MY CV
1// PERSONAL DETAILS
contact
34 Ward Street, Stockport, SK13JS
mbl: 07936 824566
twitter: @networknicola / @northernfuture / @academicarchers
2/ EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
current role
freelance consultant
Projects 2019/20
Policy support for NP11 – Energy and Clean Growth policy agenda
People Powered Change Network Analysis of Community Business
Prior employment
Head of Northern Powerhouse, BEIS INDUSTRIAL STRATEGY RESEARCH FELLOW
HMG. October 2018-october 2019
Ran NPH strategy refresh process at heart of government
Research Fellow April 2015-October 2018
Urban Transformations TEAM, CENTRE on Migration Policy and Society (Compas) University of Oxford
Principal Investigator This other Oxford? Migration histories and inequalities ESRC IAA KE Dialogues (with Prof B Anderson*)
Lead researcher Exploring Engagement on Integrated Cities: One of the Research themes in the Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) University-wide (PI Prof M Keith*)
Researcher Urban Transformations Portfolio (PI Prof M Keith*)
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Sept 2015- April 2017
Knowledge Exchange Research Fellowship Foresight Future of Cities/Urban Transformations (Sept 2015-May 2017 0.6 fte) funded by ESRC across; ESRC Urban Transformations Portfolio and Foresight, Future of Cities Programme c/o Department for Business, Innovation &Skills (DBIS), HM Govt Project Chair Professor Sir Alan Wilson, Civil Service lead Eleri Jones*
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April – September 2015
Researcher Urban Transformations Portfolio (0.5) COMPAS, University of Oxford
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Researcher/Project manager October 2012-April 2015
Heseltine Institute for public policy & practice, University of Liverpool
Principal Investigator Small Worlds of the Baltic Triangle KE Project
Principal Investigator Elusive Edge Project on Urban/cultural leadership
Researcher Future of Cities Project Foresight LCR 2065 Researcher Future of Cities Project Foresight LCR 2065
Researcher [fixed term] CONTEXT project, comparative European project. (PI Prof. Alan Harding*)
Researcher Independent Evaluation of the Liverpool Mayoralty (PI Prof. Alan Harding*)
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Researcher October 2006- Jan 2013
Centre for urban policy studies, University of Manchester
Lecturer Urban Regeneration & Planning Theory (fixed term)
Researcher Soft Spaces of territorial governance. European Consortia (PI Prof Graham Haughton)
Researcher Networks and Post Politicscities@mcr
Field course supervisor, Amsterdam and Barcelona fieldtrips for European Planning Perspectives module (for Prof Richard Kingston)
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Other
Since 2008- ongoing Founding Member of UK Urbanista Network of Women for Positive Urban Change
Since 2014- ongoing Co-organiser Academic Archers
January-June 2012 Global Urban Research Unit GURU, Department of Planning, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Research Associate, ESPON project March 2010- Nov 2011
2011 KTP Post-Doctoral Research Fellow University of Manchester and CLES, Centre for Local Economic Strategies funded by ESRC
2008 Local/Regional Specialist Parliament & Constitution Centre, House of Commons.
2003-2006 Lead Officer on Social Inclusion Neighbourhood Renewal, Oxford City Council
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3/ PUBLICATIONS
Academic articles and book chapters
Headlam, N (2020, forthcoming) Place-based Statecraft and Civic Universities in Courage, C (ed) The Handbook of Placemaking: Sage
Headlam, N (2019a) An underpowered Northern Powerhouse: infrastructure in the ungovernable North; The North East After Brexit: Impact and Policy: Emerald
Headlam, N & Courage, C eds (2019b) Gender, Sex and Gossip; Women in The Archers: Emerald
Headlam, N & Hepburn, P (2017a) What a difference a Mayor makes. A case study of the Liverpool Mayoral model Local Government Studies 21:5
Headlam, N & Hepburn, P (2017b) Directly elected mayors: necessary but not sufficient to transform places?: The case of Liverpool Chapter 7 of Directly elected mayors in urban governance: Impact and practice edited by David Sweeting: Policy Press
Headlam, N (2017c) Kinship Networks in Ambridge Chapter 13 of Custard, Culverts & Cake: Academics on Life with The Archers: Emerald
Headlam N & Courage, C (2017d) Being Academic Archers Introduction to Custard, Culverts & Cake: Academics on Life with The Archers: Emerald
Courage, C, Headlam N & Matthews, P (2017e) Introduction to Academic Archers: The Birth of a New Academic Community. The Archers in Fact and Fiction: Academic Analyses of Rural Borsetshire: Peter Lang
Headlam N (2017f) Conclusion: Academic Archers as a Fine-Detailed, Open, Cross-Disciplinary Space The Archers in Fact and Fiction: Academic Analyses of Life in Rural Borsetshire: Peter Lang
Headlam, N & Hepburn, P (2016a)‘The Old is Dying and the New Cannot be Born, in this Interregnum a Great Variety of Morbid Symptoms Appear.’ How Can Local Government Survive this Interregnum and Meet the Challenge of Devolution? Representation Volume 51:4
Headlam, N (2016b) Manchester: Institutional and Policy Innovation Amidst Austerity, Chapter 9 of Unequal Cities: The Challenge of Post-Industrial Transition in Times of Austerity: Routledge Eds Roberta Cucca Costanzo Ranci: Routledge
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: Sage.
