Education: BA, Geography, University of Durham; MA, Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield; PhD, University of Sheffield

Career: Heather Campbell is currently Head of Department and Leader of the Planning Theory and Practice Research Cluster at the University of Sheffield. She joined the staff as a Research Fellow in 1989 and was awarded a Personal Chair in 1999. She is a member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Professor Campbell has been a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. She is a member of Sub-panel for Planning for the 2007/8 Research Assessment Exercise and the chair for planning theory track at the 2002 and 2007 Association of European Schools of Planning Congresses. She was the Deputy Chair of the Royal Town Planning Institute sponsored Education Commission and is currently a member of the Education Review group. She was invited to join the Academic Panel for the Treasury’s Barker Review of Land Use Planning. Heather Campbell's research focuses on public policy-making and her teaching seeks to examine questions of ethical values and knowledge in planning, justice and judgement and philosophy, theory and ethics in property. She also has a long standing commitment to research training and has been awarded seven ESRC PhD studentships as the primary supervisor and five as a secondary supervisor. Heather Campbell is a founding co-editor of the international journal Planning Theory & Practice (see url below).

Contact details: Address: Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Sheffield, Winter Street, Sheffield, S3 7ND, England; Tel: +44 (0)114 222-6900; Fax: +44 (0)114 272-2199; Email: h.j.campbell@shef.ac.uk ; Website: http://www.shef.ac.uk/trp/ ; Website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/14649357.asp/ .