Economic Geography Research Group

Postgraduate Research in Economic Geography at the Start of the Millennium

Convenors: Rupert Waters (Coventry University) and Paul Kent (QMW).

Wednesday 5th January

Module 3

Chair: Paul Kent

Knowledge-space and the Italian motorsport industry
Tim Angus (University of Birmingham).

Electronic commerce and the small firm: the implications of online shopping for a bank and a supermarket ,
Andrew Murphy (Coventry University).

Scientific labour markets in Oxfordshire and Cambridgeshire ,
Rupert Waters (Coventry University).

Mutual ownership and financial exclusion: a study of changes in the branch networks of British building societies ,
(JN Marshall, R Willis, S Raybould, R Richardson and M Coombes (University of Newcastle upon Tyne).

Module 4

Chair: Rupert Waters

A community-based assessment of urban regeneration ,
K Broughton (Coventry University).

Including the excluded? Effects of welfare-to-work programmes on lone parents in Buffalo, New York ,
J Casebourne (University of Cambridge).

Social constructions of sustainability and regeneration in coalfields ,
A Smith (University of Durham).

Lessons for an 'urban renaissance': emerging forms of governance and the new challenges facing localities ,
M Whitehead (University of Wales, Aberystwyth).

Economies and Politics of Scale (with PolGRG)

Convenors: Gordon MacLeod (University of Durham) and Jane Pollard (University of Birmingham)

Thursday 6th January

Module 1: (Re-)Scaling Economic Geographies

Chair: Gordon MacLeod (University of Durham)

Globalisation from below: 'Birmingham- postcolonial workshop of the world' ,
N Henry, J Bryson, C McEwan and J Pollard (University of Birmingham).

Australian labour unions and the politics of scale ,
D Sadler (University of Durham) and B Fagan (Maquarie University).

Fixing the odds: relations of scale and local economic development in Atlantic City, New Jersey ,
S DiGiovanna (The State University of New Jersey).

Changing scale, changing class relations ,
J Gough (University of Northumbria).

Module 2: (Re-)Scaling Political Geographies

Chair: Jane Pollard (University of Birmingham)

'It's the economy, stupid'- but which economy? Geographical scale and British voters' responses to the economic situation in 1997 ,
R Johnston (University of Bristol) and C Pattie (University of Sheffield).

Geographical scale and grass-roots internationalism: the Liverpool dock dispute, 1995-1998 ,
N Castree (University of Liverpool).

Disunited Kingdom? Towards a new territorial theory of the state?
M Goodwin (University of Aberystwyth).

Module 3: Theorizing the Political Economy of Scale

Chair: Gordon MacLeod (University of Durham)

Re-imagining scale in economic geography ,
A Jonas (University of Hull).

Political-economies of scale ,
J Peck (University of Manchester).

Fixity, motion, scale and territory ,
N Brenner (New York University).

Elite power, global forces and the political-economy of 'glocal' development: Brussels's conundrum ,
E Swyngedouw and G Baeten (University of Oxford).

Module 4: New Regionalism? A Panel Discussion

Innovation and Technological Change: Impacts on National and Regional Competitiveness

Convenors: David Gibbs (University of Hull) and Helen Lawton-Smith (Coventry University)

Friday 7th January

Module 1

Chair: Helen Lawton-Smith (Coventry University)

On the geography of innovation networks in capital goods projects ,
N Alderman and A Thwaites (University of Newcastle) and D Maffin (Marconi Power & Control Systems).

Spatial patterns of innovation and trade competitiveness: high-tech industries in Italy ,
S Breschi (Bocconi University) and D Palma (ENEA).

Ties that bind? Collective learning, innovation and relational assets in the Aberdeen oil complex ,
K Chapman and A Cumbers (University of Aberdeen).

Cutting edges in strange places: innovation and territory in the UK computer and video games industry ,
R Naylor and J Cornford (University of Newcastle) and S Driver (Roehampton Institute).

Module 2 (11:00-12:30)
Chair: David Gibbs (University of Hull)

Information and communications technologies and the Celtic "Cyber-Tiger" ,
P Breathnach (National University of Ireland).

The impact of EU information technology programmes on European cohesion: the case of Ireland ,
S Grimes (National University of Ireland).

Innovative firms and ICT- redefining the meaning of local space? ,
O Jonsson and R Youlds (Lund University, Sweden).

Constructing the virtual market place: technological change, institutionalinnovation and securities trading ,
Niall Majury (University of Leeds).

New Economic Geographies, New Methodologies?

Convenors: Jane Pollard, Nick Henry and Ian Cook (University of Birmingham)

Friday 7th January

Module 3

Theory and practice, text and action: challenges in studying small enterprises and employment relations ,
Annamarie McMenanin (University of Portsmouth).

Studying economic institutions, placing cultural politics: methodological issues from an East Midlands study ,
Adam Strange and Parvati Raghuram (Nottingham Trent University).

Practising new economic geographies? Some methodological considerations ,
Henry Wai-chung Yeung (National University of Singapore).

Methodological musings and the academic gaze: 'l-ing up' new economic geographies ,
Duncan Fuller, Cathy Bailey and Catherine White (University of Northumbria).

Module 4

Evaluating the process: the use of qualitative methodologies in evaluating local employment and development initiatives ,
Peter Lloyd and Richard Meegan (University of Liverpool) and Catriona Ni Laoire (Queen's University, Belfast).

Geography and public policy: the missing manifesto ,
Ron Martin (University of Cambridge).

Discussants: Linda McDowell (LSE) and John Allen (Open University).