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Citations
11381
World Ranking
425
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Political Science in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Andy Pike is affiliated with Newcastle University in the United Kingdom and has contributed extensively to the fields of Social Sciences and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Their research spans multiple subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Finance, Urban Studies, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, such as:

  • Regional resilience and development
  • Housing, finance, and neoliberalism
  • Regional development and policy
  • Political and economic history of the UK and US
  • Urban planning and governance
  • Regional economics and spatial analysis
  • Urbanization and city planning

Andy Pike has published research in a variety of scholarly venues, with notable frequency in:

  • Regional Studies Policy Impact Books
  • Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • The Political Quarterly
  • Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
  • Regional Studies

Frequent collaboration is evident with several co-authors, including:

  • John Tomaney
  • Peter Sunley
  • Ron Martin
  • Danny MacKinnon
  • Peter Tyler

Among recent published papers, key works include:

  • "Reframing urban and regional 'development' for 'left behind' places" (2021) in Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • "Levelling Up?" (2020) in The Political Quarterly
  • "The Covid-19 crisis and manufacturing: How should national and local industrial strategies respond?" (2020) in Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit
  • "Coping with deindustrialization in the global North and South" (2020) in International Journal of Urban Sciences
  • "'Beyond GDP' in cities: Assessing alternative approaches to urban economic development" (2023) in Urban Studies

Andy Pike is recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom. This distinction reflects their involvement within the wider social sciences academic community.

Best Publications

  • Local And Regional Development

    A Pike;A Rodríguez-Pose;J Tomaney

  • Local and Regional Development

    Andy Pike;Andreas Rodriguez-Pose;John Tomaney

  • Resilience, adaptation and adaptability

    Andy Pike;Stuart Dawley;John Tomaney;John Tomaney

  • Evolution in Economic Geography: Institutions, Political Economy, and Adaptation

    Danny MacKinnon;Andrew Cumbers;Andy Pike;Kean Birch

  • Economic Geographies of Financialization

    Andy Pike;Jane Pollard

  • WHAT KIND OF LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOR WHOM

    Andy Pike;Andreas Rodriguez-Pose;John Tomaney

  • Handbook of Local and Regional Development

    Andy Pike;Andrés Rodríguez-Pose;John Tomaney

  • Geographies of brands and branding

    Andy Pike

  • Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places

    Danny MacKinnon;Louise Kempton;Peter O’Brien;Emma Ormerod

  • Shifting horizons in local and regional development

    Andy Pike;Andrés Rodríguez-Pose;John Tomaney

  • The state and uneven development: the governance of economic development in England in the post-devolution UK

    Andy Pike;John Tomaney

  • Towards the resilient region

    Stuart Dawley;Andy Pike;John Tomaney

  • Local institutions and local economic development: the Local Enterprise Partnerships in England, 2010–

    Andy Pike;David Marlow;Anja McCarthy;Peter O’Brien

  • Policy activism and regional path creation: the promotion of offshore wind in North East England and Scotland

    Stuart Dawley;Danny MacKinnon;Andrew Cumbers;Andy Pike

  • Spatially Rebalancing the UK Economy: Towards a New Policy Model?

    Ron Martin;Andy Pike;Peter Tyler;Ben Gardiner

  • Doing Evolution in Economic Geography

    Andy Pike;Danny MacKinnon;Andrew Cumbers;Stuart Dawley

  • Whither regional studies

    Andy Pike

  • Brands and Branding Geographies

    Andy Pike

  • ‘Shareholder value’ versus the regions: the closure of the Vaux Brewery in Sunderland

    Andy Pike

  • City Deals, Decentralisation and the Governance of Local Infrastructure Funding and Financing in the UK:

    Peter O'Brien;Andy Pike

  • Plant closure and the local economy: The case of Swan Hunter on Tyneside

    John Tomaney;Andy Pike;James Cornford

  • A geographical political economy of evolution in economic geography

    Andy Pike;Kean Birch;Andrew Cumbers;Danny MacKinnon

  • ‘Deal or no deal?’ Governing urban infrastructure funding and financing in the UK City Deals:

    Peter O’Brien;Andy Pike

  • Austerity states, institutional dismantling and the governance of sub-national economic development: the demise of the Regional Development Agencies in England

    Andy Pike;Mike Coombes;Peter O’Brien;John Tomaney

  • Local and regional development in the Global North and South

    Andy R. Pike;Andrés Rodríguez-Pose;John Tomaney

  • Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

    A Pike;P O'Brien;T Strickland;G Thrower

  • Placing brands and branding: a socio-spatial biography of Newcastle Brown Ale

    Andy Pike

Frequent Co-Authors

John Tomaney
John Tomaney University College London
Danny MacKinnon
Danny MacKinnon Newcastle University
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose London School of Economics and Political Science
Ron Martin
Ron Martin University of Cambridge
Richard Harris
Richard Harris University of Bristol
Robert Hassink
Robert Hassink Kiel University
Peter Tyler
Peter Tyler University of Cambridge
John Ingram
John Ingram University of Oxford
David Butler
David Butler University of Exeter
David W. Burt
David W. Burt University of Queensland

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