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Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review (2023)
Journal Article
McClatchey, R., McClymont, K., Griffin, E., & Carmichael, L. (in press). Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review. International Journal of Housing Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2023.2232200

Community Led Housing (CLH) is an umbrella term encompassing several non-profit models of housing delivery, which is used internationally. There has been little comprehensive assessment of the health impacts of housing arrangements where people inten... Read More about Community led housing, health and wellbeing: a comprehensive literature review.

The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports (2023)
Working Paper
Hickman, H., McClymont, K., Fouad, Z., Hall, S., King, L., & Windermer, R. The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports

The Planning Advisory Service commissioned the University of West of England (UWE) to research the role that Local Planning Authorities (LPA) can play in delivering housing-led development on brownfield land. The research resulted in a set of case st... Read More about The role of local planning authorities in delivering brownfield land - case study reports.

Housing affordability in the South West of England (2023)
Report
Sinnett, D., Fouad, Z., McClymont, K., Hickman, H., Loveday, C., Hall, S., …Lamond, J. (2023). Housing affordability in the South West of England. https://homesforthesouthwest.co.uk: Homes for the South West

The South West faces acute problems of housing affordability. The region is conspicuously less affordable than England as a whole, and the North and Midlands in particular. These inter-regional disparities are becoming progressively more pronounced.... Read More about Housing affordability in the South West of England.

Temporalities of cemeteries: The tensions and flows of perpetuity and change in ‘slow’ places (2023)
Journal Article
House, D., Beebeejaun, Y., Maddrell, A., & McClymont, K. (in press). Temporalities of cemeteries: The tensions and flows of perpetuity and change in ‘slow’ places. Mortality, https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2023.2170218

Cemeteries in the UK and Ireland are typically viewed as a final ‘place of rest’ for the deceased where their remains will not be disturbed. This sense is at least in some part created by the norm of in-perpetuity grave rights in these countries. Yet... Read More about Temporalities of cemeteries: The tensions and flows of perpetuity and change in ‘slow’ places.

On beauty (2022)
Journal Article
Foroughmand Araabi, H., Hickman, H., & McClymont, K. (2022). On beauty. Planning Theory and Practice, 23(4), 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2022.2113613

“Beauty,” a term that almost defies definition, can be highly emotive in its use: more emotive, we posit, than many other commonplace terms used to frame thinking about the future of space and place. Thus, the relationship between beauty, decision ma... Read More about On beauty.

Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices (2022)
Journal Article
McClymont, K., Madddrell, A., Beebeejaun, Y., McNally, D., & Mathijssen, B. (2022). Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices. Emotion, Space and Society, 44, Article 100895. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2022.100895

In this paper we explore migrants' and minorities' memories and memory-making associated with death, funerary and remembrance practices, with particular attention to how this intersects with experiences of migration and/or being part of a cultural or... Read More about Remembering, forgetting and (dis)enfranchised grief in everyday settings in English and Welsh towns: Migrants' and minorities’ translocal and local memories associated with funerary spaces and practices.

Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale (2021)
Journal Article
Sheppard, A., & McClymont, K. (2021). Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale. Town Planning Review, 92(5), 561–586. https://doi.org/10.3828/tpr.2021.18

Planning, at its most basic, is about making better places. In recent years, there has been a positive renewed focus on strengthening the links between planning and the promotion of well-being and good health outcomes. This is a welcome emphasis with... Read More about Planning and health: Defining the limitations of regulation and the discretionary context at the micro/site scale.

Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services (2021)
Journal Article
McClymont, K., & Sinnett, D. (2021). Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services. Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, 3, Article 789925. https://doi.org/10.3389/frsc.2021.789925

Cemeteries are often included in typologies of green infrastructure features, but there has been little exploration of their role within a multifunctional network of green infrastructure. This paper uses national greenspace data to map the contributi... Read More about Planning cemeteries: Their potential contribution to green infrastructure and ecosystem services.

