In 2018 I spoke at a workshop on urban universities in South Africa, organised by Georgia State University’s Urban Studies Institute and South Africa’s Human Sciences Research Council. My slides and related thoughts from the event are on the blog here, but there’s also been a flurry of recent press coverage of the discussions, including […]
New article in Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education
The core industry of city states in a globalised world?
A few weeks ago I was honoured to chair a panel session in Lisbon on city strategies for talent attraction, bringing together speakers from Portugal, Italy and Germany. In my opening remarks I picked three traits of cities that successfully attract talent. Because all three rely on cooperation with universities, these are also the traits […]
For cities and regions to prosper, local leaders will need to unlock the superpowers of their universities
According to researchers studying 76 Spanish cities: we find that good city reputation is positively associated with economic activities and negatively with unemployment, but not related to net migration. With the exception of city reputation having little association with net migration, these findings aren’t particularly surprising; indeed, the article is perhaps more notable as a […]
The future of internationalisation is in the hands of universities and cities working together
Improving economic security is a neglected policy goal. A new initiative in Nottingham seeks to address this
New research looks at the internationalisation strategies of cities and universities, and how they intersect
Universities can position themselves as integral to parts of the debate where their inclusion is less obvious
