There is a rapidly growing interest in better understanding the contribution of (formal and informal) leadership to the continuing shaping and re-shaping of cities and regions. This 2nd Phase (2010/2011) of the RSA leadership research network aims to incorporate leadership and related concepts within the wider urban and regional development studies debate(s). The suggestion is that to truly understand and construct regional advantage – we need to investigate in more depth what it is that leaders at all levels actually do, how and why as they seek to transform and re-invent their cities and regions.
The overall aim of the network is to surface and discuss new leadership approaches in/for urban and regional development. The network will bring together leadership, place and economic development/planning discourses – and will look to develop a series of fresh multi-perspective/trans-disciplinary insights that will signpost forward research trajectories for this emerging field of inquiry over the medium term.
The ‘combinatorial’ learning we hope to engender around leadership theory and practice in the context of urban and regional development will be of direct relevance to the academic and policy communities – and those involved in the design and delivery of economic development, planning and regeneration initiatives ‘on the ground’.
CfP: Place Leadership in Europe Research Seminar Series 2023 – 2025
Leadership and governance in transnational city & regional development
2022 Regional Studies Policy Debates Best Paper Award
Some of the network recently published a Policy Debate article in Regional Studies, winning the 2022 Regional Studies Policy Debates Best Paper Award. We were delighted to have Phil Tomlinson (University of Bath), and Editor of the Regional Studies Policy Debates section present the award to John Gibney (University of Birmingham), Joyce Liddle and John Shutt (both from Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University) for their paper entitled ‘Brexit disruption and transborder leadership in Europe’. You can watch the video here: