Professor Lisa De Propris

• 1994-99  PhD Economics, University of Birmingham Title: “Flexibility and Innovation in District-type Clusters”

Lisa has published consistently and extensively in top-ranked journals including Journal of Economic Geography, Cambridge Journal of Economics, Urban Studies, Regional Studies, European Planning Studies, International Journal of the Economics of Business, Journal of Public Policy, Journal of Common Market Studies, and Policy Studies. Her reputation in the field of industrial and regional economics has enabled me to develop an international network of contacts and joint research which has led to published outputs such as edited volumes and journal special issues.

Most recently, through her research on creative industries she has been a keynote speaker at high profile events organised by the Committee of the Regions and European Commission. She is currently involved in two FP7 Project called ‘Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe ’ and ‘SmartCulture’, an INTERREG Project called ‘ NICER-DISTRICT+’ and an AHRC funded project called ‘Cultural intermediation: connecting communities in the creative urban economy’.

• Economics for Business (UG year 1)
• Business Economy and Government (UG year 2)
• Globalisation Innovation and Competitiveness (UG, year 3)

• Industrial districts
• Networks and clusters
• Economic development and global value chains
• Innovation and industrial policy
• EU regional policies

Lisa is currently interested in supervising PhD projects on technological change; digitalisation and green transitions; regional economies; economic development and global value chains, innovation and industrial policy; EU regional policies.

Selected grants

January 2016-December 2018

Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions- RISE

MAKERS - Smart Manufacturing for EU Growth and Prosperity, 15 Partners in Europe, US and Singapore. Euro 1,000,000.

September 2015-September  2017

Horizon 2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions- Individual Fellowships.

Skillup. Skill development and firm upgrading to sustain the competitiveness of the EU manufacturing sector”. Euro 183,455

Jan 2015- Dec 2016

EPSRC-ESRC Building sustainable local nexuses of food, energy and water: from smart engineering to shared prosperity (The Local Nexus Network).  £62,000 to UoB as a Network Partner out of £500,000 overall.

April 2012 – June 2016 FP7 Large-Scale Integrating Project

Towards a New Growth Path: Welfare, Wealth and Work for Europe

The objective of the project is to provide the analytical basis for the need, the feasibility and the scope of a socio-ecological transition, to derive policy instruments for shifting Europe to a new "high road path", and the institutional changes needed at all policy levels. The work package I am responsible for focuses on industrial policy. The project involves 18 partners across the EU27 in Austria, Hungary, France, Germany, Italy, Slovakia, Hungary, Belgium, Czech Republic, Sweden, and Spain. Co-investigator (Lead at Birmingham). Sum awarded €164,000.

April 2012 – June 2016 AHRC - Communities, Cultures and Creative Economies

Cultural intermediation: connecting communities in the creative urban economy

The project looks at the value of cultural intermediation and how this activity can be enhanced to create more effective connections between communities and the creative economy. The objectives of the research are: to create new ways of measuring value; to analyse the historic development of cultural intermediation to inform current practice; to examine how intermediation fits within the existing policy landscape and the governance of relations between the different actors; and to explore the effectiveness of intermediation activity from a community perspective. The project involves five partners across the UK. Co-investigator. Sum awarded: £25,000.

• Tutor to BSc International Business with Italian
• Member of the Marketing Advisory Group in The Birmingham Business School