CURRICULUM VITAE
PROFESSOR SUSAN PARNELL
PERSONAL DETAILS
Postal address: Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7700, South Africa.
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Nationality: Dual citizen of South Africa and United Kingdom
Qualifications
1993: Ph.D. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1987: M.A. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
1984: B.A. (Hons.) University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (First Class).
1982: H.Dip.Ed. (P.G.) University of the Witwatersrand, (Distinction, Teaching Experience).
1982: B.A. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Academic Appointments
2017-2020: Visiting Professor, LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science.
2015/2016: Emeka Anyaoku Visiting Chair, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London.
2011/2012: Leverhulme Visiting Professor, University College London.
2006-: Professor, Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Cape Town
2007-2011: African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town (part time secondment to establish the Centre)
1997-2005: Associate Professor, University of Cape Town
1994-1997: Senior Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand
1994/5: Lecturer, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London (full time 1 year maternity replacement while on sabbatical leave from Wits)
1987-1993: Lecturer, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Fellowships and Awards (post 1994)
2015: University of Oxford, Oppenheimer Research Fellowship.
2014: Elected Fellow of the South African Geographical Society.
2011/2012: Leverhulme Visiting Professorship, University College London.
2010: Alan Pifer Award for Research Excellence that Contributes to the Social Welfare of all South Africans.
2008: University of Durham, Distinguished International Visitor’s Fellowship.
2003: University of Cape Town, Meritorious Book Award.
2001: London School of Economics, Suntory and Toyota International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines - Book Writing Grant.
1998/9: Mansfield College, Oxford, Visiting Research Fellowship.
1994: Mellon Foundation Sabbatical Research Grant, Wits University.
1994/5: British Academy, Visiting Fellowship.
RESEARCH
Recent Research Funding (last decade)
2014-2017: ESRC/DFID, Urban Food and Poverty in African Cities, (Co-investigator and lead on work package on Trends in Urbanisation and Social Change) (£ 2.2million)
2014-2017: ESRC/DFID, Urban Africa, Risk and Capacity (Co investigator lead on work package on the history of urban risk governance) (£3.5 million)
2014-2016: International Council for Science (ICSU) Future Earth, ‘What is Urban?’ (co-lead investigator) ($100 000)
2010-2013: ESRC/DFID, Alcohol and Urban Poverty (Local Collaborator with Dr Clare Herrick, Kings College London) (£250 000)
2007 -: African Centre for Cities (ACC): Member of the 3 person consortium that started the ACC (with Profs Vanessa Watson and Edgar Pieterse). ACC now raises and manages over £3 million per year from UCT, national and international research councils, public and private sector sources.
ACC funders that I have been directly involved with include: South African national, provincial and local governments, international research councils - ESRC, FORMAS, IDRC, UN Habitat, as well as donors - Cities Alliance, Ford Foundation, Max Plank, Mistra Urban Futures, Mellon, Rockefeller Foundation, and VREF.
2007 - 2011: CIDA, University Partnership for Developing Countries, Urban Food Security in 11 cities in Southern Africa (CAD $3.5 million), Co-Principle Investigator with Prof Jonathon Crush, Queens University).
2008 - 2010: National Research Foundation, Swedish-South Africa programme (R150 000 per annum, Co-Principle Investigator with Prof Thomas Elmquist, Stockholm Resilience Centre).
2008- 2011: CNRS, ‘Jurguta’, Urban Governance in African cities (R30 000 per annum).
NRF: Individual Researcher B1 rating - annual grant of R80 000.
