Newcastle University

Research Interests

My primary interests are in regional development of the 'advanced' economies and the social implications of economic change. Empirically, I have investigated these interests across a range of knowledge-based, high technology and service industries and I have a particular expertise on the UK (and world) motorsport industry. Theoretically, I am interested in conceptual models of new economic geographies incuding clusters, learning regions, networks and value chains, multicultural economic development and alternative economic geographies.

Other Expertise

I have a broader interest in the role of (economic) geography and its relationship to public policy. This may be partly explained by my shared position as a Reader in Urban and Regional Studies in CURDS and as a Senior Consultant in Regeneration and Economic Development in an employee-owned public policy consultancy, GHK Consulting Ltd.

Current Work

Currently, my research revolves around theorising, implementing and evaluating models of regional development including cluster development (Motorsport Valley for DTI/RDAs), City Growth Strategies (DTI), community development finance (DTI Phoenix Fund) and skills-driven regional development (Regional Skills Foresight, Skills Intelligence North East). I co-supervise a number of PhD students investigating a variety of these development models.

Future Research

New economic geographies: theory, conceptual models and empirical investigation

Research Roles

Human Geography Editor, RGS/IBG Book Series
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/

Postgraduate Supervision

Current postgraduates I supervise are:

Filsner, G. (Year 3) An Evaluation of the Sustainability of the Motorsport Valley Phenomenon ESRC CASE Studentship with Motorsport Industry Assocation (joint supervision with Professor M. Jenkins)

Sawicki, S. (Year 2) Network Europe: British-Polish Economic Networks and the Remaking of Europe ESRC Research Studentship (joint supervision with Dr. A. Stenning),

Goodwin, W. (Year 2) Learning or laggard region? A Case Study of Northumberland and the North East ESRC CASE Studentship with Learning and Skills Council Northumberland (joint supervision with Professor M. Coombes)

Swords, J. (Year 1) Developing Northumberland’s Heritage Cluster: Potentials, Problems and Pitfalls ESRC CASE Studentship with Learning and Skills Council Northumberland (joint supervision with Dr. A. Hughes)

Vallance, P. (Year 1) The Geography of the UK Computer Games Industry ESRC Research Studentship (joint supervision with Dr. J. Pollard and Dr. J. Cornford)

