Dr Jason Slade

Department of Urban Studies and Planning

Research Associate

j.slade@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 6922

Room D7a, Geography and Planning Building

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Dr Jason Slade
Department of Urban Studies and Planning
Room D7a
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND

Profile: I am currently working on the AHRC-funded project, ‘Responding to and modelling the impact of COVID-19 for Sheffield’s Cultural Ecology’, having returned to the department in September 2018 as a Research Associate on the ESRC-funded Working in the Public Interest project.

Previously, I completed my PhD in the department on the role of narrative/storytelling in planning, particularly its efficacy for facilitating inclusion and democracy in grassroots contexts. The PhD won an RTPI research award in 2018. The research was closely linked to my involvement with the Westfield Action Research Project (WARP), which saw staff and students in the department supporting community-led planning efforts in the city.

In 2015 colleagues and I were jointly awarded a Senate Award for Learning and Teaching for WARP, in the category of Collaborative Activities.

I have previous work experience in local government and in student support, and previous voluntary experience of working with young refugees and asylum seekers.

Research interests: I have broad research interests in the fields of planning and planning theory, encompassing commercialisation in contemporary practice, storytelling/narrative, action research, public participation, community-led planning and planning education.

Publications

Journal articles

Inch A, Slade J & Crookes L (2020) Exploring planning as a technology of hope. Journal of Planning Education and Research. View this article in WRRO
Schoneboom A & Slade J (2020) Question your teaspoons : tea-drinking, coping and commercialisation across three planning organisations. Journal of Organizational Ethnography. View this article in WRRO
Slade J (2019) Doing What We Can with What We’ve Got: Reflections on PAR and the ECR Experience. Planning Theory & Practice. View this article in WRRO
Porter L, Slade C, Butt A, Rosier J, Perkins T, Crookes L, Inch A, Slade J, Bassa F, Petzer B , Winkler T et al (2015) Partnerships of learning for planning education Who is learning what from whom? The beautiful messiness of learning partnerships/Experiential learning partnerships in Australian and New Zealand higher education planning programmes/Res non verba? rediscovering the social purpose of planning (and the university): The Westfield Action Research Project/At the coalface,Take 2: Lessons from students' critical reflections/Education for “cubed change”/Unsettling planning education through community-engaged teaching and learning: Reflections on the Indigenous Planning Studio. Planning Theory & Practice, 16(3), 409-434.
Slade J, Tait M & Inch A () ‘We need to put what we do in my dad’s language, in pounds, shillings and pence’: Commercialisation and the reshaping of public-sector planning in England. Urban Studies, 004209802198995-004209802198995. View this article in WRRO