 She is a specialist in planning theory and practice, with a particular focus on strategic spatial planning for city regions and in urban regeneration policies.She is Senior Editor of "Planning Theory and Practice" journal, jointly published by TandF and the RTPI.She is the daughter of the mycologist Cecil T. Ingold

She has undertaken research on the preparation and implementation of development plan frameworks, on how planning strategies work out in practice and on partnership forms of governance at the neighbourhood, city and city region scales.