ANONYMISATION.DOC NOTE ON THE PROCESS OF ANONYMISING INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPTS FOR SUBMISSION For each interview submitted, the names of the interviewees have been replaced with a unique identification tag (Interviewee 1, Interviewee 2 etc). This replacement method has been rigorously applied across all transcripts. As such, when the name of one of our interviewees is raised in another interview, their name has been replaced with their unique identification tag. Wherever possible, we have tried to leave the names of individuals, places and organisations in the transcripts. Where this was not possible, for example when this might have compromised the identity of the interviewee, the name has simply been deleted and replaced with unique identification code. This coding has been used in a consistent way between interviews. On at least one occasion, an interviewee made ‘off the record’ comments that were transcribed. These comments have been removed and this practice has been noted in the submitted transcript. 1 INFORMATIONSHEET.DOC BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS Professor Adam Tickell 1987: BA Geography, First Class, University of Manchester; 1992: PhD Geography, University of Manchester 1991-1994: Lecturer, University of Leeds; 1995-1998: Lecturer, University of Manchester; 1998-2000: Professor, University of Southampton; 1995-1998: ESRC Research Fellow (concurrent with teaching appointments); 2000-present: Professor, University of Bristol. Selected Publications 1992: ‘Accumulation, regulation and the geographies of post-Fordism’ Progress in Human Geography (with Peck); ‘The structure and relationships of inward investment in northern England.’ Regional Studies. (with Dicken); 1994: ‘Too many partners ... the future for regeneration partnerships’ Local Economy (with Peck); 1995: ‘Regulatory deficit’, England’s South East and the collapse of Thatcherism.’ Environment and Planning A (with Peck); 1996: ‘Manchester plays games: exploring the local politics of globalisation’ Urban Studies (with Cochrane and Peck); ‘The return of the Manchester Men’ Transactions, Institute of British Geographers (with Peck); ‘Putting Japanese investment in Europe in its place’ Area, (with Dicken and Yeung); 1998: ‘Privatisation, employment and windfall tax’ Area 30, 83-90; ‘Creative finance and the local state: the Hammersmith and Fulham swaps affair’ Political Geography; 2000: ‘From PEZ to FFEZ: the evolution of a labour market experiment’ Regional Studies (with Peck, Haughton, Jones); 2001 ‘Emergent frameworks in global finance: Accounting standards and German supplementary pensions Economic Geography (with Clark and Mansfield); German employee-sponsored pensions and investment management Transactions, Institute of British Geographers (with Clark and Mansfield); 2002: Devolution and England’s south east Regional Studies (with John and Musson); 2003 The economic geographer reader (Blackwell, with Barnes, Sheppard and Peck) Grants: ESRC Research Fellowship; Canadian High Commission Fellowship; ESRC awards on future of governance and devolution. Editorships: Review editor, Journal of Economic Geography (2000-4); Editor, Transactions, Institute of British Geographers (2002-7) Member of editorial board, Critical Discourse Studies Professor Peter John 1983 BSc Economic and Politics, Bath University, first class; 1986 M. Phil, Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford University; 1992 D. Phil Politics, Nuffield College, Oxford University 1987-88 Research Assistant, Nuffield College, Oxford University;1988-92 Research Fellow, Policy Studies Institute, London;1992-1995 Lecturer in Politics, Keele University;1995 -1998 Lecturer in Politics, Southampton University;1998-1999 Reader in Politics, Southampton University;1999- Reader in Politics and Sociology, Birkbeck College (Professor from 2001) Selected Publications Books: Analysing Public Policy (London, Cassell, 1998); Local Governance in Europe (London: Sage, 2001). 1 Journal articles: Peter John and Alistair Cole, 'Urban regimes in Britain and France: the cases of Leeds and Lille', Frontières, 9, 1996, 37-50; Peter John and Alistair Cole, 'A very difficult political animal', Municipal Journal, 13 March 1998; Thanos Mergoupis, Keith Dowding and Peter John, Problems of Residential Mobility as a Market-Like Mechanism in Local Government Centre For Philosophy of Natural and Social Science Discussion Paper Series, ISSN 1358-0477 DP 46/00, 2000; Charlie Hislop and Peter John, Validating Best Value: a Southampton case study (London: Local Government Information Unit, 1999), pp10. Chapters in edited collections: Peter John and Alistair Cole, 'Sociometric mapping techniques and the comparison of policy networks: economic decision-making in Leeds and Lille', in D, Marsh (ed.) Comparing