Newcastle University

Introduction

David is a part-time Research Associate involved in directing research. David has led numerous studies across a range of policies with spatial impacts.
David is also a Partner with Bradley Research and Consulting.

Background

Commercial consultancy in areas of programme and policy evaluation, urban regeneration and property development,spatial strategies

Roles and Responsibilities

Securing contracts
Managing / directing research / consultancy studies

Qualifications

BA Hons Geography
M Phil Town and Regioanl Planning
MRTPI

Previous Positions

Research Manager Ecotec
Consultant Price Waterhouse
Senior Consultant Price Waterhouse

Memberships

Member of the Royal Town Planning Institure
Life Member National Trust

Languages

English
Basic French

Informal Interests

Tennis
Gardening

Research Interests

David's main expertise lies in the evaluation of policies and programmes with a spatial impact. David has led more than 50 studies and advised a broad range of organisations such as Government Departments, Police Constabularies, Regional Development Agencies, local authorities, LSCs, and the EU.

Other Expertise

Public Sector relocation
Knowledge Intensive Business Services
Locational requirements and residential preferences of mobile professionals / home based business services
Economic Impact Analysis

Current Work

Evaluation of NE1 Newcastle City Centre Business Improvement District

My Newcastle - Young children's sense of place and the buildings and spaces they like and dislike

Second Tyne Tunnel Impact on Businesses 

Industrial Relevance

Assessment of the case for goverment relocations helped to inform the Lyons review
Evaluation of civilian roles within Northumbria police helped to inform workforce modernisation
Economic impact assessment of closure of RAF Boulmer may have influenced shelving of plans to close RAF Boulmer 

Projects

• Advice and guidance for the preparation of the Tynedale Crime Audit 2001
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Advice and guidance on the establishment of an Opportunities Centre and successful preparation of EP Communities fund, RDC, National Lottery and ERDF applications
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• An assessment of the demand for offices Zone C Teesdale Development Area
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• An Evaluation of the Low Simonside Employment Initiative
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• An Evaluation of the needs of and support given to 'jobseekers' in Tyneside
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• An Evaluation of the Tyneside Compact Initiative
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Assessing the Importance and Value of Historic Buildings to Young People
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Assessment of approaches to the marketing of the Business Coaching Course, Newcastle College, Distance Learning Unit
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Assessment of the accommodation needs of SMEs (with ERS)
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Assessment of the impact of the Business strategy 1990-94 on the Cleveland Economy
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Barnard Castle Vision Evaluation
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Baseline estimates, performance Monitoring and preparation and Maintenance of a Performance Indicators Database
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Berwick Business Accommodation Project - identification of demand for business accommodation and of potential regeneration sites
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Budget Holding Lead Professionals National Pilot
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Careers Service LMI Baseline Evaluation
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Community economic development strategy for the North East of England SPD Priority 4 wards of Northumberland (with ECOTEC)
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Crime and anti-social behaviour facing designated heritage assets
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Developing TEC Evaluation strategies - Advice service to all five TECs in the North East on appropriate monitoring and evaluation techniques and procedures
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Development of the Information Society in EU Rural Development and Regional Policies
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Durham Strategic Sites 2000-2003 : Independent Validation of East Durham and South West Durham Strategic Sites
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• East Gateshead Regeneration : Independent Review of East Gateshead Regeneration Scheme
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Evaluation of Modern Apprenticeships - Employer study (with ERS)
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Evaluation of the Management of Offenders Project
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Evaluation of the Merseyside Special Investment Fund
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Ex-post evaluation Wansbeck SRB4
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Fear of Crime : Interim Evaluation of Northumbria Community Safety: Tackling the Fear of Crime
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Feasibility of extending the range of sports, arts and cultural facilities, Coquet High School, Amble
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Formative and ex-post evaluations of the North East of England Workforce Development (Bargaining for Skills) project
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Future of offices in Tyneside - Employment implications for resident of North Tyneside
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Higher level skills in SMEs - a study of graduate retention and higher level skills education and training provision in North East England
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Housing Market, Strategic Futures
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Industrial land allocation strategy for the West Midlands Region
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Interim Evaluation of the community safety strategy for the Racecourse Estate, Sunderland
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Interim Evaluation of the Northumbria 'Fear of Crime' SRB 2
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Interim Evaluations of East Gateshead SRB 2
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Local Authority Child Poverty Pilots
  Project Leader(s): Mike Coombes
• Location options and implications for the new NHS Management Executive Body formed from the Northern and Yorkshire Regional Health Authorities
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Managed workspace feasibility study
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Middlesbrough Dock Regeneration - assistance with the preparation of ERDF application for grant assistance
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Monitoring of outputs for ERDF funded projects - former Plymouth and Teesside Development Areas
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Motorsport Northamptonshire : Motorsport Northamptonshire
  Project Leader(s): Nick Henry
• NE1 - Evaluation of Impact
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Newcastle Core City
  Project Leader(s): David Charles
• North East of England Economic Assessment
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• North East of England European Strategic Alliances Opportunity Study
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Potential economic impacts should the closure of RAF Boulmer occur
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Preparation of a 'Kielder Business Plan'
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Public Sector Relocation : Public Sector Relocation - response to the Lyons Review on behalf of the English Development Agencies
  Project Leader(s): Neill Marshall
• RITTS Evaluation : Evaluation of the RITTS programme
  Project Leader(s): David Charles
• Role of Core Cities : The Role of the Core Cities
  Project Leader(s): David Charles
• Rolling Evaluation of Northumberland SP Strategic Investment Plan
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Rolling Evaluation of NSP single programme strategic investment plan
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Sense of Place, Social Capital and the Historic Environment
  Project Leader(s): Mike Coombes
• Strategic Futures - 'Brakes' and 'Drivers' Analysis (of the North East Economy)
  Project Leader(s): Andy Gillespie
• Talent Retention
  Project Leader(s): Mike Coombes
• Telecommunications and the development of rural areas
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• The feasibility of a proposed Youth Arts and Enterprise Centre in Wallsend
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• The Impact of Community Policies on Cohesion
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• The implications for the North East of the Private Finance Initiative
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• The implications for the North East of the wind-up of UDCs
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• The preparation of a business plan for the £60 million development of Hylton Riverside, Tyne and Wear
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Transport and the Economy
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Value for money assessment and interim evaluation of Black Country Development Corporation (BCDC) assisted projects
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley
• Walker Riverside study - an examination of the Maritime Cluster
  Project Leader(s): David Bradley

