Patsy Healey is professor emeritus in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape at Newcastle University. She has qualifications in geography and planning and is a specialist in planning theory and practice, with a particular interest in strategic spatial planning for city regions and in urban regeneration policies. She is also known for her work on planning theory. Patsy is a past President of the Association of European Schools of Planning, was awarded an OBE in 1999, became an Honorary Fellow of the Association of European Planners in 2004, and in October 2006 she was awarded the Royal Town Planning Institute's (RTPI) Gold Medal Award on outstanding achievement in the field of town and country planning, the first woman ever to receive the award in its 53 year history. She was awarded an Ordinary Fellowship from the British Academy in 2009, demonstrating her outstanding achievements in the field of planning theory. She is the author of numerous journal articles and books including Collaborative Planning: Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies (2006), Urban Complexity and Spatial Strategy: Towards a Relational Planning for Our Times (2007) and Making Better Places: The Planning Project in the Twenty-First Century (2010).

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