Nick Gallent

Nick Gallent began his career at the University of Wales, completing doctoral research into the supply of housing in rural areas and the effectiveness of emergent 'planning and affordable housing' mechanisms, in 1995. He then worked at Cardiff and Manchester Universities before taking up a lectureship at UCL in 1999. He is a geographer by training and was elected a Chartered Member of both the Royal Town Planning Institute and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors in 2002 and 2007 respectively. He became a RICS Fellow in 2014, a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (AcSS) in 2015 and a Fellow of the RTPI in 2017. He maintains a range of professional interests and was Chair of the RTPI's Partnership and Accreditation Panel until 2018. He was Head of the Bartlett School of Planning for 8 years between 2011 and 2019.

Nick Gallent is a housing specialist whose research focuses on UK planning policy as it pertains to housing delivery and as it affects rural communities. He has conducted research for a wide range of funding bodies. His research has been disseminated in 17 published books, mainly dealing with housing, planning, rural communities and the countryside, and in a large number of peer-reviewed articles and book contributions. Recent research has focused on:

Planning for housing in the UK
The UK housing crisis
Securing affordable housing through planning
Countryside planning and rural communities
Rural housing markets, second homes and counterurbanisation
Housing standards
Community governance, planning and housing development
Residential development processes and politics

Nick Gallent is a university teacher with 25 years’ experience in higher education. He has taught across a range of topics but currently focuses on planning for housing and countryside planning, having co-authored key course texts on these subjects. He spent 14 years at UCL coordinating professional MSc planning programmes. He was Faculty Tutor for MSc Students across the Faculty of the Built Environment between 2010 and 2014, and in that capacity served as a member of UCL's MSc Scholarships Panel. Nick is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and completed professional training as a University teacher at Manchester in 1998. He has contributed, as guest lecturer, to teaching programmes at the Universities of Manchester and Nottingham, at London South Bank University and the LSE, and also at the Department of Urban Studies at Roma 3.