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Angelique Chettiparamb

Professor of Urban Planning and Governance

Co-Head of Department & Research Division Lead

Angelique 2024

Specialisms

  • Planning Theory, 
  • Local level planning and governance, 
  • Civic participation and multi-level governance, 
  • Solid waste management and The Circular Economy, 
  • Community Land trusts and land management, 
  • Circular internal migration and rental housing

Location

HBS 124, Whiteknights Campus

Angelique is an architect/urban planner interested in planning theory especially in social systems theory and complexity theory. She is currently Managing Editor of the journal Planning Theory and the co-book series editor of the Edward Elgar series on ‘Spatial Interventions’. Angelique has researched a wide range of planning and governance themes in the UK and in Kerala, India. She is also interested in teaching and learning scholarship and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Angelique started her career as a practising architect in India leading her own architectural consultancy. She was also simultaneously teaching at Cochin University. Later she led the Centre for Urban Studies at the Kerala Institute of Local Administration where she worked closely with Local Self-Government Institutions across the state of Kerala and with the Kerala State Town Planning Department. After her PhD from Cardiff University, she completed an ESRC Post-Doc Fellowship at Cardiff University, where she also subsequently worked as a Research Fellow. She joined Reading University as a Lecturer in 2009.


Qualifications

  • PhD: School of City and Regional Planning; Cardiff University; United Kingdom (Doctoral Fellowship sponsored by the Ford Foundation).
  • Diploma in Social Science Research Methods: School of City and Regional Planning; Cardiff University; United Kingdom
  • Special Postgraduate Diploma Environmental Management of Human Settlements: Institute of Housing & Urban Development, Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Human Settlements Management Institute, New Delhi, India. (Sponsored by NUFFIC).
  • M.Arch (Urban Design): School of Planning & Architecture, New Delhi; India. (Sponsored by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India).
  • B.Arch: College of Engineering, Trivandrum, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, Kerala, India.

Current and past PhD students

Mohammed Rizvi Noordeen: Research title: Managing diverse ethnicity in emerging third world countries: The case of Sri Lanka (2011-2015). First and Sole supervisor, University of Reading. Examined January, 2015.

Senjuti Manna: Research title: Globalization, design process, philosophies and aesthetics in contemporary sustainable landscape architecture in India (2012-16). First supervisor, University of Reading. Examined, January, 2016.

Maxwell Okrah: Research title: Capacity of local government and participatory budgeting: analysis of fiscal decentralisation in Ghana (2013 – 2017). First supervisor, University of Reading. Examined March, 2018.

Joseph Ayitio: Research title: Hybrid Land Governance and the Politics of Institutional Change in Ghana: Explaining Divergent Trajectories. First supervisor, University of Reading Examined October, 2019.

Rita Nasr: Research title: The Role of Middlemen in the Development of better Recycling Practices in Lebanon. Current State: First supervisor, University of Reading. Examined June,2023

Debarati Bhattacharya: Urban Poor Women Negotiating Empowerment: Housing titles in slums of NCT, Delhi. Co-supervisor, CEPT University, India. Examined August 2024.

JingHeng Huang: Research title: ‘Re-evaluating Allport’s contact hypothesis: findings from a Singapore residential neighbourhood’. First supervisor, University of Reading. Fourth year.

Gemma Bell: Why do women face more barriers to running in urban areas than men? Second supervisor, University of Reading, Third year.

Aparna Das: Deindustrialization in Jute Mills Settlements and its Impact on the City Morphology (Land and Property Markets) in West Bengal, India’. Second supervisor, University of Reading, Second year.

Riby Mathew: An Inquiry into the transformative potential of Technology in enhancing the service delivery and accountability in urban governance- Case study of Kerala cities. Co-supervisor, CEPT University, India. First year.

Post-Docs

Dr. Christine Mady, Assistant Professor at NDU and ALBA Universities in Lebanon. Funded by the Urban Studies Foundation International Post-Doctoral Fellowship programme. Five months. March 2014-July 2014.

Dr Maxwell Okrah, Lecturer, Department of planning and management, University for Development Studies, Ghana. Funded by the Reading Real Estate Foundation. Two months. June 18th to August 17th, 2018.

Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2024) Planning from a systems perspective at the frontier: complexity in the past and present. In: Allmendinger, P. M. , Tewdwr-Jones, M. and Wargent, M. (eds.) Critical Planning Futures: New Directions for Planning Theory. Routledge, Abingdon. (In Press)
Henley faculty authors:
Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2023) Autopoietic social systems and planning thought. In: Van Assche, K., Beunen, R. and Duineveld, M. (eds.) Elgar Encyclopedia in Urban and Regional Planning and Design. Elgar Encyclopedias in the Social Sciences series. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham. ISBN 9781800888999
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Maidment, C. and Chettiparamb, A. , (2022) Civic societies and the planning process: exploring the role of local civic societies in the English planning system. Report. Henley Business School, Reading. pp65.
Henley faculty authors:
Christopher Maidment - Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2022) Editorial: academic professional journals and professional practice. Planning Theory, 21 (1). pp. 3-7. ISSN 1741-3052 doi: 10.1177/14730952211073329
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparambil Rajan, A. , Chedambath, R. and Peter, B., (2021) Strategic action plans for rental housing for internal migrants in Kochi Municipal Corporation. Report. Henley Business School
Henley faculty authors:
Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparambil Rajan, A. , (2021) Keeping urban housing permanently affordable: the London Community Land Trust. Other. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (In Press)
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Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Melgaço, L., Rishi, S., Chettiparambil Rajan, A. and Stiftel, B. (2021) International planning education: towards a global shared commons of planning. In: Mukhopadhyay, C., Belingardi, C., Papparaldo, G. and Hendawy, M. (eds.) Special Issue: Planning Practices and Theories from the Global South. AESOP. Association of European School of Planning - Young Academic Network, Dortmund, Germany, pp. 97-105. ISBN 9789082819175
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Mukhopadhyay, C., Belingardi, C., Papparaldo, G., Hendawy, M. and Chettiparambil Rajan, A. (2021) Special issue: planning practices and theories from the global south. In: Conversations in Planning Theory and Practice Booklet Projects. Association of European School of Planning - Young Academic Network, Dortmund, Germany, pp. 7-13. ISBN 9789082819175
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Galland, D. and Chettiparambil Rajan, A. (2020) Enhancing quality in planning education across Europe: towards an ethos of sharing and mutual learning in AESOP Quality Recognition. disP - The Planning Review, 56 (4). pp. 140-147. ISSN 2166-8604 doi: 10.1080/02513625.2020.1906068
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2021) Editorial: planning theory and the planning discipline. Planning Theory, 20 (1). pp. 3-5. ISSN 1741-3052 doi: 10.1177/1473095220979156
Henley faculty authors:
Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparambil Rajan, A. (2020) Autopoietic interaction systems: micro-dynamics of participation and its limits. International Planning Studies, 25 (4). pp. 427-440. ISSN 1469-9265 doi: 10.1080/13563475.2019.1627185
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2019) Responding to a complex world: explorations in spatial planning. Planning Theory, 18 (4). pp. 429-447. ISSN 1741-3052 doi: 10.1177/1473095218820554
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. , (2005) Report on the comparison of pedagogical approaches to urban studies in planning and sociology. Report. Higher Education Academy
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Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2007) Interdisciplinarity: a literature review. Higher Education Academy. ISBN 9781905788361
Henley faculty authors:
Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. , (2006) Pedagogical approaches incorporating prior learning. Report. Higher Education Academy
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Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. , (2002) Progress after the 74th amendment in Kerala local government institutions. Report. Higher Education Academy
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Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2018) Meta-operations, autopoiesis and neo-systems thinking: what significance for spatial planners? Planning Theory, 17 (4). pp. 628-643. ISSN 1741-3052 doi: 10.1177/1473095218782816
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Mady, C. and Chettiparamb, A. (2017) Planning in the face of ‘deep divisions’: a view from Beirut, Lebanon. Planning Theory, 16 (3). pp. 296-317. ISSN 1741-3052 doi: 10.1177/1473095216639087
