TO HEAR A RECORDING OF THIS LECTURE

Professor John Goddard Henry Daysh Professor of Regional Development Studies and Deputy Vice Chancellor, Newcastle University.

Around the world cities, regions and universities are discovering each other.    More and more partnerships are being established based on a growing appreciation of shared interests.  Professor Goddard will explore the drivers behind such engagement, from university and city and regional perspectives, the barriers to effective working and how these barriers are being addressed in practice, in a variety of regional and national contexts.  He will conclude with suggestion as to how capacity for joint working between universities, cities and regions can be enhanced, through changes in policy and practice at the institutional, regional and national level focussing on the UK, Newcastle and the North East of England.

As Deputy Vice Chancellor, John Goddard is responsible for the University’s engagement with the city and the region, most notably Newcastle Science City.  As Professor of Regional Development Studies, he founded the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) and was its director from 1977 to 1998.  In this capacity, he led numerous research programmes for the Economic and Social Research Council, European Commission and UK Government Departments on the interaction between science, technology and innovation policy and regional development.  These included reports for Universities UK on Universities and Communities and the Regional Mission of Higher Education.   He has just completed a project for OECD involving 14 regions and 12 countries and published under the title Higher Education and Regions: Globally Competitive, Locally Engaged.  He has recently completed a period as Chair of the Development Group of the UK’s six Science Cities.