Faculty of Art, Design and the Built Environment

CURRICULUM VITAE

MICHAEL GREGORY LLOYD AcSS, BA, MSc, FRSA, FIED, FHEA..

Professor of Urban Planning
School of the Built Environment
University of Ulster
Jordanstown Campus
Shore Road
Newtownabbey
Co. Antrim
BT37 0QB

PERSONAL DETAILS

Date of Birth: 28 November 1952

Place of Birth: Bridgend, Wales.

Academic Qualifications:

B.A. (Honours) Economics, University of Sheffield, 1974

M.Sc. Rural and Regional Resources Planning, University of Aberdeen, 1976

Professional Membership & Qualifications:

Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences, 2008

Fellow, Royal Society of Arts, 2007

Fellow, Higher Education Academy, 2002

Fellow, Institute of Economic Development, 2000

Member, Regional Studies Association, 2008

Member, International Academic Association on Planning, Law and Property Rights, 2008

Academic Career:

Head of the School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, 2008 to present.

Professor of Urban Planning, School of the Built Environment, University of Ulster, 2008 to present.

Professor of Civic Design, Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool, 2006 – 2008.

Head of School of Town & Regional Planning, University of Dundee, 1998 - 2006

Professor of Town & Regional Planning, University of Dundee, 1998 - 2006

Director, The Geddes Institute, University of Dundee, 2000 - 2006

Professor of Planning Research, School of Town & Regional Planning, University of Dundee, 1994 - 1998.

Senior Lecturer, Department of Land Economy, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, 1989 - 1994.

Lecturer, Department of Land Economy, King’s College, University of Aberdeen, 1978 – 1989

Research Assistant, Celtic and Irish Seas Oil and Gas Research Unit, Department of Town & Country Planning, Liverpool Polytechnic, 1976 - 1978.

Visiting Appointments

Visiting Professor, Department of Estate Management, Faculty of the Built Environment, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, 2009 to present.

Teaching & Research Fellow, Department of Planning & Land Economy, School for Environmental Studies, University of Zambia at Ndola, Ndola, March - April 1986.

Teaching & Research Fellow, Department of Surveying & Land Studies, University of Technology, Lae, Papua New Guinea, June - September 1984.

Research Fellow, Institute of Political Economy, University of Gdansk. Gdansk, Poland, April - May 1984.

Teaching & Research Fellow, Department of Property Management & Valuation, Universiti Teknologi (UTM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September - October 1982

EXTERNAL ACADEMIC ENGAGEMENT 

Membership of Editorial Boards:

Journal of Design and Built Environment (2008)
Zambia Journal of Business 2007
International Planning Studies 2006
Town Planning Review 1996
Journal of Property Research 1994

Current External Examiner Appointments

MA Town and Regional Planning; MA in Planning Research and Theory and the M. Arch in Town and Regional Planning and Architecture, Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, 2006 – 2009.

Master of Town and Country Planning (MTCP), Department of Planning & Landscape, University of Manchester, 2005 – 2008

Doctoral external examining

I have served as an external and internal examiner on the submission of doctoral dissertations to a number of institutions of higher education. These include:

• University of Aberystwyth (2001)
• University of Cardiff (1998, 2002, 2004,2009)
• University of Dundee (2004, 2005, 2006)
• University of East London (1996, 1998)
• University of Liverpool (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
• University of Manchester (2008)
• University of Newcastle upon Tyne (2003, 2007)
• University of Paisley (2000, 2003)
• University of Strathclyde (1996, 2000,2008)
• University of Ulster (1994, 2007)
• University of Westminster (2006)
• Heriot - Watt University/ Edinburgh College of Art (1992,1996)
• Oxford Brookes University (1994)
• Trinity College Dublin (1986)
• University College London (2006)
• University of Malaya (2009)

POLICY RELATED EXPERIENCE

Member of the Best Commission into The Sustainable Future for Housing in Northern Ireland 2009.

Director of the Planning Exchange Foundation, Glasgow, 2008 to present.

Ministerial Independent Expert Adviser on Reform of the Land Use Planning System in Northern Ireland, Belfast, Northern Ireland Assembly Government, 2007 to present.

