Overview
Company / Institute
North-West University
Track
6: Changing environment and risks: planning for resilience
Position
Chair Person Urban Planning North-West University
I'm interested in
Governance, Finance, Regulation
Urban Economy
Bio
Juaneé is Professor and the Chairperson of the subject group for Urban and Regional Planning at the North-West University (NWU), as well as Leader of the Research Program for Sustainable Planning, Development and Implementation within the Unit for Environmental Sciences and Management (UESM).
She completed the 4-year professional degree in Urban and Regional Planning at the NWU in 2004 (cum laude), the Master’s Degree (cum laude) in 2005 and enrolled for a Ph.D in Urban and Regional Planning. Her postgraduate studies were supported by grants from the National Research Foundation (NRF) for both Masters and Ph.D research, the Government of Finland, the Royal Netherlands Embassy (both Delta and Nuffic funding) and the Golden Key International Honour Society for outstanding academic achievements. During her post-graduate research, she started her professional career at PlanCentre and registered as a Professional Planner at the South African Council for Planners (SACPLAN) in 2007. In 2008 she obtained her Ph.D and continued as Post-Doctoral fellow at the NWU.
In 2008 Wageningen University (Netherlands) appointed her as international researcher on a project financed by the European Regional Development Fund. This was the start of a collaborative network spanning 11 years, that produced 3 Interreg EU projects, and a ERA4CS Chair for Innovation in Climate Services Provision. In September 2009 she was appointed as Senior Lecturer in Urban and Regional Planning at the NWU. She completed a second Master’s degree in Economics in 2010, as well as a Sustainable Communities course from the Aalto University (Finland). In 2011 she successfully completed the Project Management Course at the Potchefstroom Business School.
Her early career’s international exposure extended her collaborative research network and she is currently collaborating with researchers from Germany (Bauhaus University), Belgium (KU Leuven University), the Netherlands (Eindhoven University, Wageningen University), Namibia (Namibia University of Science and Technology), Australia (Curtin University, Griffith University), the International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) and the UN-Habitat. Locally she is the Principle Investigator for a NRF THUTHUKA project (2013-2017), two NRF Community Engagement projects (2015-2017 & 2019-2021), a DTI-NRF THRIP project (2015-2019), a Water Research Commission project (2016-2019) and she also collaborates with the South African Cities Network and the South African Day Organisation. She is an editorial associate of the accredited Journal for Town and Regional Planning. She serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Green Economics and the Journal of the International Society for City and Regional Planners (ISoCARP). She is member of the South African Planning Institute (SAPI), the South African Council for Planners (SACPLAN), the International Association for Development of the Information Society, the South African Translators Institute (SATI), member of ISoCaRP (International Society for City and Regional Planners) and lifelong member of the Association for Development of Teaching, Education and Learning (ADTEL).
To date she has supervised 35 MSc students, 10 PhD students and 3 Post-Doctoral Fellows. She has published 42 refereed journal papers, 66 conference papers, 8 chapters in books and 6 books.
She was the winner of the North-West University Distinguished Teaching Excellence Award in 2019 and was a finalist of the 2019 National Science and Technology Forum Awards, known as the Science Oscars of South Africa.
Her research has also enjoyed extensive media coverage, including appearances on national television, news and radio programmes. Since December 2017 she is the host of a weekly environmental talk on national radio (RSG) and presented various public lectures across the country in this capacity.
