Background

Introduction

Andrew has a background in natural and social sciences. His current work sits at the interface of Science and Technology Studies, Geography and Environmental Planning.

Roles and Responsibilities

Associate Director of Planning

Chair of Board of Examiners (Planning)

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Biology, University of York
MSc (Distinction) Rural Resource and Countryside Management, Newcastle University
PhD, Newcastle University

Honours and Awards

Awarded 2008 Ashby Prize for most innovative paper in Environment and Planning A.

Research

Research Interests

My research concerns environmental knowledges - the ways in which we understand and govern more-than-human worlds. I explore these questions within and between various sciences, academic disciplines, professional groups and publics. Empirically this work has focussed on rural land management, flooding and various aspects of agrifood systems. Across those contexts, I have also looked at how environmental knowledges and expertise interact with other governing concepts, such as: futures/risk/security, critical infrastructures, and interdisciplinarity and participation/public engagement. One current line of my research is concerned with how digital technologies shape environmental knowledges and government. 

Research Projects

Making Provisions: anticipating food emergencies and assembling the food system (January 2015- April 2017) ESRC funded, Principal Investigator

Managing borderlands: adaptive decision making amongst specialists and non-specialists (April 2010 –January 2012) ESRC/BBSRC/NERC funded, Co-Investigator

Science in the Field: Understanding the Changing Role of Expertise in the Rural Economy (April 2008-September 2010) ESRC funded, Co-Investigator.

The Everyday Life of Surveillance, (2008-2010) ESRC funded seminar series, Co-Investigator.

Understanding Environmental Knowledge Controversies (March 2007-May 2010)

ESRC/BBSRC/NERC funded, Affiliated researcher and manager of Newcastle component.

Postgraduate Supervision

Current

Jeongeun Chae "What makes a community resilient to a flood disaster? A case of Seoul in South Korea"

Completed

Dr Tessa Holland "Navigating slow, 'fast' and crafted knowledges: knowing through Cittalsow" (Completed 2018)

Dr Alex Baker "The machinery of eviction: bailiffs, power, resistance and eviction enforcement practices in England and Wales" (Completed 2017)

Dr Helen Coulson "Ecologies of care: an ethnographic study of collective urban food gardens in Edinburgh, Scotland" (Completed 2016)

Dr Paul Cowie "In-Migrant Networks and Knowledge Economies in Rural England" (Completed 2013)

Dr Elizabeth Charles "Community Supported Agriculture in North East England" (Completed 2012)

Dr Justin Armstrong "Veterinary Expertise in the Rural Economy and Policy Making" (Completed 2011)

Dr Richard Lee "Setting Science-Based International Food Standards: Defining Dietary Fibre in the Codex Alimentarius Commission" (Completed 2010)

Dr Katy Wilkinson "Bureaucracy and other stories: Organizing policymaking in DEFRA" (Completed 2009)

Dr Gary Bosworth "Entrepreneurial in-migrants and economic development in rural England" (Completed 2008)

Teaching

Undergraduate Teaching

TCP1025 Social Worlds

TCP1026 Understanding place

TCP3060 Feeding the City

TCP3056 Disasters, Monsters and Mess (Module leader)

Postgraduate Teaching

TCP8929 Planning, Power and People (module leader)

