Professor Jon Coaffee holds a Chair in Spatial Planning and Urban Resilience in the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Birmingham, UK (since 2009). Before this appointment he worked at the Universities of Newcastle and Manchester.

Professor Coaffee has published widely on the social and economic future of cities, and especially the impact of terrorism and other security concerns on the functioning of urban areas. This work has been published in multiple disciplinary areas such as geography, town planning, political science, sports studies and civil engineering.

Professor Coaffee runs the following modules where he feeds the results of his ongoing research into his teaching:

• Urban and Regional Economies (Undergraduate)
• The Planner in Contemporary Society (Postgraduate)
• Urban Regeneration and Renewal (Postgraduate)
• Dissertations (Postgraduate)

Professor Coaffee currently supervises a large number doctoral research students in a number of areas:

• Collins Adjei Mensah (2012-) Urban regeneration and green spaces in Ghana (Sponsored by Ghanaian Government)
• Jonathan Clarke (2011-) Designing safer urban spaces (Sponsored by the European Union)
• John Floy (2010-PT) Mitigation in response to climate change: a case study of the National Trust in the West Midlands
• Eleanor Harrowell (2011-) Mapping memories: improving post-conflict reconstruction  through understanding collective memory of conflict (Sponsored by the ESRC DTC)
• Tae Suk Kang (2011-) Social exclusion on large public housing estate in South Korea (Sponsored by the South Korean Government)
• Peter McMenamin (2011-) Rethinking space, landscapes and aesthetics in conditions of contestation. The changing nature of actual iconography in Derry, 1970-2013 (Sponsored by the AHRC)
• Suraiyati Rahman (2006-PT) Heritage tourism and the built environment (sponsored by the Malaysian Government)
• Miguel Torres Garcia (2011-) Public space and the contemporary city
• Nuruljannah Zainal Abidin (2012-)  A critical assessment of the implementation of sustainable development in restoring the environment for urban dwellers in Europe and Malaysia (Sponsored by the Malaysian Government)

Potential students interested in the following areas of research can contact Professor Coaffee directly.

• Urban geography
• Urban planning
• Urban regeneration and renewal
• The impact of the Olympics
• Designing safer cities
• Post-conflict reconstruction

Research groups

• Centre for Urban and Regional Studies
• Resilience and Urban Living
• Society, Economy and Environment

Research Interests

• Spatial planning
• Urban regeneration and management
• Sport and cultural-led development
• Planning for risk and resilience
• National security and counter-terrorism

Recent and Current Research Grants

His work has been funded by a variety of UK Research Council programs for ‘New Security Challenges’ and ‘Global Uncertainties’ (ESRC, AHRC, EPSRC) as well as the European Union. This research has engaged extensively with policy makers and practice communities and has sought to assist key stakeholder construct and manage more resilient places. Grants include:

