Newcastle University

Introduction

Responsibilities:

Director, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies

Adjunct Professor, School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Melbourne

Associate Director, UK Spatial Economics Research Centre

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), Social science and administration, London School of Economics, 1985
MA, Urban and regional studies, University of Sussex, 1987
PhD, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1991

Honours and Awards

Academician, Academy of Learned Societies in Social Science, elected 2003

Adjunct Professor, Institute for Regional Studies, Monash University, Melbourne, December-March 2007

Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Flinders International Asia Pacific, Flinders University, Adelaide, February, 2007

Research Interests

My research concerns the relationship between territory, democracy, identity and justice, especially at the local and regional scales. I am interested in the sources and forms of local and regional development and the types of public intervention that support these and have a particular interest in the development of ‘old industrial regions’. I am also interested in the apparently global trend toward devolution and its impacts on the political economy of regional development and the relationship between democracy and development. In addition, I am interested in the formation and reproduction of local and regional identities and the political and cultural uses to which they are put. I have a longstanding interest in all aspects of the economic, social, cultural and political development of North East England. I have published books and articles and supervised PhDs in each of these fields.

Students wishing to arrange a meeting should contact me by email to make an appointment.

Postgraduate Supervision

Current:

Emil Evenhuis, The political economy of adaptation in old industrial regions, ESRC, with Stuart Dawley and Andy Pike

Anja McCarthy, The local state and economic development and regeneration, ESRC with Andy Pike and Newcastle City Council)

Sophie Yarker,  Urban regeneration and local identity, ESRC, With Prof. Andy Pike and Dr Robin Humphrey

Annie O'Donnell, Scale and narrative in culture-led regeneration, AHRC, with Dr Vee Pollock, David Butler.

Young-Jin Shin, Regenerating the Coalfields in South Korea: Lessons from Europe, with Dr Andy Pike

Recent:

Michail Biniakos, Local and regional development and governance in the Balkans, Greek Ministry of Education, with Dr Alison Stenning and Dr Andy Pike, Awarded, 2011

John Edwards, The governance of rural development in the EU, ESRC, with Dr Andy Pike, 2011

Xuefeng Wang, Knowledge-based urban development in China, with Dr Andy Pike. Awarded 2009

Rory Padfield, The water industry and development in Zambia’, ESRC/NERC, jointly with Dr Kate Manzo and Professor Paul Younger. Awarded 2008.

Veronica Hernandez-Jimenez, Participatory Planning in the Madrid Region, EU FP5, jointly with Dr Nick Winder. Awarded 2007.

Peter O’Brien, ‘Trade unions and regional governance’, ESRC Case award (with Northern TUC) jointly with Dr Andy Pike. Awarded 2004.

Liz Dixon, ‘Business associations and regional governance’, ESRC Case award (with Engineering Employers Federation) jointly with Dr Andy Pike. Awarded 2004

Martin Sokol, Regional development in Central and Eastern Europe (EU Phare funded). Awarded 2003

Damian Thomas, Social partnership and Economic Development in the Republic of Ireland (ESRC funded). Awarded 2002.

Douglas Hamilton, Cross-border strategy in Ireland. (ESRC funded). Awarded 2002.

Funding

Selected recent major research funding:

The local and regional impacts of high speed rail in the UK: a review of the evidence, Buckinghamshire County Council, 2011, (PI)

Local impacts of public expenditure cuts, Mayor of Middlesbrough, 2011, (with Prof. Mike Coombes)

Urbanisation and Industrialisation in Henan, Henan Provincial Government, (PRC) 2010-2011, (with Dr Xuefeng Wang, et al)

Rebalancing the Economy Spatially and Sectorally, UK Commission on Employment and Skills (with SQW Ltd., Cambridge Econometrics Ltd, Warwick University),

A Comparative Analysis of Spatial Welfare Conditions and Disparities in China and Europe, Norwegian Research Council, 2010

New Models of Local Economic Development, Australian Business Foundation, 2010  

Decentralisation and public service provision: the impact on efficiency, Department of Communities and Local Government, 2010-11

Regional Insights, OneNorthEast, 2007-2010 (with Dr. Stuart Dawley)

Spatial Economics Research Centre, Economic and Social Research Council, Department of Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, Department of Communities and Local Government,(with Dr Henry Overman, et al. London School of Economics) 2008-2011

Local and regional democracy in the UK and Japan, 2007-8, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation/Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation (with Dr Kunihiro Wakamatsu, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies).

Impacts of New Public Management reforms in regional policy, 2006-9, Norwegian Research Council (with Steinar Johansen/Marte Bjørnsen, Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research/University of Oslo.)

