The Chair of the RSA East of England Branch, Pete Tyler is Professor, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge and Director of Studies in Land Economy at St. Catharine’s College
Peter Tyler is a Professor in Urban and Regional Economics. He has been a Project Director for over seventy major research projects for Government, many involving the assessment of public policy resulting in the publication of forty research monographs of which twenty-four have been of book length. He has also undertaken research for the European Commission, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development on urban, regional and industrial and evaluation policy. He has been an Expert Advisor to the OECD, European Commission and HM Government, including serving on the National Evaluation Panel for Sure Start (HM Government initiative for children under 5). He was a Programme Leader for the Cambridge MIT initiative and is a Policy Fellow at the Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy. During 2016 he was an Expert Advisor to UN Habitat III.
In recent years Pete has been involved in research to value the benefits of urban regeneration and economic development (DCLG), the evaluation of EU Cohesion Policy 2007-2013 (DG Regio) and Resilient Regions and Cities (ESRC). He recently completed a major study on the economic impact of the Cambridge Bioscience cluster and is currently investigating the long term dynamics of interdependent infrastructure systems (EPSRC), the evolving economic performance of UK cities (UK Department of Foresight) and is a Co-Investigator on a new ESRC research project on British Urban Transformations.
PREVIOUS EVENTS
Annual Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society Conference supported by the East of England Branch
The RSA once again supportED the Annual Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society conference, entitled Spatial Policy for the Post-Crisis Era.
The conference took place on Thursday 9 July and Friday 10 July 2019 from 9am to 6pm each day in the McGrath Conference Centre, at St Catharine’s College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1RL.
This conference had two interrelated aims:
• Bridging the rift between theory and policy: a call for putting public policy at the heart of the urban and regional studies agenda
• Rethinking the scope, nature and aims of spatial policies for a post-crisis era of social, economic, political and environmental uncertainty and challenges.
The conference welcomed contributions that comprised of conceptual discussions or empirical articles employing qualitative as well as quantitative methodologies within a range of geographical contexts.
Further details on the conference and the Call for Papers can be found here.
Please note: The East of England Branch is a limited agent for the Regional Studies Association but without any authority to incur financial liability for that Association.