Professor David Bailey PhD, FeRSA

Department of Management
Professor of Business Economics

Contact details

Telephone: +447981925713
Email: d.g.bailey@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @dgbailey

Address: Department of Management
Birmingham Business School
University House
Birmingham
B15 2TT

David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School, and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC’s UK in a Changing Europe programme, exploring the impacts of Brexit on UK automotive and manufacturing. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in relation to manufacturing and the auto industry. He has been involved in a number of recent major projects including the recent Horizon2020 RISE project MAKERS where he led the Work Package on Industrial Policy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Regional Studies and Chair of the RSA Europe Think-Tank and policy forum. His latest co-edited book ‘Keeping the Wheels on the Road. UK Auto after Brexit’ has recently been published by Bite-Sized Books. David is a regular media commenter and newspaper columnist. Tweet him @dgbailey

Qualifications

Ph.D. Birmingham Business School. 2003
M.Soc.Sc. Russian and East European Studies / Economics. University of Birmingham. (Funded by an ESRC Competition Award). 1990
B.Soc.Sc. Economics. First Class Honours. University of Birmingham. 1988

Teaching

David teaches on a number of modules including:

Employment, Business Development and Policy in the EU (final year BSc undergraduate module)
Issues in Management (MSc International Business module)
Intermediate Business Economics (2^nd year undergraduate module delivered in Singapore)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Bailey, D, De Propris, L, Dimos, C, Fai, FM, Hardy, S & Tomlinson, PR 2026, 'A critical review of the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy: lessons for ‘place-based’ policy', Regional Studies, vol. 60, no. 1, 2597466. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2597466

Irving, J, Beer, A, Weller, S, Barnes, T, Onur, I, Ratcliffe, J, Bailey, D, Sotarauta, M & Vij, A 2025, 'A longitudinal dataset of retrenched automotive workers in Australia', Scientific Data, vol. 12, 1113. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05424-8

Hearne, D & Bailey, D 2025, 'Regional prices Rreconsidered', Regional Studies, Regional Science, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 338-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/21681376.2025.2475115

Hearne, D, Bailey, D & de Ruyter, A 2025, 'Regions and just transitions: worker perspectives on electrification in two automotive regions', Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2025.2488205

Ruyter, AD, Bentley, G, Hearne, D, Bailey, D & Nielsen, B 2024, 'A ‘just transition’ for workers in the automotive sector? Survey evidence from the West Midlands', Contemporary Social Science, vol. 19, no. 1-3, pp. 199-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2024.2353684

Bailey, D, De propris, L, De ruyter, A, Hearne, D & Ortega-Argilés, R 2023, 'Brexit, trade and UK advanced manufacturing sectors: a Midlands’ perspective', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, pp. 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2192700

Hildreth, P & Bailey, D 2023, 'Levelling-up beyond the metropolis: is the UK government’s preferred governance model appropriate?', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, pp. 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2023.2233931

Bailey, D, De Ruyter, A, Macrae, C, Mcneill, J & Roberts, J 2022, 'Perceiving and managing Brexit risk in UK manufacturing: evidence from the midlands', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2022.2073386

Bailey, D, De Ruyter, A, Hearne, D & Ortega-argilés, R 2022, 'Shocks, resilience and regional industry policy: Brexit and the automotive sector in two Midlands regions', Regional Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2022.2071421

De Propris, L & Bailey, D 2021, 'Pathways of regional transformation and Industry 4.0', Regional Studies, vol. 55, no. 10-11, pp. 1617-1629. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2021.1960962

Chapter

Bailey, D, Coffey, D, De Propris, L & Thornley, C 2023, The car industry as a laboratory of transformations induced by industrial development. in Handbook of Industrial Development. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 248-267. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800379091.00025

Bailey, D & De Propris, L 2020, Technological disruptions, gvcs, and industrial policy. in The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Policy. SIPRI/Oxford University Press, pp. 485-504. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198862420.013.19

Conference contribution

Ali, SS, Bailey, D, de Propris, L & Nunes, B 2020, 'Industry 4.0' awareness and readiness within the vento region (Italy). in L Pretorius & MW Pretorius (eds), Towards the Digital World and Industry X.0 - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology, IAMOT 2020. Towards the Digital World and Industry X.0 - Proceedings of the 29th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology, IAMOT 2020, International Association for Management of Technology Conference (IAMOT) and the Graduate School of Technology Management, University of Pretoria, pp. 990-1007, 29th International Conference of the International Association for Management of Technology: Towards the Digital World and Industry X.0, IAMOT 2020, Cairo, Egypt, 13/09/20.

Editorial

Bailey, D, De Propris, L, Gansauer, G & Tomlinson, PR 2025, 'Industrial strategy reborn: global trends, tensions and trajectories', Contemporary Social Science, vol. 20, no. 2-3, pp. 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1080/21582041.2025.2599054

Bailey, D, Clark, J, Colombelli, A, Corradini, C, De Propris, L, Derudder, B, Fratesi, U, Fritsch, M, Harrison, J, Hatfield, M, Kemeny, T, Kogler, DF, Lagendijk, A, Lawton, P, Ortega-Argilés, R, Otero, CI & Usai, S 2020, 'Regions in a time of pandemic', Regional Studies, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 1163-1174. https://doi.org/10.1080/00343404.2020.1798611

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