Prof Nick Gallent
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Profile
Biography
Nick
Gallent is currently Professor of Housing and Planning and Head of the Bartlett
School of Planning at UCL. He
began his career at the University of Wales, completing doctoral
research into the supply of housing in rural areas and the
effectiveness of emergent 'planning and affordable housing' mechanisms, in
1995. He then worked at Cardiff and Manchester
Universities before taking up a lectureship at UCL in 1999. He
is a geographer by training and was elected a Chartered Member of both the
Royal Town Planning Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
in 2002 and 2007 respectively. He maintains a range of professional
interests and is currently a member of the RTPI's Partnership and Accreditation
Panel. He served, until 2013, as an elected member of the Town and
Country Planning Association's Policy Council.
Teaching
Summary
Nick is an experienced university
teacher with more than 20 years’ experience in higher education. He has
taught across a range of topics but currently focuses on planning for housing
and countryside planning, having co-authored key course texts on these
subjects. He spent 11 years at UCL coordinating professional MSc planning
programmes. He currently serves as Faculty Tutor for MSc Students across
the Faculty of the Built Environment, and in that capacity is a member of UCL's
MSc Scholarships Panel. Nick is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
and completed professional training as a University teacher at Manchester in
1998. He has contributed, as guest lecturer, to teaching programmes at
the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, at London South Bank University
and the LSE, and also at the Department of Urban Studies at Roma 3.
Research Summary
Nick is a housing
specialist whose research focuses on UK planning policy as it pertains to
housing delivery and as it affects rural communities. He has conducted research for a wide range of funding bodies. His
research has been disseminated in ten published books, mainly dealing
with housing, planning, rural communities and the countryside, and in a large
number of peer-reviewed articles and book contributions. Recent research has focused on:
Research outputs
