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David’s principal research concentrates on the contemporary societies of the Caribbean and Latin America, with a specific focus on urban geography and social sustainability. His interests lie at the interface between social and urban geography, and postcolonial and development studies. Recent research projects have concentrated on the urban environment, development and social change in the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Barbuda. David is a University Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development and Director of Research at the Department of Continuing Education, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He directs the MSc in Sustainable Urban Development at the Continuing Professional Development Centre, and is a member of the Management Committee of the Latin American Centre. He was previously a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Geography at the University of Edinburgh, following postdoctoral research at the University of Oxford, the City University of New York and the University of Melbourne.
Series featuring David Howard
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Humanitas - Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge
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Social Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education
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Kellogg College
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Rewley House Research Seminars
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Institute for Science, Innovation and Society
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Oxford Programme for the Future of Cities
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TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
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| 1 | People's Landscapes: Living in Landscapes | A roundtable discussion explore landscape as a space for living, considering the pressures on land from population growth and discussing questions of preservation vs. development. | Alice Purkiss, Lucy Footer, Ingrid Samuel, Crispin Truman | 23 Jul 2019 | |
| 2 | Future | The presentations focus on the impact of the concept of future in changing debate, and how, in specific instances, concerns about the future affect behaviours in the present. | David Howard, Jill Hind | 07 Apr 2014 | |
| 3 | Postcolonial futures: the Caribbean in dialogue | Dr Kevon Rhiney, Commonwealth Fellow and lecturer (Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies) considers contemporary social and economic development in Jamaica, in the light of environmental vulnerability and climate change. | David Howard, Kevon Rhiney | 12 Jun 2013 | |
| 4 | Postcolonial futures: the Caribbean in dialogue | Dr Kevon Rhiney, Commonwealth Fellow and lecturer (Department of Geography and Geology, University of the West Indies) considers contemporary social and economic development in Jamaica, in the light of environmental vulnerability and climate change. | David Howard, Kevon Rhiney | 12 Jun 2013 | |
| 5 | Creative Commons | Decay | The presentations focus on the importance of disappearance as much as appearance, presence as well as absence, and growth in the guise of degeneration, arguing from difference perspectives for the importance of malaise or corrosion as a subject of study. | David Howard, Martin Neubert, Robert Vanderplank, Tara Stubbs | 22 May 2013 |
| 6 | Creative Commons | Decay | The presentations focus on the importance of disappearance as much as appearance, presence as well as absence, and growth in the guise of degeneration, arguing from difference perspectives for the importance of malaise or corrosion as a subject of study. | David Howard, Martin Neubert, Robert Vanderplank, Tara Stubbs | 22 May 2013 |
| 7 | Risk | The inaugural research seminar invited three speakers to consider how the concept and experience of 'risk' influenced their current research. | David Howard, Jonathan Michie, Nigel Mehdi, Adam Josephs | 20 Jun 2012 | |
| 8 | Norman Foster: Symposium on the Future of Cities - Discussion and Concluding Remarks | Discussion and concluding remarks from Lord Foster to end the half-day symposium on the future of cities. | John Ockendon, Malcolm McCulloch, Steve Rayner, David Banister | 02 Feb 2011 | |
| 9 | Creative Commons | Oxford Program for the Future of Cities Part 2: Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean | David Howard (Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice. | David Howard | 15 Dec 2010 |
| 10 | Creative Commons | Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean | David Howard (Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice. | David Howard | 15 Dec 2010 |
| 11 | Creative Commons | Sustainable development and crime in the urban Caribbean | David Howard (University Lecturer in Sustainable Urban Development, University of Oxford) looks at larger concerns over social and spatial equity, conceptual approaches to sovereignty and the practical interpretation of sustainable forms of justice. | David Howard | 15 Dec 2010 |