Newcastle University

Roles and Responsibilities

Geography Undergraduate Admissions Coordinator

Geography Undergraduate Visit & Open Day Coordinator 

Geography Alumni Relations
If you are a graduate of Geography at Newcastle,  then please visit our alumni webpage at:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/geography/about/alumni/

Qualifications

BA Geography (1st), University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1998
PhD Geography, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 2003

Previous Positions

EGRG (RGS-IBG)Committee, Postgraduate Representative

Memberships

Regional Studies Association

Association of American Geographers 

Research Interests

Stuart is an economic geographer with particular thematic interests around industrial development, labour market geographies, geographies of transnational investment, multi-scalar regulation of economic development, knowledge and innovation and processes of uneven economic and social development. Recent research has focused upon:

- Evolutionary approachies to local and regional development, focusing on the notions of adaptability, related variety, path dependence and path creation. I'm currently exploring these concepts through the empirical case study of the offshore wind industry in North East England.

- Towards the 'resilient region'? What might a resilient region look like, what makes for resilience and how can policy makers look to build resilience?

- The (re) production and remaking of labour market geographies, especially the interplay between new labour market dynamics and peripheral regions (e.g. semiconductor skills in the North East region; local and regional impacts on host economies of A8 migration (EU accession states))

- 'Placing' TNC investment by exploring the socio-institutional regulation of transnational investment behaviour both within and outside the firm (e.g. grounding fluctuating episodes of FDI across home and host economies; new corporate geographies of the global steel industry).

- Examining processes of policy learning within and between city-regions (e.g. grass roots urban regeneration; cultural capital and place promotion; innovation-led growth policies)

Current Work

2010: SUSTAINE. World class thinking: regional sustainable development dialogues.  The two policy workshops – first “How shall we live?” and then “Where shall we live?” – were designed to provide a forum for policymakers and stakeholders to consider evidence from leading-edge sustainability practice and debate the implications, opportunities, barriers and catalysts to practical sustainable development outcomes in the North East.  Together, the two workshops were attended by over 110 delegates drawn from a wide array of local, regional and national stakeholder bodies

2007-2010: CURDS and One NorthEast: 'Regional Insights'.
Hosted by CURDS, the Regional Insights programme features policy experts and academics from across the globe sharing best practice in local and regional development. Funded by One NorthEast and Newcastle University, the programme builds on One NorthEast’s recent study “What Works in Regional Economic Development” and seeks to inform our understanding of policy challenges and interventions 

2009: City of Greater Bendigo/Regional Development Victoria, Australia:‘The regional impact of international skilled migration'. Project undertaken in conjunction with the Institute for Regional Studies, Monash Univeristy.

2008-09 ONE North East, ‘Evaluation of the Impact and Policy Response to Restructuring at Northern Rock' with Regeneris Consulting. CURDS team includes Professors Neill Marshall and John Tomaney, Drs Andy Pike and Jane Pollard.

2008 - 'Placing' Accession state migration in the North East labour market. This pilot project (also involving Dr Alison Stenning and Helen Lowther) seeks to better understand the processes through which migrants from the EU accession states (mostly Poland) engage with the North East's labour market and examine the implications for local and regional development. Special attention is focused upon the role of labour market intermediaries in regulating the demand-supply interface.

2008: LSC and Atmel Response Group: 'Advanced Manufacturing Skills Survey'.
This project examines the post-closure labour market experiences of the workers formerly employed at the US- owned Atmel semiconductor fabrication plant on North Tyneside. The Atmel workforce represents one of the most advanced manufacturing workforces in the North East region. The closure of the plant provides the region with a key challenge in terms of capturing, recycling and harnessing the skills and experience of the workforce. The main aim of the research is go beyond exit interview data to provide insights into the longer-term occupational, sectoral and geographical dimensions of workforce resettlement.

