The role of Research and Academia PCG (RAPCG) is to:
The RAPCG is an independent thematic platform drawn to provide aggregated summary positions and to coordinate localization activities between PCGs.
RAPCG is part of a global research community including universities, research organisations and independent researchers and creates one bridge between UN-Habitat and other UN agencies.
The Research and Academia PCG has over 251 active members from North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.
Individual members belong to many other networks: The Urban Thinkers, SDSN, ISOCARP, the newly formed Global Pandemic Network. Many have contributed to the UN-Habitat Global Lecture Series.
Dr. Dory Reeves is a qualified planner, and Fellow of the RTPI, specialising in planning for diversity, equality, inclusion and place making. She has worked in the public sector in the UK and between 2008 and 2018 held the post of Professor of Planning at the University of Auckland, New Zealand and involved in Te whaihanga to better prepare built environment professionals to work with Māori.
She lives in Scotland and as a freelance consultant, undertakes a range of research, capacity building and assessment work. She is a member of New Zealand’s MBIE’s college of assessors, external examiner for Sheffield Hallam Uni and UWI. Locally she volunteers time to Plastic Free Helensburgh and has been involved in the community’s Local Place Plan.
2026 Planning Gives - Women and Girls Gain, WIP BLOG https://www.womeninplanning.org/post/iwd-2026-planning-gives-women-and-girls-gain
2026 Reeves and MacArthur (2 chapters) Feminist Climate Policy in Industrialised States. A Gender Just Climate Emergency Response launched. Edited by Susan Buckingham, Martin Hultman, Gunnhildur Lily Magnusdottir, and Karen Morrow
2023 Reflections on The Gender Mainstreaming Toolkit, WIP BLOG https://www.womeninplanning.org/post/reflections-on-the-gender-mainstreaming-toolkit
2022 Reeves, D. Women planners – 1996 revisited, Town Planning Review Special Issue.
2022 Reeves, D. Chapter 8. Cities and urban governance: emerging planning tools/policy levers – Dory Reeves (lead), in Environmental Politics and Policy in Aotearoa New Zealand. Editors: M Bargh, Māori Studies/Te Kawa a Māui, Victoria University of Wellington, JL MacArthur, Politics and International Relations, University of Auckland.
2021 Reeves, D. Innovating Streets - Streets4Everyone Monitoring and Evaluation Report, Prepared for: The Tāmaki Regeneration Company.
2021 Reeves, D. Innovating Streets – Community Play Streets Pilot, Tāmaki Makaurau, Monitoring and Evaluation Report, Prepared for Auckland Council.
2020 Reeves, D. Auckland Case Study in ‘Effectiveness of Planning Law in Land-Rich Developed Countries’, Nairobi, UN-Habitat.
2020 Reeves, D. E. Gender and Planning - Experiences from Aotearoa New Zealand. In I. Sanchez Madriaga, & M. Neuman (Eds.), Engendering Cities: Designing Sustainable urban Spaces for All. London: Routledge
2020 Shaw, C., Russell, M., Keall, M., MacBride, S., Wild, K., Reeves, D., Bentley, R., Woodward, A. Beyond the bicycle: seeing the context of the gender gap in cycling, Journal of Transport and Health, Vol 18, Sep.
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