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Staff Profile

Dr Andrew Donaldson

Senior Lecturer

  • Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 5806
  • Address: School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
    Henry Daysh Building
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    Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne
    NE1 7RU
Background

Introduction

Andrew has a background in natural and social sciences. His current work sits at the interface of Science and Technology Studies, Geography and Environmental Planning.


Roles and Responsibilities

Associate Director of Planning

Chair of Board of Examiners (Planning and Urban Design)

Director of Global Urban Research Unit


Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Biology, University of York

MSc (Distinction) Rural Resource and Countryside Management, Â鶹´«Ã½

PhD, Â鶹´«Ã½


Honours and Awards

Awarded 2008 Ashby Prize for most innovative paper in Environment and Planning A.

Research

Research Interests

My research concerns environmental knowledges - the ways in which we understand and govern more-than-human worlds. I explore these questions within and between various sciences, academic disciplines, professional groups and publics. Empirically this work has focussed on rural land management, flooding and various aspects of agrifood systems. Across those contexts, I have also looked at how environmental knowledges and expertise interact with other governing concepts, such as: futures/risk/security, critical infrastructures, and interdisciplinarity and participation/public engagement. My current research focuses on planning as a site of nature production in an era of ecological crisis, and on how digital technologies shape environmental knowledges and government. 


Research Projects

Making Provisions: anticipating food emergencies and assembling the food system (January 2015- April 2017) ESRC funded, Principal Investigator


Managing borderlands: adaptive decision making amongst specialists and non-specialists (April 2010 –January 2012) ESRC/BBSRC/NERC funded, Co-Investigator


Science in the Field: Understanding the Changing Role of Expertise in the Rural Economy (April 2008-September 2010) ESRC funded, Co-Investigator.


The Everyday Life of Surveillance, (2008-2010) ESRC funded seminar series, Co-Investigator.


Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies (March 2007-May 2010)

ESRC/BBSRC/NERC funded, Affiliated researcher and manager of Â鶹´«Ã½ component.


Postgraduate Supervision

Current

Clive Davies (PhD by publication)


Completed

Dr Jeongeun Chae "What makes a community resilient to a flood disaster? A case of Seoul in South Korea"

Dr Tessa Holland "Navigating slow, 'fast' and crafted knowledges: knowing through Cittalsow" (Completed 2018)

Dr Alex Baker "The machinery of eviction: bailiffs, power, resistance and eviction enforcement practices in England and Wales" (Completed 2017)

Dr Helen Coulson "Ecologies of care: an ethnographic study of collective urban food gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland" (Completed 2016)

Dr Paul Cowie "In-Migrant Networks and Knowledge Economies in Rural England" (Completed 2013)

Dr Elizabeth Charles "Community Supported Agriculture in North East England" (Completed 2012)

Dr Justin Armstrong "Veterinary Expertise in the Rural Economy and Policy Making" (Completed 2011)

Dr Richard Lee "Setting Science-Based International Food Standards: Defining Dietary Fibre in the Codex Alimentarius Commission" (Completed 2010)

Dr Katy Wilkinson "Bureaucracy and other stories: Organizing policymaking in DEFRA" (Completed 2009)

Dr Gary Bosworth "Entrepreneurial in-migrants and economic development in rural England" (Completed 2008)

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

TCP1025 Social Worlds

TCP3056 Disasters, Monsters and Mess (Module leader)

 

Postgraduate Teaching

TCP8929 Planning, Power and People (module leader)

TCP8911 Research Design

 

Publications

  • Articles

    • Donaldson A. . Journal of Rural Studies 2022, 91, 228-235.
    • Brice J, Donaldson A, Midgley J. . Economy and Society 2020, 49(4), 619-641.
    • Donaldson A, Brice J, Midgley J. . Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2020, 45(3), 606-618.
    • Bracken LJ, Oughton EA, Donaldson A, Cook B, Forrester J, Spray C, Cinderby S, Passmore D, Bissett N. . Natural Hazards 2016, 82(Supp. 2), 217-240.
    • Forrester J, Cook B, Bracken L, Cinderby S, Donaldson A. . Applied Geography 2015, 56, 199-208.
    • Donaldson A, Lane SL, Ward N, Whatmore SJ. . Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2013, 31(4), 603-618.
    • Proctor A, Donaldson A, Phillipson J, Lowe P. . Environment and Planning A 2012, 44(7), 1696-1711.
    • Enticott G, Donaldson A, Lowe P, Power M, Proctor A, Wilkinson K. . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2011, 366(1573), 1955-1965.
    • Donaldson A, Ward N, Bradley S. . Environment and Planning A 2010, 42(7), 1521-1536.
    • Wilkinson K, Lowe P, Donaldson A. . Public Administration 2010, 88(2), 331-345.
    • Donaldson A. . Environment and Planning A 2008, 40(7), 1552-1567.
    • Donaldson A. . Genomics, Society and Policy 2007, 3(2), 57-69.
    • Donaldson A. . Environment and Planning A 2006, 38(11), 2075-2092.
    • Eden S, Donaldson A, Walker G. . Environment and Planning A 2006, 38(6), 1061-1076.
    • Eden S, Donaldson A, Walker G. . Area 2005, 37(4), 413-422.
    • Donaldson A, Wood D. . Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2004, 22(3), 373-391.
    • Ward N, Donaldson A, Lowe P. . Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2004, 22(2), 291-306.
    • Donaldson A, Lowe P, Ward N. . Sociologia Ruralis 2002, 42(3), 201-214.

  • Book Chapters

    • Donaldson A. . In: Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker, Sarah L. Taylor, ed. Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases. Routledge, 2013, pp.61-74.
    • Donaldson A. . In: Ball, K., Haggerty, K., Lyon, D, ed. Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. Oxford: Routledge, 2012, pp.217-224.

  • Note

    • Donaldson A, Murakami Wood D. . Area 2008, 40(1), 128-130.

  • Reports

    • Proctor A, Lowe P, Phillipson J, Donaldson A. . London: British Veterinary Association, 2011. Veterinary Record.
    • Proctor A, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Donaldson A. . University of Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, 2011. Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Policy and Practice Note Series 30.
    • Stassart P, Bradley S, Donaldson A. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, University of Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne, 2008. Centre for Rural Economy Discussion Paper Series 19.
    • Lee R, Ward N, Wilkinson K, Donaldson A. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Â鶹´«Ã½, 2006. Discussion Paper Series 6.
    • Donaldson A, Heathwaite L, Lane S, Ward N, Whatmore S. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: Â鶹´«Ã½, 2005. CRE Discussion Paper 2.
    • Ward N, Donaldson A, Lowe P. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Â鶹´«Ã½, 2002. Centre for Rural Economy Working Paper 67.
    • Bennett K, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Ward N, Cattermole A, Donaldson A, Elliott C, Midgely J, Thompson N. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Â鶹´«Ã½, 2001. Centre for Rural Economy Research Report.
    • Donaldson A. . Â鶹´«Ã½ upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Â鶹´«Ã½, 1999. Centre for Rural Economy Working Papers 42.