• 2013-2016: EUFP7: A Holistic Approach to Resilience and Systematic Actions to Make Large Scale Urban Built Infrastructure Secure (HARMONISE), €4.8M (€339,000), UK PI
• 2012-13:  ESRC/JPS: Planning Responses to ‘Shock’ and ‘Slow-Burn’ Events: the Role of Redundancy in Regional Resilience, value £15,000 – Co-I
• 2011-2015: EUFP7: Designing Safer Urban Spaces (DESURBS), EUFP7, value € 3.2M (€367,000) – UK - PI
• 2010-2012: Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure: Embedding and evaluating a physical resilience decision support framework tool, value £80,000 – Co-I
• 2010-2012: EPSRC Cross Disciplinary Feasibility Account - Resilience through innovation: critical local transport and utility infrastructure, EP/I016163/1, value £250,000 – Co-I
• 2011: AHRC (Connected Communities programme),:  Resilient, mutual self-help in cities of growing diversity, value, £45,000, Co-I
• 2009-2011: ESRC Designing out Fatness: The Built Environment in Anti-Obesity Policy, value £88,000 – Co-I
• 2010: Homes and Communities Agency, Collective Memory, value £25,000 - PI
• 2007-10: EPSRC/ESRC/AHRC with Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure – Resilient Design (RE-DESIGN) for counter-terrorism: Decision support for designing effective and acceptable resilient places value, £976,000 - PI
• 2007-10: ESRC New Security Challenges programme - The Urban environment: Mirror and mediator of radicalisation - value £206,000 - Co-I,
• 2007: DTI/DUIS- Foresight: Sustainable Energy Management and the Built Environment Project (Uncertainty, risk and the evolution of the built environment), value £500) - PI
• 2006-2009: ESRC Collaborative CASE studentship– Rescaling the state (with Centre for Local Economic Strategies) value £60,000 – with I Deas) - PI
• 2006-2009: ESRC Collaborative CASE studentship– Citizenship in the electronically networked city (with Manchester Digital Development Agency), value £60,000 – With R Kingston) – Co-I
• 2005-8 - Office for the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) - Evaluation of Local Development Frameworks– Spatial plans in Practice, value £80,000 - Co-I
• 2005-2007 – ESRC - New Security Challenges programme  - The Everyday resilience of the City - how provincial cities respond to threat, value£45,000 – before FEC) – PI
• 2004-2005: County Surveyors Society and the North East Sports Board - Strategic planning and regeneration through sport and recreation – The regional dimension value, £20,000 - PI
• 2004: Newcastle City Council – Statement of Community Involvement in the Byker Design Competition, value, £6,000 - PI
• 2004: CLES consulting – The role of locally elected members in partnership working, value £300 - PI
• 2002-2005: ESRC Collaborative CASE studentship– My voice my place – citizen/council interactions (with Newcastle City Council) value, £50,000 – Co-I
• 2001-2005: - Evaluation of New Deal for Communities 2001 - 2005. Multi partner contract for DTLR/ODPM – value, £186,000 – Co-I
• 2000-2005: Going for Growth – city wide regeneration strategies (With Newcastle City Council) value £100,000 - PI
• 2001-2004: European Commission Framework V: Social Innovation, Governance and Community Building (SINGOCOM), value, €1M (£47,000 ) – Co-I
• 2001: Researcher on EU Framework 5 project on Neighbourhood Housing Models (NEHOM), value £40,000
• 2000-2001: Principle Consultant: Restructuring and transformation of urbanised areas in the North West Metropolitan Region (Reurba) – funded through European Regional Development Fund (Interreg 11 C), value, £50,000, PI
• 2000: Social inclusion scoping study for the Regional Development Agency, One NorthEast, value £30,000 – Co-I
• 1999: Principle Researcher: Newcastle case study of the DETR’s Co-ordination of Area Based initiatives Programme (CABI). 
• 1998: Primary Researcher: ERSC Cities: Competitiveness and Cohesion Programme project on the Economic Framing and Social Negotiation of Urban Property Markets, undertaken collaboratively with Sheffield University.
• 1996-98: Oxford Centre for Staff Development for a project related efficient teaching practices, value £1500. Co-I
• 1995-98: HEFCE DevR (Oxford Brookes) funding for project entitled `Risk, Commercial Insurance and the Built Environment: value, £25,830

Professor Coaffee has a number of management roles within the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences:

• School Director of Research
• Director of the Centre for Urban and Regional Studies
• Academic lead for the Resilience and Urban Living Initiative
• Academic lead for the Research Excellence Framework submission to Unit of Assessment 17: Geography and Environmental Studies

Professor Coaffee is on the Editorial Board of the following journals:

• Journal of Regeneration and Renewal
• Urban Design and Planning (Institute of Civil Engineers)
• International Journal of Public Sector Management

Authored books

• Fussey, P., Coaffee, J., Armstrong, G., and Hobbs, R. (2011) Sustaining and Securing the Olympic City: reconfiguring London for 2012 and beyond. Farnham: Ashgate.
• Coaffee, J. (2009) Terrorism, Risk and the Global City – towards urban resilience, Ashgate, Farnham.
• Coaffee, J., Murkami-Wood, D and Rogers, P. (2008) The Everyday Resilience of the City: How Cities Respond to Terrorism and Disaster, Palgrave/Macmillian.
• Coaffee, J. (2003) Terrorism, Risk and the City, Ashgate, Aldershot

