People

CURDS boasts academic leaders in the fields of urban and regional development whose research is valuable to policy, industry and the public sector.

Professor Anthony Champion
Emeritus Professor of Population Geography

Email: tony.champion@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 6437

Emeritus Professor Mike Coombes
Senior Research Investigator

Email: mike.coombes@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 0102

Professor Stuart Dawley
Chair in Economic Geography

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7735

Professor Rachel Franklin
Professor of Geographical Analysis

Email: rachel.franklin@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 0191 208 8004

Emeritus Professor John Goddard OBE
Professor of Regional Development Studies

Email: john.goddard@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7732

Hailey James
Research Support Officer

Professor Louise Kempton
Professor of Urban and Regional Policy

Telephone: +44 (0)191 208 7577

Dr Kean Fan Lim
Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography

Email: keanfan.lim@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: 0191 208 8037

Professor Danny MacKinnon
Professor of Regional Development and Governance; Director of CURDS

Tom Martin
School Research Manager

Email: tom.martin@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8534

Dr Emma Ormerod
Senior Lecturer

Dr Gainbi Park
Lecturer in Quantitative Human Geography

Email: gainbi.park@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 191 208 4615

Professor Andy Pike
Sir Henry Daysh Chair of Reg Dev Studies

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 8011

Professor Jane Pollard
Professor of Economic Geography

Email: jane.pollard@ncl.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 191 208 7732

Dr Sanne Velthuis
Research Associate

Dr Sanne Velthuis
Research Associate