TCP8911 Research Design

Publications

• Articles

  • Donaldson A. Digital from farm to fork: Infrastructures of quality and control in food supply chains. Journal of Rural Studies 2022, 91, 228-235.
  • Brice J, Donaldson A, Midgley J. Strategic ignorance and crises of trust: Un-anticipating futures and governing food supply chains in the shadow of Horsegate. Economy and Society 2020, 49(4), 619-641.
  • Donaldson A, Brice J, Midgley J. Navigating futures: anticipation and food supply chain mapping. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 2020, 45(3), 606-618.
  • Bracken LJ, Oughton EA, Donaldson A, Cook B, Forrester J, Spray C, Cinderby S, Passmore D, Bissett N. Flood risk management, an approach to managing crossborder hazards. Natural Hazards 2016, 82(Supp. 2), 217-240.
  • Forrester J, Cook B, Bracken L, Cinderby S, Donaldson A. Combining participatory mapping with Q-methodology to map stakeholder perceptions of complex environmental problems. Applied Geography 2015, 56, 199-208.
  • Donaldson A, Lane SL, Ward N, Whatmore SJ. Overflowing with issues: following the political trajectories of flooding. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2013, 31(4), 603-618.
  • Proctor A, Donaldson A, Phillipson J, Lowe P. Field expertise in rural land management. Environment and Planning A 2012, 44(7), 1696-1711.
  • Enticott G, Donaldson A, Lowe P, Power M, Proctor A, Wilkinson K. The changing role of veterinary expertise in the food chain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 2011, 366(1573), 1955-1965.
  • Donaldson A, Ward N, Bradley S. Mess Among Disciplines: Interdisciplinarity in environmental research. Environment and Planning A 2010, 42(7), 1521-1536.
  • Wilkinson K, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Beyond Policy Networks: Policy Framing and the Politics of Expertise in the 2001 Foot and Mouth Disease Crisis. Public Administration 2010, 88(2), 331-345.
  • Donaldson A. Biosecurity after the event: Risk politics and animal disease. Environment and Planning A 2008, 40(7), 1552-1567.
  • Donaldson A. Socialising animal disease risk : inventing traceback and re-inventing animals. Genomics, Society and Policy 2007, 3(2), 57-69.
  • Donaldson A. Performing regions: Territorial development and cultural politics in a Europe of the regions. Environment and Planning A 2006, 38(11), 2075-2092.
  • Eden S, Donaldson A, Walker G. Green groups and grey areas: Scientific boundary-work, nongovernmental organisations, and environmental knowledge. Environment and Planning A 2006, 38(6), 1061-1076.
  • Eden S, Donaldson A, Walker G. Structuring subjectivities? Using Q methodology in human geography. Area 2005, 37(4), 413-422.
  • Donaldson A, Wood D. Surveilling strange materialities: Categorisation in the evolving geographies of FMD biosecurity. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2004, 22(3), 373-391.
  • Ward N, Donaldson A, Lowe P. Policy framing and learning the lessons from the UK's foot and mouth disease crisis. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2004, 22(2), 291-306.
  • Donaldson A, Lowe P, Ward N. Virus-crisis-institutional change: The foot and mouth actor network and the governance of rural affairs in the UK. Sociologia Ruralis 2002, 42(3), 201-214.

• Book Chapters

  • Donaldson A. Governing biosecurity. In: Andrew Dobson, Kezia Barker, Sarah L. Taylor, ed. Biosecurity: The Socio-Politics of Invasive Species and Infectious Diseases. Routledge, 2013, pp.61-74.
  • Donaldson A. Surveillance and Non-Humans . In: Ball, K., Haggerty, K., Lyon, D, ed. Routledge Handbook of Surveillance Studies. Oxford: Routledge, 2012, pp.217-224.

• Note

  • Donaldson A, Murakami Wood D. Avian influenza and events in political biogeography. Area 2008, 40(1), 128-130.

• Reports

  • Proctor A, Lowe P, Phillipson J, Donaldson A. Veterinary field expertise: using knowledge gained on the job. London: British Veterinary Association, 2011. Veterinary Record.
  • Proctor A, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Donaldson A. Field Advisers as Agents of Knowledge Exchange. University of Newcastle upon Tyne: Rural Economy and Land Use Programme, 2011. Rural Economy and Land Use Programme Policy and Practice Note Series 30.
  • Stassart P, Bradley S, Donaldson A. Running an interdisciplinary competency group. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2008. Centre for Rural Economy Discussion Paper Series 19.
  • Lee R, Ward N, Wilkinson K, Donaldson A. Foot and mouth - five years on : the legacy of the 2001 foot and mouth crisis for farming and the British countryside. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, 2006. Discussion Paper Series 6.
  • Donaldson A, Heathwaite L, Lane S, Ward N, Whatmore S. Holistic approaches to understanding diffuse land management issues: a framework for interdisciplinary working. Newcastle upon Tyne: Newcastle University, 2005. CRE Discussion Paper 2.
  • Ward N, Donaldson A, Lowe P. The 2001 Foot and Mouth Crisis and the Management of Lesson Learning. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, 2002. Centre for Rural Economy Working Paper 67.
  • Bennett K, Phillipson J, Lowe P, Ward N, Cattermole A, Donaldson A, Elliott C, Midgely J, Thompson N. The Impact of the Foot and Mouth Crisis on Rural Firms: A Survey of Microbusinesses in the North East of England. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, 2001. Centre for Rural Economy Research Report.
  • Donaldson A. Linguistic Minorities in Rural Development: A Case Study of the Cornish Language and Cornwall. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University, 1999. Centre for Rural Economy Working Papers 42.