Assoc Professor John Jackson

Position

Program Director, B Planning&Environment

School /
Work Unit

Global, Urban and Social Studies

Contact Details

+(61 3) 9925 3437

john.t.jackson@rmit.edu.au

Location

Building: 8
Level: 7
Room: 9

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Design & Social Context

Photo of Assoc. Professor.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Oxon, MA WOnt, PhD Liverpool

Research and scholarship

Research interests

In the last few years John Jackson has been the recipient of an Australian Research Council linkage grant concerned with re-imagining the Australian suburb and an Australian Learning and Teaching grant concerned with better assessing students doing formal work placements. He has a long-standing interest in comparative planning practices and planning education.

In 2010 he began research into ‘what planners do’ by contacting RMIT planning graduates from the 1980s and 1990s and basically asking them if, individually or collectively, ‘they had made a difference’. Early results from this research will given through conference papers.

In 2011 he received a research grant from the Canadian government to continue on with his research into the values and work of Planners in Toronto, these to be compared with planners in Glasgow and Toronto.

Research supervision

John Jackson currently supervises two PhD students: one concerned with making planning practices in Jeddah Saudi Arabia more effective, the other with better integrating the concerns of surrounding communities into the design of brownfield site residential redevelopments in western Melbourne.

Recent publications

Journal articles

Jackson J et. al, 2011 (forthcoming), How Best to Assess Students’ Learning in Work Placements: Moving beyond current practice, Australian Planner

Jackson J., 2009, Neo-liberal or Third Way? What Planners from Glasgow, Melbourne and Toronto Say, Urban Policy and Research, 27.4, 397-417.

Other papers are in the refereeing process (April 2011).

Other publications

Jackson , J et al 2009 Generating Academic Standards in Planning Practice Education, Final Report to the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.