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Dr David Haigh

Head of Subject

David is Academic Lead and Subject Group Leader for Planning, Housing and Human Geography is a Principal Lecturer and Leeds Beckett Teacher Fellow.

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About

David is Academic Lead and Subject Group Leader for Planning, Housing and Human Geography is a Principal Lecturer and Leeds Beckett Teacher Fellow.

David leads the Planning, Housing and Human Geography teaching staff at Leeds Beckett University and teaches into the housing and human geography curriculum. He is a very experienced lecturer and academic team leader with over 20 years of experience in a wide range of professional disciplines such as housing, community economics and urban regeneration. David is motivated by helping students learn and develop broader life skills, delivering high quality, engaging teaching and by developing progressive environment for teams to flourish. David’s goals are to foster excellent research both personally and through partnership and to help students get the best out of their educational experience.

David has been at Leeds Beckett University for over 13 years, before this David had various roles at Leeds City Council including Research Manager, Neighbourhood Planning, Housing and Estate officer and Regeneration team manager.

Personal impact: Professional but engaging and empathetic learning environment through development of confidence and inspiration.

David is an external examiner for housing and planning courses at London South Bank University and Leicester De Montfort University.

Research interests

David is involved in two research clusters:

  • Just Places Research Cluster:
    This research aims to develop a new and leading area of competence in neighbourhood planning research and enterprise
  • Women and Built Space Cluster:
    This research aims to build networks with interested parties regarding women / buildings / built environment

David's interests include:

  • Trust in social enterprise networks
  • Social enterprise policy support structures
  • Alternative economic spaces
  • The implications of longer-term urban policy evaluations which make use of qualitative and quantitative methods of analysis
  • The role of social enterprise in the generation of social capital and the wider roles involved in local economic restructuring in deprived areas

Publications (9)

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Conference Contribution

The Evolving Military Landscape of Yorkshire.

Featured 16 September 2010 Ordnance: War, Architecture and Space, 16th to 18th September 2010: an interdisciplinary conference organised by the Cork Centre for Architectural Education and the School of the Human Environment, University College Cork Cork
AuthorsHaigh DP, Walley E
Conference Contribution

The reworking and accessing of support for social enterprise

Featured 02 September 2011 Royal Geographical Society Conference Imperial College, London
Conference Contribution

Beyond boundaries: Sense-making and fuzzy learning from stories about failures and successes of social enterprises

Featured 01 September 2012 International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) University of Birmingham.
AuthorsHaigh DP, Seanor P
Conference Contribution

Of course, trust is not the whole story Collective narratives to question assumptions of trust in social entrepreneurship

Featured 01 September 2013 CMS Manchester University
AuthorsHaigh DP, Seanor P, Curtis T
Conference Contribution

Doing a part-time PhD at ‘work’ in the professions: The trials and tribulations of employer sponsored PhD in the UK

Featured 01 September 2011 Royal Geographical Society Conference Imperial College, London.
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Sustainable communities and the new patchwork politics of place
Featured 13 November 2015 Building Sustainable Futures Springer
AuthorsAuthors: Bradley Q, Haigh D, Editors: Dastbaz M, Strange I, Selkowitz S

The pairing of community and sustainable development has dominated the international policy agenda for at least three decades with its assertion that the imperatives of capital accumulation can be balanced for the needs of social reproduction. As a framework of state strategy, the concept of sustainable communities has come to define a particular mode of governance in which the responsibility for ameliorating the impact of unfettered growth is devolved to place-based voluntary and community associations. The community provides a model of sustainability in which the economics of collective consumption and the politics of community action can be engaged in the planning and stewardship of local development. The strategies of sustainable communities that result combine the market zeal of spatial liberalism with themes of redistributive justice and equality, finding in the concept of community both a model of resilience and self-reliance and conversely a dynamic of mutual aid and co-operation.

Conference Contribution

Reclaiming the social: shifting spaces of resistance and containment inside a shrinking state

Featured September 2011 RGS-IGB Annual International Conference 2011 London
Conference Contribution

Governance relations: of course, trust is not the whole story. Creating relational space by comparing insights into trust [and distrust] power [and powerlessness].

Featured 12 September 2011 International Social Innovation Research Conference (ISIRC) London South Bank University
AuthorsSeanor P, Curtis T
Journal article
Making Space for the Dissertation : a Rural Retreat for Undergraduate Students
Featured 01 September 2020 Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice8(1):147-156 University of the Highlands and Islands

This paper examines a residential writing retreat for final year human geography and planning students held in a youth hostel in North Yorkshire, considering how it is experienced by students. This is a curriculum innovation for the dissertation module that combines aspects of geography fieldtrip and writing workshop to support the dissertation writing process and build community. Drawing on the concept of ‘the slow university’ (Berg & Seeber, 2016; O’Neill, 2014) where the ‘slowing down’ and ‘stripping away’ of the usual structures and patterns of teaching and learning create a critical and creative space for thinking and writing, we explore whether and how the Malham retreat makes space for writing. The study is also informed by our spatial approach to the processes and content of research and teaching as geographers (Massey, 2005). Qualitative focus group evidence was gathered on the student and staff experience and used to evaluate the field trip (Breen, 2006; Krueger & Casey, 2009; Stewart & Shamdasani, 2015). This paper presents the results of this evaluation and it is argued that the retreat made space for writing in three ways: 1. The space of countryside, nature and youth hostel. 2. The formal and informal learning spaces staff and students constructed during the retreat 3. ‘Head space’- the social, psychological and emotional room the retreat made for staff and students. This model of residential writing retreat could be transferable to dissertation and other modules involving a substantive writing project on all kinds of undergraduate courses.

Current teaching

David delivers modules relating to:

  • urban policy
  • local economic development
  • community economic development
  • social enterprise
  • housing and neighbourhood regeneration
  • social research methods
  • economic geography
  • housing policy
  • personal career and skills development

David is also a franchise course leader and link tutor with the Asian Institute for the Built Environment in Hong Kong.

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