Professional Development

Keep smiling through the changes to life and planning

07.05.2020

The coronavirus epidemic is challenging us all, both personally and professionally. But even in this period of flux and change, it's important to keep hold of planning's most humane principles, says ...

RTPI blogs round-up: Top tips on how to adjust to homeworking during lockdown

03.04.2020

RTPI

chief planners | Coronavirus | Professional Development | RTPI | UK

A round-up of RTPI blogs: 1 March-3 April, 2020

CAP appoints Ian Tant as vice-president

03.04.2020

Laura Edgar

Ian Tant has been appointed as vice-president of the Commonwealth Association of Planners (CAP).

Hills suggests a cut in working hours to help mental health

26.03.2020

Laura Edgar

Coronavirus | Health | Professional Development | RTPI | UK

RTPI chief executive Victoria Hills has introduced measures at the institute to allow staff to reduce their working hours by 30 per cent to safeguard their mental health while working from home during the coronavirus lockdown.

Women of Influence 2020

06.03.2020

The Planner

Who are the women working in and around planning who are having an impact - both on individual planners, teams and organisations; and on planning policy and practice? Here's our Women of Influence for 2020...

The gender agenda: How planning with women in mind can improve our towns cities

03.03.2020

Natalya Palit

2018/19’s RTPI George Pepler award-winner used her grant to investigate the impact of ‘gender mainstreaming’ in Austria’s capital city. Natalya Palit MRTPI finds out what UK planning can learn from Vienna....

Inspiring the next generation and championing planning through CPD

19.02.2020

Andrew Close

CPD | England | Professional Development | RTPI

The RTPI is working hard to identify, engage and educate the next generation of planners, says Andrew Close

Learning curves: What do planners feel about their training and development opportunities?

13.02.2020

Simon Wicks

Careers | Professional Development | Training | UK

What does The Planner’s 2020 Careers Survey tell us about planners' attitudes towards the training and development opportunities their employers provide? Simon Wicks takes a look.

Life at the top: What's it like to be a local authority head of planning?

11.02.2020

Huw Morris

chief planners | Policy & Politics | Professional Development | RTPI | UK

The end goal of many a career in planning is to head a local authority planning team. Huw Morris finds out what being a chief planner involves.

I want to be an astronaut

10.02.2020

Louise Brooke-Smith

England | LBS | Professional Development

‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ It’s the perennial question that all youngsters are asked at some stage by well-meaning relatives, says Louise Brooke-Smith

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