Policy Networks (Buckingham, Open University Press, 1998); ‘New Labour and the decentralisation of power' in G. Taylor (ed.), The Impact of New Labour (Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1999); ‘Capacity building, networks and local political leadership’, in G. Stoker (ed.), The New Management of Local Governance: Audit of an Era of Change in Local Governance (London: Macmillan, 1999); Peter John and Martin Saiz, 'Local political parties in comparative perspective', in M. Saiz and H. Geser, Local Parties in Political and Organisational Perspective (Boulder: Westview Press, 1999). Grants The competitive city and urban policy: modelling discretionary grant allocation in the UK, Peter John (principal applicant), Keith Dowding and Hugh Ward - £47,947, February 1998-January 2000, L130 25 1038 (Cities, Competitiveness and Cohesion Programme). Co-funded by Southampton University, Research Fund, Annual Grants Scheme, £18, 099 (September 1997-September 1998). Elites and institutions in regional and local governance in Eastern Europe, James Hughes (principal applicant) and Peter John, September 1999- September 2002, £150,000 (part of One Europe or Several Research Programme). Social capital, participation and the causal role of socialisation, with David Halpern (principal applicant) and David Hargreaves, January 2000-January 2003, £190,000 (part of the Democracy and Participation Programme). Building institutions in a vacuum: devolution and England’ s South East, with Adam Tickell, April 2001 – April 2004, £110,000 (part of the Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme) Dr Steven Musson 1997: BA (Hons) Geography (First Class), University of Manchester 2001: Doctor of Philosophy, Department of Sociology, University of Manchester 2001 – 2003: Research Assistant, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, ‘Building Institutions in a Vacuum: Devolution and England’s South East’ 2003 – 2004: ESRC Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol Selected Publications 2004: The world city as a local political strategy in Manchester, UK. Submitted to Cities in March 2004 (with Peter M Webb); A decade of decentralisation? Assessing the role of the government offices for the English regions. Submitted to Environment and Planning A in October 2003 (with Adam 2 Tickell and Peter John); 2003 The South East Region? In Tomaney, J and Mawson, J (Eds.): England. The state of the regions. Bristol: Policy Press (with Tickell and John); Building a world class region: regional strategy in the South East of England. Local Economy 17.3 pp 1-10 (with Tickell and John); England’s Problem Region: Regionalism in the South East. Regional Studies 36.7 pp 733-741 (with Tickell and John) PROJECT DESCRIPTION The South East region has long been seen as peripheral to the process of devolution in England. Claims that the region lacks a clear identity of its own, that it is in fact a series of economic sub- regions and that London, although governed separately, is the cultural and economic core of the South East, are easy to make and to substantiate. This research project moves beyond these preliminary analyses of the ‘problem region’ of English Devolution. It focuses on the process through which the region is constructed as a network of institutions. It considers the emergent relationship between the three institutions of regional government, the RDA, the Government Office and the Regional Assembly, to be critical in the formation and operation of the region. This triad of regional institutions has had an immediate and significant impact on local and county government in the South East. However, the effectiveness of their promotion of the South East’s interests on the inter-regional and national scale is more questionable. This project investigates the projection of regional interests onto other scales of government by regional government. Three phases of research were carried out during 2001-2002. Initially, the focus was on the South East region but subsequently we sought to place this research in a wider spatial and institutional context though further research in central government and in London. The first phase of research involved socio-economic profiling and mapping of the region and the modelling of networks of institutional connectivity based on the multiple board memberships of individuals. The main phase of research has been a series of interviews with key informants from regional, county and local government, the economic development community, business, trade unions and the voluntary sector in the South East region and beyond. These interviews sought to identify which policy issues were important across the south east, to assess the likely impact of regional institutions on government in the region and to clarify how the South East might