Professional planners’ preparedness for digital transformation: an empirical analysis of PlanTech

Boland, Philip, McHenry, Justin, Potts, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8681-4309 and Milz, Dan 2024. Professional planners’ preparedness for digital transformation: an empirical analysis of PlanTech. Town Planning Review 10.3828/tpr.2024.48

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Abstract

COVID-19 lockdowns led to significant shifts in how professional planners operate. The introduction of advanced digital technologies enabled home working and virtual planning processes. An important line of academic inquiry concerns planners’ preparedness in adopting and adapting to digital transformation. Focusing on Northern Ireland, we offer a nuanced analysis of planners’ experiences of digital technologies by drilling into the demographics and competencies within the different planning sectors to disaggregate different types of planners by age, gender, seniority and skills. We present a fine-grained analytical canvas to reveal how different types of planners are experiencing the next stages of digital transformation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Published Online
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Liverpool University Press
ISSN:	0041-0020
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	8 January 2025
Date of Acceptance:	13 November 2024
Last Modified:	17 Jan 2025 12:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/175080

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