Personal Information

Position

Director

Institution

Institute for Policy and Practice, Newcastle University

Country

UK

Biography

Nationality:

• British

 

Recent Positions:

•  Director, Institute for Policy and Practice, Newcastle University
•  David Goldman Chair of Business Innovation, Newcastle University
•  Director, Centre for Knowledge, Innovation, Technology and Enterprise, Newcastle University

 

 Areas and Length of Expertise:

• Innovation Management
• Urban and regional development
• Science and innovation policy and knowledge transfer
• Higher education policy, especially regional dimensions
• Cluster studies in national and regional development

 

 

Recent Research, Development, Consultancies and Organisations:

• (2004-2006) Building Science Regions in the European Research Area: Governance in the Territorial  Agora’ ESRC Science in Society programme
• (2005) Supporting the contribution of higher education institutions to regional development: lead evaluator             on Sunshine/Fraser Coast review’ for OECD
• (2005) Supporting the contribution of higher education institutions to regional development: North East             England background report’, Universities for the North East, OECD and HEFCE
• (2003-2006) City regions as Intelligent Territories: Inclusion, Competitiveness and Learning (CRITICAL) ’ FP5 project funded by the European Commission
• (2001)The Culture and Creative Industries Cluster’ for One NorthEast Regional Development Agency
• (2001) ‘Higher Education Business Interaction Survey’ for the UK HE Funding Councils and the Office of Science and Technology
• (2000) ‘The Regional Contribution of Higher Education’ for the Higher Education Funding Council for England

 

Qualifications, Recognitions, Positions, Memberships:

•  BA and PhD in Economic Geography, Newcastle University
•  Academician of the Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences
•  Member of the Regional Studies Association
•  Member of the British Academy of Management
•  Member of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology

 

Selected Recent Publications:

• Charles D.R. and Duke, C. (2006) Old wheels and new: cyclical progress in the use of language, metaphors, networks and projects to enhance learning and city governance in Duke, C., Doyle, L. and Wilson, B. Making Knowledge Work: Sustaining learning communities and regions, NIACE, Leicester
• Charles, D.R. (2007) ‘Regional development, universities and strategies for cluster promotion’, in Harding, A., Scott, A., Laske, S. and Burtscher, C. (eds) Bright Satanic Mills: , Ashgate, Burlington, Vermont and Aldershot, Hants
• Charles, D.R. (2006) ‘Universities as key knowledge infrastructures in regional innovation systems’, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, 19(1), 117-130.
• Charles, D.R. (2005) ‘Universities and engagement with cities, regions and local communities’, in Duke, C., Osborne, M. & Wilson, B. (2005) Rebalancing the Social and Economic: Learning, Partnership and Place, NIACE, Leicester
• Charles, D.R. (2003) ‘Universities and territorial development: reshaping the regional role of English universities’, Local Economy, 18 (1) 7-20

 

Locations and settings of recent work:

• In recent years fieldwork has been undertaken in the UK, Spain, Australia, Singapore, Greece, Norway, Iceland, and Ireland.

History

Member for

1 year 19 weeks