Chris Collinge

Chris Collinge

Department of Management
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3783
Email
c.j.collinge@bham.ac.uk
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Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Specialisms include:

  • Regional and local economic change, with particular reference to the emergence of regional knowledge economies in a cross-national context
  • Evolving patterns of public sector governance, strategy and leadership, as between markets, hierarchies, groups and decentred networks
  • Issues in the theorization of political and economic change at the sub-national level (from regional innovation to spatial scale to spatial leadership) 

Research

Current and recent projects

  • Collinge C, (2020), Theorizing, Deleuzian style, Cultural Geographies, 27(4) pp. 545-560. 
  • Collinge C, (2018), An industrial policy framework for high value engineering, in Zhang Y and Gregory M (eds) Value Creation Through Engineering Excellence: Building Global Network Capabilities London: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-3-319-56335-0 
  • Collinge C, Gibney J, Horlings L (2017), Relational knowledge leadership and local economic development, Local Economy, 32.2, pp. 95-109. 
  • Bailey D, Collinge C, Coulson A (2011), Local and regional responses to recession in context: setting the scene in the UK, in Bailey D and Chapain C (eds) The Recession and beyond: Local and Regional Responses to the Downturn (London: Routledge) ISBN; 978-0-415-59034-1. 
  • Collinge C, Gibney J (2010), Place-Making and the Limitations of Spatial Leadership: Reflections on the Øresund, Policy Studies, 31.4, pp. 475-489.

Other activities

External Involvements

  • Keynote speaker, Conferences on Strategic Regional Leadership for the Future, Old Parliament House, Canberra, and Port Macquarie, New South Wales, 28th-29th October 2010
  • Guest Editor, themed issue on Leadership and Place-Shaping, Policy Studies, 31 (4), 2010
  • Guest Editor, themed issue on Knowledge and Creative Cities, Built Environment 35 (2), 2009
  • Keynote Speaker, Symposium on 'Scale and Representation', Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Aarhus, 22nd-24th June 2009
  • Visiting Professor, Centre for Strategic Urban Research, University of Copenhagen, 2007
  • Tutor, "The Spatial Dimensions of Urban Social Exclusion and Integration: A European Comparison (URBEX)", University of Urbino, 2006
  • External examiner, Centre for Financial and Management Studies, SOAS, University of London, 2003-06; Aston Business School, 2000-03