Professor Gordon Dabinett

Room number: D11c
Telephone (internal): 26187
Telephone (UK): 0114 222 6187
Telephone (International): +44 114 222 6187
Email: g.e.dabinett@sheffield.ac.uk

Academic profile

I graduated in Town and Country Planning from Heriot-Watt University in 1976. I then undertook research on local economic development policy formulation at the University of Cambridge where I completed my MSc in 1981. My research and practice at the University of Newcastle and then Cleveland County Council and Sheffield City Council focused on uneven spatial development and how alternative local economic development practices might address such inequality.

I returned to academia in 1989 when I joined the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at Sheffield Hallam. I was made Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Policy at the School of Environment and Development at Sheffield Hallam University from 1998 – 2002. I was involved in a range of applied and policy research projects for local and regional regeneration agencies, national departments and the EU.

In 2002 I was made a Reader in Town and Regional Planning in the Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield.

I was appointed as Professor for Regional Studies in January 2007.

My work has contributed to the study of uneven spatial development and the practices of public policy in securing greater spatial justice.

Research interests

Constructing meanings and understandings of spatial justice. The analysis and evaluation of regional and local policies to address uneven spatial development.  Case study analysis of urban and regional development in the Sheffield city region. For further information click here.

Current research

ESPON, the Regional Studies Association.
I’m currently undertaking research in Korea and presenting at WTA.

Teaching

This year I will be teaching on the specialised option; Regional Constructs for both undergraduate and postgraduate students. I currently supervise 3 Phd students.

Key publications

• Dabinett, G., (2010). Spatial justice and the translation of European strategic planning ideas in the urban sub-region of South Yorkshire . Urban Studies. 47(11), pp.2389-2408.
• Dabinett, G. (2010). Spatiality and Fairness in EU Territorial Cohesion Policy. Scienze Regionali, Italian Journal of Regional Science. 9(1), pp.119-122
• Dabinett, G (2009). Doing strategic planning differently: the Yorkshire and Humber regional spatial strategy (in Conceptions of Space and Place in Strategic Spatial Planning) ,RTPI Library Series, Routledge, Abingdon pp.147-179
• Dabinett, G (2005) Partnerships and transformation of the state in urban Britain (in Metropolitan Democracies: transformations of the state and urban policy in Canada, France and Great Britain) Ashgate, Aldershot pp. 47-65
• Bohme, K., Richardson T., Dabinett, G. & Jensen, O.(2004) Values in a vacuum (in Towards an integrated multi-level analysis of the governance of European space) European Planning Studies 12(8), pp. 1175 – 1188. (J)

Other information

I am honorary vice chair of the Regional Studies Association. I am also external examiner at Heriot Watt University. I’m a keen walker and skier and my interests include city histories, English beers and Sheffield Wednesday FC.