Qualifications and Professional Body Membership

MSc, MPhil, PGCertHE, FRGS, MRTPI, FHEA

Personal Profile / Teaching Experience

MSc Town Planning

• Plan Making and Policy (module leader)
• Introduction to Town Planning Studies (bridging module) (module leader)
• Planning and Society
• Research Design and Methods
• Major Project for Masters Stage

Cross-Department

• Learning and Practical Skills Development (HE & Work) (tutor)
• Built Environment Major Project

Research Interests

Research interests include workplace learning, skills for planning practice, e-planning, the application of GIS technologies to planning issues and processes, older people's perception of the built environment, effective participation in planning, and environmental education.

Consultancy and other Professional Activity

Consultancy:

• International Technical Advisory Committee for 6th GREEN International Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3rd to 6th July, 2012
• Chair of Conference Organising Committee, UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, Anglia Ruskin University (April 2010)
• 2010-2011, Co-investigator, Learning & Teaching Project Award, Anglia Ruskin University
• 2009-10, Co-investigator, Inquiry-based Learning Development Project, Using Second Life for Inquiry Based Learning across Built Environment Disciplines, funded by Centre for Inquiry Based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences
• 2009-10 Co-investigator, Inquiry-based Learning Development Project, Bottom-up Planning with Geographical Information Systems, funded by Centre for Inquiry Based Learning in the Arts and Social Sciences (with Walford, N., Kingston University)
• 2008-09, Co-investigator, Joint Research Councils UK research project, Older People's Use of Unfamiliar Space under the Joint Research Councils New Dynamics of Ageing programme. Inter-disciplinary research team drawn from the universities of Swansea, Kingston, Middlesex and Anglia Ruskin
• 2007-08, Principal Investigator, ESRC/ASC research project, Skills and Knowledge Builder for Sustainable Communities (SAKS), funded by ESRC/ASC under Collaborative Initiative on Skills and Knowledge for Sustainable Communities programme
• 2006-7, Member of project team, generic skills training framework for Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership
• 2003-06, Classroom resource pack for teaching principles of sustainable development to secondary school students, consortium led by Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) East of England Region
• 1986-89, Senior Research Officer on The Arkleton Trust Rural Change in Europe: Research Programme on Farm Structures and Pluriactivity, Commission of the European Communities
• 1985-86, Senior Research Officer on the Domesday and Countryside AIV disk projects, BBC

Other Professional Activity

• Reviewer for Journal for Education in the Built Environment
• Reviewer and associate editor for Int. J. of Technology, Knowledge and Society
• Reviewer and associate editor for Int. J. of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability
• Presenter, Planning Skills Continuing Professional Development workshops, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, September and October 2010
• Member of the RTPI General Assembly (2010-present)
• RTPI East of England Region, Regional Representative on General Assembly (2010-present)
• RTPI East of England Region, Deputy Regional Representative on General Assembly (2008-2009)
• Planning Aid volunteer (2007-2010)
• Member of the RTPI Planning with Communities Network (2007-2010)
• Member of the RTPI Urban Design Network (2007-present)
• APC (Assessment of Professional Competence) Assessor for RTPI (2006-present)
• Member of the RTPI/University of Westminster Partnership Board (2006-present)
• Member of the Regional Management Board and Regional Activities Committee, RTPI East of England Region (2006-present)
• Member of the RTPI Education for Sustainable Development Network (2004-2006)
• Chair, RTPI East of England Branch (2004)
• Convenor and chair of RTPI East of England annual conference series (2004)
• Environmental Education Convenor, RTPI East of England Branch (2001-2005)
• Member of the Branch Executive Committee, RTPI East of England Branch (1994-2005)

Publications

Hockey, A. and Phillips, J. (forthcoming). 'Planning for an Ageing Society: Voices from the Planning Profession'.

Phillips, J., Walford, N., Hockey, A., Foreman, N., Lewis, M., Samarasundera, E., Delaguila, M. and Morgan, D. (forthcoming). 'Older People's Use of Unfamiliar Space'.

Hockey, A. and Spaul, M. (2011). 'Older People in Unfamiliar Environments: Assimilating a Multidisciplinary Literature to a Planning Problem', Local Economy, 26 , 236-245.

Hockey, A. and Morad, M. (2011). Future imperfect? Insights from the challenging and changing context of planning, Editorial, Local Economy, 26, 225-226.

Hockey, A., Spaul, M., Jimenez Bescos, C. and Frame, I. (2011). 'Generic skills and workplace learning: supporting professional development through online learning communities' Chapter 3 in Rogerson, R. and Sadler, S. with Green, A. and Wong, C. (eds.), Sustainable communities: skills and learning for place-making, Hertfordshire University Press.

Walford, N., Samarasundera., E., Phillips, J., Hockey, A., and Foreman, N. (2011). 'Older people's navigation of urban areas as pedestrians: measuring quality of the built environment using oral narratives and virtual routes', Landscape and Urban Planning, 100 (1-2). pp. 163-168.

Hockey, A., Jimenez-Bescos, C., Maclean, J., and Spaul, M. (2010). 'Skills and Knowledge Building for Sustainable Communities: Developing an On-Line Learning Environment', Town Planning Review, 81 (5), 523-540. Special edition on Planning for Sustainable Communities.