What works in regional economic development? Learning from international best practice, 2006, OneNorthEast, (with Dr Nick Henry, et al)

The Economic Viability and Self-Containment of Geographical Economies: A Framework for Analysis, 2005, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, (with Dr Andy Pike, Professor Mike Coombes and Professor Tony Champion)

Monitoring the English Regions, 2001-2005, Economic and Social Research Council (With University College London, et al)

Regional institutions and regional identity in England, 1999-2001, Leverhulme Trust

Projects

• Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
  Project Leader(s): Professor John Tomaney
• Understanding the Connectivity of the North East's Commercial Creative Industries
  Project Leader(s): Prof. John Tomaney

Undergraduate Teaching

GEO2094 Economic and Social Change: UK Fieldcourse
GEO3066 Local and Regional Development

Postgraduate Teaching

GEO8018 Regional Development and Governance in Europe
Geo8019 Developing Local and Regional Strategies

• 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).
• Tselios V, Rodriguez-Pose A, Pike A, Tomaney J, Torrisi G. Decentralisation, income inequality and regional economic development in Western Europe. Environment and Planning A 2012. In Press.
• Tomaney J, Marques P. Evidence, policy and the politics of regional development: the case of high speed rail in the United Kingdom. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2012. In Press.
• Pike A, Rodriguez-Pose A, Tomaney J, Torrisi G, Tselios V. In search of the ‘economic dividend’ of devolution: Spatial disparities, spatial economic policy and decentralisation in the UK. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy 2012, 30(1), 10-28.
• Dawley S, Marshall JN, Pike A, Pollard J, Tomaney J. Labour market impact of Northern Rock. Regional Studies 2012. In Press.
• 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.
• Richardson R, Tomaney J. Planning in a cold climate: The changing context of regional development in old industrial regions. Regional Studies 2012. In Preparation.
• Dawley S, Tomaney J. Skilled internation migration and the regions: the case of Australia. 2012. In Preparation.
• Pike A, Rodriguez-Pose A, Tomaney J. Desarollo local y regional. Valencia: Publicaciones de la Universitat Valencia, 2011.
• Pike A, Rodriguez-Pose A, Tomaney J, ed. Handbook of Local and Regional Development. Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge, 2011.
• Pike A, Rodriguez-Pose A, Tomaney J, Wang XF (trans.). Local and Regional Development (Chinese translation). Shanghai: Higher Education Press, 2011.
• 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.
• Tomaney J, Wray F. The University and the Region: An Australian perspective. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 2011, 35(5), 913-931.
• Tomaney J, Somerville M. Climate Change and Regional Identity in the Latrobe Valley, Victoria. Australian Humanities Review 2010, 49, 29-47.
• Tomaney J. Contemporary Britain and its Regions. In: Higgins, M., Smith, C., Storey, J., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Culture. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 79-95.
• Tomaney J, Pike A, Rodriguez-Pose A. Local and regional development in times of crisis: Neoliberalism and its legacies. Environment and Planning A 2010, 42(4), 771-779.
• Tomaney J. Parish and universe: Patrick Kavanagh's poetics of the local. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2010, 28(2), 311-325.
• Tomaney J. Place-based approaches to regional development: global trands and Australia implications. Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: Australian Business Foundation, 2010.
• Pike A, Dawley S, Tomaney J. Resilience, adaptation and adaptability. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2010, 3(1), 59-70.
• Pike A, Tomaney J. State and economy: governing uneven development in the UK. In: Coe, N and Jones, A, ed. The Economic Geography of the UK. London: Sage, 2010, pp. 91-109.
• Tomaney J, ed. The Future of Regional Policy. London: The Smith Institute, 2009.
• Pike A, Tomaney J. The state and uneven development: the governance of economic development in England in the post-devolution UK. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2009, 2(1), 13-34.
• Tomaney J. Keeping a beat in the dark: narratives of regional identity in Basil Bunting's Briggflatts. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 2007, 25(2), 355-375.
• Pike A, Rodríguez-Pose A, Tomaney J. What kind of local and regional development and for whom?. Regional Studies 2007, 41(9), 1253-1269.
• Pike A, Rodríguez-Pose A, Tomaney J. Local and Regional Development. London: Routledge, 2006.
• Pike AJ, Champion AG, Coombes MG, Humphrey L, Tomaney J. The economic viability and self-containment of geographical economies: a framework for analysis. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2006.
• Tomaney J, Pike A, Jones J, Wren C. Memorandum submitted by Professor John Tomaney, Dr Colin Wren, Dr Andy Pike, Jonathan Jones, House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee. February 24th 2004. Manufacturing and Trade in Wales. Memoranda submitted to the Committee. HC 329-II of Session 2003-04, ppEv188-124.. 2005.
• Rodríguez-Pose A, Tomaney J, Klink J. Empoderamento local através de reestruturação econômica no Brasil: o caso da região do Grande ABC. In: Marcio M. Valença and Edesio Fernandes, ed. Brasil Urbano. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad Editora, 2004, pp. 93-110.