DR JOHN HARRISON

I am currently Lecturer in Human Geography within the Globalisation and World Cities Research Group (GaWC) at Loughborough University.

Background

Originally from Lancaster in North West England, I spent seven years (1999-2006) in the Institute of Geography and Earth Sciences at the University of Wales in Aberystwyth. In 2002, I graduated from the University of Wales with a First Class BA (Hons) Human Geography degree, which included a project entitled Recasting the Rural: The Impacts of the Northwest Development Agency in Cumbria.

Awarded an Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 Research Grant in 2002, I remained in Aberystwyth to undertake my MA in Space, Place and Politics - awarded with distinction in 2003 - which included a project on The Political-Economy of Blair's 'New Regional Policy'.

I then spent my final three years in Aberystwyth (2003-2006) completing my doctoral research project Regions in Focus: A 'New Regionalist' Interpretation of England's Northwest.

In the summer of 2006, I was appointed to my present position of Lecturer in Human Geography at Loughborough University.

My principal research interests are:

--- Regions, regionalism and regionalisation

--- The political-economy of  regional policy

--- English regional policy

--- City-regions/city-regionalism

--- State rescaling