DR NICOLA M HEADLAM
What I Do
I have 20 years of experience of comparative city governance, economic development and regeneration.
My core research interests include: the role of public agencies in making place, specifically sub-national spatial and urban policy, and the role of leadership and partnerships in urban and spatial transformations.
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As well as running the Northern Powerhouse Strategy Refresh for HMG on 2018/19 I have experience of working successfully with policy-makers at every scale from UN/WorldBank level, European level, through UK-level Civil service and House of Commons, with the Scottish Government, English regional tiers of government and worked for 5 years within local government, focussing on economic and community development and neighbourhood change. I am trained in participatory methods for community development and have also worked at community/neighbourhood level.
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I have published widely on the interfaces between formal and informal governance and am an advocate for ‘multi-helix’ working where innovations sit at the intersections between research, industry, policy and community action.
ABOUT
Multidisciplinary Researcher and Policy and Strategy Professional
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in 2018/19 i was a BEIS Industrial Strategy Research Fellow and Head of the Northern Powerhouse within the Cities and Local Growth Unitfor HM Government. In this role I lead strategy development for the Northern Powerhouse and tried to put into practice an evidence-based policy for the north building on my research interests in knowledge mobilisation for urban transformation. I am a founding member of the Urbanista UK network for women involved in positive urban change, and the co-organiser of Academic Archers. http://www.academicarchers.net/
MY RESEARCH
spatial, social and long range foresight
HOW CAN A FOCUS ON NETWORKS CHANGE HOW WE KNOW PLACES?