UCT: Performance based allocation of approximately R20 000 per year plus one supported international conference from the University Research Committee
Personally Invited Academic Seminars and Key Note Address* (excludes regular academic conference papers and panels) (last decade)
· Copenhagen University, Urban Property, Governance and Citizenship*
· Critical Dialogues, University of Potsdame, AERUS, Berlin*
· Development Planning Unit Development Dialogues, University College, London*
· Government of India, Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty*
· Global Urban Research Centre Annual Lecture, University of Manchester*
· Elsevier, Urban Transitions Global Summit 2016 Towards a better urban future in an interconnected age, Shanghai*
· Foresight UK, Future Cities, London
· Institute of British Geographers Social Justice Group, Justice and the City, Dundee*
· KU Leuven, Cities in Development, Leuven*
· Kings College London, Urban Salon
· LSE Cities, Urban Age: Governing Urban Futures, Delhi*
· London School of Economics, Cities of the South in the Media
· Indian Institute of Human Settlements, Bangalore*
· International Geographical Union, Urban Commission, Ron Davies Lecture*
· IIED, HSRC, UNFPA, UK-aid Urbanization in the BRICS: An ingredient for their success?*
· OECD, African Economic Outlook, Paris*
· Oxford University, African Dreams, CAS, Future of Cites and Centre for Continuing Education, Oxford*
· Open University, Open Space
· New School, Milano School
· Queen Mary College, David Smith Lecture*
· Royal Holloway, Geography
· School of Oriental and African Studies, African Studies, African Studies
· Stanford University, Urban Beyond Measure*
· Stellenbosch University, Indexing the Human
· United Nations, Economic and Social Council, SDG panel on African urbanisation*; post 2015 stakeholder dialogue, New York (ICSU rep)
· University of Amsterdam, Kapunchksi Lecture*
· University College London, Leverhulme Lecture*
· University College London, City Leadership Institute*
· University College London, Urbanlab+*
· University of California, Los Angeles, Geography
· University of Connecticut, Storrs, Sociology
· University of Cologne, Multiple Urbanisms*
· University of Durham, Geography
· University of Erlangen, Launch of Volkswagen Foundation Urban Perspectives Initiative*
· University of Edinburgh and British Council, Sustainable Cities Conference*
· University of Johannesburg, Sociology
· University of London, School of Advanced Studies, Human Rights
· University of Manchester, School of Environment and Development
· University of Oxford, Geography
· University of Oxford, African Dreams, Future Cities*
· University of Paris X, Geography
· University of the Western Cape, PLAAS
· Urban Studies Foundation, Cities of the Global South, Loughborough*
· Urban Global Environmental Change Programme (ICSU), Governing the Urban System, Taipei*
· Wits, Institute for Advanced Social Research
· Wits, WISER
· Wits, Public and Development Management
· Woodrow Wilson Institute, Washington D.C.*
· World Universities Network, Hong Kong
Publications (H factor=34; i10index=78)
Books
1. 2017: Building a capable state: reflections on 20 years of localgovernment transformation in South Africa Zed, London, (with I. Palmer and N. Moodley), in press.
2. 2017: The Urban Planet, Cambridge University Press (Co-edited with Elmqvist, T., Bai. X., Frantzeskaki, N., Griffith, C., Maddox, D., McPhearson, T., Parnell, S., Romero-Lankao, P., Simon, D., Watkins, M (eds) (ISBN: 9781107196933)
3. 2014: A Routledge Handbook of Cities of the South, Routledge, London (co-edited with S. Oldfield) (ISBN: 978-0-415-81865-0 (hbk) ISBN: 978-0-203-38783-2 (ebk).
4. 2014: Africa's Urban Revolution, Zed, London (co-edited with E. Pieterse) (ISBN 9781780325217).
5. 2013: Global Urbanisation, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, Springer, New York (ISBN 978-94-007-7087-4) (co-edited with Elmqvist, T., Fragkias, M., Funeralp, B., Marcotullio, P., McDonald, R., Sendstad, M., Seto, K., Wilkinson, C.).
6. 2012: Climate Change at the City Scale: Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation in Cape Town, (co-edited with A. Cartwright, G. Oelfse and S. Ward), Earthscan, London (ISBN-10: 0415527589 | ISBN-13: 978-0415527583).
