Professional Development

Nominate your ‘women of influence’ 2019

21.01.2019

Simon Wicks

There’s less than one week left to nominate your Women of Influence for 2019! The survey closes at 3pm on Monday, 25 February.

3 point plan: Petra Biberbach

17.01.2019

Petra Biberbach

Petra Biberbach explains how she would change the Scottish planning system.

The Planner Careers Survey 2018/19

16.01.2019

Professional Development | UK

Increase in students become licentiate members of the RTPI / iStock-696418376

Increasing numbers of students remain RTPI members

14.01.2019

Laura Edgar

Professional Development | RTPI | student | UK

There has been a significant increase in the number of students remaining members after completing their degrees, the RTPI has said.

Young planners to shadow chief planners in new scheme

19.12.2018

Laura Edgar

chief planners | Professional Development | RTPI | UK

The RTPI is working with local planning authorities to offer young planners the opportunity of work experience with a chief planning officer.

3 point plan: Josephine Ellis

22.11.2018

Josephine Ellis

England | Planning reform | Policy & Politics | Professional Development

Josephine Ellis explains how she would change the English planning system.

Tech landscape: Is a robot going to take my job?

09.11.2018

Alison Broderick

Artificial intelligence will eliminate hundreds of different kinds of jobs, we're told. Alison Broderick wonders whether planners should be worried

How do we attract young people into planning?

30.10.2018

Melissa Balk

Melissa Balk considers what can be done to make planning a more attractive career choice for young...

A passion for planning: Heather Claridge interview

25.10.2018

Chris Jesson

Heather Claridge was named Young Planner of the Year for 2018-19 for the ‘outstanding calibre of her work, studies and volunteering’. She tells Chris Jesson why the world needs inquisitive...

Planners can inspire next generation to tackle inequalities, says MP

22.10.2018

Simon Wicks

Planners must take responsibility to 'inspire the next generation' to see planning as a tool that can address the social inequalities that limit their opportunities in life, Helen Hayes MP told an audience of planners in Parliament last week.

Pages