Member, Scottish Government National Planning Framework Advisory Group, Edinburgh, Scottish Government, 2007 to present.

Member, European Regional Committee, Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy, London, (CASLE), 2007 to present.

Member, Scottish Enterprise National Expert Panel on City Regions, Glasgow, Scottish Enterprise, 2005 - 2006.

Member, Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum Academic Panel, Glasgow, (SURF) 2004 - 2006

Member, Tayside Economic Forum, Dundee, Scottish Enterprise, 2003 - 2006

Specialist Economic Adviser, Scottish Affairs Committee, House of Commons, 1993-1994

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lloyd MG (2001) The regional agenda, planning and development in Scotland, in Glasson J, Headicar P, Marshall T and Wilson E (eds) Contemporary Issues in Regional Planning. Aldershot, Avebury, pp 54 – 69.

Lloyd MG & McCarthy J (2002) Asymmetric devolution, institutional capacity and spatial planning innovation, in Rydin Y and Thornley A (eds) Planning in the UK. Agendas for the new millenium. Aldershot, Ashgate, pp 103 – 118.

Lloyd MG & McCarthy J (2003) Urban regeneration in Dundee, in Couch C, Fraser C and Percy S (eds) Urban regeneration in Europe. Oxford, Blackwell, pp 56 – 68.

Lloyd MG & Illsley BM (2004) Community planning in Scotland: prospects and potential for local governance, in Newlands D, Danson M and McCarthy J (eds) Divided Scotland. The nature, causes and consequences of economic disparities within Scotland. Aldershot, Ashgate, pp156 – 170.

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2006) ‘City Regionalism and City Regions in Scotland? in Tewdwr-Jones, M & Allmendinger, P (eds) Territory, Identity and Spatial Planning London: Routledge, pp 285 - 304.

Lloyd MG, McCarthy J & Peel D (2006) ‘An Urban Renaissance in a Small Scottish City’ in Bell, D & Jayne, M (eds) Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis, London: Routledge, pp 105 – 120.

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2008) Re-constructing Regional Development and Planning in Scotland and Wales, in Bradbury J (ed) Devolution, regionalism and regional development. The UK experience. London, Routledge, pp. 166 – 182.

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2008) From town centre management to the Business Improvement District model in Britain: Toward a new contractualism? in Morçöl G, Hoyt L, Meek J, and Zimmermann U (eds) Business Improvement Districts: Research, Theories, and Controversies. New York, Taylor and Francis, pp. 71 – 94.

Lloyd MG (2008) ‘City-regions as territorial pacts and institutional ‘concertation’ in a devolved Scotland’, in Atkinson, R. and Rossignolo, C (Eds) The Re-creation of the European City. Governance Territory & Polycentricity, Amsterdam, Techne Press pp. 199-216.

Purves G & Lloyd MG (2008) Identity  and Territory: The Creation of a National Planning Framework for Scotland, in Davoudi S & Strange I (eds) Conceptions of Space and Place in Strategic Spatial Planning. London: E&FN Spon pp. 86 – 109.

McGreal S, Berry J, Lloyd MG & McCarthy J (2002) Tax-based mechanisms in urban regeneration – Dublin and Chicago models. Urban Studies 39(10), pp 1819 – 1831.

Lloyd MG (2002) Reflections on the 2001 Research Assessment Exercise for Town and Country Planning. Town Planning Review 73(3), pp 354 – 356.

Lloyd MG (2002) Urban regeneration and community development in Scotland. Converging agendas for action Sustainable Development 10, pp147 – 154.

Lloyd MG, McCarthy J, McGreal S & Berry J (2003) Business improvement districts, planning and urban regeneration. International Planning Studies 8(4), pp 295 – 322.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2004) ‘The Social Re-construction of the Marine Environment: Towards Marine Spatial Planning’, Town Planning Review 75(3) pp 359-378.