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. , (2007) A Desk Review of the India Midday Meals Programme. World Food Programme, Rome.
Henley faculty authors:
Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. , (2007) Home Grown School Feeding – An analysis of the Midday Meal Programme in Kerala. The New Era of School Feeding. World Food Programme, HGSF/3/ Report School Feeding Unit
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. , (1993) The habitat study of Kuttanad- the water-logged region of Kerala. National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India.
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. , (2002) The Kochi Road Widening Project - A Case Study of Land Mobilisation through Voluntary Action. USAID, New Delhi.
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2016) Articulating ‘public interest’ through complexity theory. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 34 (7). pp. 1284-1305. ISSN 1472-3425 doi: 10.1177/0263774X15610580
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2013) Fractal spatialities. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31 (4). pp. 680-692. ISSN 0263-7758 doi: 10.1068/D10111
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2005) Fractal spaces in planning and governance. Town Planning Review, 76 (3). pp. 317-340. ISSN 1478-341X doi: 10.3828/tpr.76.3.6
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2006) Metaphors in complexity theory and planning. Planning Theory, 5 (1). pp. 71-91. ISSN 1741-3052 doi: 10.1177/1473095206061022
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2008) Dealing with diversity: experiences in the incorporation of prior learning. CEBE Transactions, 5 (1). pp. 43-70. ISSN 1745-0322
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. and Kokkranikkal, J. (2012) Responsible tourism and sustainability: the case of Kumarakom in Kerala, India. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 4 (3). pp. 302-326. ISSN 1940-7971 doi: 10.1080/19407963.2012.711088
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. and Thomas, H. (2012) Editorial: tourism and spatial planning. Journal of Policy Research in Tourism, Leisure and Events, 4 (3). pp. 215-220. ISSN 1940-7971 doi: 10.1080/19407963.2012.726157
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2014) Complexity theory and planning: examining 'fractals' for organising policy domains in planning practice. Planning Theory, 13 (1). pp. 5-25. ISSN 1741-3052 doi: 10.1177/1473095212469868
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2012) Municipal solid waste. In: Jorgensen, S.E. (ed.) Encyclopedia of environmental management. CRC Press , pp. 2415-2422. ISBN 9781439829271
Henley faculty authors:
Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2007) Re-conceptualising public participation in spatial planning: a view through autopoiesis. Planning Theory, 6 (3). pp. 263-281. ISSN 1741-3052 doi: 10.1177/1473095207082034
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2007) Steering across scales: applying Strategic-Relational Approach to a study of land mobilisation for road widening in Kochi. Journal of International Development, 19 (3). pp. 413-427. ISSN 1099-1328 doi: 10.1002/jid.1374
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2007) Dealing with complexity: an autopoietic view of the People's Planning Campaign, Kerala. Planning Theory and Practice, 8 (4). pp. 489-508. ISSN 1464-9357 doi: 10.1080/14649350701664655
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2006) Bottom-up planning and the future of planning education in India. Journal of Planning Education and Research, 26 (2). pp. 185-194. ISSN 1552-6577 doi: 10.1177/0739456X06289239
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2011) Interdisciplinarity in teaching: probing urban studies. Journal for Education in the Built Environment, 6 (1). pp. 68-90. ISSN 1747-4205
Henley faculty authors:
Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb, A. , Chakkalakkal, M. and Chedambath, R. (2011) In my backyard: an alternate model of solid waste management. International Planning Studies, 16 (4). pp. 313-331. ISSN 1356-3475 doi: 10.1080/13563475.2011.617547
Henley faculty authors:
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Reference: Chettiparamb, A. (2009) “Policy build-up” in implementation: the case of school meals provision in Kodungallur, Kerala, India. European Journal of Development Research, 21 (3). pp. 419-434. ISSN 0957-8811 doi: 10.1057/ejdr.2009.14
Henley faculty authors:
Angelique Chettiparamb
Reference: Chettiparamb Rajan, A. (2010) Impact of globalization on urban governance in the service sector in Kerala. Vikalpa, 35 (1). pp. 90-93. ISSN 0256-0909
Henley faculty authors:
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19 February 2021

