About my research
John is Emeritus Professor of Public Policy and Management at Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University. He was previously Professor of Employment and Regional Development at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University from 1994- 2018. He has been a Visiting professor at CURDS, Newcastle University, and a Visiting Professor at the Zhejiang Merchants Development Institute, ZJUT Business School, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China for 2015-2018 and was employed at Northumbria University, Newcastle Business School in the period 2018-2024
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- Understanding leadership in city and regional development: towards multiple perspectives of sub-national (place) leadership
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- Entrepreneurial meso-governance for the Heat and Building Strategy in the UK under the Conservative government 2019–24?
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- Public sector entrepreneurship
- Public sector entrepreneurship and future research
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- Levelling up or down? Examining the case of North-East England
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- Levelling up in the North and North-East England:
- Levelling up in the North and North-East England: complex and fragmented governance and the new National Health Service and local government partnerships
- Levelling up in the North and North-East England: complex and fragmented governance and the new National Health Service and local government partnerships
- Entrepreneurial Place Strategies: Implementing Enterprise Support and Economic Development Policies
- Editorial: Levelling up the United Kingdom? A useful mantra but too little substance or delivery?
- Book Review
- Brexit disruption and transborder leadership in Europe
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- Comparing the development of Local Industrial Strategies across the Northern Powerhouse: Key emerging issues
- The North East After Brexit arises from new research to shape the future of public sector management
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- Index
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- Combined Authorities and the Northern Powerhouse: Critical Issues and Where Next?
- Developing a New Focus on Future Research for the Region
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- Prelims
- Glossary of Acronyms
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- Introduction to Special Issue of Local Economy Journal
- Richard Kerley, Joyce Liddle and Pamela T Dunning (eds), The Routledge handbook of international local government
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- Concluding article for Local Economy Special issue on Combined Authorities in England 2019
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- Technical change in the food industry: the impact of the Ishida computer weigher
- obituary to a friend
- A European Research Network sponsored by the Regional Studies Association .
- Leadership and systems of governance: the constraints on the scope for leadership of place-based development in sub-national territories
- Hangzhou is one of China's most important cities. It is capital of the Zheijang Province.
- Examines the Czech Republics response to EU regional Policy implementation from 2004.
- Changing governance of economic develeopment in the United Kingdom
- Employability,Skills and talent management in Zhejiang Province,China
- Examines the policy shift in the United Kingdom in 2010 under the Coalition government.
- Politics and Method (Routledge Revivals)
- Book Chapter on Critical issues in Regional Regeneration.
- THE CHANGING CHINESE ECONOMY: A CASE STUDY OF HANGZHOU
- Politics and Method
- Future local economic development under new labour?: a new sub-regional development agency - 'wakefield first '
- The future of local economic development
- Small business start-ups for young people and the work of the Prince'sTrust
- Responding to a coalfield closure: old Issues for a new regional development agency?
- Encouraging the Transition into Self-employment
- Structural Funds and Their Impact: Signed and Sealed, But Can We Deliver?
- Towards 2006: European Union regional policy and UK local government: A new regional agenda
- The challenge for urban policy
- Fragmentation Strategies and the Rise of Small Units: Cases from the North West
- Enterprise Zone policy in the United Kingdom in the 1980's and the Thatcher administration.
- Examines urban regeneration in the USA under the Clinton government.