JUC PAC CONFERENCE 2021

How Place Matters? Leadership, Governance & Public Administration

Local Governance Research Centre (LGRC) De Montfort University, 7-8 September 2021

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

Conference Overview

Pre-Conference DAY 1 DAY 2

Monday 6 September Tuesday 7 September Wednesday 8 September

09:30-10:00 Conference Opening & Welcome Address 09:30-10:00 Welcome Address Prof. Katie Normington (Vice , Prof. Jo Richardson (Associate Dean DMU) Research and Innovation, Faculty of Steven Griggs, Arianna Giovannini and Business and Law, DMU) Alistair Jones (LGRC, DMU)

10:00-11:15 The Frank Stacey Memorial Lecture 10:00-11:15 Keynote Lecture 09:30-17:00 Dr Nicola Headlam (Chief Economist and Prof. John Tomaney (Professor of Urban Annual Public Head of Public Sector, Red Flag Alert) and Regional Planning, Bartlett School of Management and Planning, UCL) Administration Doctoral ‘There’s no future for England’s dreaming: Workshop trial and error in the ‘ungovernable North’ ‘Levelling up and Left Behind Places’ (online, programme tbc)

Chair: Prof. Steven Griggs (LGRC, DMU) Chair: Dr Arianna Giovannini (LGRC, DMU) Convenors: Dr Karin Bottom 11:15-11:30 Refreshment Break 11:15-11:30 Refreshment Break (PAC Chair) and Dayo

Eseonu (VC for Doctoral 11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 1 11:30-13:00 Parallel Session 4 Students)

13:00-14:00 Lunch Meet the Editors: 13:00-14:00 Lunch Teaching Public Administration and Public Policy and Administration 14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 2 14:00-15:30 Parallel Session 5

15:30-15:45 Refreshment Break 15:30-15:45 Refreshment Break

15:45-17:15 Parallel Session 3 15:45-17:15 Parallel Session 6 17:15 Closing conference remarks Steven Griggs, Arianna Giovannini and Alistair Jones (LGRC, DMU) 17:30 PAC Executive

DAY 1 – TUESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER PARALLEL SESSION 1 (11:30-13:00)

Roundtable: Place-making, leadership and Rethinking the environment in Local government responses to Territorial lobbying and multi- identity in the North of England local politics Covid-19: international level governance perspectives

Georgina Blakeley and Brendan Peter Eckersley (Nottingham Trent Filipe Teles, University of Aveiro, Dan Ziebarth (George Washington Evans (University of Huddersfield): University & Leibniz Institute) et al: Portugal University):

Doing politics differently in Greater Ranking local climate policy: Simona Kukovič, University of Local Lobbyists in the European Manchester and the Liverpool City assessing the mitigation and Ljubljana, Slovenia Union Region? adaptation activities of 104 German cities Carmen Navarro, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain David Jeffery (University of Anna Zachrisson et al (Umeå Oscar Moreno Corchete Liverpool): University): Paula Russell, University College (University of Salamanca): Dublin, Republic of Ireland The importance of ‘demos’ in local A Challenge to Transition Policies: The external action of local entities democracy: A case study of the How decisive is place attachment for in Spain: from implementation to Liverpool City Region the implementation and coordination regulation of place-based policies?

Stewart Arnold (University of Paul Omar and Russell Orr Cristina Ares (): (DMU): Santiago de Compostela):

Identity and devolution: the case of Rus in Urbe: From Rome to the pop- Currents, Waves and Tides: will Yorkshire up park of today places matter more to EU bodies after the pandemic? Ryan Swift ():

Placing the North of England

Chair: Arianna Giovannini (LGRC) Chair: Steven Griggs (LGRC) Chair: Alistair Jones (LGRC) Chair: Mark Roberts (LGRC)

DAY 1 – TUESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER

PARALLEL SESSION 2 (14:00-15:30)

Roundtable: Regional and Territorial Politics Reinvigorating Local Democracy Equality, Diversity and Inclusion: Developing an agenda

Sean Kippin () and Jim Chandler (Sheffield Hallam) and Janice Morphet (UCL): Neil Barnett (Leeds Beckett): PAC EDI Special Interest Group

Coordination, agenda-setting, and future A scenario for ‘bottom-up’ discursive community planning: the role of Combined Authorities during democracy as a means of informing city, county and the Covid-19 Pandemic national liberal democracy

John Harrison (), Alistair Clark (): Daniel Galland, (Aalborg University Copenhagen), and Mark Tewdwr-Jones (UCL): Inequalities, Public Administration and the funding of elections Planning Regional Futures Tom Arnold, Sue Jarvis, Belinda Tyrell & Gloria Pete Murphy, Peter Eckersley, Katarzyna Lakoma, Lanci (Heseltine Institute, University of Bernard Kofi Dom, Martin Jones (Nottingham Trent Liverpool): University):

