Michelle Thompson-Fawcett

Inaugural Professorial Lecture

Michelle's Inaugural Professorial Lecture is available as to stream via Youtube:

Inaugural Professorship Lecture (2018)

Teaching

• GEOG 215 Urban Geography: Envisioning Cities
• GEOG 384 Urban Geography: Envisioning Cities
• GEOG 457 Advanced Urban Geography
• PLAN 435 Planning Case Study I
• PLAN 535 Planning Case Study II

Research interests

• Processes, practices, contests & power relations of urban place making and landscape change
• Indigenous planning/resource management aspirations, practices, influence
• Transformation in spatial planning and governance in local government

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Postgraduate student supervision

Current doctoral students

• Altami C Arasty 'Transnational Climate Change Governance: Transformation of Institutions' Worldview in Emerging Countries'
• Dyanna Jolly 'How far have we come? Iwi and hapū experiences using cultural impact assessment'

• Jovan Mokaraka-Harris 'Merging the worlds of Geography through a Te Ao Māori worldview'

Recently completed doctoral theses

• Ben Payne (2017) (primary supervisor) "'Beyond interfering greenies': The contested place of Tenure Review in New Zealand's high-country"
• Crystal Filep (2016) (primary supervisor) "Challenging Neighbourhood Conceptions: The Stockholm Study"
• Katie James (2015) (primary supervisor) "Environmental governance and climate change adaptation in the Top of the South"
• Nicola Bould (2012) (primary supervisor) "Towards designing scenarios for a more sustainable future"
• Johnnie Nyametso (2011) (primary supervisor) "Improvement of squatter settlements : the link between tenure security, access to housing, and improved living and environmental conditions"
• Sophie Bond (2007) (primary supervisor) "Participation, urbanism and power"
• Gail Tipa (2002) (co-supervisor) "Indigenous communities and the co-management of natural resources: the case of New Zealand freshwater management"