Dr Jason Slade
School of Geography and Planning
Lecturer in Planning
+44 114 222 6922
Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
Room D2
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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Jason has been a lecturer in Geography and Planning since 2021. Prior to this he worked as a Research Associate in the School, on UKRI funded projects exploring public/private sector relations in UK planning, governance responses to the COVID pandemic in Sheffield, and the history of community-led planning in the UK. His current research is on planning and political populism.
Jason’s background cuts across disciplines, with an undergraduate degree in English Literature followed by an MA in Town and Regional Planning. He completed his PhD at the University of Sheffield, on the role of narrative/storytelling in planning, particularly its efficacy for facilitating inclusion and democracy in grassroots contexts.
This work and experience is the foundation for his enduring interest in participation and inclusion – both in planning and academic research – and related questions around democracy and social justice. Furthermore, it underpins his commitment to a planning project broadly conceived to include a range of practices and activities – both statutory and non-statutory – centred on the question of how we collectively make better futures together.
Jason is a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute.
- Research interests
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Jason has broad research interests in the fields of planning and planning theory, encompassing the contemporary politics of planning, commercialisation and privatisation, storytelling/narrative, planning education, public participation, community-led planning and action research.
Jason is currently primary supervisor for PhD students Fandong Wei and Abigail Upton.
- Publications
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Books
- The Future for Planners: Commercialisation, Professionalism and the Public Interest in the UK. Policy Press.
- What Town Planners Do: Exploring Planning Practices and the Public Interest through Workplace Ethnographies. Policy Press.
Journal articles
- Co-governance of the ‘creative city’: bringing lived experience to the governance of culture in Sheffield. Urban Studies. View this article in WRRO
- Community action, counter-professionals and radical planning in the UK. City, 28(5-6), 681-704.
- Exploring Planning as a Technology of Hope. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 43(4), 869-880.
- ‘We need to put what we do in my dad’s language, in pounds, shillings and pence’: Commercialisation and the reshaping of public-sector planning in England. Urban Studies, 59(2), 397-413.
- Building infrastructures for inclusive regeneration. Land Use Policy, 109, 105606-105606.
- Question your teaspoons: tea-drinking, coping and commercialisation across three planning organisations. Journal of Organizational Ethnography, 9(3), 311-326.
- Doing What We Can with What We’ve Got: Reflections on PAR and the ECR Experience. Planning Theory & Practice, 20(2), 305-310.
- Partnerships of learning for planning education Who is learning what from whom? The beautiful messiness of learning partnerships/Experiential learning partnerships in Australian and New Zealand higher education planning programmes/Res non verba? rediscovering the social purpose of planning (and the university): The Westfield Action Research Project/At the coalface,Take 2: Lessons from students' critical reflections/Education for “cubed change”/Unsettling planning education through community-engaged teaching and learning: Reflections on the Indigenous Planning Studio. Planning Theory & Practice, 16(3), 409-434.
- An uncivil turn: instituting planning in the populist moment. European Planning Studies, 1-19.
Book reviews
- Rebranding Precarity: Pop-up Culture as the Seductive New Normal. Planning Theory & Practice, 25(3), 453-454.
- From improvement to city planning: spatial management in Cincinnati from the early republic through the civil war decade. Housing Studies, 37(3), 508-509.
- Critical planning futures: new directions in planning theory. Planning Perspectives, 1-3.
Presentations
- Manifesto for a Radical Planning. UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, University of Reading.
Other
- The Future for Planners: Commercialisation, Professionalism and the Public Interest in the UK. Policy Press.
- Teaching activities
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Jason has taught on a range of modules, including most recently:
- GPL121 Development, Planning and the State
- GPL206 Researching the City: Applied Skills for Practice
- GPL316/454 Planning Law
- GPL330 Planning Theory
- GPL406 Participatory Planning
- GPL459 Values in Planning
- GPL464 Planning for Diversity