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 Chancellor, 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 (University of Hull): (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 (University of Leeds): 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 (University of Stirling) 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 (Loughborough University), Alistair Clark (Newcastle University): 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 (Durham University): 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) (Northumbria University) 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 (Ulster University): 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 (Edge Hill University): 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