Jimenez-Bescos, C. Hockey, A. and Maclean, J. (2010). 'Second Life as a Communication Tool to Enhance Inquiry Based Learning', Proceedings W089 - Special Track Building Research and Education, CIB World Building Congress, Salford, UK, May 2010. CIB Publication 340, 178-185. CIB General Secretariat, Rotterdam.
Hockey, A. Esmail, F. Jimenez-Bescos, C. and Freer, P. (2010). 'Built Environment Education in the Era of Virtual Learning', Proceedings W089 - Special Track Building Research and Education, CIB World Building Congress, Salford, UK, May 2010. CIB Publication 340, 200-217. CIB General Secretariat, Rotterdam.

Jimenez-Bescos, C. Hockey, A. and Maclean, J. (2010). 'Second Life as a Communication Tool to Enhance Inquiry Based Learning', Building a Better World, CIB 2010 World Congress, Full Paper Proceedings, edited by Professor Peter Barrett, Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga, Dr Richard Haigh, Dr Kaushal Keraminiyage & Dr Chaminda Pathirage ISBN 978-1-905732-91-3.

Hockey, A. Esmail, F. Jimenez-Bescos, C. and Freer, P. (2010). 'Built Environment Education in the Era of Virtual Learning', Building a Better World, CIB 2010 World Congress, Full Paper Proceedings, edited by Professor Peter Barrett, Professor Dilanthi Amaratunga, Dr Richard Haigh, Dr Kaushal Keraminiyage & Dr Chaminda Pathirage ISBN 978-1-905732-91-3.

Hockey, A. and Frame, I. (2009). Skills and Knowledge Builder for Sustainable Communities: Full Research Report. End of Award Report, RES-182-25-0009. Swindon, ESRC.

Hockey, A. (2008). 'Learning GIS in the Workplace', Int. J. of Technology, Knowledge and Society, 4 (4), 107-116.

Hockey, A., Spaul, M., Jimenez Bescos, C. and Frame, I. (2008). 'Creating Sustainable Communities: Conceptualising an Interactive Toolkit for Skills Enhancement', Int. J. of Environmental, Cultural, Economic and Social Sustainability, 4 (1), 147-153.

Hockey, A. with others (2007). Developing Generic Skills for Regeneration in Thames Gateway South Essex, Report for the Thames Gateway South Essex Partnership, Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford.

Hockey, A. (2006). Investors in GIS People: Towards a framework for supporting the development of GIS competencies in the local authority sector, MSc thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University.

Hockey, A. (ed.) (2006). The Hythe Challenge, Classroom resource pack for teaching principles of sustainable development to secondary school students. Royal Town Planning Institute East of England Region.

Hockey, A., Cansdale, C. and Parker, H. (2004). Colchester Counts Interactive, Online Census Atlas, Colchester Borough Council. Available at http://www.colchester.gov.uk/svglib/censussvg_home.htm

Hockey, A., Cansdale, C. and Parker, H. (2004). 2001 Census Atlas of Colchester, Colchester Borough Council.

Walford, N. and Hockey, A. (2000). Monitoring demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of intercensal populations: a British local authority perspective, Planning Practice and Research, 15 (1/2), 51-63.

Hockey, A. (ed.) (2000). Brochures: Bridging the Gap; Presentation Skills; Facilitation Skills; What is Planning? Who are Planners?, Environmental Education Sub-Committee, RTPI East of England Branch.

Hockey, A. (ed.) (1999). Guides to Sources of Information, Environmental Education Sub-Committee, RTPI East of England Branch

Hockey, A. (1992-2005). Colchester Counts: A Statistical Summary, Colchester Borough Council.

Walford, N. and Hockey, A. (1991). Social and Economic Restructuring in Rural Britain: A Methodology for Contextual Analysis, ESRC Countryside Change Initiative Working Paper.

Walford, N. and Hockey, A. (1991) Sources for the Study of Social Change in the Countryside. In Watkins, C. and Champion, A. G. (eds.), People in the Countryside: Studies of Social Change in Rural Britain. London: Paul Chapman.

Colchester Borough Council (1990). Review of the Adopted Colchester Borough Local Plan, Deposit Draft, co-author with members of Planning Policy Team, Colchester Borough Council.

The Arkleton Trust (1989). Rural Change in Europe: Research Programme on Farm Structures and Pluriactivity. First Report for the Commission of the European Communities on Structural Change and the Use made of Structures Policies by Farm Households in the European Community, member of research team and contributor to report.

Hockey, A. (1987). 'The BBC Domesday Project and the General Household Survey', The General Household Survey Newsletter, No.3. ESRC Data Archive, University of Essex.

Clucas, E., Hockey, A., Beedham, H. and Walford, N. (1986). Countryside, AIV disc, BBC.

Hockey, A., Clucas, E., Newell, F., Bales, K. and Walford, N. (1986). Domesday, AIV disc, BBC.

Hockey, A. (1982). The Relationship between Settlement and Education Policy in Rural Areas, unpublished M.Phil. dissertation of the University of Reading, 1982.