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Frank Gaffakin |
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Director of the Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning (ISEP)
School of Planning, Architecture and
Civil Engineering
Queens University, Belfast, Ireland |
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(313) 996-6559 |
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Frank Gaffikin is Professor of Spatial Planning, at Queen's University,
Belfast, one of the UK's leading universities. His research interests
include: Planning in Contested Cities; Integrated Planning at Urban &
Regional levels; and the Engaged Urban University.
Currently, he is Director of the Institute of Spatial and Environmental
Planning (ISEP) in the university's School of Planning, Architecture and
Civil Engineering. In addition, he is Director of a major international
research project on Contested Cities and Urban Universities (CU2), which has
long-standing research links with the Great Cities Institute, UIC.
Previously, he was Director of the Urban Institute at the University of
Ulster. As part of his engaged research, he has been a senior government
adviser on urban regeneration, regional planning and employability. Before
being awarded the Stukel Professorship, Frank was a senior research fellow
at the Great Cities Institute on several occasions. His long-term
comparative research work on urban policy in the US and UK attracted an
award of visiting scholarship from the MacArthur Foundation, and of
distinguished international scholarship from Kent State University, where he
has been a Visiting Professor. |
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