Headlam, N (2014a) Liverchester, Manpool, the curious case of the lack of inter-municipal 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 and Rowe, M (2014b) ‘The End of the Affair: Abusive Partnerships in Austerity’ Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal 17:2 for special edition Regeneration and Austerity edited by Lee Pugalis, Joyce Liddle and John Diamond.
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 & 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
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
Books, joint-authored
Courage, C & Headlam, N (2019) Gender, Sex and Gossip: Emerald
Courage, C, Headlam N (2017) Custard, Culverts & Cake: Academics on Life with The Archers: Emerald
Courage, C, Headlam, N & Matthews, P eds (2017) The Archers in Fact and Fiction: Academic Analyses of Life in Rural Borsetshire: Peter Lang Press
McDonald, S & Headlam, N (2008) Research Methods Handbook: Introductory guide to research methods for social research CLES http://www.cles.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Research-Methods-Handbook.pdf
Published Project Reports
2017
Comparative International Urban and Living Labs
The Urban Living Global Challenge: A Prospectus Report 2 http://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/media/Report2-Comparative_Living_Labs.pdf
2016
The Urban Lens: Research Ecosystem, Innovation and Interdisciplinary Research
The Urban Living Global Challenge: A Prospectus Report 1 http://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/media/Report1-Urban_Lens.pdf
2015
Foresighting for Future Cities, Research priorities. (with Sir Alan Wilson) https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/516443/gs-16-5-future-cities-foresight-for-cities.pdf
Urban Living Cross Council Capacity Analysis (with Michael Keith)
The Future of Public Policy, Foresight Project report https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/455888/gs-15-29-future-cities-public-policy-review.pdf
The Role of Universities in city foresight http://www.ncl.ac.uk/media/wwwnclacuk/socialrenewal/files/FoC%20Universities%20&%20City%20Foresight%20Network%20Report.pdf
The Liverpool City Region to 2065 to GO-Science/BIS, Foresight Future of cities programme.
2014
The Liverpool Mayoralty Evaluation. Liverpool City Council http://councillors.liverpool.gov.uk/documents/s137009/Heseltine_Mayoral_evaluation_FINAL%20DRAFT.pdf
Commissioned Parliamentary Briefings (EG)
CLES Response to Communities Select Committee Enquiry on Regeneration http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201011/cmselect/cmcomloc/writev/regeneration /m40.htm
House of Commons Library Standard Note The role of concordats and agreements in central/local relations http://www.parliament.uk/documents/commons/lib/research/briefings/snpc-04713.pdf
academic Conference papers/presentations
Areas of expertise; urban and regional subnational economic development, local government, leadership and partnerships, role of universities in policy and practice, urban and living lab forms for research, future of cities and foresighting methods, urban transformations, role of planning, placemaking and gender, place-branding and urban regeneration, spatial consequences of public policy.
2017
GUST Policy Forum on Living Labs London, Jan
Urban Lab Policy Symposium Brussels Feb
Co-convener Academic Archers Feb, University of Lincoln
The Small Worlds of Ambridge : Power, Networks & Actants https://www.slideshare.net/networknicola/small-worlds-of-ambridge-power-networks-actants?qid=8691e403-664c-4c78-93eb-2babe2bea01a&v&b&from_search=2
You-tube full lecture at
Co-convener Compas/UT seminars http://www.urbantransformations.ox.ac.uk/event/migration-and-urban-transformation-boundaries-in-an-age-of-resentment/
Organiser Industrial Strategy and the Sub-national April, Oxford, May
European Week on Cities and Regions, Brussels, October
2016
‘Intelligent City-Regions: Raising Capacities for Policy-Making.’ ESRC programme on constitutional change From National ‘Cities’ Policies to Local ‘City-Region’ Policy, RSA Dec
Organised KE events on theme of ‘Knowledge Mobilisation for Urban Transformation, Place Based Statecraft in the Cognitive City-Region’
Cardiff observatory logics revisited
Glasgow http://policyscotland.gla.ac.uk/event-june-8th-policy-scotland-esrc-urban-transformations
Newcastle the future of university/policy engagment
Co-convener of ‘Academic Archers conference with Cara Courage and Peter Matthews.