Regulation of rental housing in Kochi, Kerala, India’. Funder: Rapid Response for Policy Engagement, Research England, 2023.

Civic Societies in the Planning Process: Shaping new development through bureaucracy. Funder: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, University of Reading QR Strategic Priorities Fund, 2022.

Co-creating a typology of civic societies. Funder: David Robins Fund, University of Reading, 2022.

Rental Housing in Mumbai Metropolitan Region; Funder: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2021.

A room for the night. Funder: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, University of Reading, 2021.

Policy Engagement: Discovering land for rental housing for internal migrants in India’; Funder: Rapid Research Policy Engagement, Research England QR Strategic Priorities Fund, 2021.

Exploring the decision-making processes leading to poor quality buildings; Funder: Reading Real Estate Foundation seed funding; 2021.

Civic Societies and the Planning Process. Funder: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, University of Reading, 2021.

Who on earth allowed that to be built? - Exploring the decision-making processes leading to poor quality buildings’; Funder: Reading Real Estate Foundation seed funding, 2020.

Policy Engagement: Affordable rental housing for internal migrants. Funder: Rapid Research Policy Engagement, Research England QR Strategic Priorities Fund, 2020.

Drawing a Pint: Case study of the Brakspear Brewery, Funder: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, University of Reading, 2020.

A Tale of Two Properties. Funder: Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme, University of Reading, 2019.

Keeping Urban Housing Permanently Affordable: The London Community Land Trust; Funder: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2019.

Real Estate Regulation: A Secondary data and Literature Review. Funder: Reading Real Estate Foundation seed funding, University of Reading, 2018.

Development Industry Perceptions of the Real Estate Regulation Act, 2016 in India. Funder: Reading Real Estate Foundation seed funding, University of Reading, 2017.

Voices from the Field: The Kudumbashree Project, Kerala, Funder: International Research Collaboration Award, Cardiff University, 2009.

The Globalizing State, Public Services and the New Governance of Local Urban Communities in India – The Case of Kerala. Funder: Ford Foundation, India, 2009

Relevance of HGSF in the midday meal programme of Kerala, India. Funder: The World Food Programme , 2007.

A Literature Review Into Interdisciplinarity. Funder: Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies (LLAS), The Higher Education Academy, UK 2006.

Pedagogical Approaches Incorporating Prior Learning, Funder: Subject Centre for Education in the Built Environment (CEBE), The Higher Education Academy, UK. 2006

Inter-Disciplinarity - Comparison Of Pedagogical Approaches To Urban Studies In Planning And Sociology. Funder: Subject Centre for Sociology, Anthropology, Politics (C-SAP), The Higher Education Academy, UK , 2005.

‘Progress after the 74th Amendment in Kerala Local Government Institutions- The case of Kerala’. Funder: All India Institute of Local Self Government (AILSG), Mumbai 2002.

‘The case study of land mobilization for Kochi Road development’, Funder: Innovative Urban Management Component of the Financial Institutions Reforms and Expansion - Debt (FIRE - D) Programme of USAID. 2002.


Visiting Fellow: University of Palermo, Italy under the CoRi programme (International Relations Commission)(May, 2023)

Leverhulme International Academic Fellowship (2019-2020)

Visiting Fellow, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (2013, 2014)

Senior Fellow, Advance HE (2014 onwards)

Post-Doctoral Fellowship funded by Economic and Social Research Council (2005-2006)

Doctoral Fellowship funded by the ‘International Fellowship Programme’ of the Ford Foundation (2002-2005)


Trustee, Reading Real Estate Foundation (since 2022)

Managing Editor, Planning Theory (since 2016)

Co-book Series Editor: Elgar Spatial Interventions; Edward Elgar Publications (since April 2016).

Member: Economic and Social Research Council, Peer Review College (since 2014).

Secretary General, Association of European Schools of Planning (2018 – 2022)

Member, Excellence in Education Board: Association of European Schools of Planning (2016- 2023)

Advisor, Excellence in Education Board: Association of European Schools of Planning (2023- 2025)

Member, Core Curriculum Review Board: Association of European Schools of Planning (2021 - 2022).

