International Development Planning Review (IDPR) is a peer-reviewed journal which provides an interdisciplinary platform for the critical study of development related practices, planning and policy in the global South. We hear from the co-editors of the journal, Daniel Hammett (University of Sheffield) & Glyn Williams (University of Sheffield), about the introduction of two new sections which will raise up the voices of early career researchers and provide an overview of recent research.

New Voices

New Voices pieces are shorter articles (target length 4-5,000 words) aimed at providing a platform for new authors and early career academics – in particular those from the global south – to publish shorter pieces of original research that relate to the journal’s mission. All submissions are subject to full peer review, but will receive enhanced editorial support, for example through discussing proposals for articles at outline stage, and offering feedback before articles are sent out for review. All New Voices pieces need to meet the same presentational standards required of our regular full-length articles, but our intention is to broaden the diversity and inclusivity of authors represented within the journal by offering the flexibility of an alternative format and a degree of mentoring support.

Debates

Debates pieces are, again, shorter articles (target length 4-5,000 words) and will provide a clear overview of recent research and related debates in a subject area within IDPR’s remit, mapping these out for a broad audience (researchers, practitioners and, in particular, students). These will be subject to a lighter peer review process, and their primary purpose is to explain and present current research, rather than necessarily make an original theoretical contribution to knowledge in their own right.

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Dr Lakshmi Priya Rajendran
Inaugural New Voices and Debates Editor

Dr Lakshmi Priya Rajendran is currently a Lecturer in Environmental and Spatial Equity and Co-Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, UK. She is also the Co-chair for the UCL’s Environment Research domain and Academic co-chair for the  UCL Advisory Group on Climate Change and Health. Lakshmi is an architect and urbanist. Her teaching and research interests deal with city imaginaries, decoloniality, critical social and digital media, spatial representation and practice, identity negotiations, and cultural encounters in contemporary cities. She is particularly interested in an interdisciplinary understanding of social, spatial, temporal and material practices in cities and a comparative study of these practices in the Global South.

Lakshmi has led several externally funded projects, some of them include collaborative project in India (PI, ESRC-GCRF funded, Inclusive and Resilient Peri-urban Planning and development (ongoing)), Turkey (PI, Newton Funded, Heritage-led Urban Resilience Planning for Smart-Cities), Brazil (Co-I, Research England-GCRF funded, Socio-ecological sustainability planning and management), UK (Co-I, NERC funded, Flood Resilience Planning and Environmental Assessment Transnational; Royal Academy of Engineering funded Frontiers Champion Award; and Peri-urban and Environment Resilience in the Global South). Currently she is leading a two-year research project Transgressing ‘Good’ Cities: Decolonising City Narratives for Just Urban Futures (2022-2024), funded by the British Academy’s Knowledge Frontiers: International Interdisciplinary Research funding programme.

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