Advisory Board

Federico Savini  is Associate Professor in Environmental Planning, Institutions and Politics at the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, University of Amsterdam. He is specialized in the study of the relationship between planning institutions, regulations, and politics. He approaches planning and urban studies from a degrowth perspective, explaining the regulations and practices that slow down, downscale, and close the metabolism of city regions.

Federico Savini is the founder of the postgrowth city coalition which you can read more about here .

Mimi Sheller  is the Inaugural Dean of The Global School at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, in Massachusetts.

Sheller's work on mobility justice has been influential in applied fields of urban policy, transport policy, border policy, and energy policy. Sheller is also an interdisciplinary scholar with interests in Caribbean Studies and island climate adaptation. She is Co-Principal Investigator for the NOAA-CAP Caribbean Climate Adaptation Network (2022-2027) and PI for a related NOAA-BIL award on Improving Engagement Methods for Coastal Resilience and Reducing Climate Risk (2023-2027). 

Heather Campbell  is Professor and Director of the School of Community and Regional Planning at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

Campbell's work is situated at the interface between planning theory and practice and her writing includes publications examining issues of ethical value, social justice and the public good. She has practical and research experience in the interface between universities and their local communities. She led the Economic and Social Research Council project Knowledge That Matters: Realising The Potential of Co-production, which examined the potential of co-production with non-academic communities to generate research that would support transformational change.

Dominic Stead  is a Professor of Land Use and Transport Planning at Aalto University. Stead's research and teaching activities focus on issues of urban and regional governance and sustainability. He has published widely in international refereed journals and has co-edited seven books. His publications feature on lists of the most cited articles in several journals including disP – The Planning Review, Planning Practice and Research, and Planning Theory and Practice. He has managed large-scale research projects funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research), the European Commission and ESPON (European Observation Network for Territorial Development and Cohesion).

Merritt Polk  is a professor in Human Ecology. Her research on gender equality and transport with a focus on travel habits, attitudes and transport policy has been used to better understand the interactions between gender equality, sustainable transport and climate change in collaboration with practitioners in urban and transport planning and policy. Her latest research concerns "boundary spaces", or dialogue arenas, for complex societal challenges, including cases within transport planning for sustainable urban development, urban security and migration. Since 2023, she is active in the Just Transitions Research School .

Maan Barua   is an environmental and urban geographer whose research focuses on the economies, ontologies and politics of the living and material world. It fosters new conversations between political economy, posthumanism and postcolonial thought, developed through four arenas of inquiry: urban ecologies, urban surrounds, biocapital and postcolonial environments.