Death in the peripheries: Planning for minority ethnic groups beyond “the City” (2021)
Journal Article
Beebeejaun, Y., McClymont, K., Maddrell, A., Mathijssen, B., & McNally, D. (in press). Death in the peripheries: Planning for minority ethnic groups beyond “the City”. Journal of Planning Education and Research, https://doi.org/10.1177/0739456x211043275

“Deathscapes” constitute a growing field of research, yet the topic remains widely neglected within urban planning. In this paper, we examine the adequacy of existing provision for death, remembrance, and the disposal of body remains for ethnic minor... Read More about Death in the peripheries: Planning for minority ethnic groups beyond “the City”.

Rules, norms and practices – A comparative study exploring disposal practices and facilities in Northern Europe (2021)
Journal Article
Nordh, H., House, D., Westendorp, M., Maddrell, A., Wingren, C., Kmec, S., …Venbrux, E. (in press). Rules, norms and practices – A comparative study exploring disposal practices and facilities in Northern Europe. OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying, 88(1), 171-199. https://doi.org/10.1177/00302228211042138

We identify and analyse practices and management regimes around burial and handling of ashes across eight case study towns within six Northern European countries. We analyse management of cemeteries and crematoria gardens, majority practices and prov... Read More about Rules, norms and practices – A comparative study exploring disposal practices and facilities in Northern Europe.

The whittling away of wonderful ideas (2021)
Journal Article
Hickman, H., Croft, N., McClymont, K., Sheppard, A., & Foroughmand-Araabi, H. (2021). The whittling away of wonderful ideas. Town and Country Planning -London- Town and Country Planning Association-, July / August 2021, 242-248

Diverse teams researching diversity: Negotiating identity, place and embodiment in qualitative research (2021)
Journal Article
Mathijssen, B., McNally, D., Dogra, S., Maddrell, A., Beebeejaun, Y., & McClymont, K. (2023). Diverse teams researching diversity: Negotiating identity, place and embodiment in qualitative research. Qualitative Research, 23(1), 55–71. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687941211006004

Fieldwork encounters are not only contingent to biographical subjectivities, but are mediated by a confluence of identity, place and embodiment. This paper offers reflexive accounts of researchers with various socio-cultural and disciplinary backgrou... Read More about Diverse teams researching diversity: Negotiating identity, place and embodiment in qualitative research.

They know they can get away with it’: Housing development, divergent goals and the limits to trust (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Hickman, H., & McClymont, K. (2021, April). They know they can get away with it’: Housing development, divergent goals and the limits to trust. Presented at Housing Studies Association Conference 2021, Online

Presentation to stimulate a panel discussion at the Housing Studies Association Conference 2021 on issues of trust between local authorities and housing developers.

A sense of legitimacy in low-impact developments: Experiences and perspectives of communities in South-West England (2021)
Journal Article
Griffin, E., McClymont, K., & Sheppard, A. (2022). A sense of legitimacy in low-impact developments: Experiences and perspectives of communities in South-West England. International Journal of Housing Policy, 22(1), 83-105. https://doi.org/10.1080/19491247.2021.1886027

Informality in the global North has been largely overlooked in literature to date (Devlin, 2018). Unlike the global South, the role of informal practices in northern countries are under-represented in both theory and practice. Despite this, informali... Read More about A sense of legitimacy in low-impact developments: Experiences and perspectives of communities in South-West England.

Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision (2021)
Journal Article
Maddrell, A., McNally, D., Beebeejaun, Y., McClymont, K., & Mathijssen, B. (2021). Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 46(3), 675-688. https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12437

Building on embodied and de-colonial approaches to geopolitics, this paper examines the relationship between forms of governance in municipal cemetery and crematorium provision and the needs of established minorities, arguing that inadequate infrastr... Read More about Intersections of (infra)structural violence and cultural inclusion: The geopolitics of minority cemeteries and crematoria provision.

Credibility without legitimacy? Informal development in the highly regulated context of the United Kingdom (2019)
Journal Article
McClymont, K., & Sheppard, A. (2020). Credibility without legitimacy? Informal development in the highly regulated context of the United Kingdom. Cities, 97, 102520. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cities.2019.102520

© 2019 Elsevier Ltd As the first contribution in this Special Issue's section on “informality in developed contexts”, this paper explores notions of legality, legitimacy and credibility in the United Kingdom (UK). By drawing on credibility theory, th... Read More about Credibility without legitimacy? Informal development in the highly regulated context of the United Kingdom.

Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review (2019)
Report
Griffin, E., McClymont, K., Carmichael, L., & Marsh, R. (2019). Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review. Power to Change

This report examines existing literature on the relationship between community-led housing (CLH) and health and wellbeing, with a particular focus on identifying what evidence is available and where future research may further strengthen this knowled... Read More about Community-led housing and health: a comprehensive literature review.

‘Do we really want these changes?’ Power, conflict, and ‘best practice’ in community planning (2019)
Presentation / Conference
Sheppard, A., McClymont, K., & Croft, N. (2019, July). ‘Do we really want these changes?’ Power, conflict, and ‘best practice’ in community planning. Paper presented at AESOP, Venice

This research was a collaborative project between Up Our Street (https://upourstreet.org.uk/) and the Department of Geography and Environmental Management, UWE funded and supported by the Community University Partnership Initiative, which is part of... Read More about ‘Do we really want these changes?’ Power, conflict, and ‘best practice’ in community planning.

Spaces of secular faith? Shared assets and intangible values in diverse, changing communities (2019)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2019). Spaces of secular faith? Shared assets and intangible values in diverse, changing communities. Implicit Religion, 21(2), 142-164. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.37013

In the current political climate, questions of shared identities, inclusive communities and public spaces are of utmost urgency. Compounded by the context of austerity, the value and purpose of public spaces is under question. This paper argues that... Read More about Spaces of secular faith? Shared assets and intangible values in diverse, changing communities.

Planners of the future, planning for the future? (2019)
Journal Article
Hickman, H., McClymont, K., & Sheppard, A. (2019). Planners of the future, planning for the future?

This article considers the potential mismatch between the aspirations of planners in education and the realities of practice.

Credibility in the absence of legitimacy (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Sheppard, A., & McClymont, K. (2018, July). Credibility in the absence of legitimacy. Paper presented at AESOP 2018: Making space for hope, Gothenburg

This presentation considers the motivations for those who chose to live beyond ‘the system’; outside of mainstream regulated society and, particularly, formal town and country planning frameworks. The paper presents research which compares the moti... Read More about Credibility in the absence of legitimacy.

‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment (2018)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2018). ‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment. Journal of Intercultural Studies, 39(3), 267-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/07256868.2018.1459519

This paper explores how local place attachment and group identity are conceived by those who manage civic cemeteries, and those who, by their memorial practices, co-create them. Engaging with debates about (post)colonialism and belonging, the paper p... Read More about ‘They have different ways of doing things’: Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment.

Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics (2018)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2019). Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics. Planning Theory, 18(3), 282-299. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095218773119

© The Author(s) 2018. Post-foundationalist political theories have provided some of the most radical tools of critique in recent years. As well as challenging the dominant orthodoxy of achieving consensus in decision-making, they give voice to claims... Read More about Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics.

Deathscapes and diversity: Making space for minorities' and migrants' bodily remains, ritual and remembrance practice (2017)
Presentation / Conference
McClymont, K., Maddrell, A., & Beebeejaun, Y. (2017, March). Deathscapes and diversity: Making space for minorities' and migrants' bodily remains, ritual and remembrance practice. Paper presented at Transmortality International: Materiality and Spatiality of Death, Burial and Commemoration - See more at: https://transmortality.uni.lu/Conference-2017#sthash.9QeHuxDo.dpuf, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Issues around migration, and the desires and requirements of migrants are especially topical in contemporary UK and European contexts, however there is limited academic or policy consideration of this in relation to death, dying, burial and mourning... Read More about Deathscapes and diversity: Making space for minorities' and migrants' bodily remains, ritual and remembrance practice.

Remembering the future: New cemeteries and the paradox of planning for heterotopic space (2016)
Presentation / Conference
McClymont, K. (2016, September). Remembering the future: New cemeteries and the paradox of planning for heterotopic space. Paper presented at UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2016: Planning for Future Generations, Cardiff, Wales

Despite awareness of issues affecting an aging population, planning policy has very little to say about cemeteries, crematoria and other ‘deathscapes’. A review of contemporary development plans has revealed that fewer than 20% of English local autho... Read More about Remembering the future: New cemeteries and the paradox of planning for heterotopic space.