7. 2009: Key Issues in the 21st Century: Urban Studies- Society (4 volumes), Sage, London. (co-edited with R. Paddison, McNeill, D., Ostendorf, W. and Teisdell, S) (ISBN 978 1 84787 257 9).
8. 2008: Consolidating Developmental Local Government: Lessons from the South African Experience, University of Cape Town Press, Cape Town (co-Edited with M. van Donk, E. Pieterse and M. Swilling (ISBN: 978 1 919 8904 8).
9. 2002: Uniting Divided Cities: Governance and Social Exclusion in Johannesburg, Earthscan, London (co-authored with O. Crankshaw and J. Beall) (ISBN: 1 8538916 7 paperback and 1 858383921 3 hardback).
10. 2002: Democratising Local Government: the South African Experiment, University of Cape Town Press, Cape Town. (co-Edited with E. Pieterse, M. Swilling, D. Wooldridge) (ISBN: 1-910713-52-2).
11. 1998: Developmental Local Government, Urban Sector Network, Johannesburg (co-authored with S. Oldfield). (ISBN: 0-620-22-848-2)
Articles in Refereed Journals
12. Under revision: African Dreams: locating urban life and infrastructure in the post 2015 developmental agenda, Area Development and Policy, (With E. Pieterse and G. Haysom)
13. Under revision: 2030 policy endorsements by the United Nations of a sustainable urban future: implications for research, Urban Studies, (With O. Crankshaw and M. Acuto).
14. Urban Health Research in Africa: Themes and Priority Research Questions Journal of Urban Health, 93 722-730 (With T. Oni, W Smit, R Matzopoulos, JH Adams, M Pentecost, HA Rother).
15. 2016: Defining and advancing a systems approach in cities, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainable, 23, 69-78 (With Bai, X. Surveyer, A., Elmqvist, T., Gatzweiler, F. Gunerald, B., Prieur-Richard A., Shrivastava, P. Siri, J., Stafford-Smith, M., Toussaint, M and Webb, R.).
16. 2016: Scientists must have a say in the future of cities, Nature, 538, 165–166, doi:10.1038/538165a (With McPhearson,T., Simon, D. Gaffney, O. Elmquist, T; Bai, X and Roberts, D., and Revi, A.)
17. 2016. Defining and advancing a systems approach for sustainable cities.Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability,23, pp.69-78.(With Bai, X., Surveyer, A., Elmqvist, T., Siri, J.G., Stafford-Smith, M., Toussaint, J.P. and Webb, R.)
18. 2016: Expectations of academic journals in crafting alternative global scholarship to drive a New Urban Agenda, Urbanisation, 1, 1-5.
19. 2016: Leave no city behind, Science, 20, 352, 6288, 873, DOI: 10.1126/science.aag1385 (With M. Acuto)
20. 2016: Urban health research in Africa: themes and priority research questions, Journal of Urban Health, (With T. Oni, W. Smit, R. Matzopoulos. J. Hunter Adams, A. Rother, M. Pentecost, Z. Albertyn, F. Behroozi, O. Alaba, M. Kaba; C. Westhuizen, M. Shung King, N. Levitt and E. Lambert).
21. 2016: Ideas, implementation and indicators: Epistemologies of the post 2015 urban agenda, Environment and Urbanisation, 28 (1) 87-98 (With C. Barnett) DOI: 10.1177/0956247815621473
22. 2016: Defining a global urban development agenda, World Development, 78, 529–540. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2015.10.028
23. 2015: Disaster risk and its reduction: an agenda for urban Africa, International Development Planning Review, 37, 33-43. (With I. Adelekan, C. Johnson, M. Manda, D. Matyas, Mberu, M. Pelling, D. Satterthwaite and J. Vivekananda), doi:10.3828/idpr.2015.4
24. 2015: Co-producing urban knowledge: experimenting with alternatives to ‘best practice’ for Cape Town, South Africa, International Development Planning Review, 37, 187-203. (With Z. Patel, S. Greyling, and G. Pirie). Print ISSN: 1474-6743 Online ISSN: 1478-3401.
