Janice Morphet is Visiting Professor in the Bartlett School of Planning UCL Janice was a member of the Planning Committee of the London 2012 Olympic Games,  Senior Adviser on local government at DCLG 2000-2006, having been Chief Executive of Rutland CC, Director of Technical Services at Woking, and Professorial Head of the School of Planning and Landscape at Birmingham Polytechnic and is an Affiliate Member of the Housing Forum.

Janice’s recent research with Dr Ben Clifford includes 4 projects on Local Authority Direct Provision of Housing (2017/2019/2021/2023) and two on 2008 Planning Act for NIPA (2017/2019). They have also written Reviving local authority housing delivery: challenging austerity through municipal entrepreneurialism (2020) and Major Infrastructure Planning and Delivery: Exploring Nationally Significant Infrastructure Projects in England and Wales (2023). Janice’s most recent books are Outsourcing in the UK (2021) and The Impact of COVID-19 on Devolution (2021).