Entries are open now for this year’s Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) Awards for Research Excellence – which ‘promote planning research from RTPI-accredited planning schools and RTPI members’ – and close on 17 May.
… All RTPI members can apply…
… innovative planning research will have a vital role…
RTPI writes:
These prestigious annual awards reward and promote planning research from RTPI-accredited planning schools and RTPI members from the UK and around the world.
There are four award categories this year:
- Sir Peter Hall Award for Excellence in Research and Engagement
- Student Award
- Early Career Researcher Award
- Planning Practitioner Award
This year also sees the return of the biennial Practitioner Research Fund – two grants of £5,000 to enable planning practitioners to conduct new research over the next 12 months. All RTPI members can apply, except those employed by, enrolled at, or affiliated to, an academic institution at the time of submission.
RTPI President Wei Yang FRTPI said: “The RTPI continues to play an active part in recognising thought leadership in planning and is at the forefront of encouraging and promoting potentially game-changing planning research.
“With the pandemic bringing into sharp relief the urgent challenges facing our communities, I believe that the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence are more important now than ever before. There is no doubt that innovative planning research will have a vital role to play in shaping a sustainable future for our urban and rural environments.
“I would also like to take this opportunity to acknowledge the hard work of the judges who each year volunteer their time to read and judge the submitted entries based on their extensive expertise. Many thanks to them all.”
The winners of this year’s awards will be announced in September during the opening ceremony of the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference hosted by the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University.
The RTPI would like to thank the sponsors of the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence 2021 – Idox Knowledge Exchange and Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group).
>> Entries to the RTPI Awards for Research Excellence 2021 are open until 17 May 2021. For more information, visit https://www.rtpi.org.uk/researchawards
>> Read from James McGowan and Marijke Ransom, winners of the 2019 RTPI Practitioner Research Fund, on the RTPI blog