25. 2015: Making the Sustainable Development Goals operational through an urban agenda-Perspectives from Science, Solutions, 2, 37-40. (With Siri, J., Elmqvist, T., Marcotullio, P., Capon, A., Revi, A., Pelling, M., Ivey Boufford. J.).
26. 2015: Methods of transformative global urban praxis: experimentation at the African Centre for Cities, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research), doi: 10.1111/1468-2427.12278. (With E. Pieterse)
27. 2015: Conflicts between tradition and modernity: African city regional dynamics, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research), in press (With J. Beall and C. Albertyn). DOI:10.1111/1468-2427.12178
28. 2014: Alcohol, poverty and the South African City, South African Geographical Journal, (With C. Herrick) 96:1, 1-14, DOI: 10.1080/03736245.2014.896277
29. 2013: The politics of ‘race’ and the transformation of the post-apartheid space economy, Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 28 (4), 589-603. (With O. Crankshaw), DOI 10.1007/s10901-013-9345-6.
30. 2012: Urban sustainability and human health: an African perspective, Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4, 443-450. (With W. Smit).
31. 2012: (re)theorising cities from the global south: looking beyond neoliberalism, Urban Geography, 33, 593-617. (With J. Robinson).
32. 2011: Sub- Saharan African Urbanisation and Global Environmental Change, Global Environmental Change, 21, 12-20. (With R. Walawege).
33. 2010: The ‘right to the city’: institutional imperatives of a developmental state, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 34, 146-162. (With E. Pieterse).
34. 2009: Planning for cities in the global South: a research agenda for sustainable human settlements, Progress in Panning, 72, 232-240. (With E. Pieterse and V. Watson).
35. 2009: Reshaping cities, rebuilding nations: the role of national urban policies, Urban Forum, 20, 157-174. (With I. Turok).
36. 2007: The academic -policy interface in post apartheid urban research – personal reflections, South African Geographical Journal, 89, 111-120.
37. 2007: Global environmental change: conceptualising the growing challenge for cities in poor countries, Area, 39, 1-13. (With D. Simon and C. Vogel).
38. 2006: The contribution of the UNESCO biosphere reserve concept to urban resilience, Management of Environmental Quality, 17, 473-449, (With R. Sandvleit).
39. 2006: Deciphering ‘development’ at the urban scale: leads from Johannesburg’s City Development Strategy, Urban Studies, 43, 337-356, (With J. Robinson).
40. 2006: The state of South African cities a decade after democracy, Urban Studies, 43, 259-284. (With A. Boraine; O. Cranskhaw; C. Engelbrecht; G. Gotz; S. Mbanga; M. Narsoo).
41. 2005: Institutionalising pro-poor local economic development through expanded public works in the urban environment of Cape Town, Africa Insight, 3, 53-61.
42. 2005: Constructing a developmental nation - the challenge of including the poor in the post apartheid city, Transformation, 58, 20-44.
43. 2004: Recognising, explaining and measuring chronic urban poverty in South Africa, Sustain, 11, 5-17 (With O. Crankshaw).
44. 2004: The urban poverty agenda in post apartheid metropolitan government, International Development Planning Review, 26, 355-377.
45. 2004: Engagement and reconstruction in critical research: negotiating urban practice, policy and theory in South Africa, Journal of Social and Cultural Geography, 5, 285-297, (With A. Mabin and S. Oldfield).
46. 2003: Race, power and urban control: Johannesburg’s inner city slumyards, 1910-1923, Journal of Southern African Studies, 29, 615-637.
47. 2002: Socioeconomic deprivation and asthma prevalence and severity in young adolescents, European Respiratory Journal, 19, 892-898 (with M. Poyser, M. Nelson, R. Ehrlich, E. Bateman, A. Puterman and E. Weinberg).
48. 2002: Winning the battles but losing the war: the racial segregation of Johannesburg under the Natives (Urban Areas) Act of 1923, Journal of Historical Geography, 29, 1-31.