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Dr Matthew Wargent

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Available for postgraduate supervision

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Overview

I am a social scientist who researches the planning, development, and governance of cities. My research focuses on public participation and the contested politics of community development, the changing nature of expertise in planning and the commodification of urban knowledge, and how digital technology structures spatial decision-making and urban governance.

Publication

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2017

2015

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Books

Monographs

Research

Recent grants

  • 2025: Public Health Wales – Delivering public health and wellbeing priorities through Welsh development plans in Wales (£11,402)
  • 2023-2025: Nuffield Foundation – Just Neighbourhoods? Under-representation in UK Community-Led Planning (£269,614)
  • 2023: Middlesbrough Council – Underrepresented Neighbourhood Plan Areas within Middlesbrough (£15,100)
  • 2021-2022: British Academy and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research – What is the street for? Interrogating ‘ways of seeing’ and the epistemic justice of reconfiguring public space (£4,991)
  • 2021-2022: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada – Canada-UK Workshop on Devolution (CAD$5,000)
  • 2021-2022: British Academy and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research – Local political autonomy in multi-level governance (£5,000)
  • 2021: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government – Impact of Neighbourhood Planning in England (£63,039)
  • 2018-2022: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (£316,305)

Teaching

I am currently Course Director for the BSc Urban Planning and Development.

Current modules

  • Property, Urban Development and Regeneration (undergraduate level 1, module leader)
  • Community Engagement, Mediation and Negotiation Skills (undergraduate level 2)
  • Planning Theory and Practice (undergraduate level 3)
  • Digital Planning and Development (postgradutate, module leader)

Previous modules

  • Digital Planning (undergraduate level 3)
  • Governing Urban and Regional Dynamics (postgradutate)
  • Planning and Real Estate (postgradutate)
  • Space and Place: International Planning Practice (postgradutate)

Contact Details

Email WargentM@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 75281
Campuses Glamorgan Building, Room 1.52, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff, CF10 3WA

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