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Dr Joanna Ross PhD

Senior Lecturer

School of People, Environment and Planning

Joanna teaches professional practice to the Resource and Environmental Planning students. She also supervises postgraduate research on a number of topics related to planning practice, for example, public particiaption, urban growth, and urban sustainability. The central focus of her current research is the concept of a just city. Recent MURF funding has enabled her to explore the effect of land use planning, in particular zoning and rules relating to density, on residential segregation. Joanna is a full member of the NewZealand Planning Institute.

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Professional

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy - Massey University (2022)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

  • Sustainable residential environments
  • Legitimacy of planning
  • Social policy and planning nexus
  • Affordable housing and planning policy
  • Public participation in planning
  • Food systems planning / Urban agriculture

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship, Resource Development and Management, Future Food Systems

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Built Environment And Design (120000): Community Planning (120501): History and Theory of the Built Environment (excl. Architecture) (120502): Housing Markets, Development, Management (120503): Land Use and Environmental Planning (120504): Regional Analysis and Development (120505): Urban Analysis and Development (120507): Urban and Regional Planning (120500): Urban Design (120508)

Research Outputs

Thesis

Ross, J. (2021). Evaluating ethics in planning: A heuristic framework for a just city. (Doctoral Thesis) Ross, J. (2021). Evaluating ethics in planning: A heuristic framework for a just city. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM. (2010). The challenge of planning for urban residential environments under the Resource Management Act 1991. (Master's Thesis)
[Masters Thesis]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Conference

Ross, .Reflexively teaching professional planning practice: using food systems planning to ‘cater’ for a diversity of learning needs. . Tasmania, New Zealand
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM., McNeill, JK., & Cheyne, C. (2017). Justice and the compact city: Auckland’s hidden discourse. SOAC Conference Abstracts. (pp. 10 - 10). : State of Australian Cities National Conference 2017
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM., McNeill, J., & Cheyne, C.Revisiting the role of planning for social justice. . Queens University, Belfast, Ireland
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM. (2017). A critical analysis of the NPS-UDC and its discourse of conviction that land supply equates to affordable housing. In C. Miller (Ed.) The Proceedings of the 2017 Rodney Davies Symposium. (pp. 74 - 86). : New Zealand Planning Conference (Rodney Davies Symposium)
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM. (2015). The legitimacy of urban containment and planned residential intensification in the market state. The Proceedings from the Rodney Davies Research Symposium. (pp. 31 - 43). : Rodney Davies Symposium, NZPI Conference 2015: Back to the Future
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Ross, JM., & Summers, R. (2014). Infill development: Planning for a sustainable suburbia. UHPH_14: Landscapes and ecologies of urban and planning history. (pp. 683 - 698). Wellington, NZ: 12th Australasian Urban History/Planning History Conference (UHPH)
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, J., & Cheyne, C. (2012). Using the campus as a living laboratory for research projects. In A. Butt, & M. Kennedy (Eds.) Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools Conference. (pp. 188 - 195). Australia: Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools Conference [ANZAPS 2012]
[Conference Paper in Published Proceedings]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, J., & Cheyne, C. (2012). Using the campus as a living laboratory for research projects. In A. Butt, & M. Kennedy (Eds.): Australia and New Zealand Association of Planning Schools Conference [ANZAPS 2012]
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Other

Ross, JM. (2018, March). Quantitatively exploring land use zoning and population distribution. In Central North Island Branch of the New Zealand Planning Institute.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM. (2017). Recipient of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences - Teaching Excellence Awards 2016 (Individual Award Category).
[Other]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM. (2016, December). The National Policy Statement on Urban Development Capacity: What's in a word ... or 5000?. In The Central North Island Branch of the New Zealand Planning Institute.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM. (2016, September). Challenging how we think about and plan for the compact city. In University of the Third Age (U3A).
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Ross, JM. (2014). Confirmation Report: The legitimacy of planned residential intensification and urban containment in the market state.
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Ross, JM. (2014, September). PhD Confirmation Seminar: The legitimacy of planned residential intensification and urban containment in the market state.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Ross, J.
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Imran, M. (2014). Proceedings of the Australia and New Zealand association of planning schools conference. (pp. 1 - 158). Massey University Resource and Environmental Planning Programme
[Other]Contributed to by: Ross, J.Edited by: Muhammad, I., Ross, J.
Henry, MG., Ross, J., & Harold, J. (2013, April). Barriers to sustainable housing in Palmerston North. In Massey University Living Lab.
[Oral Presentation]Authored by: Henry, M., Ross, J.
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Ross, JM. (2011, September). Oral Presentation - Environmental Issues and Debates: Massey Talks Sustainability, Palmerston North City Library, PN, NZ..
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Teaching and Supervision

Teaching Statement

Jo Ross is a Lecturer in the Resource & Environmental Planning in the School of People, Environment and Planning. Jo joined the Planning Programme staff after working as a planner for a number of years for a multi-disciplinary consultancy firm. She has also worked for local government in both New Zealand and the UK, and for a Non-Governmental Organisation (in the UK).

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