James Rees

 

Research Fellow

Third Sector Research Centre

James Rees, Research Fellow, Third Sector Research Centre

Contact details

Telephone +44(0)121 414 3673

Email j.e.rees@bham.ac.uk

School of Social Policy, Third Sector Research Centre
Park House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

About

James joined TSRC in February 2011 and works on the Service Delivery stream focusing on the delivery of public services by the third sector. Recent research has been on partnership working, the role of the third sector in the Work Programme, and the commissioning of public services. His other research interests are in urban and regional governance, economic development and regeneration.

Qualifications

  • PhD (Planning and Landscape) University of Manchester, 2007
  • MA (International Relations and Development Studies) University of East Anglia, 2001
  • MA (Geography) University of Oxford, 1999

Publications

  • Durose, C. and Rees, J. (2011) ‘The rise and fall of neighbourhood in the New Labour era’, accepted by Policy and Politics,forthcoming
  • Harding, A., Harloe, M. and Rees, J. (2010) Manchester’s Bust Regime?, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol 34(4) 981-91
  • Rees, J. (2009) ‘Urban Housing Market Restructuring and the Re-casting of Neighbourhood Governance’ in Durose, C., Greasley, S. and Richardson, L. (eds.) Changing local governance, changing citizens, Bristol: Policy Press
  • Burch, M., Harding, A. and Rees, J. (2009) Having it both ways: explaining the contradiction in the English spatial development policy, International Journal of Public Sector Management, 22 (07) 587-604
  • Burch, M., Harding, A. and Rees, J. (2008) ‘The English Question’, in Hazell, R. (ed) Constitutional Futures, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Burch, M., Harding, A. and Rees, J. (2008) 'The English Regions and London’, in State of the Nations 2007: Into the Third Term of Devolution in the United Kingdom, edited by Alan Trench, Exeter: Academic Press

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