Dear Colleagues

Please note that registration for ANZAPS conference will close on 31 July 2016. Please see attached the official conference invite and flyer. Please feel free to circulate as you see fit.

The conference theme for ANZAPS 2016 is: "Planning Education and Research for Planning and Planners of Tomorrow". Planning reforms in Australia have major implications for planning education, research and practice. Increasingly development assessment aspect of planning is becoming speedy, automated and privatized. Community engagement in planning is weakening. Council mergers are taking place. Local strategic planning is getting replaced by metro and state planning endeavours. All of these developments point to reduced need for planners produced by planning education in Australia today. Planners of tomorrow will perhaps need very different skill sets. Research and discussions on where planning is headed and what transformation planning education needs would be timely.

School of Social Sciences and Psychology at the Western Sydney University cordially invites you to join the annual ANZAPS conference in Sydney on 28 - 30 October 2016. The school will host the conference at the historic Female Orphan School at Western Sydney University Parramatta Campus. The Orphan School is the oldest three story brick building in Australia. The building was recently and tastefully restored. Whitlam Museum is housed in this building. Gough Whitlam campaigned actively to establish a university in western Sydney and remained a very close friend of Western Sydney University until his death. Located on the banks of Parramatta River with beautifully restored old and blended in new buildings the campus is an excellent location for the conference.

To register, submit you abstract  and submit your paper please visit www.uws.edu.au/ANZAP2016.  Those who wish to have their papers referred please send them to Winnie Jobanputra at W.Jobanputra@westernsydney.edu.au

Regards

Awais

Dr Awais Piracha

Director Academic Programs

Geography and Urban Studies; Heritage and Tourism

School of Social Sciences and Psychology

P: 02 4736 0049 | Ext: 2049

westernsydney.edu.au