Undergraduate Teaching

none

Postgraduate Teaching

Evaluation workshop, CURDS MA in Regional Development

• Bradley DP, Bradley J, Coombes M, Grove L, Thomas S, Young C. The extent of crime and anti-social behaviour facing designated heritage assets. London: English Heritage, 2012. English Heritage Research Paper.
• Bradley DP. Buildings, Mounuments and spaces that are important to young people and the contribution of the historic built environment to young people's sense of place. Regions Magazine 2011, 284(1), 5-8.
• Bradley DP, Coombes M, Bradley J, Tranos E. Assessing the importance and value of historic buildings to young people. London: English Heritage, 2011. English Heritage Research Report.
• Bradley D, Benneworth P. Ex Post Evaluation of the ERDF in Objectives 1 & 2 (2000-2006) Work package 4: Structural Change and Globalisation North West Case Study. London: European Commission, 2010. DG InfoRegio Evaluations.
• Bradley D, Millard J, Meyerhoff-Nielson M, Hughes G, Gareis K, Hielmann G. Study on the development of the Information Society in EU rural development and regional policies. London: European Commission, 2009. European Commission DG Information Society (Infso).
• Bradley DP, Coombes M, Bradley J, Tranos E. Sense of Place and Social Capital and the Historic Built Environment: Report of Research for English Heritage. London: English Heritage, 2009. Heritage Counts.
• Walker J, Donaldson C, Laing K, Pennington M, Wilson G, Procter S, Bradley D, Dickinson H, Gray J. Evaluating Budget-Holding in Lead Professionals within Multi-Agency Children’s Services in England. London, UK: Department of Children, Schools and Families, 2009. DCSF Research Reports RR143.
• Tomaney J, Bradley DP. The economic role of mobile professional and creative workers and their housing and residential preferences: Evidence from North East England. Town Planning Review 2007, 78(4), 511-530.
• Marshall JN, Hodgson CM, Bradley DP. Public sector relocation and regional disparities in Britain. Environment and Planning C: Government & Policy 2005, 23(6), 883-906.
• Marshall JN, Bradley DP, Hodgson CM, Alderman NF, Richardson RGW. Relocation, relocation, relocation: Assessing the case for public sector dispersal. Regional Studies 2005, 39(6), 767-787.
• Marshall JN, Bradley DP, Hodgson CM, Richardson RGW, Alderman A, Benneworth P, Tebbutt G, Charles DR, Gillespie A, Tomaney J, Goddard JB. Public Sector Relocation from London and the South East: Evidence to the Lyons Review on behalf of the English Regional Development Agencies. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle University, 2004.
• Chatterton P, Bradley DP. Bringing Britain Together? The limitations of area-based regeneration policies in addressing deprivation. Local Economy 2000, 15(2), 98-111.
• Charles DR, Bradley DP, Chatterton P, Coombes MG, Gillespie AE. Core Cities Centres for Regeneration. Newcastle upon Tyne: Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, 1999.
• Richardson RGW, Bradley DP, Jones I, Benneworth P. Employment location in North East England, Conference on Employment in the North East of England. In: Town and Country Planning Association seminar series "The People: Where Will They Work?". 1999, Newcastle upon Tyne: Town and Country Planning Association.
• Richardson RGW, Bradley DP, Jones I, Benneworth P. The North East. In: Breheny M, ed. The people: where will they work? Report of TCPA research into the changing geography of employment. London: Town & Country Planning Association, 1999, pp.145-167.