External Examiner: MSc. Spatial Planning, University of Dundee, Scotland (2021 – 2025)

External Examiner: Subject External Examiner, Regional and Urban Planning, University College Dublin, Ireland (2020-2024)

External Examiner: Masters in Civic Design, University of Liverpool (2021 – 2024)

External Examiner: MA International Planning and Sustainable Development, University of Westminster, UK (2018 – 2022).

2024: Winner, Henley Awards: For Mentoring and enabling colleagues

2022: Shortlisted for the Reading University Impact Awards

2016: ‘Celebrating successes’ award for championing the move towards e-assessment.

2012: Nominated for ‘Gold Star’ award by students

2008: First prize in the ‘Hidden successes competition organized by MIT, USA and IFMRI, India.

2004: First prize for Young Academics awarded by the Planning Research Network, of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

Co-head of Department, Real Estate and Planning (since August 2024)

Research Division Lead, Real Estate and Planning (since April 2022)

Chair, Research Committee, Real Estate and Planning (since April 2022)

Member, University-wide ‘Online Courses Advisory Group’ (since April 2024)

Member, University Committee for Open Research and Research Integrity – CORRI (since October 2023)

Member, Research Evaluation in Recruitment and Promotion Working Group (since May 2022)

School Director of Academic Tutoring (Job Share): Henley Business School (March 2019 – March, 2020)

Academic Developer (Student Engagement): One of four Department facing University-wide appointment (April 2017-July 2018).

Director of Studies: Real Estate and Planning (September 2014-August 2017)

Programme Director: M.Sc. International Planning and Sustainable Urban Management (2012-2016)

News item on Handover of Vacant land inventory to Kochi Corporation, In Malayala Manorama and Deshabhimani daily newspapers published in Malayalam from Kerala, 4th September, 2022.

Presentation to planners within the Department of Levelling-Up, Communities and Housing on ‘Civic Societies & the Planning Process: "Exploring the role of local civic societies in the English planning system “​, April 12, 2022 (with Chris Maidment)

Co-presentation to the All Party Parliamentary Group on Civil Societies on ‘Role of Civic Societies in Planning’. 8th February, 2022.

News item on webinar in relation to the ‘Discovering land for rental housing for internal migrants’ project organised on the 21st of January 2022. In Mathrubhumi, Deshabhimani and Manorama daily newspapers published in Malayalam from Kerala

News items following the release of the report on ‘Strategic Action Plans for Rental Housing for Internal Migrants in Kochi Municipal Corporation.’ Indian Express, 3rd of September, 2021 (https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2021/sep/03/corporation-to-launchaffordable-housing-policy-2353529.html); Manorama, 4th of September, 2021; Mathrubhumi, 4th of September, 2021; Facebook post of Kochi Mayor, 4th of September, 2021 (https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=4531521476870462&id=1111500472205930&sfnsn=wiwspwa) and Indian Express, 11th of September (https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/kochi/2021/sep/11/corporation-ties-up-with-uk-varsity-to-arrange-housing-for-migrants-2357076.html).

Comment to Binu Prabhakaran in ‘Kochi needs own planning wing’. Times of India, December 5th, 2020. https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/kochi/city-needs-own-planning-wing/articleshow/79570607.cms. Accessed 19-12-2020.

Interview with Prof Saswant Bandhopadhyay and Prof Sejal Patel on Kudumbashree project, Kerala, India-EU urban partnership, October 1st, 2020.

Interview in relation to the use of Discussion Boards in teaching and learning: TEL team, Reading University, July 23rd, 2019: https://sites.reading.ac.uk/tel/sample-page/learning-activities/discussion-forums/

Interview for the Epigeum project on preparing a toolkit to promote Academic Integrity following research on academic integrity. The Open University. October 2nd, 2018.

Interview by E-learn Magazine on Implementation of Department wide E-assessment in the University of Reading, 16th March, 2017. Article published here: http://elearnmagazine.com/three-experts-around-technology-enhanced-learning/ Interviewed by Lauren Orozco.

TV interview on urbanisation issues in Kerala, India on Asianet TV, Kerala, India. Broadcast on September 14th, 2009.

TV interview on urbanisation issues in Kerala, India on Jaihind TV, Kerala, India. Broadcast at 8.00am, August, 25th, 2009.