Dr. Deepak Gopinath's Outputs (49)

The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19 (2023)
Journal Article

This paper offers a new child-centred methodology that explores children's visions of their futures, encourages self-reflection and depth and shares children's voices with peers and researchers, as unbrokered as possible. This final stage of a longit... Read More about The tree(s) of hope and ambition: An arts-based social science informed, participatory research method to explore children's future hopes, ambitions and support in relation to COVID-19.

‘Make sure to stay safe’: Using art and trust to navigate research collaborations through an evolving social crisis (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Effective communication and engagement around a global pandemic require a thorough understanding of perceptions and experiences of affected groups. Children were significantly impacted by mitigation measures during COVID-19, yet their voices were sel... Read More about ‘Make sure to stay safe’: Using art and trust to navigate research collaborations through an evolving social crisis.

Seeing through the fog – stories of social shocks to empower youth voice and leadership (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (Article 12) clearly states that children have the right to be to be heard and to have their views taken seriously. However, their voices are seldom listened to or considered in policy making and policy de... Read More about Seeing through the fog – stories of social shocks to empower youth voice and leadership.

Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats (2023)
Journal Article

In this article, the Voices in a Pandemic: Children’s Lockdown Experiences Applied to Recovery (VIP- CLEAR) team talk about the research they have undertaken in schools during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the voices of children need to be listened t... Read More about Learning from children’s experiences of lockdown: Talking about invisible threats.

Voices in a Pandemic (VIP-CLEAR): Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing perceptions and experiences during COVID-19 ‘recovery’ (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Children are unheard voices within the COVID-19 pandemic. We are unaware how intersections of complex factors in specific social settings have impacted their perceptions and are determining what ‘recovery’ means. ‘Voices in a Pandemic: Children’s Loc... Read More about Voices in a Pandemic (VIP-CLEAR): Using deep mapping to explore children’s changing perceptions and experiences during COVID-19 ‘recovery’.

Voices in a pandemic: Listening to the voices of children in a pandemic through arts-based, deep mapping methods adapted for online delivery (2022)
Journal Article

The VIP-CLEAR (Voices in a Pandemic—Children’s Lockdown Experience Applied to Recovery) project aims to explore younger children’s experiences of lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic to inform their recovery and resilience to future social s... Read More about Voices in a pandemic: Listening to the voices of children in a pandemic through arts-based, deep mapping methods adapted for online delivery.

Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper will draw on ongoing research funded by AHRC which works with 5 schools / Early Year centres in some of the most socio-economically deprived areas of Bristol. It will reflect on how we have used maps as a way of exploring children's experi... Read More about Using mapping to explore experiences of the pandemic with 3-11 year olds.

Multicriteria evaluation of the quality of service of informal public transport: An empirical evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria (2021)
Journal Article

Developing countries experience a decline in bus public transport investments. Yet informal public transport has continued to grow rapidly. Previous studies have evaluated the Quality of Service (QoS) provided by such informal transport but a multi-c... Read More about Multicriteria evaluation of the quality of service of informal public transport: An empirical evidence from Ibadan, Nigeria.

Designing ‘youth master plans’ in a CLE space: Lessons from using Minecraft in secondary school outreach project in Scotland (2021)
Journal Article

In response to problems of neoliberal urbanism agenda, Lefebvre (1991) argued for a 'right to the city' so that more people are involved in the (re-) production of urban spaces (Purcell 2002). The challenge being to translate this ‘right’ into practi... Read More about Designing ‘youth master plans’ in a CLE space: Lessons from using Minecraft in secondary school outreach project in Scotland.

Airbnb – another argument for a revised, not compromised, spatial management approach (2021)
Journal Article

Adam Sheppard, Harry West, Stroma Cole, Deepak Gopinath and Mojca Sonjak outline the findings of research on the extent, distribution and impact of Airbnb short-term letting in Bristol, and on whether regulatory intervention is required.

Waste management in England and the 'circular economy' model (2020)
Journal Article

By tracing the emergence of waste strategy in England, leading up to the most recent strategy launched in 2018, this article aims to aid the development of a shared understanding of what 'waste' means. It also looks at emerging and competing interpre... Read More about Waste management in England and the 'circular economy' model.

Waste management – can the ‘circular economy’ model grow wings? (2019)
Journal Article

Attributes of leadership for planning resilient cities in the Global South (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper aims to advance a new approach to the intersections of place, resilience and leadership particularly within the context of rapidly urbanising cities in the Global South. More generally, we know that a leader could be characterised by key a... Read More about Attributes of leadership for planning resilient cities in the Global South.

Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. To ensure a healthy growth of the economy particularly in the manufacturing sector, the Indian Government is more than ever focussed on promoting the use of sustainable and affordable energy resources. Recent initiatives... Read More about Why a clearer ‘green industrial policy’ matters for India: Reconciling growth, climate change and inequality.

The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 4: The Talks (2016)
Book

Volume 4 The Talks - documents the program of public lectures that contextualised the exhibition. The contributors were chosen because each – in different ways – has been an activist for change in the social and material environments of the city. Ged... Read More about The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 4: The Talks.

The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 3: The Geddes Institute (2016)
Book

Volume 3 The Geddes Institute - reproduces the panels by the 8 affiliates of the Geddes Institute whose projects were included in the exhibition, plus the introductory panels that accompanied each project.

Enabling 'right to appropriation' and facilitating 'distributed cognition' in (re- ) production of urban spaces: A conceptual framework for creating learning environments for involving young people in future visioning of cities (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper presented at the AAG (Association of American Geographers) Conference in San Francisco, 28 Mar – 02 Apr 2016.

‘Poverty’ and ‘place’ through the eyes of the poor: Outlining key strands of a conceptual framework, D-SPACE (2015)
Journal Article

In spite of a range of work on engaging with poverty, particularly in the Global South, the significance of the poor in conceptualizing and responding to the relationship between poverty and place seems to be downplayed. This article addresses this g... Read More about ‘Poverty’ and ‘place’ through the eyes of the poor: Outlining key strands of a conceptual framework, D-SPACE.

Recasting resilience beyond 'failure management': Lessons for planning our cities (2015)
Journal Article

Much recently, the term 'resilience' has generated considerable interest. But, it is rather hard to pin down what it means. Equally challenging is in knowing what the scope of resilience might be and how/whether such an understanding might help addre... Read More about Recasting resilience beyond 'failure management': Lessons for planning our cities.

Learning to be resilient by moving between ‘poor by chance’ to ‘not-so-poor by intent’ identities: Lessons from conversations with labor migrants in Southern India (2015)
Journal Article

Through their engagement with the lives of labor migrants working on construction sites in southern India, the authors advance a critical understanding linking poverty, place, and migration. This article challenges conventional images of poverty asso... Read More about Learning to be resilient by moving between ‘poor by chance’ to ‘not-so-poor by intent’ identities: Lessons from conversations with labor migrants in Southern India.

Characterizing Indian students pursuing global higher education: A conceptual framework of pathways to internationalization (2015)
Journal Article

© 2014 European Association for International Education One might argue that an Indian student entering higher education is faced with a critical question—Where to study, in India or abroad? With a gross enrollment ratio of around 20% in the tertiary... Read More about Characterizing Indian students pursuing global higher education: A conceptual framework of pathways to internationalization.

Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic (2015)
Journal Article

© The Author(s) 2015. Translating the purposes of education into practice is particularly challenging for those who are new or have recently entered academia. By reflecting on my first years of teaching in higher education, I discuss two key aspects... Read More about Discourses and practices in teaching methods and assessment: Insights from an early career academic.

Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions (2014)
Journal Article

Destitution, a severe form of poverty still persists in modern, industrialised nations such as the UK despite a robust, social security system in place. Increased use of food banks, inadequate housing provisions, etc., point to evidence that there ar... Read More about Re-thinking destitution in the UK: Typologies, spaces and transitions.

Poverty and place through the eyes of the poor: Lessons from developing a conceptual framework, D-SPACE in southern India (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at the UK Ireland Planning Research Conference, 9-11 September 2014, Oxford Brookes University.

Shifting of the ontological-epistemological balance in contemporary research agendas: A critique (2014)
Journal Article

With greater calls for public involvement, there are now claims of methodological shifts to ‘bottom-up’, ‘politically informed’ and ‘boundary-less’ approaches. This is not accurate as there is still predominantly an emphasis on epistemological consid... Read More about Shifting of the ontological-epistemological balance in contemporary research agendas: A critique.

Placing Poverty in Context: A Case Study (2014)
Journal Article

The “poverty-in-context” approach to understanding poverty is shaped by the needs and priorities of a particular context, and it can be used as the basis for identifying pro-poor projects in local strategies such as City Development Plans. A key argu... Read More about Placing Poverty in Context: A Case Study.

Micro-enterprises as a tool to alleviate poverty among women headed household: Successful community based initiative (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at the 4th International Conference on Sociology and Social Work, May 19-20, 2014, in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Editorial – Special issue on planning and sustainability (2013)
Journal Article

Guest Editors: Deepak Gopinath, Paola Gazzola, Tony Jackson

Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia (2012)
Journal Article

Two communities operating under diverse planning systems, St. Andrews in Scotland and Prince George in British Columbia (BC), provide case studies for examining how planning tools are used in these jurisdictions to address urban containment issues. T... Read More about Dirigiste and smart growth approaches to urban sprawl: Lessons from Scotland and British Columbia.

