Contact details

Email: j dot r dot l dot clarke at warwick dot ac dot uk

Tel.:

Room: R3.11, Ramphal Building

Term 1 Office hours: Monday 1-2pm in-person drop-in, or Thursday 12-1pm by appointment via https://calendly.com/jrlclarke/10min. Outside of term time, please contact me via email for availability, which is likely to be on Teams.

Associate Professor

Biography

Jonathan joined the Global Sustainable Development (GSD) programme in October 2017. Prior to this time, he worked as a Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies (PAIS) at the University of Warwick, where he contributed to a number of predominantly EU-funded international research projects. He has an interdisciplinary outlook, with particular interests in cities, design, governance, water and future societies.

In addition to his academic experience, Jonathan is an experienced environmental consultant, planner, urban designer and chartered landscape architect, specialising in regeneration, masterplanning and environmental impact assessment. He is a professional practice examiner for the Landscape Institute, a design expert for Design MidlandsLink opens in a new window and an Accreditation Visitor for the Architects Registration Board (ARB), implementing the ‘Tomorrow’s Architects’ initiative, promoting sustainability skills and practices as the core of future architectural education.

Research

Jonathan's work considers the roles of design, planning and governance in identifying and responding to future urban challenges, with special interests in climate change adaptation, risk, resilience, infrastructure, living with water, urban development and sustainable pathways.

Jonathan is formerly the Academic Co-Lead for the Sustainable Cities GRPLink opens in a new window.

As Principal-Investigator, Jonathan led the 'Co-creating energy efficiency in Foleshill project'Link opens in a new window, a collaboration between artists, researchers,, Coventry City Council officers and the community in Coventry, carrying out research on the retrofitting of housing, which was used to produced knowledge exchange materials for wider dissemination. This included an animated film shared via social media locally, and some guidance for academics on using 'co-creation' as a methodology for local action and collaboration. This project has been featured in Warwick's recent 'Infinitely Curious'Link opens in a new window campaign, which highlights excellence in interdisciplinary research. Jonathan recently led on a project to establish a UK hub for healthy and sustainable housing, supervising a series of citizen’s inquiries into ‘healthy homes’.

His contribution to the Horizon 2020-funded RESILENS (Realising European Resilience for Critical Infrastructure ) project reflected upon how the resilience of critical infrastructure might be enhanced, how a wider range of stakeholders might be integrated and how social factors can extend risk management practices, as means to initiate more transformative practice and long-term thinking within the sector. He joined PAIS and the ResCityLabLink opens in a new window as a Doctoral Research Student in 2013 contributing to the DESURBS and HARMONISE FP7 Research projects, where his research explored the role that urban design and governance might make to enhanced city resilience, based upon on an inductive approach of learning from practice.

Jonathan currently supervises four PhD projects on urban health, green infrastructure, sustainable transport and cultural sustainability.

Teaching and supervision

Jonathan is the convener of the following modules:

• Sustainable CitiesLink opens in a new window

• Living With Water

• The Energy TrilemmaLink opens in a new window

• Global Sustainable Development Project Link opens in a new window(content)

• Director of MASc Captsone Projects and Convenor of Practice-based CapstoneLink opens in a new window

Publications

• Coaffee, J. and Clarke, J.R.L. (2017) “Resilient Urbanism 2.0: Designing for risk and uncertainty.” LA+ Journal: RISK Issue, Spring 2017.
• Clarke, J.R.L. (2016) “From Maladaption to Adaption: A Resilient Urban Planning Paradigm.” In: Chandler, D. and Coaffee, J. (eds.) ‘The Routledge Handbook of International Resilience’ Routledge, London.
• Coaffee, J. and Clarke, J.R.L (2016) "Critical infrastructure lifelines and the politics of anthropocentric resilience." Resilience: International Policies, Practices and Discourses, https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21693293.2016.1241475.
• Coaffee, J., Clarke, J.R.L. and Davis, P. (2016) "A HARMONISE’d approach to building security-driven urban resilience: a call to arms." Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, Vol. 21(1), pp.73-80.
• Coaffee, J. and Clarke, J.R.L. (2015) "Viewpoint: On implementing Urban Resilience, Town Planning Review." 86(3), pp. 249-255.