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Dr David Williams
PhD, MSc, BSc
Expertise
David is currently working as the Senior Project Manager for the TRUUD project, which works with decision makers and communities to prioritise health in urban decision-making processes.
Current positions
Senior Project Manager
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
Contact
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Biography
David is a senior project manager with experience of working in academia, the public sector and the private sector. He completed his PhD, which explored sustainable transport funding in the local authority sector, at the University of the West of England in 2015. His PhD explored funding through a social practice lens, identifying the materials, meanings and competences that exist within the transport planning sector and how this influences what is delivered and the opportunities this creates for people to change how they travel.
David was able to draw on his experience of delivering complex transport funding initiatives for clients including: The West of England Partnership, Swindon Borough Council and Bath and North East Somerset Council in developing his research.
Between 2016 and 2018 David worked as a Research Associate on the PARCOUR project, which compared urban regeneration in the UK, The Netherlands and Brazil. In 2017, David was awarded the Wolfson Economics Prize Lightbulb award for his concept of Harnessing Energy from Highways.
David has worked with several government and quasi-government organisations including Defra, the DfT and National Highways. Prior to joining the TRUUD project, David worked for Mott MacDonald as a Cost Intelligence Analyst providing data solutions for clients in the transport and water sectors.
David was able to draw on his experience of delivering complex transport funding initiatives for clients including: The West of England Partnership, Swindon Borough Council and Bath and North East Somerset Council in developing his research.
Between 2016 and 2018 David worked as a Research Associate on the PARCOUR project, which compared urban regeneration in the UK, The Netherlands and Brazil. In 2017, David was awarded the Wolfson Economics Prize Lightbulb award for his concept of Harnessing Energy from Highways.
David has worked with several government and quasi-government organisations including Defra, the DfT and National Highways. Prior to joining the TRUUD project, David worked for Mott MacDonald as a Cost Intelligence Analyst providing data solutions for clients in the transport and water sectors.
Research interests
Social Practices, Transport Planning, Urban Design, Health
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Truud - Tackling the root causes upstream of unhealthy urban decision m
Principal Investigator
Role
Manager
Managing organisational unit
School for Policy StudiesDates
01/10/2019 to 30/09/2024
Publications
Recent publications
03/03/2023Enabling the practices in an urban regeneration system of provision
Regional Studies, Regional Science
Highway Infrastructure Delivery Through Government Finance and PPPs
Handbook on Public Private Partnerships in Transportation, Vol II
Brownfield regeneration and the shifting of financial risk: between plans and reality in public-private partnerships
Urban Research and Practice
Harnessing energy: an alternative way to view the management of highway assets
Infrastructure Asset Management
Governing urban regeneration in the UK: a case of ‘variegated neoliberalism’ in action?
European Planning Studies