations, the European Union and the Municipal Government of Shenzhen. The Urban Studies Programme she directed is a Member of the UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign, promoting the implementation of the New Urban Agenda.

Mark Scott is an editor for the research articles section of Planning Theory & Practice. Mark is Professor of Planning and Dean in the School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy in University College Dublin, Ireland. His research interests focus on environmental planning and sustainability, including rural planning, land-use governance, climate action and planning, natural heritage, green infrastructure, and health and planning. He has published extensively in these areas, including recent books Rural Places & Planning (2022, Policy Press), the Routledge Companion to Rural Planning (2019, Routledge), and Rural Development & Planning (2017, Routledge). Mark is a Member of the Irish Planning Institute, serving on its Policy & Research Committee and Climate Action Group. 

André Sorensen is Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto. His current research examines urban institutions, institutional change processes and urban governance from a comparative and historical institutionalist perspective, with a focus on urban land and property development, infrastructure provision, and urban form, particularly in suburbs and peri-urban areas. Recent work focuses on sustainability transitions of automobile-dependent suburbs with complete streets and active transportation infrastructure. He has published over 60 papers and chapters, and co-edited 5 books, most recently the International Handbook of Megacities and Megacity-Regions (Edward Elgar 2020). His monograph ' The Making of Urban Japan: Cities and Planning from Ed to the 21st Century' (Routledge 2002) was awarded the book prize of the International Planning History Society in 2004. His paper 'Taking Path Dependence Seriously’ (2015) published in Planning Perspectives 30(1)17-38, won the Association of European Schools of Planning Best Paper Award in 2016.  

Lisa Bates is an Associate Professor in the Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning at Portland State University and is Portland Professor in Innovative Housing Policy. Her research on housing and neighborhoods, often conducted with community-based methods, was recognized with the Urban Affairs Association Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award for 2019. 

Katie McClymont is an associate professor and programme leader in Urban Planning at UWE, Bristol. Her teaching and research interests include community participation, heritage and planning theory.

Recent projects include UK and international research council funded work that uses creative methods to explore cemeteries in multifaith and multicultural urban settings, the unspoken and intangible values community assets, health/well-being in community-led housing and the post-consent ‘space’ in planning practice and how this impacts on design quality. 

In teaching, Katie draws heavily on ‘live’ projects, regularly taking students out into community settings to explore and participate in community planning activities ‘hands-on’ and has several established links across the community sector in Bristol.

Andy Inch is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield in the UK. His research focuses on the ideology and politics of spatial planning with a particular focus on how futures are imagined and made governable through planning processes and how this might be done differently to make more just, democratic and sustainable worlds.

Crystal Legacy is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia where she is also the Deputy Director of the Informal Urbanism Research Hub. She has published widely on the topic of urban transport politics and participation. Her current research examines the governance and policy challenges of planning future urban transport, and the politics of citizen participation in infrastructure planning. 

Ellie Phillips graduated in English from Oxford University and in Journalism (post-grad) from City University, London. Ellie writes fiction and has had two books published by Egmont.