‘Co-producing Urban Research for the Future’ AAG, San Fransisco, USA Feb
‘Cities of Difference’ British Academy, Feb http://www.jsps.org/event/files/abstracts_and_bios_for_delegate_pack.pdf
2015
‘Co-producing urban research for the future’, Bristol Festival of the Future City November http://www.slideshare.net/networknicola/co-producing-urban-research
‘Governance of urban disruption’ for Disrupting Mobility conference MIT, Boston, USA,
‘Social media for urban research’, Urban Transformation Network, University of Oxford
‘Devolution to UK cities: Answering the wrong question?’ for Divergent Cities? Conference July, St Catherine’s College, University of Cambridge, UK (with Alan Harding)
‘Edge/Centre Centre/Edge’ Elusive Edge June, Liverpool, UK (with Kerry Wilson)
‘Politics of the Future’ for UK Foresight Network May, Liverpool, UK
2014
‘Liverpool City Region to 2065’ the Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, London http://www.regionalstudies.org/uploads/funding/conferences/presentations/Winter_2014_Presentations_/Nicola_M_Headlam__Alan_Harding__Richard_Meeghan_and_Brendan_Nevin.pdf
‘The spatial consequences of the mayor of Liverpool’ at RSA seminar on Leadership in Urban and Regional Development : Debates and new directions April, University of Birmingham
‘The future of the Liverpool City Region’ for the Foresight, Future of Cities Programme DBIS/Go-Science Conference, London https://futureofcities.blog.gov.uk/2014/09/23/city-visions/
‘Field notes from an evaluation of the mayor of Liverpool: diary analysis’ convened by Sweeting, D Policy and Politics Bristol, UK September with Paul Hepburn & Alan Harding.
‘Network methods’ Vulnerable cities symposium Liverpool/York
‘Network methods for the benign city’ Benign City symposium, Liverpool
‘Governance of highly contested spaces’ EURA/UAA Paris, June with Camille Gardesse on CONTEXT project panel, Paris, France.
‘Networks in the Baltic Triangle’ The Liverpool Panel at T-PAC/JUCPAC the Teaching Public Administration Conference, June, Liverpool
2013
‘What a difference a mayor makes? The Liverpool Case’ convened by Sweeting, D and Hambleton, R on Urban governance innovation at Policy and Politics Panel Presentation, Bristol, UK September ( with Paul Hepburn & Alan Harding)
‘The exquisite paradox of localism’ Post-crash cities University of York, UK July http://www.slideshare.net/networknicola/post-crash-cities
‘Not all places can be on steroids’ http://www.slideshare.net/networknicola/idbe-final
‘Governance of highly contested spaces’AAG Los Angeles , US, April (with Camille Gardesse)
‘Soft and Hard Drivers for city-regional change. The case of Manchester, UK’ in Urban Periphery Seminar University of Amsterdam, (with Alan Harding) January 2012
‘Explicitly Permissive: Understanding actor inter-relationships in city-regional governance. The experience of LEPs in the North West’ for RSA Delft with Iain Deas.
2011
Headlam, N Spatial and Strategic Planning: The coalition approach one year on, RTPI
Headlam, N The value of Public Sector Services to the Local and Economic Well-being of Communities for The Association for Public Service Excellence
Headlam, N Analysing ‘scope at scale’ in UK economic development and regeneration policy for Regional Studies
4/ Knowledge Mobilisation, MEDIA & public Policy
Knowledge exchange
I have exemplified co-production in the ways I have approached my work. I have raised small grants and fellowship funding for KE activities and spoken on numerous platforms for the ESRC as an example of Knowledge Exchange across the Researcher Life course. My PhD was a CASE industrial partnership, and I have had post-doc funding for KE activities.
I am active beyond the academy is the following roles;
founder member of the Academic Archers community of practice http://academicarchers.net
founder member of the Urbanista network for women making positive urban change https://urbanistasuk.wordpress.com/about-us
These roles have led me to consider the space for scholar activism within and beyond the boundaries of universities. They are all blended, boundary spaces where expertise and knowledges blur.