2004- Recasting Steel Geographies: Mapping Corporations, Connecting Communities.
Research Team: Dr Alison Stenning (Project Leader); Dr Andy Pike; Dr Stuart Dawley

2005-2006, ODPM (now DCLG) New Horizons Programme: An assessment of the local and regional impacts of migration from the new EU member states (the A8 states), on which I am working with CURDS colleagues Alison Stenning, Mike Coombes, Tony Champion, Ranald Richardson, Cheryl Conway and Liz Dixon.

2006: One North East (RDA) funded project entitled: What Works in Regional Economic Development - Learning from International Best Practice. A comparative exploration and examination into international local and regional development policy making, drawing key lessons for the North East region. This project involved, amongst others, CURDS colleagues Nick Henry, John Tomaney, Andy Pike, Mike Coombes and Cheryl Conway.

2004- Recasting Steel Geographies: Mapping Corporations, Connecting Communities.
Research Team: Dr Alison Stenning (Project Leader); Dr Andy Pike; Dr Stuart Dawley

2003- 2006 European Commission Framework 5 Programme: City-Regions as Intelligent Territories: Inclusion, Competitiveness And Learning (CRITICAL)
Newcastle University Research Team: Prof. David Charles (Project co-ordinator); Dr Stuart Dawley; Cheryl Conway
Project website: www.ncl.ac.uk/critical/

Research Roles

Editor of CURDS Research Disgest www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/research/ResearchDigest.htm

Member of the North East Academic Panel

Postgraduate Supervision 

Current:  

Niall Walker: 'Recasting welfare-to-work: addressing worklessness in the aftermath of recession' (ESRC 1+3 Collaborative Award with DWP) (Co-supervised with Prof Alison Stenning)

Emil Evenhuis  ‘Political Economy of Adaptation in Old Industrial Regions’. (ESRC) (Co-supervised with Prof Andy Pike and Prof John Tomaney) 

Ben Fisher:'Path Creation in Regional Economic Development'. (Co-supervised with Prof Andy Pike)

Helen Lowther: "Changing patterns of economic migration in the UK: the challenge of community cohesion to the creation of sustainable communities" (ESRC). (Co-supervised with Prof Alison Stenning and Prof Jane Pollard)

Completed:
Paul Vallance: "Work practices and learning in the knowledge communities of the UK games development sector" (ESRC)(Completed 2008 and Co-supervised with Prof Jane Pollard) Paul is now working as a research associate within CURDS.

Projects

• A Sporting Chance for Women : A Sporting Chance for Women
  Project Leader(s): Vicki Belt
• Assessing the Local Impacts on International Migration
  Project Leader(s): Alison Stenning
• Best Practice in Cluster Policy : Identifying Best Practice in Cluster Policy Development
  Project Leader(s): David Charles
• CRITICAL : City Regions as Intelligent Territories: Inclusion, Competitiveness and Learning (CRITICAL)
  Project Leader(s): David Charles
• DTI Motorsport Cluster : A Study in to the UK Motorsport and Performance Engineering Cluster
  Project Leader(s): Nick Henry
• Evaluation of the Impact and Policy Response to Restructing at Northern Rock
  Project Leader(s): John Tomaney
• HEBIS-NI : The contribution of Universities to Northern Ireland
  Project Leader(s): David Charles
• Identifying and Assessing Sectoral Strengths in the North East
  Project Leader(s): Andy Gillespie
• Leading-edge sustainability workshops: How Shall we live...and where shall we live?
  Project Leader(s): Stuart Dawley and John Tomaney
• Recasting Steel Geographies: Mapping Corporations, Connecting Communities
  Project Leader(s): Alison Stenning
• Regional Insights
  Project Leader(s): John Tomaney
• TISSME : Targeted Innovation Support for SMEs
  Project Leader(s): Paul Benneworth
• What works in regional economic development? Learning from international best practice
  Project Leader(s): John Tomaney

Undergraduate Teaching

GEO 1010 Interconnected World

GEO 2034 Key Methods
GEO 2044 Advanced Study Skills (Module Leader)
GEO 2097 Economic and Social Change- Poland (Fieldcourse) (Module Leader)
GEO 2099 Economic Geography (Module Leader)

