Professor Paul Chatterton is an educator, writer, researcher and campaigner who is Professor of Urban Futures in the School of Geography. He is currently Director of the University’s Sustainable Cities Group which has launched the ground breaking MSc Sustainable Cities. Paul is also co-founder and resident of the award-winning low impact housing co-operative LILAC. He has gone forward to set up Leeds Community Homes to help promote community-led housing. His recent books include Low Impact Living (ask us for a discount code!) and Unlocking Sustainable Cities He is also co-founder of the public charity ‘Antipode’ dedicated to research and scholarship in radical geography and an associate editor of the journal ‘City’. Paul has helped pioneer methodological work in participatory geographies with action-oriented methods and a strong collaborative element and was involved in developing the 2019 Leeds Citizens Jury on climate change which helped to inform Leeds City Council’s Climate Emergency Plan.
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