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Brendan Gleeson is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia and specializes in the social sciences. Their research spans a range of subfields, notably education, finance, urban studies, infectious diseases, and safety research.

The body of work by this researcher addresses several main topics, including healthcare innovation and challenges, housing, finance, and neoliberalism, urban planning and governance, disability rights and representation, homelessness and social issues, urban and rural development challenges, and parasite biology and host interactions.

Gleeson has authored multiple papers published in diverse academic journals. Some of the recent research works include:

  • "People with intellectual disability and the digitization of services" (2021, Geoforum)
  • "Fragmentation and urban knowledge: An analysis of urban knowledge exchange institutions" (2022, Cities)
  • "Three modes of inclusion of people with intellectual disability in mainstream services: mainstreaming, differentiation and individualisation" (2022, Disability & Society)
  • "Antimicrobial prescribing guidelines for pigs" (2020, Australian Veterinary Journal)
  • "More-than-care: People with intellectual disability and emerging vulnerability during pandemic lockdown" (2022, Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers)

The frequent coauthors collaborating with Gleeson include:

  • Hayley Henderson
  • Ismael Blanco
  • Adrián Bua
  • Ioannis Chorianopoulos
  • Mercè Cortina-Oriol

Publications by Gleeson have appeared regularly in several venues, with noteworthy contributions in:

  • Bristol University Press eBooks
  • Geoforum
  • Cities
  • Disability & Society
  • Australian Veterinary Journal

The researcher has also contributed to book publications with multiple titles released by different academic publishers. These include several editions of "New Developments in Urban Governance" published by Bristol University Press eBooks and Policy Press in 2022, as well as the book "Post-Capitalist Futures" published by Springer Nature in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Geographies of disability

    Brendan Gleeson

  • Justice, Society and Nature : An Exploration of Political Ecology

    Brendan Gleeson;Nicholas Low

  • Australian Urban Planning: New Challenges, New Agendas

    Brendan Gleeson;Nicholas Low

  • Australian Heartlands: Making space for hope in the suburbs

    Brendan James Gleeson

  • Disability Studies: A historical materialist view

    B. J. Gleeson

  • Creating child friendly cities: Reinstating kids in the city

    Brendan Gleeson;Neil G. Sipe

  • Disability and the Open City

    Brendan James Gleeson

  • Consuming Cities: the urban environment in the global economy after the Rio declaration

    Brendan James Gleeson;Nicholas Low;Ingemar Elander;Rolf Lidskog

  • Creating Child Friendly Cities

    Brendan James Gleeson;Neil Gavin Sipe

  • Remoralising Landscapes of Care

    Brendan James Gleeson;Robin Kearns

  • Performance-Based Planning Perspectives from the United States, Australia, and New Zealand

    Douglas C. Baker;Neil G. Sipe;Brendan J. Gleeson

  • A Geography for Disabled People

    B. J. Gleeson

  • Governance, Sustainability and Recent Australian Metropolitan Strategies: A Socio‐theoretic Analysis

    Brendan James Gleeson;Toni Darbas;Suzanne Lawson

  • Critical Commentary. The Urban Age Paradox and Prospect

    Brendan Gleeson

  • Reconfiguring urban governance in an age of rising city networks: A research agenda:

    Kathryn Davidson;Lars Coenen;Michele Acuto;Brendan Gleeson

  • Geographies of Disability

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  • Social Disadvantage and Planning in the Sydney Context

    Brendan Gleeson;Bill Randolph

  • Revaluing planning: Rolling back neo-liberalism in Australia

    Brendan Gleeson;Nicholas Low

  • Critical Commentary. Waking from the Dream: An Australian Perspective on Urban Resilience

    Brendan James Gleeson

  • Towards a New Planning Paradigm? Reflections on New Zealand's Resource Management Act:

    P A Memon;B J Gleeson

  • Urban research and child-friendly cities: a new Australian outline

    Geoffrey William Elliott Woolcock;Brendan James Gleeson;Bill Randolph

Frequent Co-Authors

Lars Coenen
Lars Coenen University of Melbourne
Tan Yigitcanlar
Tan Yigitcanlar Queensland University of Technology
Rolf Lidskog
Rolf Lidskog Örebro University
Jason Antony Byrne
Jason Antony Byrne University of Tasmania
Christine Bigby
Christine Bigby La Trobe University
Michael Dear
Michael Dear University of Southern California
Robin Kearns
Robin Kearns University of Auckland
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne

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