‘They have different ways of doing things’. Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment’ (2016)
Presentation / Conference
McClymont, K. (2016, August). ‘They have different ways of doing things’. Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment’. Paper presented at RGS-IGB Annual International Conference, Kensington, London

This paper draws on research from cemeteries in the UK which explores their role in presenting and promoting local identity, and accommodating multifaith and multicultural practices. It draws on interviews with cemetery managers, and researcher taken... Read More about ‘They have different ways of doing things’. Cemeteries, diversity and local place attachment’.

Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics (2016)
Presentation / Conference
McClymont, K. (2016, June). Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics. Paper presented at Moving beyond conflict in planning: Towards a critical consensus politics?, Barcelona, Spain

Post foundationalist political theories have provided some of the most radical tools of critique in recent years. As well as challenging the dominant orthodoxy of achieving consensus in decision-making, they give voice to claims that the world can be... Read More about Articulating virtue: Planning ethics within and beyond post politics.

‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: Cemeteries and stories of the city (2016)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2016). ‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: Cemeteries and stories of the city. Mortality, 21(4), 378-396. https://doi.org/10.1080/13576275.2016.1151865

Most contemporary research accounts for conflict within cemetery space, but does not consider the potentially contested and poorly understood role of cemeteries within their broader cityscape. This study draws on stories from cemetery managers across... Read More about ‘That eccentric use of land at the top of the hill’: Cemeteries and stories of the city.

Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality (2015)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2015). Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality. Planning Theory and Practice, 16(4), 535-554. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2015.1083116

© 2015 Taylor & Francis. In the contemporary political context, religion is rarely out of the news, usually postulated as a regressive force, battling against modern liberal Western values. However, in everyday life, and specifically with regard to... Read More about Postsecular planning? The idea of municipal spirituality.

Stuck in the Process, Facilitating Nothing? Justice, Capabilities and Planning for Value-Led Outcomes (2014)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2014). Stuck in the Process, Facilitating Nothing? Justice, Capabilities and Planning for Value-Led Outcomes. Planning Practice and Research, 29(2), 187-201. https://doi.org/10.1080/02697459.2013.872899

The role of a planner as collaborative facilitator has come under renewed criticism, from both planning theory and planning practice. This paper explores how placing values of equity and justice at the centre of planning practice offers practitioners... Read More about Stuck in the Process, Facilitating Nothing? Justice, Capabilities and Planning for Value-Led Outcomes.

Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice (2011)
Journal Article
McClymont, K. (2011). Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice. Planning Theory, 10(3), 239-256. https://doi.org/10.1177/1473095211399398

This article argues for a new way of valuing development control planning practices in a democratic society: as agonistic political engagement. Using Chantal Mouffe's conception of the political, it counters claims that collaborative and consensus se... Read More about Revitalising the political: Development control and Agonism in Planning Practice.

Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach (2009)
Journal Article
Mcclymont, K., & Meth, P. (2009). Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach. Social and Cultural Geography, 10(8), 809. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649360903305775

Explicit consideration of the nature and workings of different qualitative methods for researching men are relatively uncommon within geography. Building on work which explores ethnographies, ethical concerns and questions about fieldwork, this paper... Read More about Researching men: The politics and possibilities of a qualitative mixed-methods approach.

"We're not NIMBYs!" Contrasting local protest groups with idealised conceptions of sustainable communities (2008)
Journal Article
O'Hare, P., & Mcclymont, K. (2008). "We're not NIMBYs!" Contrasting local protest groups with idealised conceptions of sustainable communities. Local Environment, 13(4), 321-335. https://doi.org/10.1080/13549830701803273

The term "NIMBY" is used prolifically in both academic literature and general public discourse to describe a locally based action group protesting against a proposed development. It is frequently used to dismiss groups as selfish or ill-informed, as... Read More about "We're not NIMBYs!" Contrasting local protest groups with idealised conceptions of sustainable communities.