Idox is pleased once again to be supporting the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence for 2019.
The awards recognise and promote high quality, impactful spatial planning research from RTPI accredited planning schools, members and planning consultancies, in the UK and around the world.
The 2019 Awards are now open and there is still time to enter – the deadline for entries is 30 May 2019.
About the Awards
The RTPI Awards for Research Excellence are intended to:
- recognise the best spatial planning research from RTPI accredited planning schools;
- highlight the implications of academic research for policy and practice;
- recognise the valuable contribution of planning consultancies to planning research; and
- promote planning research generally.
The award categories are:
- Academic Award, for established planning researchers
- Early Career Researcher Award, for PhD students and academics who were awarded their PhD less than five years ago
- Student Award, for undergraduate or masters-level research completed in pursuit of an RTPI-accredited degree
- Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement, which recognises conducting and/or communicating high-quality planning research to audiences beyond academia
- Planning Consultancy Award, for planning consultancies around the world that employ RTPI members.
In addition, this year RTPI members who are practising planners are invited to submit research proposals. Two winners will each receive £5,000 of research funding.
Idox: supporting the planning profession
As the UK’s leading provider of planning and building control solutions to local authorities, Idox actively engages with issues affecting the planning profession. And here at the Knowledge Exchange, we see our core mission as improving decision making in public policy by improving access to research and evidence.
This is the fifth time that Idox has given its support to the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence.
Previous winners
The winner of the 2016 Sir Peter Hall Award for Wider Engagement Award was Dr Paul Cowie from Newcastle University’s School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape. Paul went on to write a guest blog post for us describing his innovative project, which uses theatre to engage communities in planning.
In 2018 the award-winning research showed the diverse range of topics engaging planners, from green infrastructure benchmarking, office-to-residential change of use, community engagement and healthy planning.
In 2019, Idox is pleased once again to be sponsoring the Student, Wider Engagement and Planning Consultancy awards.
Further details on the award categories, application guidance and entry forms, are available from the RTPI here. The closing date for applications to the awards is 30 May 2019.
Finalists will be announced in late July and the winners will be presented at the UK-Ireland 2019 Planning Research Conference in Liverpool on 2 September.
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