Research activity
The Department's main aim is to maintain and enhance its standing in the research community and in particular to maintain its international reputation for undertaking leading edge research in planning.
The Department of Town and Regional Planning is the top accredited planning school in the UK according to the 2008 HEFCE Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). This means that you are taught by academics at the forefront of research in their field.
Our research activities are nominally divided into two clusters. You can find out more about the clusters by following the link below:
Information on research clusters.
Research is also undertaken by students in our Research School and you can find out more about them by looking at the Research School pages:
Information on the Research School.
Departmental staff are active members of the Environment Division, which brings together academics from across the University to foster collaborative, inter-disciplinary research and intellectual exchange. The University was recently placed 7th in the world in the authoritative Thomson Scientific ranking of leading universities in environmental and ecological research, ahead of the University of Oxford and Imperial College in the UK, and Harvard University in the USA.
We are also involved in a variety of exciting and innovative collaborative projects including URSULA which is investigating the sustainable development of urban river corridors.