Biography
My main area of study is International infrastructuring. As such many main focus is how states are adapting national infrastructure systems (as territorially fixed assets) to the adaptive tensions created by the twin and overlapping pressures of regionalism and globalism. In this sense, I am especially interested in infrastructures as a tool of state territorial and geo-strategy. The area of interest is by its nature multi-disciplinary cutting across overlapping themes within International Political Economy, Political/Economic Geography and aspects of the broad based discipline known as infrastructure studies. Logistics forms a key sub-theme within this field as these processes generate international flows to which national systems are adapting.
Qualifications
1989 – BA Economics with Politics - CNAA
1991 – MA Economics of the EU – University of Exeter
2003 – PhD (by Publication) Leeds University.
Background
Throughout my career I have worked at the Universities of Lincoln, Huddersfield and Hull. I have also been a guest lecturer at a number of European institutions.
Areas of interest
- Infrastructure
- Regionalism
- Systems globalism
- Political economy