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Research.com Recognitions

  • 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

John Tomaney is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a focus on urban studies, political science and international relations, finance, sociology and political science, and general agricultural and biological sciences.

The main topics of their work include:

  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism
  • Urban Planning and Governance
  • Political and Economic History of the UK and US
  • Rural Development and Sustainability
  • Urbanization and City Planning
  • Land Use and Ecosystem Services
  • Regional Development and Policy

Their recent publications cover several prominent areas and include:

  • "Reframing urban and regional 'development' for 'left behind' places" (2021) published in Cambridge Journal of Regions Economy and Society
  • "'Left behind places': a geographical etymology" (2023) published in Regional Studies
  • "Levelling Up?" (2020) published in The Political Quarterly
  • "Social infrastructure and 'left-behind places'" (2023) published in Regional Studies
  • "Governing the Metropolis: An International Review of Metropolitanisation, Metropolitan Governance and the Relationship with Sustainable Land Management" (2022) published in Land

Frequent co-authors working alongside John Tomaney include:

  • Andy Pike
  • Danny MacKinnon
  • Sanne Velthuis
  • Maeve Blackman
  • Lucy Natarajan

The researcher has published multiple works in key venues, notably:

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

John Tomaney's body of work addresses urban and regional development issues, often focusing on socio-economic challenges faced by "left behind" places. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates aspects of governance, political economy, and urban planning.

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom, reflecting an established role within the academic community of social sciences.

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • England and the 'New Regionalism'

    John Tomaney;Neil Ward

  • 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

  • Regional Incentives and the Quality of Mobile Investment in the Less Favoured Regions of the EC

    Ash Amin;David Bradley;Jeremy Howells;John Tomaney

  • The Regional Dilemma in a Neo-Liberal Europe:

    Ash Amin;John Tomaney

  • Behind the Myth of European Union: Propects for Cohesion

    Ash Amin;John Tomaney

  • PLACE-BASED APPROACHES TO REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT: GLOBAL TRENDS AND AUSTRALIAN IMPLICATIONS

    John Tomaney

  • The reality of workplace flexibility

    John Tomaney

  • Income inequality, decentralisation, and regional development in Western Europe

    Vassilis Tselios;Andres Rodriguez-Pose;Andy Pike;John Tomaney

  • The Evolution of Regionalism in England

    John Tomaney

  • Region and place I: Institutions

    John Tomaney

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

    John Tomaney;Andy Pike;James Cornford

  • Parochialism – a defence

    John Tomaney

  • 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

  • Region and place II: Belonging

    John Tomaney

  • Local and regional development in the Global North and South

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

  • Limits of Devolution: Localism, Economics and Post-democracy

    John Tomaney

  • Financialising City Statecraft and Infrastructure

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

  • End of the empire state? New Labour and devolution in the United Kingdom

    John Tomaney

Frequent Co-Authors

Andy Pike
Andy Pike Newcastle University
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose
Andrés Rodríguez-Pose London School of Economics and Political Science
Ash Amin
Ash Amin University of Cambridge
Neil Ward
Neil Ward University of East Anglia
Paul Stephen Benneworth
Paul Stephen Benneworth University of Bergen
Anne E. Green
Anne E. Green University of Birmingham
Richard Dawson
Richard Dawson Newcastle University
Jeremy Howells
Jeremy Howells University of Portsmouth
Danny MacKinnon
Danny MacKinnon Newcastle University
Paul Chatterton
Paul Chatterton University of Leeds

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