Dr. Geraint Ellis

B.Sc, M.Phil, Ph.D. PGCHET

Senior Lecturer

School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering

Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning (ISEP)

Queen's University, Belfast

David Kier Building

Stranmillis Rd

Belfast

BT9 5AG

Tel: (44) 028 90974370

E-Mail: G.Ellis@qub.ac.uk

Background

Dr. Geraint Ellis is Senior Lecturer in the School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering (SPACE) and Institute of Environmental and Spatial Planning (ISEP) at Queen’s University, Belfast. He has degrees from the Universities of Birmingham (B.Sc. Geography, First Class Hons), Reading (M.Phil, Environmental Planning) and Cardiff (Ph.D., City and Regional Planning). He also has a Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching (Queen’s University, Belfast) and is a Fellow of the High Education Academy.

He joined Queen’s in 1998, having previously worked for community and environmental organisations in the east end of London (1990-1993), acted as a planning and community development advisor to he Government of Lesotho in Southern Africa (1993-1996) and as the Transport Director for the South Bank Employers’ Group and Cross River Partnership in central London (1996-1998).

Geraint is active in the Northern Ireland voluntary sector and is a Board Director of Belfast Healthy Cities and Sustainable NI. He also acts as the Irish contact for the International Network of Urban Research and Action (INURA) and is an advisor to the Academy for Sustainable Communities (ASC).

He is a member of the UK Sustainable Development Panel and a Visiting Scholar at the Faculty of Environmental Studies, University of York, Toronto.  He was awarded the European Planning Studies Prize in 2002.

Teaching

Geraint is currently the module coordinator for the following:

Planning and Environmental Governance (110EVP811)

Institutional and Policy Context of Planning (110EVP114)

He has coordinated a range of other modules and regularly contributes to other modules, including Legal Studies in Planning (210EVP310).

He is also actively involved in a number of University-wide initiatives at promoting good practice in learning and teaching, including sitting on the steering group for the Centre of Excellence and Teaching for Active and Interactive Learning (CEAIL NI).

He also acts as an External Examiner to the Faculty of the Built Environment in the University of West of England and is a member of the Advisory Group to the Higher Education Academy’s Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE).

Geraint was awarded a Queen’s Teaching Award in 2003 in recognition for excellence in skills development and linking research with teaching (with Dr. Ken Sterrett) and again in 2006 for innovative use of learning technology.

Administration

Geraint is currently Course Director of the B.Sc in Environmental Planning and is Advisor of Studies to all undergraduate students. He acts as the admissions tutor to the undergraduate programme in planning and is the discipline’s liaison officer with the Library.

He has been a member of QUB’s Academic Council since 2000 and was a member of the University’s Academic Board 2004–2006.

Research interests

Geraint’s research interests lie in the broad field of spatial planning and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on environmental governance, renewable energy, environmental justice and equality issues in planning.

Current Research Projects

2007-08  ESRC Seminar series “What future for wind power?” (with Peter  Strachan of Robert Gordon Unviersity and and Richard Cowel, Cardiff University),  £18,000,  RES-26-451-0386,

2007-08 Skills for Managing Spatial Diversity (with Brendan Murtagh, SPACE  QUB) £40,000 ESRC-ASC RES182-25-0019.

2006-07 Making Sustainability Real: Using a group-enquiry approach in Masters research (with Tony Weekes SPACE QUB), £4,000 Higher Education Academy.

2006- 2008: A Resource Flow Analysis and Ecological Footprint of Ireland - GIS Application  (Post-Doctoral Fellowship for Manoj K. Roy, with Robin Curry), £87,000, Environmental Protection Agency (Republic of Ireland).

2005–2006: Renewable Energy and Discourses of Objection: Towards Deliberative Policy Making (with John Barry, Institute of Governance, QUB), £47,000, ESRC (RES-000-22-1095). See http://www.qub.ac.uk/research-centres/REDOWelcome/.

2003-2006 Water-Land Use Conflicts: The Oak Ridge Moraine, Ontario, (with H. Roe, S. Royle and B. Smith), £18,000, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada and the Foundation of Canadian Studies in the UK.

2002 – 2003: Local Sustainable Development on the Island of Ireland (with Bill Neill, QUB and Brian Motherway, Dublin), £25,000, Centre for Cross Border Studies.

