Greg Lloyd is Professor of Urban Planning and Head of the School of the Built Environment at the University of Ulster. Having started his career at the University of Aberdeen, he subsequently became Professor and Head of the School of Town and Country Planning, University of Dundee. Before moving to UU, he was Professor of Planning in the Department of Civic Design, University of Liverpool. Professor Lloyd’s research and publication interests include the relations between public policy, planning and real property developments; institutional innovation in spatial planning practices; and the efficiency and effectiveness of new planning and regulatory arrangements. He is a member of the Scottish Government’s National Planning Framework Advisory Group and patron of Planning Aid Scotland; and was Independent Ministerial Advisor to the Northern Ireland Assembly on the reform of land use planning.
Brendan Bartley was Deputy Director of NIRSA and led its research strand on Balanced Regional and Rural Development for the Irish Social Science Platform (ISSP), an all-island platform of integrated social science research and graduate training focusing on the social, cultural and economic transformations shaping Ireland in the 21st century. Together with Dr Delphine Ancien at NIRSA, Brendan developed NUI Maynooth’s structured Masters and PhD programmes in Social Science for the ISSP’s Graduate Research and Education Programme (GREP). He was also the University’s Programme Director for the International Centre for Local and Regional Development (ICLRD). Over the past fifteen years, Brendan was directly involved in a number of European collaborative urban research networks in the connected areas of spatial planning, governance and urban regeneration. He has also been the Irish Contact Point for the European Spatial Planning Observatory Network (ESPON) which carries out comparative and applied research on territorial development and spatial planning in support of policy development at EU, national and regional scales.