Rate My Professor Clare Mouat

Dr Clare Mouat is a lecturer in the School of Agriculture and Environment within the Faculty of Science at the University of Western Australia. She earned her PhD from Massey University and holds a Master of Arts with First Class Honours, Bachelor of Arts, and Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Auckland, all completed by 1995. Her research specializations encompass human geography and planning, with focuses on community governance, health and wellbeing, strategic metropolitan planning, conflict resolution in planning disputes, vertical studentification, urban revitalisation through digital urbanism, and socio-ecological values of urban greening and native gardens. Mouat contributes to UWA's EcoPeoPle: Ecology, People Place Research Group and the Digital Humanities Research Cluster. She has spoken at TEDxUWA Salon on human geography and planning topics.

Mouat's career includes her role at UWA since 2012, previous position as Urban Planning Lecturer in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne from 2009 to 2012, and current Senior Lecturer in Resource and Environmental Planning at Massey University. She previously served as Masters Student Engagement Coordinator in UWA's School of Agriculture and Environment, organising visits and events. Key publications include 'Symbolic violence and victimization in planning processes: A reconnoitre of the New Zealand Resource Management Act' (2002, Planning Theory, 87 citations), 'The problem is the solution: Testing agonistic theory's potential to recast intractable planning disputes' (2013, Urban Policy and Research, 76 citations), 'The rise (and rise) of vertical studentification: Exploring the drivers of studentification in Australia' (2021, Urban Studies, 61 citations), 'Limits and potentials to deliberative engagement in highly regulated planning systems: Norm development within fixed rules' (2014, Planning Theory & Practice, 45 citations), 'Activating smart work hubs for urban revitalisation: evidence and implications of digital urbanism for planning and policy from South-East Queensland' (2015, Australian Planner, 30 citations), '(Un)earthly governance: beyond functional frameworks to flourishing spacescapes' (2021), 'The social and ecological values of native gardens along streets: A socio-ecological study in the suburbs of Perth' (2021), and '“Networked coalitions” as metropolitan governance: lessons from the emergence of Australia’s Committees for Cities and Regions' (2019). Her scholarship, with over 440 citations on Google Scholar, advances planning theory, urban sustainability, and harmonious community development.