GEO 3099 Dissertations

Tutor: Stages 1-3

Postgraduate Teaching

GEO 8008 Labour Markets, Skills and Training (Module Leader)
GEO 8017 Human Geography: Concepts in Action
HSS 8004 Qualitative Methods and Critical Enquiry

MA/MRes in Local and Regional Development - Dissertation Supervisor

Postgraduate Supervision 

Current:  

Niall Walker: 'Recasting welfare-to-work: addressing worklessness in the aftermath of recession' (ESRC 1+3 Collaborative Award with DWP) (Co-supervised with Prof Alison Stenning)

Emil Evenhuis  ‘Political Economy of Adaptation in Old Industrial Regions’. (ESRC) (Co-supervised with Prof Andy Pike and Prof John Tomaney) 

Ben Fisher:'Path Creation in Regional Economic Development'. (Co-supervised with Prof Andy Pike)

Helen Lowther: "Changing patterns of economic migration in the UK: the challenge of community cohesion to the creation of sustainable communities" (ESRC). (Co-supervised with Prof Alison Stenning and Prof Jane Pollard)

Completed:
Paul Vallance: "Work practices and learning in the knowledge communities of the UK games development sector" (ESRC)(Completed 2008 and Co-supervised with Prof Jane Pollard) Paul is now working as a research associate within CURDS.

