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Dr Diana MacCallum

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    • Role:
    • Lecturer
    • Department:
    • Dept of Urban & Regional Planning
    • Location:
    • Architecture and Planning 613
    • Telephone:
    • +61 8 9266 92667313

Diana has a postgraduate diploma and a PhD in Urban and Regional Planning from Curtin, where she now works as a lecturer. Before returning to university life in 2000, Diana had worked in a range of public sector and NGO positions concerned with Indigenous cultural and linguistic heritage; Indigenous affairs administration and regional economic development. Since then, she has worked in WA, Queensland and the UK, the latter as part of a European research network on social innovation.

Research Interests

  • Urban development as collective action: governance practices; politics; grass-roots action; community development.
  • Discourse and critical discourse analysis.
  • Diana also has a keen interest in methodological issues in planning research, both and policy- and scholarship-oriented.

Teaching - Undergraduate

  • Planning Research Methods
  • Participatory Planning
  • Professional Practice
  • Plannign Theory
  • Supervision of research dissertations

Teaching - Postgraduate

  • Planning Research Methods
  • Participatory Planning
  • Professional Practice
  • Plannign Theory
  • Supervision of research dissertations

    • Publications

    Books (Authored, Research)

    • MacCallum, S. 2009. Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning. Farnham: Ashgate.

    Book Chapters (Authored, Research Quality)

    • MacCallum, S. 2005. Consent and Resistance: A case study of participatory decision making. In Consent and Consensus: Politics, Media and Governance in Twentieth Century Australia, eds Denis Cryle and Jean Hillier, 351-370. Western Australia: API Network.

    Refereed Articles (Scholarly Journals)

    • Howlett, C, MacCallum, D, Osborne, N, and Seini, M. 2011. Neoliberalism, Mineral Development and Indigenous People: a framework for analysis. Australian Geographer 42: 309-323.
    • MacCallum, D, and Hopkins, D. 2011. The Changing Discourse of City Plans: Rationalities of Planning in Perth, 1955-2010. Planning Theory and Practice 12(4): 485-510.
    • MacCallum, S. 2009. Practising Governance: Multi-Party Decision Making in a Multi-Scalar Context. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Disciplines 3: 92-117.
    • MacCallum, S. 2008. Participatory planning and means-ends rationality: a translation problem. Planning Theory and Practice 9(3): 325-343.

    Fully written papers (Refereed Conference proceedings)

    • MacCallum, D, and Tiwari, R. 2011. 'Roundtable' as a means to an end: Attending to professional and political barriers to sustainable transport. World Planning Schools Congress 2011, 04/06/2011. Perth: University of WA.
    • Houston, D, Byrne, J, Steele, W, and MacCallum, D. 2011. Environmental Imaginaries: Climate Change as an Object of Urban Governance. State of Australian Cities, 29/11/2011. Melbourne: University of Melbourne/Think Business Events.
    • MacCallum, S. 2002. Breaking the mould without breaking the rules: discursive struggles in a local land use planning comittee. Undiscipline Thoughts - curtin Humanities Annual Graduate REsearch Conferenc, 01/11/2001. curtin University: Black Swan Press.

    Minor Creative Works

    • MacCallum, S. 2005. Social Policy and Discourse Analysis: Policy Change in Public Housing by Greg Marston. Australia: Routledge Journals.