Biography
Charlotte Morphet is Programme Leader and Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of the Built Environment. She has over 15 years’ experience spanning the public, private, higher education, and third sectors, with a strong focus on strategy, policy, and research. Before moving into academia, Charlotte worked in planning practice in local government and planning consultancy. She taught planning at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is currently undertaking a PhD at Leeds Beckett University, exploring women, gender, leadership, and organisational culture in planning.
Charlotte is passionate about EDI in the built environment and is co-founder and national co-chair of Women in Planning. She is currently the UK representative for the RTPI, on the Commonwealth Women in Planning Network, and sits on the International Society City and Regional Planners Women Leadership group. She has previously held trustee roles with the Royal Town Planning Institute, and the Planning Officers Society.
Appointments
- National Co-Chair and Co-founder Women in Planning UK
- Editorial Advisory Board, Town and Country Planning Association
- RTPI Representative for the Commonwealth Women in Planning Network
- ISOCARP Women Leadership
Qualifications
Memberships
Publications
- Jhina, A., Milosev, M., Leadbetter, S., Morphet, C., Abbes, E., Dutton, J., Savage, J., Noble, J., Tacconi, M., & Charafi, S. (2025). Gender Equitable and Inclusive Climate Action Planning: Toolkit for Cities and Local Governments. Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy. Retrieved from https://www.globalcovenantofmayors.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/GCoM-Toolkit-Gender-Equitable-and-Inclusive-Climate-Action-Planning.pdf
- Horwood, K. and Morphet, C., 2023. Women’s Safety A Consideration of the Role of Planning through the Capability Model. Built Environment, 49(4), pp.633-650.
- Horwood, K., Lock, A.B., Manns, S., Morphet, C. and Palit, N., 2022. The substantive and descriptive representation of women in planning: Analysis from practice and academia. Town Planning Review, 93(6), pp.657-675.
- Dutton, J., Tomaselli, C., Koshy, M., Agnello, K., Johnston-Zimmerman, K., Morphet, C. and Horwood, K., 2022. Feminist Planning and Urbanism: Understanding the past for an inclusive future. In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional Futures (pp. 1-19). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
