Investigating Collaborative Interdisciplinary Practice to Develop a New Planning Undergraduate Course

ABSTRACT

Whilst there is widespread recognition of the importance of university education preparing planners for working in interdisciplinary environments, there is limited research available on interdisciplinary working in practice. As detailed knowledge of practice and continuing engagement with practitioners is important to ensuring the employability of graduates, a study of interdisciplinary collaborative practice was undertaken to help develop a new undergraduate planning course. This paper presents the findings of this research and discusses how they will inform the development of the course.

KEYWORDS:

• Interdisciplinary practice
• employability
• planning education

Acknowledgements

The author would like to thank the Quintin Hogg Trust, which provided financial support for the research, all the interviewees and Kerry Bobbins, who assisted with the research.

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Quintin Hogg Trust.