Professor Angela Hull

School of the Built Environment (Heriot-Watt University)

Angela Hull holds the Chair in Spatial Planning at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh UK. She spent five years as a town planner in local government before working as a consultant to the Royal Town Planning Institute providing training to local government officers. She has worked in academia for the last 30 years teaching town planning and sustainable urban management. She heads up the planning programmes at Heriot-Watt and carries out research on spatial planning and governance, and institutional triggers to sustainable urban management (transport, energy, housing, etc). She was Secretary-General of the Association of European Schools of Planning (1998-2002) and now leads two of the AESOP research groups: Evaluation in Planning, and Transportation Planning and Policy.