W Williamson

Biographic Data

ID282754
NAMEW Williamson
GIVEN NAMESW
FAMILY NAMEWilliamson
SIGNATUREWILLIAMSON W
AFFILIATIONSMacquarie University
ORCID0000-0001-8736-9406
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS7
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1972
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX2

  • From hyperbole to neutrality

    Open AccessW WilliamsonARTICLEEnvironment and Planning B Urban…2026

    Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to text summarisation tasks in many professional domains, yet their use in urban planning remains underexplored. This paper investigates how planner-written summaries of public submissions compare with LLM-generated summaries, with a focus on linguistic characteristics, tone and semantic similarity. Drawing on 7932 public submissions to a housing reform discussion paper, we analysed a planner-…

  • Never Read the Comments

    W WilliamsonARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2022

    In planning literature little attention has been paid to the relationships between news articles and readers’ comments. Based on a newspaper article that announced a planning system reform agenda in Sydney, Australia, this paper is curious about comments made by self-selecting commenters. To this end, the paper uses critical discourse analysis to examine the actors, actions and the framing in a newspaper article, as well as the extent the readers…

  • Institutional and cross-institutional research clusters

    Open AccessW WilliamsonARTICLEGeographical Research2021References: 30

    Academic conferences create an opportunity to disseminate new research, network with like-minded researchers, and make new connections. The use of Twitter at these conferences continues to expand. This article focuses on how the Twitter data generated during conferences can be visually analysed in terms of community detection, connectivity, and information flows. Using social network analysis techniques and an online survey, the article analyses …

  • Using Social Network Analysis to Visualize the Social-Media Networks of Community Groups

    W Williamson, Kristian RumingARTICLEJournal of Urban Technology2016

    Community participation in planning is generally considered crucial for the delivery of positive outcomes; however, the network structures that can be created by community groups that use social media and participate in the network are not widely understood. This paper explores the use of social media, specifically Twitter, by two community groups in Sydney. In the context of this study, community groups are self-created and organized groups of c…

  • Web 2.0 and Social Media Growth in Planning Practice

    W Williamson, Bruno ParolinARTICLEPlanning Practice and Research2013

    This paper looks at the growth of web-based communication for planning practice in local government over a three-year period. Despite communication with the community being an integral part of local government functions, the types of communication being used are rarely monitored or analysed. This paper provides a longitudinal comparison of the types of web-based communication, including social media and smartphone applications being employed by l…

  • Models of Educational Attainment

    Open AccessD S Byrne, David Byrne et al.ARTICLEUrban Education1973Cited by: 2References: 4

  • Some Intra-Regional Variations in Educational Provision and their Bearing Upon Educational Attainment—The Case of the North East

    Open AccessD S Byrne, David Byrne et al.ARTICLESociology1972Cited by: 5

    This paper is concerned with the influence of the policy of local education authorities upon educational attainment. We suggest that the influence of local policy has been neglected in the sociology of education and hypothesize that policy variables are likely to be of major importance as determinants of attainment. Evidence drawn from correlations of policy, provision and social-class variables with each other and with various measures of attain…