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Charlotte Morphet

Senior Lecturer

Charlotte is a senior lecturer in urban and town planning and a chartered member of the Royal Town Planning Institute. Before joining LBU, she worked in planning practice for over ten years. She has experience in public, private and charity/ voluntary sectors. Organisations she has worked for include London Borough of Wandsworth, RPS, Turley, London Borough of Waltham Forest, and St Albans City and District Council, where she was Team Leader for Spatial Planning and Design.

Charlotte is an active member of the planning profession and has held senior leadership positions, including co-founding the Women in Planning Network, a trustee of the Royal Town Planning Institute, a trustee of Planning Officers Society, and a Young Urbanists Steering Committee member. She is currently co-chairing the London Branch of the Royal Town Planning Institute, previously serving as chair in 2015. She has won several awards, including the Diversity & Inclusion and Rising Star Awards at the British Property Federation Futures Tomorrow's Leaders Awards in 2019 and We Are the City Rising Star 2021.

Current Teaching

ARCS7100 - Context and Law - 36108
ARCS734 - Managing Places and Spaces - 10084

Research Interests

Charlotte has a range of research interests related to urban and town planning. These include women and planning, feminist urbanism, spatial planning and planning law and practice. She is currently undertaking a PhD at LBU on women’s experience as leaders and managers in the planning profession in England. In addition, she is reflecting on her time in practice working is currently actively writing and publishing papers on plan-making and adoption, most recently in the Journal for Planning and Environmental Law.

Charlotte has spoken at the UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference 2020 and ICGR 2021 4th International Conference on Gender 2021 on her PhD research.