Academic Journal Papers

• Coaffee, J. (under review) From Securitisation to Integrated Place Making: Towards Next Generation Urban Resilience in Planning Practice, commissioned by Planning Practice and Research for a special issue on ‘Deconstructing Resilience
• Coaffee, J. (2012) Policy transfer, legacy and major sporting events: lessons for London 2012 and beyond, International Journal of Sports Policy and Politics (in press)
• Fussey, P. and Coaffee, J.  (2012) Balancing Local and Global Security Leitmotifs: Counter-Terrorism and the Spectacle Of Mega-Sport Events, International Review of Sociology of Sport (advanced online publication February 2012)
• Fussey, P., Coaffee, J., Hobbs, D. and Armstrong, G. (2012) The Late-modern Olympics and the suburban theme park, British Journal of Sociology (In Press)
• Evans, B; Crooks, L. and Coaffee, J. (2012) Fatness/obesity and the city: critical urban geographies, Geography Compass 6(2), 100–110.
• Coaffee, J. and Fussy, P. (2012) Resilient planning for mega sporting events: designing and managing safe and secure urban places, URBE (Brazilian Journal of Urban Management) (in press)
• Rogers C.D.F., Bouch C.J., Williams S., Barber A.R.G., Baker C.J., Bryson J.R., Chapman D.N., Chapman L., Coaffee J., Jefferson, I. and Quinn A.D. (2011 ) Resistance and Resilience – Paradigms for Critical Local Infrastructure – Proceedings of the Institute of Civil Engineers: Mechanical Engineering (in press)
• Coaffee, J., Fussey, P., and Moore, C. (2011) ‘Laminating security for London 2012: Enhancing security infrastructures to defend mega sporting events’, Urban Studies, 48 (15), 3311-3328
• Coaffee, J. and O’Hare, P. (2011) Co-Opting Urban Planners into the ‘‘War on Terror’’: A ‘‘Balanced Way’’ for Domestic Security, part of, Jacoby, T. et al (ed) The Forum: Dealing with the Aftermath of Political Violence, International Studies Review, 13, 2, 376-85
• Coaffee, J. Rowlands, R. & Trickett, L. (2010) Collective Memories of Place, Report for the Homes and Communities Agency (London, HCA)
• Coaffee, J. (2010) Protecting vulnerable cities: the UK resilience response to defending everyday urban infrastructure, International Affairs, 86 (4) 939-54
• O’Hare, P., Coaffee, J. and Hawkesworth, M. (2010) Managing sensitive relations in co-produced planning research, Public Money and Management, 30 (4) 243-251
• Coaffee, J. (2009) Protecting the Urban: the dangers of planning for terrorism Theory, Culture & Society 2009, 26(7–8): 343–355
• Coaffee, J., O'Hare, P., and Hawkesworth, M. (2009) The Visibility of (In)security: The Aesthetics of Planning Urban Defences Against Terrorism, Security Dialogue 2009; 40; 489-511
• Coaffee, J. (2009) How will regeneration be recast in economic recession? Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, Vol. 2, 4, 301–303
• Coaffee, J. (2009) What is the role and responsibility of planners and urban designers? (Board member commentary), Proceeding of the Institute of Civil Engineers: Urban Design and Planning, 162, Issue DP1, 35-36.
• Coaffee, J. and O’Hare, P. (2008) Urban resilience and national security: the role for planners, Proceeding of the Institute of Civil Engineers: Urban Design and Planning, 161, Issue DP4, 171-182.
• Coaffee, J. (2008) Risk, resilience, and environmentally sustainable cities, Energy Policy, 36 (12) 4633-4638
• Coaffee, J. (2008) Sport, culture and the modern state; emerging themes in stimulating urban regeneration in the UK, International Journal of Cultural Policy, 14 (4), 377-397
• Coaffee, J. and Bosher, L. (2008) Urban resilience: an international perspective (Guest editorial), Proceeding of the Institute of Civil Engineers: Urban Design and Planning, Vol. 161, Issue DP4, 145-146.
• Coaffee, J. and Rogers, P. (2008)  Reputational risk and resiliency: The branding of security in place-making, Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, 4 (3) 205-17
• Coaffee, J. and Van Ham, P. (2008) ‘Security branding’: The role of security in marketing the city, region and state (Guest Editorial) Place Branding and public Diplomacy, 4 (3) 191-94,
• Coaffee, J., Moore, C., Fletcher, D. and Bosher, L. (2008) Resilient design for community safety & terror-resistant cities, Proceeding of the Institute of Civil Engineers: Municipal Engineer, Vol 161, Issue ME2, 103-110.