The future of urban living through the lens of 'climate change'? Insights from American initiatives (2012)
Journal Article

Commentary

Re-branding of peripheral cities in times of recession: Is the branching of national art museums an effective strategy? (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at the Transatlantic Studies Conference, 12-15 July 2011 in Dundee

Linking climate change to urban containment? Examination of recent initiatives across the Atlantic (2010)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper presented at the Transatlantic Studies Conference, 12-15 July 2010 in Durham

A pragmatist lens on local planning practices: The case of the St. Andrews community-driven green belt (2010)
Journal Article

Green belts test the capacity of the planning system to reconcile competing demands on the sustainable use of land. In 2002, in response to strong community pressure and against the wishes of the planning authority, the Scottish Executive approved a... Read More about A pragmatist lens on local planning practices: The case of the St. Andrews community-driven green belt.

Decentralisation in India: Towards `localism' or `regionalism'? (2009)
Journal Article

This paper offers a commentary on what decentralisation has come to mean in India, based on recent research conducted in Kerala, one of the southern states. In particular, the paper discusses the tensions between ‘regionalism’ and ‘localism’. It begi... Read More about Decentralisation in India: Towards `localism' or `regionalism'?.

Contemporary approaches to economic development: The special economic zone 2programme (2009)
Journal Article

Of considerable interest within policy and academic circles, is the emergence of India's status as a new economic powerhouse in Asia. This development can be linked to its recent advocacy of 'effective' local economic development policies, particular... Read More about Contemporary approaches to economic development: The special economic zone 2programme.

Local meanings of governance: Influence of contextual norms and practices (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at AESOP Planning Congress 2009, Liverpool, University of Liverpool, 15-18 July.

Towards a theory of planning in contemporary India: A discussion (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at the AESOP Planning Congress 2009, Liverpool, University of Liverpool, 15-18 July

Kerala's experience with governance reforms: Mismatched rhetoric and suppressed norms (2009)
Thesis

In contrast to other states across India, Kerala that is already at the centre of attention for its progressive approaches to achieving high levels of social development has been creating 'inclusive' forms of governance to involve communities and non... Read More about Kerala's experience with governance reforms: Mismatched rhetoric and suppressed norms.

Governance in Kerala: Looking beyond the People's Plan Campaign (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at UK- Ireland Planning Research Conference 2009, Newcastle, Newcastle University, 1-3 April

Applying international planning governance theory to Scottish green belts: The case of the St. Andrews community-driven green belt (2009)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Paper read at UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2009, Newcastle, Newcastle University, 1-3 April

Construction of environmental knowledge: Experiences from India (2009)
Journal Article

This paper explored key issues in how knowledge of the environment is constructed in the Third World. Drawing on which, it showed that there are both explicit and implicit ways in which this knowledge is contested. Particularly, it discussed how impl... Read More about Construction of environmental knowledge: Experiences from India.

Geografiska Annaler B: Human Geography - Book review (2008)
Journal Article

Book review

Development discourse - the Kerala model (2006)
Book Chapter

Book chapter

Water management in arid areas: Case study of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India (2000)
Thesis

The focus of this study is to understand what importance is given to the aspect of managing water in arid areas (where the average annual rainfall is less than 375mm – Indian Meteorological Department). The city of Jodhpur in western Rajasthan, India... Read More about Water management in arid areas: Case study of Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India.

The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 1: The Exhibition
Book

Volume 1 The Exhibition - documents the exhibition and includes reproductions of the 10 explanatory panels from the exhibition, a transcript of the gallery talk at the opening, plus 5 interpretative texts by Lorens Holm.

The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 2: The Geddes Archives
Book

Volume 2 The Geddes Archives - reproduces the Geddes documents borrowed from the archives of the Universities of Dundee, Edinburgh, and Strathclyde, and includes our interpretative caption notes. We have not sought copyright permission for reproducin... Read More about The City is a Thinking Machine: Patrick Geddes and Cities in Evolution: Volume 2: The Geddes Archives.

Publishing in town and country planning for the upcoming 'Research Excellence Framework' (REF): Lessons from the RAE 2008 for early career academics
Preprint / Working Paper

Working Paper 2011-02

Poverty alleviation in India and Kerala: An overview
Preprint / Working Paper

Working paper prepared for the dissemination event at the University of Dundee (07 Sep 2011) as part of British Academy Small Research Grant project, Ref. SG10153

Emerging spatial planning systems in the Global South: Case study of India
Preprint / Working Paper

Working paper 2010-001