Developing an asset-based approach to Building The future of Local Audit: local authority financial Back Better in Liverpool City Region reporting and external audit in England after Redmond

Ben Duke: Who Rules the Roost? The UK Localism Act 2011 Ten Years On: Democratic Legitimacy Tension between Lay or Citizen or Institutional Expertise

Chair: Arianna Giovannini (LGRC) Chair: Jonathan Rose (LGRC) Chair: Karin Bottom (PAC)

DAY 1 – TUESDAY 7 SEPTEMBER PARALLEL SESSION 3 (15:45-17:15) Experimentalism in Place- Policy Impact Panel: Shaping: new ways of governing in Can leadership research Faith and Public Service Design, Service political science? Disaster? improve place-based Administration governance? Part I: Experimental Place- Shaping of the City

Robin Hambleton (Emeritus Rachel Granger (LGRC, DMU): Rory Shand (Manchester Lucy Budd and Stephen Ison Professor of City Leadership, UWE) Metropolitan University), Steven (LGRC, DMU): The Sharing City: Scaling-up from Parker (LGRC, DMU) and Joyce Janice Morphet (Visiting Professor. community experimentalism to the Liddle (Northumbria): Transport Act 2000 Twenty Years

Bartlett School of Planning municipal level Faith in Public Administration: On: A Role for Road User Charging UCL) Communities, Development and and the Workplace Parking Levy Governance Audrey Sutton (Executive Director of Communities and Education, Yu Qiao (): Steve Parker (LGRC, DMU) and Bernard Kofi Dom, Peter Murphy North Ayrshire Council) Lorraine Johnston (Northumbria): and Martin Jones (Nottingham Collective Practicing and the Trent University):

Stakeholder in Heritage Area Belief in values, outcomes and Financial failure and corporate Management processes: predictions in science, or intervention at Northamptonshire just muddling through? County Council: A sorry saga not a surprise

Dalia Mukhtar-Landgren (Lund Amina Easat-Daas (DMU): Muhammad Wahyudi University): (INLOGOV): Politics and Public Administration The Governing Paradoxes of The Impact of Public Participation Experimental Governance and Belgian Muslim Women: Opportunities and Obstacles on Audit Process: An Analysis of The Public Comment Mechanism at Bastian Lange (Leipzig): Jennifer Robinson (DMU): the Indonesia Supreme Audit From flexible to situated Institution geographies: conceptualizing Exploring the value of faith to public innovation and experimental work administration through Cambridge processes Analytica Chair: Arianna Giovannini (LRGC) Chair: Rachel Granger (LGRC) Chair: Joyce Liddle & Steve Parker Chair: Stephen Ison (LGRC)

DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER PARALLEL SESSION 4 (11:30-13:00)

Beyond “new municipalism”: Levelling Up Place, Leadership and Roundtable: state-social movement relations Part I: Issues and Prospects Governance Issues in Teaching and Learning in towards state transformation? Emergency Services Public Administration

Jonathan Davies (CURA, DMU): Joyce Liddle, John Shutt Paresh Wankhade (Edge Hill Alistair Jones (LGRC, DMU) () and University) and Peter Murphy Municipalist strategies towards the Gareth Addidle (Teesside (Nottingham Trent University): Ros Lishman (DMU) state? University): Future of Emergency Service John Diamond (public policy and Opening Panel Introduction: An Research professional practice consultant & overview of the social and economic co-editor of Teaching Public consequences of Levelling Up: Some Administration) issues to be addressed Martina Locorotondo (CURA, Simon Bridge (): Peter Murphy and Katarzyna Bruce McDonald (SC State DMU): Lakoma (Nottingham Trent University) Levelling Up – Is it the right cure? University): Neo-municipalist Naples: a case Alistair McCulloch (University of study between the urban commons Government’s proposals for reform of Adelaide) and the local government Fire and Rescue Services in England Adrian Bua (CURA, DMU): Ananya Mukherjee (Cardiff Paresh Wankhade (): University): Entering the labyrinth: Galician municipalists in and against the state Strong Local Institutions for levelling Covid-19 and Ambulance Workers up: lessons from federal systems Valeria Guarneros-Meza (CURA, Jon Ord (University of St Mark & DMU): St John):

Reviving the local state through the Food poverty and youth work – A navigation of contradictions: community response Capulalpam de Mendez, Mexico

Chair & Discussant: Adam Fishwick Chair: John Shutt & Gareth Addidle Chair: Paresh Wankhade Chair: Alistair Jones (LGRC) (CURA)

DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER PARALLEL SESSION 5 (14:00-15:30)

