Dr Philip Catney

Title: Senior Lecturer in Politics
Phone: +44 (0)1782 733346
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Location: CBA 1.001
Role: Director of Postgraduate Teaching
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Philip Catney

I joined Keele University in September 2007 as Lecturer in British Politics. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2013. Prior to coming to Keele I held research associate positions in both the departments of Politics and Town and Regional Planning at the University of Sheffield.  In addition, I was a manager of the Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Integrated Management (SUBR:IM) consortium.

I am also a member of the Sustainable Development Commission’s Sustainable Development Panel.

My research interests are principally focused on urban and environmental governance, local governance, British Politics and public policy theory.


I am a member of the Research Institute for Social Sciences.

Current and Past Research Projects

Reducing Energy Consumption through Community Knowledge Networks

Funded through the ESRC and EPSRC Energy and Communities collaborative venture,this project aims to compare and contrast the energy reduction challenges in these two types of community and to see which strategies work best in each of them. 

Regenerating Post-Industrial Medium-Sized Cities
The purpose of this ESRC seminar series is to examine the problems facing medium-sized cities: exploring the barriers inhibiting successful regeneration and the policy levers available for overcoming these. Co-investigators: Professor Chris Phillipson, Professor Graham Allan and Dr Mark Feathestone (all Keele University).

Multi-level Governance, Europeanization and Urban Politics
This project examines three policy sectors within the geographical area of Sheffield to detail the changing nature of multi-level governance at the urban level and to explore the extent to which local actors retain the capacity to coordination and negotiate discourses, policies and processes emanating from ‘higher’ levels of governance. Co-investigators: Dr Ian Bache (University of Sheffield) and Professor John Henneberry (University of Sheffield).

Selected Publications

  • Catney PJJ, Dobson A, Hall S, Hards S, MacGregor S, Ormerod M, Robinson Z. 2013. Community knowledge networks: An action-orientated approach to energy research. Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability. link>
  • Catney PJJ, Cianflone T, Wernstedt K. 2012. Revitalizing contaminated land in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States: a comparative perspective. (1st ed.). Farnham: Ashgate. link>
  • Catney PJJ and Henneberry JM. 2012. (Not) Exercising Discretion: Environmental Planning and the Politics of Blame-Avoidance. Planning Theory and Practice, vol. 13(4). doi> link>
  • Catney PJJ and Doyle T. 2011. Challenges to the State. In Understanding the Environment and Social Policy. Fitzpatrick T (Ed.). Policy Pr.
  • Catney P and Doyle T. 2011. The welfare of now and the green (post) politics of the future. Critical Social Policy, vol. 31(2), 174-193. link> doi>

Full Publications List show

Books

  • Dixon T, Raco M, CATNEY PJJ, Lerner DN. 2007. Sustainable brownfield regeneration: liveable places from problem spaces. Oxford: Blackwells.

