Dr Diana MacCallum

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Posgrad.Dip. Urban and Regional Planning (Curtin), PhD (Curtin)

Lecturer, Griffith School of Environment

Contact details for Dr Diana MacCallum

Research Expertise 

• Governance practices and processes
• Grass-roots action as an element of urban and regional development
  
• Public involvement in planning and policy making
• Strategic regional planning
• Research methodologies in planning and planning scholarship
• Critical Discourse Analysis
• Links between theory, research and praxix
  

Currently Teaching

• 4047ENV/7097ENV:  Public Involvement and Community Development
• 1027ENV/7027ENV:  Introductory Planning Studio
• 2057ENV7077ENV:   Urban Analysis
  

Selected Publications

Refereed Journal Article:

• MacCallum, D. 2009: Practising governance: multi-party decision making in a multi-scalar context, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 3(2): 92-117.
• MacCallum, D. 2008: Participatory planning and means-end rationality: a translation problem, Planning Theory and Practice 9(3): 325-343.
  

Book:

MacCallum, D. 2009:  Discourse Dynamics in Participatory Planning: Opening the Bureaucracy to Strangers, Ashgate, Aldershot.

Refereed Book Chapters:

• MacCallum, D. 2005: Consent and Resistance: A case study of participatory decision making, Consensus and Consent, ed. Hillier, J. and Cryle, D., API Network, Perth: 351-370.
• MacCallum, D. 2002: Breaking the mould without breaking the rules: discursive struggles in a local land use planning committee, Undisciplined Thoughts, ed. O'Connor, P. and Scott, J., Black Swan Press, Perth: 199-213.
  

Edited Books:

• MacCallum, D., Moulaert, F., Hillier, J. and Vicari-Haddock, S. (ed.) 2009: Social Innovation and Territorial Development, Ashgate, Farnham.
• Haswell, J. and MacCallum, D. (ed.) 2003: Liveable Communities, Black Swan Press, Perth. 
  

Conference Papers:

• MacCallum, D. and Byrne, J. 2009: ‘(Ignoring) Alternative Discourses in Local Climate Change Policy: A SEQ Study’, State of Australian Cities, University of Western Australia, Perth, November.
• MacCallum, D. and Hopkins, D. 2009: ‘Style-Substance, Structure-Agency: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Strategic Metropolitan Planning Documents in Perth, WA’, Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning, University of Liverpool, UK, July.
• MacCallum, D. 2008: ‘Practising governance: multi-party decision making in a multi-scalar context’, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, July.
• MacCallum, D., Moulaert, F. and Hillier, J. 2008: ‘KATARSIS: Growing inequality and social innovation: alternative knowledge and practice in overcoming social exclusion in Europe’, UK-Ireland Planning Research Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, March.
• Moulaert, F. and MacCallum, D. 2008: ‘KATARSIS: Growing inequality and social innovation: alternative knowledge and practice in overcoming social exclusion in Europe’, Think and Act: Social Cohesion in Europe, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, February.
• Hillier, J. and MacCallum, D. 2008: ‘Public participation as rocket science? Deleuzean-inspired tracings from a case of strategic spatial planning’, Connecting People, Participation and Place: an international conference of participatory geographies, Durham University, January.
• MacCallum, D. 2007: ‘Good practice in collaborative planning: tensions between levels of institutional achievement’, Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning: Planning for the Risk Society, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, July.
• MacCallum, D. 2007: ‘Discourse dynamics in participatory planning’, (2007) Postgraduate Conference in English Language and Linguistics: Critical Discourse Analysis, Aston University, Birmingham, June.
• MacCallum, D. 2004: ‘Participatory planning as a “cross-cultural” discursive practice’, Annual Conference of the Australian Systemic Functional linguistics Association: SFL Ripples in the 21st Century, Brisbane, July.
• MacCallum, D. 2002: ‘Do the means justify the ends? The relationship between collaborative planning processes and their presentation to the public’, Annual Conference of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning: Waters and Shores, Baltimore, November.
• MacCallum, D. 2002: ‘Three Dimensional Decision Making: Interpersonal and Textual Meanings in Committee Discourse’, Annual Congress of the Association of European Schools of Planning: Planning in Border Regions, University of Thessaly, Volos, July.
• MacCallum, D. 2001: ‘Breaking the mould without breaking the rules’, Humanities Postgraduate Conference: Undisciplined Thoughts, Curtin University, Perth, November.