Professor Angela Hull

Angela Hull holds the Chair in Spatial Planning at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh UK. She spent five years as a town planner in local government before working as a consultant to the Royal Town Planning Institute providing training to local government officers. She has worked in academia for the last 25 years teaching town planning and urban management. She directs the Centre for Research on Planning, Regeneration and Governance and carries out research on spatial planning and governance, and institutional triggers to sustainable urban management (transport, energy, housing). She was Secretary-General of the Association of European Schools of Planning (1998-2002) and now leads two of the AESOP research groups: Evaluation in Planning, and Transportation Planning and Policy.