AESOP YA Meeting
18-20 April, 2012
Reading, UK
AESOP YA is glad to announce its Annual Meeting in Reading, UK from 18th to 20th April, 2012, sponsored by AESOP, and the School of Real Estate and Planning, University of Reading. On the occasion of AESOP's Silver Jubilee, YA also will organise an Intergenerational World Café to discuss the future of AESOP-YA relations as a part of the conference programme.
We would like to invite 32 young scholars, including PhD students, post-doctoral students and early career academics from Europe and elsewhere to share their research ideas, experiences, methods and concerns. The program will comprise of plenary sessions and roundtable discussions, as well as a tour around the Olympics site and the East End of London.
Knowledge transfer between Research and Practice in the field of planning and public policy is a contemporary widely discussed concept and concern for scholars. This meeting invites a broad range of papers on planning and territorial development-related research that address the goals, challenges or opportunities of 'communication' in practice, such as community-based and neighbourhood planning, government and governance issues, and ethical aspects in communication within planning and research processes. We are looking forward to a variety of research and project insights from this field.
Young scholars are requested to send their abstract by 12th February 2012 using the online template and application form. The abstract should not be more than 200 - 500 words, outlining aim of the research, methodology, expected contribution and key references. Successful contributors will be informed by Sunday, February 19, 2012. Invited contributors will be expected to submit their full papers (around 5,000 words) by Sunday 1st of April.
AESOP YA Meetings provide a relaxed environment for participants to present and discuss their research interests and concerns with peers and invited professors. The annual meeting offers a platform for exploring how one can shape or modify their research ideas and future interests. It offers an opportunity for networking, sharing thoughts, and counting on others' experiences for professional development, rather than the mere presentation of a full-fledged research outcome or PhD dissertation.
We are glad to have four professors from across Europe to chair sessions:
Gert de Roo
AESOP Vice President, Professor in Spatial Planning and Head of the Department of Spatial Planning and Environment at the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
Yvonne Rydin
Professor of Planning, Environment and Public Policy at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London and Director of the UCL Environment Institute, UK.
Francesco Lo Piccolo
Professor of urban planning, Chair Department of Architecture - Region, City and Landscape Planning Unit, Università degli studi di Palermo, Italy
Ali Madanipour
Professor of Urban Design, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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AESOP2012 PhD Workshop
6-9 July 2012
Izmir, Turkey
The Department of City and Regional Planning in Izmir Institute of High Technology will host the Workshop, which is organised jointly by AESOP, AESOP Young Academics Network, Middle East Technical University (AESOP2012 Congress Host in Ankara) and Izmir Institute of High Technology.
The Workshop invites PhD students from Europe and elsewhere to share their research ideas, experiences, methods and concerns in an intensive programme comprising plenary sessions, roundtable discussions, and excursions. PhD students conducting a research in any theme related to planning and spatial development are welcome to apply.
As 2012 will mark the 25th Anniversary of AESOP, the Workshop will also feature special activities to celebrate the occasion and serve as a platform for launching a discussion on how to enhance the relation between AESOP and AESOP Young Academics Network, a debate, which will be attended further in the Ankara Congress.
The following scholars will join the Workshop as tutors and facilitators:
- Barrie Needham, Radboud University of Nijmegen, Netherlands
- Michael Neuman, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Gert de Roo, University of Groningen, Netherlands
- Laura Saija, Università di Catania, Italy
- Piotr Lorens, Technical University of Gda?k, Poland
And from the host universities:
- Murat Çelik, Izmir Institute of Technology, Turkey
- Serap Kayasü, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
- Ali Türel, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
AESOP will be offering a limited number of bursaries. Candidates should indicate this in their application form if they need to apply for a bursary.
The workshop can accept a maximum of 40 PhD students.
Theme
The PhD Workshop focuses predominantly on research design. With a view to provide a link with the main theme of the Ankara Congress, the theme of the workshop is identified to be as follows:
Planning to Achieve/Planning to Avoid:
Purposes and Impacts of Planning; Purposes and Impacts of Planning Research
It will be the purposes and impacts of planning research that the PhD workshop will concentrate on. An important focus is to be dedicated on the rationale of conducting a research in planning, as well as its aims, objectives, and expected outcomes and impacts; nevertheless, other research design issues, namely development of theoretical frameworks, methodology design, and means and methods of dissemination of research findings are also to be covered during the PhD Workshop.
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WHO ARE THE AESOP YOUNG ACADEMICS?
The AESOP YA network is a loosely structured organisation in which everyone who wishes to is invited to participate. The activities of the AESOP YA network are in particular addressed at planners who have only recently entered the academic world: PhD, postdoc, people starting in academic positions. The activities of the AESOP YA network are complementary to other activities that are being deployed within AESOP as a whole. More >>
A SELECTION OF CURRENT PAPERS...
Guowen Dai
Federica Benelli
marcella iannuzzi
Yvonne Franz
Caroline
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