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• MSc City and Regional Planning
• Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning (HE)
• BA (Hon) Geography and Urban Studies
• CMI Diploma in Management

Adam joined the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡ in 2023. He lecturers on urban planning matters across UG and PG courses, and is active in research, partnerships, knowledge exchange, and outreach. Adam previously worked at the University of Gloucestershire (2021 > 2023) where he helped establish undergraduate and postgraduate courses in urban planning. Prior to this Adam worked at UWE Bristol, which he joined in 2007 from planning practice. Adam has previously worked in Essex, South Gloucestershire and the Bristol urban fringe, and Herefordshire as a Local Planning Authority development management officer.

He has been involved in a diverse range of planning projects at varying scales and degrees of complexity. Adam has worked in both the rural and urban context and has experience across the planning spectrum, from Green Belt areas and open countryside to inner city redevelopment projects. Adam now researches and teaches in matters particularly relating to development management, planning and design, planning implementation, history, regulation and the decision-making process. Adam is a Chartered Member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Adam is a development management specialist and professional town planner (MRTPI) with over 20 years’ experience in both the public sector and academia. He is an Assistant Professor of Urban Planning at the University Â鶹¾«Ñ¡. Adam teaches across a range of undergraduate and postgraduate modules and acts as a tutor and dissertation supervisor for students and Apprentices on the MSc Urban and Regional Planning.

Adam joined academia after working in local government as a development management officer; dealing with a diversity of development proposals, he gained experience in both urban and rural contexts working on a diversity of planning applications across the planning spectrum, from Green Belt areas and open countryside to inner city redevelopment projects. Adam continues to emphasise applied planning practice within his teaching and research and embraces partnership with industry within his work. Adam now lectures and researches in planning regulation/systems, placemaking, urban place and social change, urban design, regeneration, development management, enforcement, planning implementation, decision making/policy interpretation, and history. He is particularly focused upon the planning decision making and implementation space.

He is an experienced researcher, leading and working on a diversity of small-scale research projects for clients ranging from community groups, Arts Council England, Public Health England, RTPI, RTPI Enforcement Network, WECA, LGA/PAS, and the Welsh and Dutch Governments. Recently Adam was part of the academic team who delivered a project exploring improving post-planning processes to deliver better places for the West of England Combined Authority (winner of the 2021 RTPI Sir Peter Hall Award for Research Excellence). He also recently investigated the implications of the Use Classes Order in England from a regulatory, spatial, social, economic, and environmental perspective with regards the AirBnB phenomena within Bristol. Adam’s most recent research work includes a project for LGA/PAS in partnership with LUC reviewing best practice and guidance in the use of Planning Performance Agreements and pre-application enquiries, two projects for Arts Council England exploring arts and culture based regeneration (one in partnership with Gloucester City Council, Reef, and Kier development), a project concerned with biodiversity net gain working with the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, and a study considering the opportunities and challenges of urban rewilding.

Adam is an External Examiner at the University of Brighton, and previously acting in this capacity for Anglia Ruskin University.  He has also undertaken programme review exercises for Birmingham City University, University of Dundee, and the University of Ulster. 

He is a Member of the RTPI, and a Fellow of the RGS and HEA. Adam is also a member of the Regional Activities Committee for the RTPI South West.