Professor Tanja Winkler

Professor

Room 5.32, Centlivres Building, Upper Campus

Qualification:

  • PhD, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • MUD, University of the Witwatersrand
  • BSc(TRP), University of the Witwatersrand

Professional Affiliations:

  • Chairs of Planning Schools, South Africa (Chairs of Planning Schools accredited by the South African Council for Planners)
  • Planning Schools Forum (Heads of Planning Schools accredited by the Royal Town Planning Institute, UK)

Undergraduate teaching:

 

Post Graduate teaching:

  • APG4020 Planning Theory & Practice
  • APG4022 Planning Project A
  • APG4025S Regulatory and Legal Frameworks
  • APG4026 Planning Project B
  • APG4035Z Planning Techniques I
  • APG4038 Planning Techniques II
  • APG5051Z MCRP Dissertation

Research Affiliations:

  • Editorial board member: ‘Planning Theory’
  • Editorial board member: ‘International Planning Studies’
  • Editorial board member: ‘Planning Theory and Practice’
  • Decolonizing Planning: Power and Knowledge in the Informal City, in collaboration with Bjørn Sletto (University of Texas at Austin), Efadul Huq (Smith College), Santina Contreras (University of Southern California), Clarissa Freitas (Federal University of Ceará), Clara Irazábal (University of Maryland), Neema Kudva (Cornell University), Nobukhosi Ngwenya (University of Cape Town), Magdalena Novoa (University of Illinois), Catalina Ortiz (University College London), Ana Paula (University of Michigan), Tanzil Shafique (University of Sheffield), Gilbert Siame (University of Zambia), Jayaraj Sundaresan (LSE), and Magdalena Ugarte (Toronto Metropolitan University).
  • ProFiL Programme (the Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany)
  • Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP) thematic group on Planning Theories, coordinated by Ben Davy (Technische Universität Darmstadt), Meike Levin-Keitel (Technische Universität Dortmund) and Franziska Sielker (University of Cambridge)
  • Academic advisory board member for a joint MSc degree in Integrated Urbanism & Sustainable Design (IUSD) at the Universities of Stuttgart (Germany) & Ain Shams (Egypt)

Publication Profile:

Research Interests:

  • Spatial justice
  • Southern planning theory, planning ethics, planning education and decoloniality