Professor Craig Watkins
BSc, PhD
School of Geography and Planning
Professor of Town and Regional Planning


Full contact details
School of Geography and Planning
Geography and Planning Building
Winter Street
Sheffield
S3 7ND
- Profile
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I graduated with a BSc (Economics) from the СŷÊÓÆµ of Strathclyde in 1989 and, after a (very) brief period in industry, worked as a researcher in the Department of Economics at the СŷÊÓÆµ of Strathclyde, the Department of Land Economics at the СŷÊÓÆµ of Paisley and the School of Planning and Housing at Heriot-Watt СŷÊÓÆµ. For much of this period, I also worked part-time on a PhD (Land Economics) at the СŷÊÓÆµ of Paisley.
In 1995, I was appointed to a lectureship in the Department of Land Economy at the СŷÊÓÆµ of Aberdeen and in 1999 was promoted to Senior Lecturer.
I joined the Department of Urban Studies and Planning in February 2004 and was promoted to Reader in September 2004. I was Head of Department from 2011 - 2013.
- Research interests
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My current and recent research focuses on the structure and operation of property markets, particularly local housing systems, and the impact of public policy on real estate market performance. This research addresses theoretical and empirical issues and is generally, although not exclusively, located within a quantitative economic framework. There are four main sub-themes to this work:
- Analysing the submarket structure and operation of local property markets.
- Measuring and modelling property market performance.
- Exploring the interaction between planning, public policy and property market behaviour.
- Methodological advances in property research.
Current and recent projects
- Land: Value to Capture? (RICS)
- (Economic & Social Research Council, Arts & Humanities Research Council, Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
- Construction, economic development and planning policies (British Academy)
- (RTPI)
- (Economic & Social Research Council)
- New behavioural business practices: agent interactions in the housing market (RICS)
- Rotherham Strategic Housing Market Assessment (Rotherham MBC)
- Sheffield Strategic Housing Market Assessment (Sheffield City Council)
- The value of planning (Royal Town Planning Institute)
- Attitudes and behaviour towards the New Homes Bonus (Department for Communities and Local Government)
- Publications
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Books
Edited books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Reports
Dictionary/encyclopaedia entries
- Teaching activities
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I teach on the following modules:
- , Economics for Spatial Planning
- , Property Economics
PhD supervision
I am Primary Supervisor for the following PhD students:
- Rami Shamseen, Decentralisation and the growth of core cities
- Chan-Woo Kim, Commercial real estate rental markets in Europe