Postgraduate Teaching

MA Human Geography Research
MA Territorial Governance and Regional Development

• Henry N, Pinch S. Knowledge and clusters. In: Christos, P; Sugden, R; Wilson, JR, ed. Clusters and Globalisation: The Development of Economies. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2006, pp. 114-132.
• Henry N, Pollard JS, Benneworth P. Putting Clusters in Their Place. In: Asheim B; Cooke P; Martin R, ed. Clusters in Regional Development. London: Routledge, 2006.
• McEwan C, Pollard JS, Henry N. The 'global' in the city economy: Multicultural economic development in Birmingham. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2005, 29(4), 916-933.
• Tallman S, Jenkins M, Henry N, Pinch S. Knowledge, clusters, and competitive advantage. Academy of Management Review 2004, 29(2), 258-271.
• Benneworth P, Henry N. Where is the value added in the cluster approach? Hermeneutic theorising, economic geography and clusters as a multiperspectival approach. Urban Studies 2004, 41(5-6), 1011-1023.
• Pinch S, Henry N, Jenkins M, Tallman S. From 'industrial districts' to 'knowledge clusters': A model of knowledge dissemination and competitive advantage in industrial agglomerations. Journal of Economic Geography 2003, 3(4), 373-388.
• Henry N, McEwan C, Pollard JS. Globalization from below: Birmingham - postcolonial workshop of the world?. Area 2002, 34(2), 117-127.
• Henry N. Knowledge capitalism: business, work and learning in the new economy. Progress in Human Geography 2002, 26(2), 262-264.
• Henry N. ”Boosterism of the Peoples”: Multicultural economic development and globalisation from below. Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture 2001, 16, 158-161.
• Henry N, Pinch S. Neo-Marshallian nodes, institutional thickness, and Britain's 'Motor Sport Valley': Thick or thin?. Environment and Planning A 2001, 33(7), 1169-1183.
• Henry N, Pollard JS, Sidaway J. The status of knowledge: policy relevance, economic geography and economics. Antipode 2001, 33(2), 200-207.
• Henry N, Pinch S. (The) industrial agglomeration (of Motor Sport Valley): a Knowledge, Space, Economy Approach'. In: Bryson, J; Daniels, P; Henry, N; Pollard, J, ed. Knowledge, Space, Economy. London: Routledge, 2000, pp.120-141.
• Henry N, Pollard JS. Introduction: Capitalising on knowledge. Geoforum 2000, 31(2), v-vii.
• Bryson J, Daniels P, Henry N, Pollard JS. Knowledge, Space, Economy. London: Routledge, 2000.
• Henry N, Pinch S. Spatialising knowledge: Placing the Knowledge Community of Motor Sport Valley. In: Huff A; Jenkins M, ed. Mapping strategic knowledge. London: Sage, 2000, pp. 137-169.
• Henry N, Pinch S. Spatialising knowledge: placing the knowledge community of Motor Sport Valley. Geoforum 2000, 31(2), 191-208.
• Henry N, Bryson J. The global production system: from Fordism to Post-Fordism. In: Bradshaw, M., Daniels, P., Shaw, D. and Sidaway, J., ed. Human Geography: Issues for the 21st Century. London: Longman, 2000, pp. 313-336.
• Pinch S, Henry N. Discursive aspects of technological innovation: the case of the British motor sport industry. Environment and Planning A 1999, 31(4), 665-682.
• Henry N. In pole position: The British motor sport cluster and lessons for Europe's Motor Industry. London: Ludvigsen Associates, 1999.
• Pinch S, Henry N. Paul Krugman's Geographical Economies, Industrial Clustering and the British motor sport industry.. Regional Studies 1999, 33(9), 815-829.
• Henry N, Passmore A. Rethinking ‘global’ city centres: the example of Birmingham. Soundings: a Journal of Politics and Culture 1999, 13(Autumn), 60-66.
• Bryson J, Henry N, Keeble D, Martin R. The Economic Geography Reader: Producing and Consuming Global Capitalism. Chichester: Wiley, 1999.
• Allen J, Massey D, Cochrane A, Charlesworth J, Court G, Henry N, Sarre P. Rethinking the region. London: Routledge, 1998.
• Henry N, Pinch S, Turner D. In pole position: explaining the development of Britain’s “Motor Sport Valley”. In: Brown BJH, ed. Explorations in Motoring History. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 1997, pp. 65-80.
• Henry N, Allen J. Ulrich Beck's Risk society at Work: labour and employment in the contract service industries. Transactions of Institute of British Geographers 1997, 22(2), 180-196.
• Allen J, Henry N. Fragments of industry and employment: contract service work and the shift towards precarious employment. In: Crompton R; Gallie D; Purcell K, ed. Changing forms of employment: organisations, skills and gender. London: Routledge, 1996, pp. 65-82.
• Bryson J, Daniels P, Henry N. From Widgets to Where? The Birmingham Economy in the 1990s Managing a Conurbation:. In: Gerrard AJ; Slater TR, ed. Managing a Conurbation: Birmingham and its Region. Studley: Brewin Books, 1996, pp. 156-168.
• Henry N, Pinch S, Russell S. In pole position? Untraded interdependencies, new industrial spaces and the British motor sport industry. Area 1996, 28(1), 25-36.
• Henry N, Massey D, Wield D. Along the Road: R&D, Society and Space. Research Policy 1995, 24(5), 707-726.
• Henry N, Massey D. Competitive Time-Space in High Technology. Geoforum 1995, 26(1), 49-64.
• Allen J, Henry N. Growth at the Margins: Contract Labour in a Core Region. In: Hadjimichalis, C; Sadler, D, ed. Europe at the Margins: New Mosaics of Inequality. Chichester: Wiley, 1995, pp. 149-166.
• Henry N. The New Industrial Spaces: Locational Logic of a New Production Era?. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 1992, 16(3), 375-396.