Dr. Ian Skelton MCIP
Professor, Department of City Planning
414 Architecture 2 Building
t 204.474.6417
f 204.474.7532
iskelton@cc.umanitoba.ca
Education
Masters of Urban Planning, McGill University Montreal, 1976
I received a Masters of Urban Planning at McGill in 1976 and moved to England after teaching in the McGill planning school for a year. After a period of study and community work in the UK I returned to Canada and earned a PhD at York University, Toronto, while working as a social policy consultant.
My first permanent academic appointment was at the University of Waterloo, and I moved to Winnipeg in 1996 to take a position at the University of Manitoba and to work on housing and social policy in Winnipeg, the coalition capital of Canada. I am a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Research and a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.
My teaching includes courses in planning theory and methods and the indigenous planning studio. These courses are designed to help equip students to deal critically and constructively with difficult issues facing progressive planners.
Over the recent period one area of my research has focussed on urban housing. With (then) planning student Christina Maes and planning graduate Suzanne Gessler I contributed to the Winnipeg Street Health Report.
With (then) planning student Richard Mahé and the Canadian Mental Health Association - Manitoba I worked on housing and mental health, with a report documenting how social relations of ability are manifested in many aspects of care.
In another branch of the urban housing work, (then) planning student Lauren Lange, Thelma Mead of the Aboriginal Seniors Resource Centre and I documented the untenable situation of elderly people of Aboriginal origin as they migrate to the city, often for health reasons, and fall out of support in the neoliberal policy climate. See our report: “I want to see these words turned into action”: Neoliberalism and urban housing for elderly people of Aboriginal origin, in Canadian Journal of Urban Research 19(1).
Some earlier work on housing cooperatives and housing and community economic development, some involving collaboration with (then) planning student Cheryl Selig can be found on the CCPA web site.
Most recently I’ve worked with academic colleagues in Canada, the USA and Mexico in support of the emergence of indigenous planning. We have student mobility agreements in place with a number of institutions, and though the funding for the Indigenous Planning Exchange has expired, students can study abroad without incurring additional tuition fees.
I’m working with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and some First Nation partners to establish a knowledge exchange in First Nations Planning and Development.
414 Architecture 2 Building
t 204.474.6417
f 204.474.7532
iskelton@cc.umanitoba.ca
Education
Masters of Urban Planning, McGill University Montreal, 1976
I received a Masters of Urban Planning at McGill in 1976 and moved to England after teaching in the McGill planning school for a year. After a period of study and community work in the UK I returned to Canada and earned a PhD at York University, Toronto, while working as a social policy consultant.
My first permanent academic appointment was at the University of Waterloo, and I moved to Winnipeg in 1996 to take a position at the University of Manitoba and to work on housing and social policy in Winnipeg, the coalition capital of Canada. I am a research associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Research and a Member of the Canadian Institute of Planners.
My teaching includes courses in planning theory and methods and the indigenous planning studio. These courses are designed to help equip students to deal critically and constructively with difficult issues facing progressive planners.
Over the recent period one area of my research has focussed on urban housing. With (then) planning student Christina Maes and planning graduate Suzanne Gessler I contributed to the Winnipeg Street Health Report.
With (then) planning student Richard Mahé and the Canadian Mental Health Association - Manitoba I worked on housing and mental health, with a report documenting how social relations of ability are manifested in many aspects of care.
In another branch of the urban housing work, (then) planning student Lauren Lange, Thelma Mead of the Aboriginal Seniors Resource Centre and I documented the untenable situation of elderly people of Aboriginal origin as they migrate to the city, often for health reasons, and fall out of support in the neoliberal policy climate. See our report: “I want to see these words turned into action”: Neoliberalism and urban housing for elderly people of Aboriginal origin, in Canadian Journal of Urban Research 19(1).
Some earlier work on housing cooperatives and housing and community economic development, some involving collaboration with (then) planning student Cheryl Selig can be found on the CCPA web site.
Most recently I’ve worked with academic colleagues in Canada, the USA and Mexico in support of the emergence of indigenous planning. We have student mobility agreements in place with a number of institutions, and though the funding for the Indigenous Planning Exchange has expired, students can study abroad without incurring additional tuition fees.
I’m working with the Assembly of Manitoba Chiefs and some First Nation partners to establish a knowledge exchange in First Nations Planning and Development.