Journal Articles

  • Catney PJJ, Dobson A, Hall S, Hards S, MacGregor S, Ormerod M, Robinson Z. 2013. Community knowledge networks: An action-orientated approach to energy research. Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability. link>
  • Catney PJJ and Henneberry JM. 2012. (Not) Exercising Discretion: Environmental Planning and the Politics of Blame-Avoidance. Planning Theory and Practice, vol. 13(4). doi> link>
  • Catney P and Doyle T. 2011. The welfare of now and the green (post) politics of the future. Critical Social Policy, vol. 31(2), 174-193. link> doi>
  • Eiser JR, Stafford T, Henneberry J, Catney P. 2009. "Trust me, I'm a scientist (not a developer)": perceived expertise and motives as predictors of trust in assessment of risk from contaminated land. Risk Anal, vol. 29(2), 288-297. link> doi>
  • Luo Q, Catney P, Lerner D. 2009. Risk-based management of contaminated land in the UK: lessons for China?. J Environ Manage, vol. 90(2), 1123-1134. link> doi>
  • CATNEY PJJ and Lerner DN. 2009. Managing multidisciplinarity: lessons from SUBR:IM. Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, vol. 34(4). doi>
  • CATNEY PJJ. 2009. New labour and joined up urban governance. Public Policy and Administration, vol. 24(1), 47-66. doi>
  • CATNEY PJJ, Henneberry J, Lawson N, Shaw S. 2008. Deliberating the environmental risk posed by contaminated land: the importance of local context. Land contamination and reclamation, vol. 16(2), 113-124.
  • Bache I and Catney P. 2008. Embryonic associationalism: New Labour and urban governance. Public Administration, vol. 86(2), 411-428. link> doi>
  • CATNEY PJJ, Dixon T, Henneberry J. 2008. Hyperactive governance in the Thames Gateway. Journal of urban regeneration and renewal, vol. 2(2), 124-145.
  • CATNEY PJJ and Meredith S. 2007. New Labour and Associative Democracy: Old Debates in New Times?. British Politics, vol. 2(3), 347–371. doi>
  • Eiser J, Stafford T, Henneberry J, CATNEY PJJ. 2007. Risk perception and trust in the context of urban brownfields. Environmental Hazards, vol. 7(2), 150-156.
  • CATNEY PJJ, Henneberry J, Meadowcroft J, Eiser R. 2006. Dealing with Contaminated Land in the UK through 'Development Managerialism'. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, vol. 8(4), 331-356. doi>
  • Catney PJJ, Dobson ANH, Hall SM, MacGregor S, Ormerod M, Royston S, Ross S. Big Society, little justice? Community energy and the politics of localism?. Local Environment: the international journal of justice and sustainability. doi>

Chapters

  • Catney PJJ, Cianflone T, Wernstedt K. 2012. Revitalizing contaminated land in Italy, the United Kingdom and the United States: a comparative perspective. (1st ed.). Farnham: Ashgate. link>
  • Catney PJJ and Doyle T. 2011. Challenges to the State. In Understanding the Environment and Social Policy. Fitzpatrick T (Ed.). Policy Pr.
  • Catney PJJ, Lerner DN, Dixon T, Raco M. 2007. Is Brown the New Green?. In Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration. Dixon T, Catney PJJ, Raco M, Lerner DN (Eds.). Wiley-Blackwell.
  • Catney P, Eiser JR, Henneberry J, Stafford T. Democracy, Trust and Risk Related to Contaminated Sites in the UK’. In Sustainable Brownfield Regeneration: Liveable Places from Problem Spaces. Dixon T, Raco M, Catney P, Lerner DN (Eds.).

Other

  • Catney PJJ, Cianflone T, Wernstedt K. 2008. Sustainable Urban Land Management:An International Policy and Planning Perspective.
  • Catney PJJ, Eiser JR, Henneberry J, Stafford T. 2007. Communicating Risk on Contaminated Sites: How Best to Engage with Local Residents. link>

Module Coordinator for:

  • British Politics Since 1945 (Level 1)
  • British Government and Politics (Level 2)
  • Urban Politics (Level 3)
  • Environmental Decision-Making in the UK (MSc/MA)
  • Comparative Public Management Reform (MA)

Contribute teaching to:

  • Modern Democracies (Level 1)
  • Approaches to Political Analysis (Level 2)
  • Why Policy Changes (Level 2)
  • Comparing Politics Today (Level 2)
  • Dimensions of Environmental Politics/ Global Environmental Change and its Political Consequences (MA/MSc)
  • Power, Knowledge and the World (MA)
  • Approaches to Dialogue (MA)
  • Climate Change Studies (MA)
  • British politics
  • Public policy theory
  • Urban politics
  • Environmental policy

Prospective students interested in pursuing doctoral research in these areas are welcome to get in touch with me.

 

I am currently the lead supervisor for three students examining local economic development, leadership in public organisations and community politics.

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