Regional Studies Association North East Branch

David Goodhart is Head of Policy Exchange’s Demography, Immigration, and Integration Unit, and Director of the Integration Hub website. He is a former Director of Demos, and former Editor of Prospect magazine, which he founded in 1995. David is a prominent figure in public debate in the UK, as a well-known broadcaster, author, commentator, and journalist. He has presented several BBC Radio 4 Analysis programmes. Before Prospect, he was a correspondent for the Financial Times, including a stint in Germany during the unification period. In 2013, he published The British Dream (Atlantic), a book about post-war multiculturalism, national identity, and immigration. It was runner up for the Orwell Book Prize in 2014. In 2017 he published The Road to Somewhere: The new tribes shaping British politics (Hurst), about the value divides in western societies, which was a Sunday Times best-seller. In 2020 he published Head Hand Heart: The Struggle for Dignity and Status in the 21st Century (Penguin).

Joyce Liddle is Professor of Public Leadership/Enterprise at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. She was previously Professor of Public Leadership and Management at IMPGT, Aix-Marseille Université, France, Head of International Centre for Public Services Management, Nottingham Trent University Business School, Director, MPA/MPP Programmes, University of Nottingham, Director, MA in Management, Durham Business School, University of Durham, Director MBA Programme, Sunderland Business School, Head, Centre for Leadership, Teesside Business School. Prior to an academic career, she was company director of a small family firm and is still company secretary to a design company. She is a Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and the Regional Studies Association, Joyce. holds Visiting Professorships at Universities of Eastern Finland; Aix-Marseille, France; and Tor Vergata, Rome.

Andy Pike is the Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies in the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, UK. His research interests, publications and research projects are focused on the geographical political economy of local, regional and urban development and policy. He has undertaken research projects for the OECD, UN-ILO, European Commission, UK Government and national, regional and local institutions. He is a Fellow of the Regional Studies Association and an elected Academician of the UK’s national Academy of Social Sciences.