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  1. Civic capitals at risk: the fragile foundations of the civic university

    Article • July 2025, Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr Julian Dobson

  2. Anchor institutions in the changing city: The university’s role in shaping the Future High Street

    Article • Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, June 2025, Henry Stewart Publications

    Dr Julian Dobson, Dr Tosh Warwick

  3. Environmental wellbeing: a concept and principles for research, policy and action

    Article • Local Environment, May 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Dobson

  4. Resourcing universities to increase their civic impact: meeting challenges of communication, complexity and commitment

    Article • Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, February 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Dobson

  5. Book review - The Unsettling Outdoors: Environmental estrangement in everyday life

    Article • People Place and Policy Online, October 2024, Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr Julian Dobson

  6. Editorial: Post-election special issue

    Article • People Place and Policy Online, October 2024, Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr Julian Dobson

  7. Jeevendrampillai, David. Citizenship, democracy and belonging in suburban Britain: making the local. xviii, 210 pp., illus., bibliogr. London: UCL Press, 2021. £25.00 (paper)

    Article • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, October 2024, Wiley

    Dr Julian Dobson

  8. Commoning Civics: Exchanges of Knowledge Beyond the ‘Civic University’

    Article • New Formations, June 2024, Lawrence and Wishart

    Dr Julian Dobson

  9. Boosterism and belonging: ‘pride in place’ and the levelling-up agenda

    Article • People Place and Policy Online, November 2023, Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr Julian Dobson

  10. Why the Time Is Right for a Civic Turn

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julian Dobson

  11. Bringing Civic Impact to Life

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julian Dobson

  12. Path Clearing, Policy Acceleration or Trend Reinforcement: Potential Implications of Selected Local Government Responses to Covid-19 in the UK

    Article • International Review of Public Policy, January 2023, OpenEdition

    Dr Julian Dobson

  13. Why geographers shouldn’t stop caring about the high street

    Article • January 2023, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

    Dr Julian Dobson

  14. Public Realm

    Article • December 2022, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Dobson

  15. Paradise Regained? Localised and Limited Nature Connexions in the UK's Covid-19 Lockdown

    Article • Frontiers in Sustainable Cities, December 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Julian Dobson

  16. Wellbeing and blue‐green space in post‐pandemic cities: Drivers, debates and departures

    Article • Geography Compass, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Julian Dobson

  17. Parks in a Pandemic: Attachments, Absences, and Exclusions

    Article • July 2021, Policy Press

    Dr Julian Dobson

  18. Local Government Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic in the UK: A Thematic Review

    Article • March 2021, Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr Julian Dobson

  19. Planning for sociable green spaces after COVID-19

    Article • Town Planning Review, March 2021, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Julian Dobson

  20. Known but not done: how logics of inaction limit the benefits of urban green spaces

    Article • Landscape Research, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Dobson

  21. The magic of the mundane: The vulnerable web of connections between urban nature and wellbeing

    Article • Cities, January 2021, Elsevier

    Dr Paul Brindley, Dr Julian Dobson

  22. A part and yet apart: how third sector visions of carbon reduction are both welcomed and marginalised

    Article • Voluntary Sector Review, July 2020, Policy Press

    Dr Julian Dobson

  23. Mind the Gap: Does What We Know About Greenspace and Wellbeing Change What We Do?

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julian Dobson

  24. Realigning Knowing and Doing: An Agenda for Reflection and Action

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julian Dobson

  25. Why Practice Doesn’t Make Perfect

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Julian Dobson

  26. Applying the pathways to nature connectedness at a societal scale: a leverage points perspective

    Article • Ecosystems and People, January 2020, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Dobson

  27. Working out What Works: The Role of Tacit Knowledge Where Urban Greenspace Research, Policy and Practice Intersect

    Article • Sustainability, September 2019, MDPI AG

    Dr Julian Dobson

  28. Book Review

    Article • Town Planning Review, May 2019, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Julian Dobson

  29. Reinterpreting urban institutions for sustainability: How epistemic networks shape knowledge and logics

    Article • Environmental Science & Policy, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Julian Dobson

  30. From contest to context: urban green space and public policy

    Article • People Place and Policy Online, December 2018, Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr Julian Dobson

  31. Book Reviews

    Article • Town Planning Review, March 2018, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Julian Dobson, Dr Sebastian Dembski

  32. From ‘me towns’ to ‘we towns’: activist citizenship in UK town centres

    Article • Citizenship Studies, September 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Dobson

  33. Book Reviews

    Article • Town Planning Review, May 2017, Liverpool University Press

    Dr Chandrima Mukhopadhyay, Dr Julian Dobson, Professor Tony Champion

  34. Book Review - The Metropolitan Revolution: How Cities and Metros Are Fixing Our Broken Politics and Fragile Economy

    Article • People Place and Policy Online, November 2016, Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr Julian Dobson

  35. From Crown to commons?

    Article • June 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Julian Dobson

  36. Why we need to rethink high street economies

    Article • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, May 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Dobson

  37. Britain’s town centres: From resilience to transition

    Article • Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, June 2015, Henry Stewart Publications

    Dr Julian Dobson

  38. Achieving food equity: Access to good local food for all

    Article • Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, January 2015, Henry Stewart Publications

    Dr Julian Dobson

  39. High Street Regeneration and Rebranding Pushing Portas further: Life beyond the butcher, baker and candlestick maker

    Article • Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, January 2013, Henry Stewart Publications

    Dr Julian Dobson

  40. What Happens to the Best-laid Plans?

    Article • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, November 2008, SAGE Publications

    Dr Julian Dobson

  41. Reading the future : constructing low-carbon imaginaries in urban institutions

    Article • Sheffield Hallam University

    Dr Julian Dobson