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<td style="vertical-align: top;" valign="top">Deborah Peel is Emeritus Professor of Planning at the University of Dundee. During her career, Deborah worked in local government and subsequently at the universities of Westminster, Liverpool, Ulster and Dundee. As a social scientist, her research interests are interdisciplinary, embracing the reform of spatial planning in Scotland under devolution, public participation, third sector-led regeneration and the decentralisation of powers to local people as part of the transformation of local government. Deborah has recently co-authored: <em>The Essential Guide to Planning Law: Decision-Making and Practice in the UK</em> (Policy Press) and <em>Exploring New Models of Community-based Planning in the Devolved UK</em> (funded by the Planning Exchange Foundation).

Contact: d.peel@dundee.ac.uk</td>
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