Research publications

Book Chapters

Ellis, G. and W.V.J. Neill (forthcoming), “Spatial planning in contested territory: The search for a place vision in “post troubles” Northern Ireland” in Coulter, C. and Murray, M. (eds) Northern Ireland after the Troubles, University of Manchester Press, Manchester.

Ellis G. (2005) “The City of the Black Stuff: Belfast and the Autism of Planning” in McEldowney, M. Murray, M., Murtagh, B. and Sterrett, K. (eds) Planning in Ireland and Beyond: Multidisciplinary Essays in Honour of John V. Greer. … (Belfast, QUB)

Ellis, G. and W.V.J. Neill, (2006), “Spatial Governance in Contested Territory”, in Tewdwr Jones, M and Allmendinger, P Territory, Identity and Space: Spatial Governance In A Fragmented Nation, Palgrave, London.

Ellis, G. Motherway B. and Neill, W.J.V. (2005) “We’re too busy for that kind of stuff”: citizenship, cross-Border collaboration and progress towards local sustainable development in Ireland, in Moore, N. and Scott, M. (Eds) Renewing urban communities: environment, citizenship and sustainability in Ireland, Ashgate, Aldershot.

Neill, W.J.V. and Ellis, G. (2002) “Local Agenda 21 and Civic Identity: Reflections on Belfast and Dublin”, in Convery, F. and Feehan, J. (Eds) Achievement and Challenge: Rio+10 and Ireland, The Environmental Institute, University College, Dublin.

Ellis, G. (2002) “City-building: Local Agenda 21 and the potential for socio-cultural sustainability”, Chapter 2 (p. 10-16) in Neil, W.J.V. and Schwedler, H. Towards Environmental Citizenship, European Academy of the Urban Environment, Berlin.

Refereed Journal Articles

Ellis, G. and McWhirter, C. (forthcoming) Land–use planning and Traveller-Gypsies: Towards non-prejudical practice.

Barry, J., Ellis, G. and Robinson, C. (forthcoming) Cool Rationalities and Hot Air: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Debates on Renewable Energy.

Ellis, G. Barry, J. and Robinson, C. (2007) Many Ways To Say “No” – Different Ways To Say “Yes”: Applying Q-Methodology To Understand Public Acceptance Of Wind Farm Proposals, Journal of Planning and Environmental Management, Vol. 50, No. 4, p. 517-551.

Ellis, G. (2006) Third Party Appeals – Pragmatism and Principle. Lead paper in Interface section of Planning Theory and Practice, Vol. 7, No. 3 , p. 330-339.

McKay, S. and Ellis, G. (2005) Reparation or retribution: an investigation into regulatory compliance in planning, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 37, No..4, p.1249-1262.

Ellis, G. (2004) Discourses of objection: Towards and understanding of third party rights in planning, Environment and Planning A, Vol. 36 p. 1549-1570.

Ellis, G. and Illsley, B. (2003) Third Party Rights - Insights from the Irish Experience, Scottish Planning and Environmental Law, Vol. 98, p.82-83.

Ellis, G. (2002) Third Party Rights of Appeal in Planning: Reflecting on the Experience of the Republic of Ireland, Town Planning Review, Vol. 73, No. 4, p. 437- 466.

Ellis, G. (2001) Social Exclusion, Equality and the Good Friday Peace Agreement: The implications for land use Planning, Policy and Politics, Vol. 29, No. 4 pp. 393-411

Ellis, G. (2001) A Review of Third Party Planning Appeals, Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal, Vol.8 No. 2, pp. 63 - 69

Ellis, G. and Kim, J. (2001) Dublin City Profile, CITIES, Vol. 18 No.5., p.355 - 364

Ellis, G (2001) The Difference Context Makes: Planning And Ethnic Minorities In Northern Ireland, European Planning Studies, Vol. 9, No.3, pp.339 - 358. Awarded the European Planning Studies prize for best article of 2001.

Ellis, G. (2000) Addressing Inequality: Planning in Northern Ireland, International Planning Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 345- 364.

Ellis, G. and McKay, S. (2000) Belfast: City Profile, CITIES, Vol.17, No. 1, pp 47 - 54.

Other publications

Ellis, G. Motherway, B. Neill, W.J.V. and Hand, U. (2004) Towards a Green Isle? Local Sustainable Development on the Island of Ireland, Centre for Cross Border Studies, Armagh.

Ellis, G. (2002) Planning Sustainable Settlements, Colourpoint Press, Newtonards