Geraint Ellis

Professor

Professor, School of Natural and Built Environment
Risk and Inequality

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 4370
Emailg.ellis@qub.ac.uk

Room 03.027 - David Keir Building
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

Planning theory for progressive planning; Health and the built environment; Social dimensions of the low carbon energy transition; Public participation, activism and equality in planning governance.

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Personal profile

Interests

Dr. Geraint Ellis is a Professor in the School of Natural and Built Environment and Director of Sustainable Built Environment at Queen's University, Belfast. He also holds the position of Adjunct Professor, Department of Geography, Western University, Canada. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Encouragment of the Arts, Manufacturing and Commerce (FRSA), the Higher Education Academy (FHEA) and has been appointed to the Assessment Panel for Unit of Assessment 13 for REF2021. In 2018 he was also appointed by the Taoiseach (Prime Minister of Ireland) to the National Economic and Social Council (NESC).

His key research interests are in planning and sustainability, renewable energy, planning governance and healthy urban planning. He has published widely on these topics and is a Co-Editor of the Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjoe20/current, Twitter: @JrlEPP) and a founding member of the Editorial Board of the new Routledge, journal, Cities and Health.

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 the Cross River Partnership in central London (1996-1998).

Geraint is active in the Northern Ireland voluntary sector, is currently a Board Director of Belfast Healthy Cities and a founder member of Transition Town Whitehead . He was previously a director of Transport 2000 (NI), Sustainable NI, Community Techncial Aid (now Community Places). He has also provided planning advice to the Traveller Movement (NI) and Friends of the Earth (NI). He also acts as the Irish contact for the International Network of Urban Research and Action ( INURA ), has been an advisor to the Centre for Education in the Built Environment ( CEBE) and a member of the UK's Sustainable Development Panel. He also acts as the National Expert for Ireland on the International Energy Agency's Task 28 Working Group on the Social Acceptance of Wind Energy.

He has been the Course Director for boththe BSc Environmental Planning and the M.Plan in European Planning and previously coordinated the School's Erasmus Programme and other internationalisation initiatives, including an exchange programme with Indian Planning Schools.

You can follow Geraint on Twitter @gellis23

Research Statement

Geraint's research interests lie in the broad field of spatial planning and sustainability, with a particular emphasis on environmental governance, renewable energy, marine spatial planning, environmental justice and equality issues in planning. He has also written and research on pedagogy in planning and environmental education. He has been involved in a range of research projects funded by UK research councils and others, with his most recent projects focussing on renewable energy and the walkability of built environments.

Teaching

Geraint is currently the module coordinator for the following:

Planning and Cliamte Change (EVP2009)

City Futures (EVP7040)

He has coordinated a range of other modules and regularly contributes to other modules, including Legal Studies in Planning (EVP3010), Independent Research Project (EVP3011), and Planning Skills and Ethics (EVP8012).

He supervises around 10 undergraduate and Masters students every year on their dissertations and currently has six Ph.D students as supervisees.

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Projects

2 Finished
16 Active

R3145NBE: Ageing in the Global South: Participatory approaches to designing equitable cities ‘with’ older adults

Adlakha, D. & Ellis, G.

21/05/2019 → …

Project: Research

R1986NBE: Healthy Urban Living and Ageing in Place

Ellis, G.

20/11/2018 → …

Project: Research

R6596NBE: Multi-Sectoral Approaches to Innovative Skills Training for Renewable Energy and Social Acceptance

Ellis, G., Barry, J. & Murtagh, B.

24/07/2018 → …

Project: Research

R6986NBE: Maritime, Ocean Sector and Ecosystem Sustainability: Fostering Blue Growth in Atlantic Industries

Flannery, W., Ellis, G., Longo, A. & Murtagh, B.

21/05/2018 → …

Project: Research

R6586NBE: Preserving and Sustainably Governing Cultural Heritage and Landscapes in European Coastal and Maritime Regions

Flannery, W., Ellis, G. & Murtagh, B.

20/04/2018 → …

Project: Research

Research Output

Built environment correlates of physical activity and sedentary behaviour in older adults: A comparative review between high and low-middle income countries.

Cleland, C., Reis, R., Hino, A., Hunter, R., Fermino, R., Koller de Paiva, H., Czestschuk, B. & Ellis, G., May 2019, In : Health & Place. 57, p. 277-304 28 p.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

1 Citation (Scopus)

Catalysing and Characterising Transition EPA Research Report 287

Ellis, G., Hume, T., Barry, J. & Curry, R., 30 Sep 2019, Environmental Protection Agency. 50 p. (EPA Research Reports)

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Open Access

File

Environmental Planning after Brexit: Working with the legacy of EU environmental directives

Cowell, R., Ellis, G., Fischer, T., Jackson, T., Muinzer, T. & Skyes, O., 23 Jan 2019, London: Royal Town Planning Institute. 53 p.

Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

Open Access

File

Older but no wiser – skeffington 50 years on

Brownill, S., Ellis, G., Inch, A. & Sartorio, F., 10 Apr 2019, In : Town and Country Planning. 88, 3/4, p. 122-125

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

Unravelling Persistent Problems to Transformative Marine Governance

Kelly, C., Ellis, G. & Flannery, W., 24 Apr 2019, In : Frontiers in Marine Science. 15 p., 213.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

3 Citations (Scopus)

229 Downloads (Pure)

Prizes

Certificate of Recognition for Exceptional Contribution to Local Agenda 21 in Northern Ireland for the Research Report "Cycling and Local Agenda 21 in Northern Ireland"

Geraint Ellis (Recipient), 15 May 2000

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

European Planning Studies Prize 2002

Geraint Ellis (Recipient), 11 Jul 2002

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Irish National Expert on the International Energy Agency's Working group on social acceptance of wind energy

Geraint Ellis (Recipient), 01 Mar 2011

Prize: Appointment

Most Cited Paper 2012: Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

Geraint Ellis (Recipient), 30 Jun 2012

Prize: Other distinction

QUB Teaching Award 2003

Geraint Ellis (Recipient), 30 Jun 2003

Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)

Activities

The Good City: Urban Transformation, Comparison and Value

Geraint Ellis (Participant)

19 Apr 2018

Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Participation in conference

Memorial University of Newfoundland (External organisation)

Geraint Ellis (Advisor)

20 Apr 2018

Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee

Research Excellence Framework (REF) (External organisation)

Geraint Ellis (Advisor)

23 Mar 2018 → 31 Dec 2021

Activity: Membership types › Membership of peer review panel or committee

Research consultancy project on 'The Future of Environmental Regulations and Directives under Brexit'

Richard Cowell (Advisor), Geraint Ellis (Advisor), Thomas Muinzer (Advisor), Thomas Fischer (Member), Olivier Skyes (Member), Anthony Jackson (Member)

21 Mar 2018 → 31 Dec 2018

Activity: Consultancy types › Work on advisory panel to industry or government or non-government organisation