Lloyd MG, McCarthy J & Illsley B, (2004) Commercial and industrial developments in National Parks in England and Wales: Lessons for Scotland. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning 6(3/4), pp 289-304.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2005) ‘City-Visions: Visioning and Delivering Scotland’s Economic Future’ Local Economy 20(1) pp 40 - 52.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2005) 'A case for Business Improvement Districts in Scotland’ Policy Transfer in Practice? Planning, Practice and Research 20(1), pp 89 – 95.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2005) ‘New Visions for Scotland’s Cities’ Plan Canada 45(1), Spring pp 38-42.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2005) Development Plans, Lesson-drawing and Model Policies in Scotland. International Planning Studies 10 (3/4), pp 265 – 287.

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2005) Tracing a spatial turn in planning practice in Scotland, Planning, Practice & Research 20(3), pp 313 -325.

Lloyd, MG & Peel, D (2006) Devolution, Decentralisation and Dispersal – Asserting the Spatiality of the Public Sector in Scotland European Planning Studies 14(6), pp 831 – 854.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2006) Re-energizing Planning Cultures in Scotland. Plan Canada, Spring, 46(1), pp 24 - 27.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2006) From exclusion to inclusion? Bridging mental health and community well-being. Journal of Community Work and Development 8, pp 63 – 82.

McMahon L & Lloyd MG (2006) "Rien ne va plus". Casino developments and land use planning? Planning, Practice & Research 21(2), pp 257 – 266.

Peel, D & Lloyd, MG (2006) Model Policies for Land Use and the Environment: Towards a Critical Typology, European Environment. The Journal of European Environmental Policy 16, pp 321-335.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2006) ‘The Land Use Planning System in Scotland – but not as we know it!' Scottish Affairs 57, pp 90 – 111.

Lloyd MG & Peel, D (2006) ‘Shaping the Case for a National Planning Framework in Scotland’ Alfa Spectra. Central European Journal of Architecture and Planning 10(1) pp 14-20.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2006) ‘The Twisting Paths to Planning Reform in Scotland’ International Planning Studies 11(2), pp 89 – 107.

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2007) Shaping and designing model policies for land use planning. Land Use Policy 24 (1), pp 154 – 164.
Peel D & Lloyd MG (2007) Neo-traditional Planning. Towards a New Ethos for Land Use Planning? Land Use Policy 24(2), pp 396 - 403.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2007) Improving Policy Effectiveness: Land Use Planning in a Devolved Polity? Australian Journal of Public Administration 66(2), pp 174 – 184.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2007) Community planning and land use planning in Scotland: A constructive interface? Public Policy & Administration 22(3), pp 353 – 366.

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2007) Green Belts in Scotland: Towards the Modernisation of a Traditional Concept? Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 50(5), pp 639 - 656.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2007) 'Civic Formation and a New Vocabulary for National Planning' International Planning Studies, 12(4), pp. 391-411

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2007) ‘Towards Another Place? The Regulation of Artwork and Place Re-branding’ Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 3(4), pp. 268–279

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2008) Functionalism and Representationalism in Contemporary Urban Agendas: A Constructive Alignment? Urban Research and Practice 1(1), pp. 1 – 18.

Lloyd MG (2008) Towards a ‘Pooled sovereignty’ in community planning in Scotland. Local Economy 23(1), pp. 58 – 68.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2008) Re-generating Learning in the Public Realm: Evidence-based Policy Making and Business Improvement Districts in the UK Public Policy and Administration, 23: pp. 189-205.

Pemberton S & Lloyd MG (2008) Devolution, community planning and institutional de-congestion? Local Government Studies 34(4), pp. 437 – 451.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2008) ‘Governance and planning policy in the marine environment: Regulating aquaculture in Scotland, The Geographical Journal, 174(4), pp. 361-373.

Peel D & Lloyd MG (2008) New communicative challenges Dundee, place branding and the reconstruction of a city image. Town Planning Review 79 (5), pp. 507 – 532.

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2009) New Labour and planning in Scotland - an overview of a decade. Planning Practice & Research 24(1), pp. 103 – 118.

Peel D, Lloyd MG & Lord A (2009) ‘Business Improvement Districts and the Discourse of Contractualism’ European Planning Studies 17(3), pp. 401-421.

Lloyd MG & Peel D (2009) Het metropolitaan bewustzijn van Liverpool Rooilijn. Tidjschrift voor wetenschap en beleid in de ruimtelijke ordening, 42(2), pp. 122 – 127.





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