Experimentalism in Place- Levelling Up The Politics of Place Theoretical & methodological Improving collaboration and Shaping: new ways of Part II: place shaping, Leadership: with, in and approaches in public fostering co-creation in public governing in political science? inequalities and resilience against community administration services: Findings from the Part II: Techniques for COGOV Project Experimental Place-Sensing

Carolina Carrasco Pizarro, José Patrick Diamond (Queen Mary Simon Stevens (DMU): Steven Parker (LGRC, DMU), Keith Shaw (Northumbria Gómez, Tamara Egger (Espacio University) and Andrew Victoria Cluley ( Uni) and University): Ludico): Walker (LGiU): A panoptic public space and Zoe Radnor (): the street homeless The COGOV project: overview, main How to engage citizens in low- Twenty Years of Place-shaping Dis/value in Public Service Delivery findings, and implications for policy- digitalized neighbourhoods during strategies in English – Current Conceptualisations and makers and practitioners social distancing? CUBOX: a Governance Future Avenues for Exploration creative analog-digital solution for ludic interaction Laura Parsons (LGRC, DMU): Jack Newman (University of Linda-Marie Sundstrom Melissa Hawkins and Max French Eva Elliott and Martin Kitchener Surrey) et al: and Mark Kling (Cal Baptist (Northumbria University): (): Community Participation in Food as University, USA) Municipal Governance: Eliciting A Place-based System? Policy Action-oriented research: a route to The Role of Community Organisations Techniques for Hidden Culture Responses to Place Based Defund the Police or relevance for the social sciences in Orchestrating Public Service Co- Inequalities Comprehensive Compassion: Creation: Place-Based Governance Lessons from a Welsh Case Study Trends to Create Safety in the Civic Square Carl Quinn (Practice, Leicester): Kate Broadhurst Tayseer Khairy (Ain Shams Michael Joseph (Brunel University): Brittney Regal and Sam van Elk (Loughborough University) and University, Egypt): Higher Education Institutions and (King’s College London): From the urban spectacles and Nicholas Gray (Teesside Innovation Governance: Technology visions to the mundane trust University): Towards Vibrant Places: Transfer and Commercialisation in Attempting co-creation in the cultural building: a what works model Unfolding the Perceptions of Canadian Universities sector: lessons from London Region and City Resilience in Place-making based times of crisis Leadership in Egypt Stephane Revillet (University of Edoardo Ongaro (The Open Bourgogne): University): The leaders’ place in the Westminster system Bridging strategic management and co-creation for the improvement of public services

Chair: Rachel Granger (LGRC) Chair: Joyce Liddle Chair: Adrian Bua (LGRC) Chair: Steven Parker (LGRC) Chair: Rachel Ashworth Discussant: Nicolette van Gestel

DAY 2 – WEDNESDAY 8 SEPTEMBER PARALLEL SESSION 6 (15:45-17:15)

A socially responsible Local Mayors and Public leadership Innovation Governance: The Politics of the Global South State? a comparative perspective

Peter Eckersley (Nottingham Trent Max Stafford (LGRC, DMU): Michael Joseph (Brunel Anesu Mironga (Africa University): University & Leibniz Institute); University): Anthony Flynn (Cardiff University); 2021 Vision: The first 3 Mayors of The nexus between the establishment Laurence Ferry (Durham University; London – lessons from the Conundrums of UK Innovation of an enabling environment and Rutgers University); Katarzyna perspective of political leadership Governance Local Economic Development in the Lakoma (Nottingham Trent) studies City of Harare

Public procurement as a policy tool:

Are UK councils increasingly favouring suppliers based in their regions?

Yunailis Salazar (Autonomous Alex Marsh and David Sweeting Yuzhuo Cai (Tampere University) Bariki Mwasaga (University of University of Barcelona, IGOP): () Perugia): Shifting Policy and Systems of Learning from (in)experience: New Leadership, citizen participation and Innovation in Finland Inter-governmental relations Municipalism and the ‘big P’ politics in the smart city between central government and implementation of socially local government authorities in responsible public procurement Tanzania policy in Barcelona

Temidayo Eseonu (University of Steven Griggs (De Montfort Vesna Damnjanovic and Veljko Mayank Mishra (Jawaharlal Nehru Manchester): University) Jeremic (University of Belgrade, University): Serbia) Rethinking knights, knaves and Discussant: Meeting the challenges Infrastructure as spatial imagery: pawns: public responsiveness to of local leadership Transitioning to Innovation: Comprehending the political racialised needs Emerging Policy and Systems in aesthetics of India’s Central Vista Serbia Project

Chair:Valeria Guarneros-Mesa (LGRC) Chair: Steven Griggs (LGRC) Chair: Averil Horton Chair: Mark Roberts (LGRC)