I’ll be contributing to this event at the end of May…. A Sporting Chance: the legacies of mega-events for post-industrial British cities 23rd and 24th May 2012 Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC), University of Manchester Comparing the city of Manchester, ten years after it hosted the Commonwealth Games, with London – host… [Read more…]
April 4, 2012
This is a presentation that I gave last week at the annual Teaching and Learning Conference at Thanet College in Kent, UK. In my talk, I explored some of the language currently being used by the Government and by OFSTED when they make links between further education and local economic development. As with much current policy… [Read more…]
February 13, 2012
Recently, I’ve been working on this topic as part of my work with the Economic Development Resource Centre. Below are a presentation I gave at an Inside Government event on the visitor economy and the paper that supports it, which was published in the proceedings of the 13th International Research and Practice Conference of the Russian State University… [Read more…]
June 7, 2011
Graham Symon and I have had an abstract accepted for a paper we will present at the Future Cities 2011 conference, being held in London on 15th & 16th December this year. The paper builds on an idea that came from some work on localism we were doing earlier in the year for the Economic… [Read more…]
February 24, 2011
I’ve just had this article published in the Journal of Town and City Management. The abstract is below. If you’d like to know more about this paper and don’t have access to read it online, please get in touch. “British seaside towns have been subject to numerous attempts at regeneration and rebranding since the collapse… [Read more…]
February 1, 2011
Samantha Chaperon and I have had a paper accepted for a Regional Studies Association event on ‘Innovation Processes and Destination Development in Tourist Resorts’ that will be held in Östersund, Sweden from 30th March-1st April this year. Our paper is titled ‘Local Enterprise Partnerships and Seaside Towns: an analysis of a framework for the governance… [Read more…]
November 9, 2010
I was very pleased to be invited last week to speak to a group of Japanese scholars from Oita University who were on a visit to Kent to investigate cultural regeneration led by Teresa Smith from the University of Oxford. I spoke about my research into the social impacts of cultural regeneration and we had a… [Read more…]
September 1, 2010
An interview with Meanwhile Space’s Eddie Bridgman, about the Seasider project. Eddie gives a useful summary of some of the issues affecting seaside towns and mentions some of the regeneration projects that are being carried out on the coast. The interview takes place in the fantastic Seasider pop-up shop in Camden. Via the Regeneration and… [Read more…]
July 8, 2010
I’ve recently had this monograph, based on my Master’s research, published as a book called ‘Simulated Cities: cultural regeneration, branding and representation in urban development’. Click on the image below to find out more information…
March 8, 2010
I have started a new blog and a new twitter account to record the progress of my PhD research into the cultural regeneration of seaside towns in the UK. I’ll be posting fairly regular updates on my research, which is now into its last 12 months, and also using them as a forum for discussion… [Read more…]
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