10 years in urban studies

1. Dr. Nicola
Headlam
11/07/16
A 10-YR INTELLECTUAL
AGENDA // CITIES AND
PUBLIC POLICY //
BRISTOL

2. Dr. Nicola
Headlam
11/07/16
A 10-YR INTELLECTUAL
AGENDA // CITIES AND
PUBLIC POLICY //
BRISTOL

3. Dr. Nicola
Headlam
11/07/16
A 10-YR INTELLECTUAL
AGENDA // CITIES AND
PUBLIC POLICY //
BRISTOL

4. 3. KE/Policy // Future City // Urban
Transformations // researcher life
course
4. Bristol // Place-based Statecraft in
the Living Laboratory
1. Research // Urban policy // Urban Lens
2.Teaching // public policy // new
Future City MSc

5. DECADES
Foundations “Early career” Next phase

6. 1965 2065
2015
2015 2065204020332019/20
50 yrs
25 yrs
Near future Mid future ‘Far shores’
FORESIGHT/BACKCAST

7. 1965 2065
2015
2015 2065204020332019/20
50 yrs
25 yrs
Near future Mid future ‘Far shores’
FORESIGHT/BACKCAST

9. SECTION 1// RESEARCH

10. Urban Policy
Economic Development,
Regeneration and
Neighbourhood Renewal
Why is this so hard?*
Subnational economic
development and Urban Policy
frameworks
Spatial consequences of public
policy
Governance, Management
and Leadership of Place
Mayoral models of leadership
Collective and distributed
network approaches
Urban Lens
Methods
How to know the city as
interdisciplinary object
comparative urbanism
Urban foresight – futures and
the UK System of Cities
Place Based Statecraft in the
Living Laboratory
Roles and Platforms
Pencils not pens
Unspooled UK
Knowing and knitting
Graft and grow not cut and
paste
CORE PREOCCUPATIONS

11. Spatial political economy
Fundamental questions
of constitutional
structures, central-local
relations, institutional
co-ordination, and
public expenditure… are
addressed as the
perhaps unglamorous
dimensions of sub-
national government
and governance.
(Pike and Tomaney 2004)
WHO/WHOM? & WHERE..

12. URBAN POLICY
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, REGENERATION AND
NEIGHBOURHOOD RENEWAL
SUBNATIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND URBAN
POLICY FRAMEWORKS
SPATIAL CONSEQUENCES OF PUBLIC POLICY

13. Regeneration
Austerity

14. Community
Development

15. Governance
Leadership

16. Central– local
Pragmatic
localism
permissiveness

17. Boosterism
/brokerage
Foresight
future of public
policy

18. THE URBAN LENS
HOW TO KNOW THE CITY
AS INTERDISCIPLINARY OBJECT
COMPARATIVE URBANISM
URBAN FORESIGHT
FUTURES AND THE UK SYSTEM OF CITIES

19. “Economic
facts are
social facts
are psychic
facts are
aesthetic
facts”
The metropolis
& mental life…
GEORG
SIMMEL

20. COLLECTIVE LEARNING
The meeting of knowledge and the city is a fertile ground
…the planetary knowledge societies of the 21st century
will have the possibility for the first time in human
history to consciously and systematically develop
coexistent rules and systems based primarily on
represented realities or knowledge capitals… This may
mean an evolutionary leapfrog will be required to
overcome the huge environmental, energy, resources,
demographic, financial, sociopolitical,cultural crises that
we are just beginning to unleash.
Carillo et al. (2014) pg 271 Knowledge Markets and Urban Transformation chapter
8 of Knowledge and the City : Concepts, Applications and Trends of Knowledge -
Based Urban Development : Routledge

21. New urban agenda UN
Habitat 3 SDG11 and Quito
European
OI2 for DG regio
#Euurbanagenda
#brexit consequences (erdf!)
Countries of UK.
City deal fix sticking better outside England – why?
England
Northern powerhouse/midlands growth engine
City deals – mayoralties – combined authorities
“localism” and Local Authorities
austerity, shared services and reconfigurations
Place-based budgetting
Neighbourhood planning / cluster dynamics
SUBNATIONAL POLICY
SCALES

22. Each node may
connect in non-
hierarchical
ways
HIERARCHY
OF SCALES

23. URBAN HIERARCHY
Spiky/flat
Uneven spatial development
Agglomeration
World city discourse – london independence
Boosterist logics and urban competitiveness
Unwinding of local government financial settlements
Threat to UK system of cities