• Coaffee, J. and Bosher, L. (2008) Integrating counter-terrorist resilience into sustainability, Proceeding of the Institute of Civil Engineers: Urban Design and Planning, Vol 161, Issue DP”, 75-84
  Winner of the Institute of Civil Engineers Reed and Malik medal for best ICE Urban design-related paper of 2008-9)
• Coaffee, J., Diamond, J., and Liddle, J. (2008) The Evaluation of Regeneration: Concept, Practice and Process, Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, Vol. 2, No.1, pp.5-6
• Coaffee, J., Diamond, J., (2008) Reflections on the role of the evaluator: Recognising value for money and creative learning within regeneration evaluation, Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, Vol. 2, No.1, pp. 86-99
• Coaffee, J. and Deas, I. (2008) The search for policy innovative in urban governance: Lessons from community-led regeneration partnerships, Public Policy and Administration, 23, 1, 167-188
• Coaffee, J. and Rogers, P. (2008) Rebordering the city for new security challenges: From Counter Terrorism to Community Resilience, Space and Polity, 12, 2, 101-118
• Coaffee, J. and Headlam, N. (2008) Pragmatic localism uncovered: experiences from English urban policy reform, Geoforum  39 (4) 1585–1599
• Baker, M., Coaffee, J., and Sheriff, G. (2006) Achieving Successful participation in the new spatial planning system, Planning Practice and Research, 22:1, 79-93
• Coaffee, J. and Murakami Wood, D (2006) ‘Security is coming home – Rethinking scale and constructing resilience in the global urban response to terrorist risk, International Relations  20(4) 503-17
• Coaffee, J. (2006) ‘From counter-terrorism to resilience’, European Legacy - Journal of the International Society for the study of European Ideas (ISSEI) 11.4, 389-403
• Coaffee, J. (2006) ‘New security challenges and urban resilience – planning out terrorism and risk in central London (Stedelijke veiligheid en veerkracht), AGORA – Tijdschrift Voor social-Ruimtelijke Vraagstukken (Dutch Social Science Journal), 22 (1), 16-19
• Coaffee, J. (2005) Urban renaissance in the age of terrorism – revanchism, social control or the end of reflection? International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 29 (2) 447-54
• Coaffee, J. (2005) ‘Shock of the new’ – complexity and emerging rationales for Partnership working, Public Policy and Administration, 20 (3), Autumn 2005, 23-41
• Rogers, P. and Coaffee, J. and. (2005) Moral Panics and Urban Renaissance: Policy, Tactics and Lived Experiences in Public Space, City, 9 (3), 321-40
• Coaffee, J. and Shaw. T. (2005) The liveability agenda: new regionalism, liveability and the untapped potential of sport and recreation, Town Planning Review, 76 (2) i-v
• Cameron, S. and Coaffee, J. (2005) Art, Gentrification and Regeneration – from artist as pioneer to Public arts, European Journal of Housing Studies, 5 (1) 39-58.
• Coaffee, J. (2005) New Localism and the management of regeneration, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 18(2) 108-113
• Coaffee, J. and Johnston, L. (2005) The management of local government modernisation – area decentralisation and pragmatic localism, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 18(3) 164-177
• Coaffee, J. (2004) Re-scaling regeneration – experiences of merging area-based and city-wide partnerships in urban policy, The International Journal of Public Sector Management. Vol. 17,(5 ) 443-61.
  This paper was awarded a Citation of Excellence by Emerald Management Reviews as one of the top papers (out of 20,000) of 2004
• Coaffee, J. (2004) Rings of steel, rings of concrete and rings of confidence: designing out terrorism in central London pre and post 9/11, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol. 28.1, 201-11.
• Coaffee, J. (2003) Morphing the counter-terrorist response – Beating the bombers in London’s financial heart, Knowledge, Technology and Power (US Journal), Vol.16 (2), 63-83.
• Coaffee, J. and Healey P. (2003) My Voice My Place: Tracking Transformations in Urban Governance, Urban Studies, 40(10), 1960-1978.
• Coaffee, J. and Shaw, T. (2003) Regional Experiences of Sport Led Regeneration, Northern Economic Review 33/334, Spring, 45-64.

Review articles

• Coaffee, J. (2011) Planning in resilience against terrorism, Crisis Response Journal, 6(4) 48-49
• Coaffee, J. (2007) Terrorist-proofing the City, Social Science Teacher, Vol 37 (1), pp 7-10 

Book chapters

• Coaffee, J. (2012) Policy transfer, legacy and major sporting events: lessons for London 2012 and beyond, in Grix, J. et al (eds,) Fit for London 2012, (London: Routledge) in press.
• Fussey, P. and Coaffee, J, (2011, in press) Urban Spaces of Surveillance, International Handbook of Surveillance Studies, Ball, K, et al Eds, London: Routledge, in press
• Fussey, P., and Coaffee, J. (2011) ‘Olympic Rings of Steel: Constructing security for 2012 and beyond’, in C. Bennett and K. Haggerty (eds.) The Security Games; surveillance and control at mega events (London: Routledge), 36-54
• Coaffee, J. (2011) Strategic security planning and the resilient design of Olympic sites, in Richards, A. et al Terrorism and the Olympics: Major event security and lessons for the future, Routledge, London. 118-132
• O’Hare, P, Coaffee, J. and Hawkesworth, M. (2010) Managing Sensitive Social Relations in Planning Policy Research: Co-Production and Critical Friendship in the Enterprising University  in Allen, C and Imrie, R. The Knowledge Business: The Commodification of Urban and Housing Research, Ashgate, Farnham, 149-168
• Coaffee, J. and Fussey, P. (2010) ‘Olympic Security’, in J. Gold and M. Gold (eds.) Olympic Cities: City Agendas, Planning, and the World’s Games, 1896 to 2016, 2nd Edition, London: Routledge, 167-179
• Coaffee, J. (2010) Urban Regeneration and Renewal at the Olympics’, in Gold, J.R and Gold, M. (eds) Olympic Cities: Urban Planning, City Agendas and the World’s Games, 1896 to the present, Routledge, London (second Edition)., 180-193
• Coaffee, J. (2010) A New Deal for Communities in Newcastle: innovating neighbourhood regeneration policy in the context of a strong central government, UK, Moulaert, F. et al, Can Neighbourhoods Save the City?, Routledge Abingdon, pp. 141-152
• Coaffee, J. (2009) The resilient response to economic terrorist targeting in the UK, in Richardson, H. et al, Global Business and the terrorist threat Edward Elgar, Cheltenham , pp. 92-118
• Coaffee. J. and Rogers, P. (2009) Rebordering the city for new security challenges: From Counter Terrorism to Community Resilience, in Rumford, C. (ed) Citizens and Borderwork in Contemporary Europe, Routeldge, 101-118
• Coaffee, J. (2008) Security planning in the resilient city, in Bosher, L (ed) Hazards and the Built Environment: addressing Disaster, Risk Reduction in Construction, Taylor and Francis, pp.300-317
• Coaffee, J. and Murakami Wood, D. (2008) Terrorism and Surveillance, in Hall, T, et al, The SAGE Companion to the city, Sage, London pp.352-372.
• Murakami Wood, D. and Coaffee, J. (2007) ‘Lockdown! Resilience, Resurgence and the Stage-set City’, in R. Atkinson and G. Helms (ed.) Securing the Urban Renaissance, Bristol: Policy Press, pp.91-106
• Johnston, L. and Coaffee, J. and (2007) Managing involvement, in Diamond, J. et al Regeneration Management, Routledge, London, pp. 73-86
• Coaffee, J. (2007) Urban Regeneration and the Olympic Experience, in Gold, J.R and Gold, M. (eds) Olympic Cities: Urban Planning, City Agendas and the World’s Games, 1896 to the present, Routledge, London, pp.150-164.
• Coaffee, J. and Johnston, L. (2007) Accommodating the spectacle, in Gold, J.R and Gold, M. (eds) Olympic Cities: Urban Planning, City Agendas and the World’s Games, 1896 to the present, Routledge, London pp.138-149.
• Johnston, L. and Coaffee, J. (2005) Managing Change, Complexity and Pragmatism in Local Government Modernisation – Experiences of Area Decentralisation, Regeneration Management: Essays on Working with Complexity, Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES), Manchester.
• Coaffee, J. (2004) Recasting the ‘ring of steel’:  Designing out terrorism in the City of London, in Graham, S. and Marvin, S. ‘Cities, War and Terrorism’, Blackwell, Oxford, p.276-96.
• Coaffee, J. (2004) Transforming the counter-terrorism response, in Clarke, D.  (ed), Technology and Terrorism, Transaction, New Brunswick/London, p.193-216.
• Coaffee, J. (2000) Fortification, fragmentation and the threat of terrorism in the City of London, in Gold, J.R and Revill, G.E, (eds) Landscapes of Defence, Addison Wesley Longman London, p.114-129. 

Professional Journal Papers 

• Coaffee, J., Moore, C and Barnard-Wills, D (2009) Terrorism and Crowded Places: Lessons from Mumbai, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Homeland Security and Resilience Monitor, October, 17-18
• Hawkesworth, M and Coaffee, J (2009)  Regulating for anti-terror design, Industrial and Building Regulations Handbook, 2009, pp.8-10
• Coaffee, J. (2008) Redesigning counter-terrorism for soft targets, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) Homeland Security and Resilience Monitor, March, Vol 7, No 2, 16-17
• Coaffee, J. (2004) ‘End of the growth drive’, Regeneration and Renewal, July 2^nd, p.20
• Coaffee, J. (2001) ‘Newcastle’s Going for Growth Strategy’, Regeneration and Renewal, August 3^rd.