PhD (Bristol), BA (Town Planning)(Hons) (Polytechnic of the South Bank, London)
Deputy Director (Gold Coast), Urban Research Program
Director, Griffith Climate Change Response Program
Professor of Urban Management and Planning, Griffith School of Environment
Contact details for Professor Paul Burton
Research expertise
- Planning ethnographies: Identity, purpose and performance among Australian planners
- Theory and practice of public participation and community engagement: The development and application of more robust measures of the costs and benefits of engagement
- Gold Coast urbanisation: The emergence of a distinctive form of urbanisation and related planning regimes for the Gold Coast
- Planning and climate change adaptation: Relations between citizens and local political institutions in situations of multi-level governance
- Policy research: How research informs policy processes and how we understand and explain policy making
- Evaluation theory and methodologies: Developing robust and focused evaluation designs
- Local government and local politics: The relations between citizens and their representatives, the challenges of civic leadership, new practices of local democracy, multi-level governance
- Spaces for democracy: How interior and exterior spaces shape the practices of democratic politics
Selected publications
- Smith, I., Dodson, J., Gleeson, B. and Burton, P. (2010) 'Growing adaptively? Responding to climate change through spatial planning in England and Australia', Research Paper 31, Urban Research Program, Griffith University.
- Burton, P. (2010) 'Business as usual? Responding to the GFC on the Gold Coast', Journal of Australian Political Economy, 64: 188-198.
- Burton, P. and Johnson, L. (2010) 'Getting on and getting around: Transport, mobility and disadvantage', in Gleeson, B. and Steele, W. (eds) A climate for growth: Planning South-East Queensland, Brisbane, UQ Press.
- Burton, P. (2009) 'Conceptual, theoretical and practical issues in measuring the benefits of public participation', Evaluation, 15(3): 263-284.
- Burton, P. (2006) 'Modernising the Policy Process: Making policy research more significant', Policy Studies, 27(3):173-195.
- Burton, P., Goodlad, R. and Croft, J. (2006) 'How would we know what works? Context and complexity in the evaluation of community involvement', Evaluation, 12(3):294-312.
- Burton, P., Goodlad, R. and Croft, J. (2005) 'Effectiveness at what? The processes and impact of community involvement in area-based initiatives', Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 23(6):923-938.
- Burton, P. (2004) 'Power to the people: how to judge public participation', Local Economy, 19(3):193-198.