25. STABILITY
& ORDER

26. UNSPOOLED
“UNITED”
KINDGOM

27. NETWORK
COMPETENCE

28. SECTION 2// TEACHING

29. 2011-2016
University of Oxford
Future of Cities: Best sustainable Practice Guest
lecturer, Summer 2015, 2016
University of Liverpool,
Management School Subject Matter Expert (SME)
Liverpool Online MPA, June 2014 with Lareate
Online Education. Responsibility for modules
‘public policy implementation’ and ‘working
across boundaries’
Civic Design: Guest lecturer, neighbourhood
planning Guest lecturer, data analysis, research
methods
Wolfson College, University
of Cambridge
International Diploma for the Built Environment
(IDBE), Summer School, 2013, 14, 15 Cross
disciplinary studio and workshop convener,
Lecturer
TEACHING/CPD
2006-2011
University of Manchester
Planning School
PLAN30082/ PLAN 60042 : Planning
Theory & Values (UG) course convener 2009 -
2012 and Planning Theory & Ethics (PG)
contributor with Prof Graham Haughton 2010
PLAN 30762: Community Planning (UG)
contributor with Dr Joanne Tippett 2009-2010
Lecture ‘Community Planning Philosophy to
Policy’ PLAN 10041: Cities and Society (UG)
contributor with Dr. Yasminah Beebeejaun
PLAN6071: Urban Regeneration(PG)
(contributor) with Iain Deas 2006 -2011
European Planning Perspective Fieldcourse
assistant 2007, 08, 09, 10
Manchester Leadership Programme e -tutor

30. Discipline Number of courses
Architecture 12
Geography 13
Management 6
Sociology 2
Design 12
Urban Studies 6
Regional Studies 7
Others /
Multi disiplinary
13
73 courses
Table 1 Urban Studies courses in British Universities
in March 2015 by parent discipline

34. TEACHING : STUDENT
EXPERIENCE

35. Masterclasses - bringing in people from practice networks
and visiting scholars.
Local knowledge and networks key (!)
Urbanistas – London and Liverpool
IDBE Wolfson Cambridge
Case studies for Student led seminars/dicussions
Eg from MAURD manchester and HMR
Getting out (!) fieldwork etc. / Enquiry-based learning
Eg neighbourhood planning liverpool civic design, european planning
perspectives Manchester
Open events
networks and assets fresh thinking session Liverpool
BEYOND CLASSROOM 1 :REAL
WORLD

36. Example
DOSSIER

37. BEYOND CLASSROOM 2 : ONLINE

38. SECTION 3// KE

41. National Foresight
Foresight City
Network
City Pilots
City Vision
Community
Newcastle:
Report
Complete
Cardiff:
Just Starting
Manchester:
Report
Complete
Liverpool:
Complete
London:
UCL city
leadership
Devolution
Agenda/Societ
al Challenges
Foresight
Working Papers
•Rochdale
•Bristol
•Milton Keynes
•Belfast
•Birmingham
•Cambridge
•Derby
•Derry/
Londonderry
•Edinburgh
•Glasgow
•Lancaster
•Leeds
•Leicester
•London
•Nottingham
•Oxford
•Reading
•Sheffield
Other future
city/region initiatives
• Northern Powerhouse
• Catapult – Future Cities
• ESRC Urban Transformations
• Etc……….

42. URBAN THINK TANKS ETC.

43. UNIVERSITY RESEARCH/POLICY
ENTITIES

44. Universities have always been full of people who want to change
the world. Their new enthusiasm for a growing civic role for their
institution reflects the growing expectation that they will do this in
a more active and less accidental way in future. Reward
mechanisms in academic life will increasingly need to reflect these
changed priorities. Academics have traditionally been seen as
excellent on the basis of their research. But in recent years both
teaching and external impact have been added to the mix. The
university of the future will need to regard its local setting as
inherent to its operations, with financial, business and cultural
exchanges, a range of joint and part-time working arrangements,
and a flow of formal and informal contacts. Cities and universities
will need to set priorities jointly…and work together to achieve
them… in the knowledge that this new activity benefits both sides
and is recognised as a core activity for cities and universities alike
(Tewdr-Jones & Godard, 2016:5 )
CIVIC UNIVERSITY

45. KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE
ACTIVITIES
Bristol
Festival of
Ideas,
Foresight
author’s
workshop
Nov 2015
An Urban
Observatory
for Cardiff:
Urban
systems and
public service
delivery in
austerity
Britain
April 2016
City Futures
Symposium,
Newcastle
upon Tyne,
UK, 23-24
June 2016
Brain/Power/
House
Manchester
Sept 2016
From cities
policy to city
policy,
Glasgow June
2016
Foresight / UT
co-production
round table
Sept 2015

46. IMPACT CASE STUDIES - ANALYSIS
ESRC EPSRC AHRC NERC MRC STFC BBSRC

47. @NETWORKNICOLA

48. SECTION 4// PLACE-
BASED STATECRAFT IN
THE BRISTOL LIVING
LABORATORY

49. UNIVERSITY STRATEGY

52. Mike yearwood
Helen manchester
Antonia layard
Judith squires
Igor calzada
EP/P002137/1 The Bristol Urban Area
Diagnostics Pilot
Colin taylor
Sean fox
David sweeting
Sarah ayres
Alex marsh

54. Knowledge Mobilisation for Urban
Transformation
Pencils not pens – adaptive co-production
Unspooled UK after post-political
Knowing and knitting the network
Graft and grow not cut and paste for models
(eigenlogik)
Roles and Platforms
Circuits of credibility
PLACE BASED STATECRAFT IN
THE LIVING LABORATORY

55. ONGOING…
1. Knowledge mobilisation for urban transformation
in the uneven UK (manuscript)
2. Economic Development in the Subnational UK -
democratising devolution (manuscript)
3. Research ecosystem, innovation and urban living
(MK)
4. ‘Future city, future university’ (co-author edited
book project) : Manchester University Press UT
series (MTJ)
5. ‘Academic Archers’: Peter Lang Press submitted
co-author edited book (CC&PM)
6. ‘How (not to) run a city’ single author monograph
: MUP

56. • Teach
• Build local
networks
• Prepare bids
• Develop new
courses
• Write
DECADES III

57. A YEAR’S EFFORT
125
days
80
days
80 days
Core
research
80
days
{
Travel
Rest
Friends
Family
Teaching/instructing Admin/Projects

58. QUESTIONS

59. Deas, I and Headlam, N (2015) Boosterism, brokerage and uneasy
bedfellows: Networked urban governance and the emergence of
post-political orthodoxy Chapter 9 for Paddison, R. and Hutton, T.
Cities and Economic Change, London: Sage.
Headlam, N and Rowe, M (2014b) ‘The End of the Affair: Abusive
Partnerships in Austerity’ Journal of Urban Regeneration and
Renewal 17:2 for special edition edited by Lee Pugalis, Joyce Liddle
and John Diamond on Regeneration and Austerity.
Deas, I, Hincks, S & Headlam, N (2013a) Explicitly permissive?
Understanding actor interrelationships in the governance of
economic development: the experience of England’s Local
Enterprise Partnerships: Local Economy, 28 (7:2)
Headlam, N & Hincks, S (2011) ‘Reflecting on the Role of Social
Innovation in Urban Policy’ Journal of Urban Regeneration and
Renewal, 4 (2), 168-179.
Coaffee,J. and Headlam, N. (2008) Pragmatic localism uncovered:
The search for locally contingent solutions to national reform
agendas Geoforum, 39 (4) 1585
BIBLIOGRAPHY

60. Headlam, N and Harding, A (2016, in press)’Manchester men in the
recession’ chapter of Unequal cities in Europe: the challenge of
post-industrial transition in times of austerity eds Constanzo Ranci
and Roberta Cucca : Routledge
Headlam, N (2014a) Liverchester, Manpool, the curious case of the
lack of intermunicipal co-operation in the cities of the north-west of
England book chapter for eds Liddle, J and Diamond J, Public
Management in Austerity: Emerald
Headlam, N & Harding, A (2013b) ‘The Case of Greater Manchester ;
Institutional and policy innovation amidst emerging austerity’ for
Economic Development and Social Integration in Europe: Urban
Policies in comparative perspective ed. Constanzo Ranci: Polimi
Press
CONTEXT 1: Gardesse , C & Headlam, N Governance of highly
contested spaces : A UK-French comparison
CONTEXT 2: Headlam, N Twin Engines for Growth and Economic
Development , Manchester City Region and Manchester Airport
BIBLIOGRAPHY