Overview

Research in this theme is concerned with the evolution and restructuring of urban and regional economies, with a particular focus on processes of post-industrial transition. It incorporates long-standing CURDS research on innovation, foreign direct investment and labour markets, alongside engagement with contemporary debates on evolutionary economic geography, global production networks and livelihoods. Informed by a range of theoretical frameworks and employing multiple methodologies, this research is concerned with the linkages and connections between cities and regions and broader processes of economic restructuring such as globalisation and de-globalisation, technological change, knowledge-based development, climate change and new forms of employment.   

• Urban and regional adaptation and resilience
• Energy transition and path creation 
• Innovation, knowledge and technology 
• Global production networks and foreign direct investment 
• Labour markets and livelihoods

People

Publications

• Martin RL and Pollard JS (2017) Handbook on Geographies of Money and Finance, Cheltenham, Edward Elgar

• Poon, J, Pollard JS, Chow J and Ewers M, (2016) The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier, Regional Studies, 10.1080/00343404.2016.1214254

• Pollard JS, Datta K and James A (2015) Islamic charitable infrastructure and giving in East London: everyday economic-development geographies, Journal of Economic Geography, 1-26.

• Dawley SJ, Marshall JN, Pike A, Pollard JS and Tomaney J, (2014) The Labour Market Impact of the Run on Northern Rock: Continuity and Evolution in an old Industrial Region, Regional Studies, 14, 1, 154-172

• Christopherson S, Martin R and Pollard JS (2013) Financialisation:  Roots and Repercussions, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 6, 3, 351-357

• Pollard JS (2013) Gendering capital: financial crises, financialization and (an agenda for) economic geography, Progress in Human Geography, 37, 3, 403 - 423

• Pollard JS and Samers M (2013) Governing Islamic finance: territory, agency and the making of cosmopolitan financial geographies, Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 103,3, 710-726

• Marshall JN, A Pike, JS Pollard, J Tomaney, S Dawley  (2012) Placing the run on the Rock, Journal of Economic Geography, 12, 1, 157-181

Projects & Reports

Henry, N., Sissons, P., Coombes, M., Ferreira, J. and Pollard, J. (2014) Building the Financial Exclusion Jigsaw Puzzle: An Analysis of Disclosed Bank Lending Data, Draft Final Report, October 2014