David Howard

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.

Department of Continuing Education

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Kellogg College

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Social Sciences at the Department for Continuing Education

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Title	Description	People	Date
GCHU Public Seminar: Managing migration: cities, governance, integration	At this seminar on ‘Managing migration: cities, governance, integration’, invited speakers each respond to the question: How can cities engage with managing global migration flows and social integration?	Cecile Riallant, Colleen Thouez, David Howard, Thomas Lacroix	10 January, 2020
Next steps? Mixed use, walkable cities	Healthy Cities - Next steps? Mixed use, walkable cities	Karen Barrass, Daniel Elsea, Joanne Murraybrown, Ben Murphy, David Howard	24 October, 2019
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, Dave Lomax, Caitlin Desilvey, David Howard	23 July, 2019
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	7 April, 2014
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 June, 2013
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 June, 2013
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
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
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 June, 2012
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, David Howard, Norman Foster	2 February, 2011
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 December, 2010
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 December, 2010
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 December, 2010