• Dawley S, Marshall JN, Pike A, Pollard J, Tomaney J. Continuity and evolution in an old industrial region: the labour market dynamics of the rise and fall of Northern Rock. Regional Studies 2012, (epub ahead of print).
• Henry N, Dawley S. Geographies of economic growth 1: Industrial and technology regions. In: Lee R; Leyshon A; McDowell L; Sunley P, ed. The SAGE Handbook of Economic Geography. London: Sage Publications, 2011, pp.273-285.
• Dawley S, Marshall JN, Pike A, Pollard J, Tomaney J. The Labour Market Impact of the Run on Northern Rock: Continuity and Evolution in an old Industrial Region. Utrecht, Netherlands: Utrecht University, 2011. Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography.
• Dawley S. Transnational corporations and local and regional development. In: Pike, A; Rodriguez-Pose, A; Tomaney, J, ed. Handbook of Local and Regional Development. London: Taylor & Francis, 2010, pp.394-412.
• Marshall JN, Pike A, Pollard J, Tomaney J, Dawley S, Gray J. Placing the run on Northern Rock. Journal of Economic Geography 2012, 12(1), 157-181.
• Dawley S, Pike A, Tomaney J. 'Towards the resilient region?: Policy activism and peripheral region development'. London:Spatial Economics Research Centre (SERC); London School of Economics,2010.
• Dawley S, Pike A, Tomaney J. Towards the resilient region?. Local Economy 2010, 25(8), 650-667.
• Pike A, Dawley S, Tomaney J. Resilience, adaptation and adaptability. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2010, 3(1), 59-70.
• Dawley S, Tomaney J. What works in international skilled migration and regional development. City of Greater Bendigo Council, Victorian State Government: City of Greater Bendigo Council, Victorian State Government, 2010.
• Stenning AC, Dawley S. Poles to Newcastle: Grounding new migrant flows in peripheral regions. European Urban and Regional Studies 2009, 16(3), 273-294.
• Dawley S, Stenning AC, Pike AJ. Mapping corporations, connecting communities: Remaking steel geographies in Northern England and Southern Poland. European Urban and Regional Studies 2008, 15(3), 265-287.
• Dawley S. Making labour-market geographies: volatile 'flagship' inward investment and peripheral regions. Environment and Planning A 2007, 39(6), 1403-1419.
• Dawley S. Fluctuating rounds of inward investment in peripheral regions: Semiconductors in the north east of England. Economic Geography 2007, 83(1), 51-73.
• Dawley SJ, Jones I. The labour market challenge. In: Tomaney J, ed. The future of the North East. London: The Smith Institute, 2009, pp. 80-89.
• Dawley S, Bradley DP. Mapping and Analysis of Employer Representative Groups / Networks in the North East of England. CURDS; Newcastle University: Skills North East (Regional Skills Partnership) and One North East, 2007.
• Stenning AC, Champion AG, Conway CD, Coombes MG, Dawley SJ, Dixon E, Raybould SR, Richardson RGW. Assessing the local and regional impacts of international migration. London: Department for Communities and Local Government, 2006.
• Benneworth PS, Dawley SJ. Managing the university third strand innovation process? Developing innovation support services in regionally engaged universities. Knowledge, Technology, and Policy 2006, 18(3), 74-94.
• CURDS, GHK. What Works in Regional Economic Development Policy: Final Report. Newcastle upon Tyne: One North East, 2006.
• Henry N, Pike AJ, Tomaney J, O'Brien PE, Coombes MG, Conway C, Dawley SJ, Champion T. What works in regional economic development: learning from international best practice. Newcastle upon Tyne:One North East,2006.
• Conway CD, Dawley S, Charles DR. An investigation of the learning dynamics involved within the creative industries sector in the Newcastle City Region. In: Regional Studies Association Annual Conference; Gateway 3a Enabling Knowledge Strategies: CRITICAL Theme, Regional Growth Agendas. 2005, Aalborg, Denmark: Regional Studies Association.
• Henry N, Dawley S, Conway CD. Skills-led economic development? Regional futures, a demand-led system and the North East of England. In: Regional Growth Agendas, Regional Studies Association Annual Conference. 2005, Aalborg, Denmark.
• Dawley S, Conway CD, Charles DR. The dynamics of learning and knowledge within community-led urban regeneration: the Lower Ouseburn Valley as a ‘community of practice’?. In: Regional Studies Association Annual Conference; Gateway 3a Enabling Knowledge Strategies, CRITICAL Theme, Regional Growth Agendas. 2005, Aalborg, Denmark.
• Benneworth PS, Dawley SJ. The territorial development of innovation support assets through university / business interactions: towards a dynamic model. In: Oakey R; During W; Kauser S, ed. New technology based firms in the new millennium. Oxford: Elsevier, 2005, pp. 41-62.
• Dawley S. Understanding the ebb and flow of high-technology investment and disinvestment within host region economies: a multi-scalar socio-institutional approach. In: Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Session: 'The Political Economies of Inward Investment'. 2005, Denver, Colorado.
• Conway CD, Dawley S, Henry N. Regional Skills Foresight Research (Phase II). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Skills Intelligence North East, 2004.
• Conway CR, Conway CD, Dawley S, Dawley S, Consulting GHK, Consulting GHK. Regional Skills Foresight: Skills Scenarios for the North East. Newcastle: Skills Intelligence North East, 2004.
• Benneworth P, Dawley SJ. The territorial development of innovation support assets through university-business interactions: towards a dynamic model. In: Wink R, ed. Academia-Business Links: European Policy Strategies and Lessons Learnt. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, pp. 197-223.
• Charles DR, Dawley SJ, Hodgson C. The place of SMEs in the European research programmes: enrolling high technology small firms in the less favoured regions’. 2003.
• Benneworth PS, Dawley SJ. How do innovating small and medium sized enterprises use business support services?. CURDS, University of Newcastle: Small Business Service, 2002.
• Charles DR, Dawley S, Benneworth P, Conway CD. The contribution of Universities to Northern Ireland. Department of Education Northern Ireland, 2002.
• Dawley SJ. MNC's High Technology (Dis) Investment in Peripheral Region Economies: Institutional and Labour Market Insights. In: DivesT-Desinvestmento e Impactos Economicos, Socias e Territoriais. 2001, Lisbon: Univeristy of Lisbon.
• Dawley SJ, Pike AJ. The ebb and flow of TNC's (dis)investment in host regions: microelectronics in North East England. In: 97th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers. 2001, New York.
• Dawley SJ. Labour market responses to foreign direct investment, disinvestemnt and re-investment: The case of the semiconductor industry in the North East Region 1989-2000. In: Global Conference on Economic Geography. 2000, National University of Singapore.