Public policy
As well as running the Northern Powerhouse Strategy Refresh with weekly ministerial reporting liens and exposure across all relevant government departments I have experience of working successfully with policy-makers at every scale from UN/WorldBank level, European level, (European Week on Regions and Cities in October 2017) 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.
Media
I have done several rounds of media training and have appeared frequently in broadcast and mass media. Promoting my Academic Archers project has led to public appearances at literary festivals including Hay and a lot of media work on Radio 4 and in the broadsheet press.
blogs/journalism (EG)
Emotional austerity in the regeneration city https://medium.com/@networknicola/emotional-austerity-in-the-regeneration-city-22d944323315
The Mavericks are coming – RIP regeneration http://www.wemakeplaces.org/tag/dr-nicola-headlam/
A structural hole in the fabric of the city (through which of late I cannot help but fall)
5/ TEACHING EXPERIENCE
University of Oxford
Future of Cities: Best Sustainable Practice Guest lecturer, 2015, 2016, CPD ExecEd
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, data analysis
University of Cambridge
International Diploma for the Built Environment (IDBE), Summer, 2013, 14, 15 Cross disciplinary studio and workshop convener, Lecturer Guest lecturer, research methods Wolfson College ExecED
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
Manchester Leadership Programme e-tutor 2011-2012
6/ GRANT INCOME
Research Income (250k+)
2017 Co-investigator KE Dialogue Series Oxford’s History of Migration and Inequality 5k
2017 Co-investigator Impact Acceleration Award IAA on Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund University of Oxford 7k
2015 Principal Investigator : Foresight Future of Cities/Urban Transformations Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow (Sept 2015-Sept 2016 0.6 fte) Funder ESRC £114k ES/N01510X/1 http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/person/93C216EB-11E9-485D-A0C1-70CCE6D29AC5
2014 Principal Investigator: The Elusive Edge between urban and cultural policy Funder: Institute for cultural capital, LJMU 44k
2014 Principal Investigator: Small world of the Baltic triangle a network analysis project Knowledge Exchange Voucher University of Liverpool 7k
2011 Principal Investigator on Post-Doctoral Fellowship: Methods for embedding network analysis Funder ESRC/TSB KE fellowship £86k
small grants/ consultancy contracts secured (150k+)
Clean Growth and Innovation Policy Support, the NP11 50k
Network Analysis of People Powered Change Programmes in Manchester and Bristol, 50k
The Urban Grand Challenge for the Urban Living Partnership RUK value 25k
Liverpool Mutual Homes, horizon scan to 2065 value 20k
Network of Young Professional Planners and Architects from the Netherlands (3k )
Network management workshops for local government managers from Nigeria RIPA/World Bank Lead Partner: Kai-Zen Consulting Value: £pro-bono (£1,5k)
Comparative lessons from European partner cities – how can cities respond to austerity? Milano Chamber of Commerce. Value: Euro 5k
Manchester Urban governance networks and post-politics, cities@mcr, University of Manchester Value: £3k
7/ other
education
PhD Urban Planning, Centre for Urban Planning Studies University of Manchester, 2011
Thesis title: Mechanisms for economic development and regeneration in the Greater Manchester City Region
Masters Degree in Communication, Culture and Society (London), Goldsmiths 2000
First Class Honours in Social and Economic Sciences, University of Bradford 1999
Certified Short Course / Skills development
2018 Civil Service induction courses – introduction to public policy.
2017 #RRI – responsible research and innovation – one day conference, NESTA
Pathways to Impact Training, 2 days Social Science Faculty, University of Oxford
2016 Accessing H2020 funding ModernGov one day
ESRC Media Training with Inside Edge one day
2014 Knowledge Mobilisation Forum with NESTA 2 days
2013 National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) Autumn School on International Comparative Research Methods. University of Southampton, 2-days
2010 Social Network Analysis Training, Methods@Manchester
PGCert Enquiry-based Teaching Practice / Coaching and Mentoring. Centre for Enquiry Based Learning (EBL), University of Manchester
Best Practices for Public Engagement. Manchester Beacon
2008 Manchester Leadership Programme (MLP) Induction University of Manchester
8/ referees
policy
Professor Alan Harding Senior Economic Adviser GMCA,
Andrew Batterbee, Yorkshire/Humber Regional Director, Cities and Local Growth Unit, MHCLG/BEIS, HMG.
Academic
Dr Yasminah Beebeejaun c/o Bartlett School of Planning, UCL (PHD supervisor)