Chris Collinge

Chris Collinge

Department of Management
Senior Lecturer

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3783
Email
c.j.collinge@bham.ac.uk
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Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Specialisms include:

  • Regional and local economic change, with particular reference to the emergence of regional knowledge economies in a cross-national context
  • Evolving patterns of public sector governance, strategy and leadership, as between markets, hierarchies, groups and decentred networks
  • Issues in the theorization of political and economic change at the sub-national level (from regional innovation to spatial scale to spatial leadership) 
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Research

Current and recent projects

  • Collinge C, (2020), Theorizing, Deleuzian style, Cultural Geographies, 27(4) pp. 545-560. 
  • Collinge C, (2018), An industrial policy framework for high value engineering, in Zhang Y and Gregory M (eds) Value Creation Through Engineering Excellence: Building Global Network Capabilities London: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-3-319-56335-0 
  • Collinge C, Gibney J, Horlings L (2017), Relational knowledge leadership and local economic development, Local Economy, 32.2, pp. 95-109. 
  • Bailey D, Collinge C, Coulson A (2011), Local and regional responses to recession in context: setting the scene in the UK, in Bailey D and Chapain C (eds) The Recession and beyond: Local and Regional Responses to the Downturn (London: Routledge) ISBN; 978-0-415-59034-1. 
  • Collinge C, Gibney J (2010), Place-Making and the Limitations of Spatial Leadership: Reflections on the Øresund, Policy Studies, 31.4, pp. 475-489.

Other activities

External Involvements

  • Keynote speaker, Conferences on Strategic Regional Leadership for the Future, Old Parliament House, Canberra, and Port Macquarie, New South Wales, 28th-29th October 2010
  • Guest Editor, themed issue on Leadership and Place-Shaping, Policy Studies, 31 (4), 2010
  • Guest Editor, themed issue on Knowledge and Creative Cities, Built Environment 35 (2), 2009
  • Keynote Speaker, Symposium on 'Scale and Representation', Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Aarhus, 22nd-24th June 2009
  • Visiting Professor, Centre for Strategic Urban Research, University of Copenhagen, 2007
  • Tutor, "The Spatial Dimensions of Urban Social Exclusion and Integration: A European Comparison (URBEX)", University of Urbino, 2006
  • External examiner, Centre for Financial and Management Studies, SOAS, University of London, 2003-06; Aston Business School, 2000-03

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Collinge, C, Gibney, J & Mabey, C 2011, Leadership and Place. Routledge.

Collinge, C, Cooke, P, De Laurentis, C & MacNeill, S 2011, Platforms of Innovation: Dynamics of New Industrial Knowledge Flows. Edward Elgar.

Article

Collinge, C 2019, 'Theorizing, Deleuzian-style', Cultural Geographies, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 545-560. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474019891994

Horlings, L, Collinge, C & Gibney, J 2017, 'Relational knowledge leadership and local economic development', Local Economy, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 95-109. https://doi.org/10.1177/0269094217693555

Collinge, C & Gibney, J 2010, 'Connecting Place, Policy and Leadership', Policy Studies, vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 379-391. https://doi.org/10.1080/01442871003723259

Chapter

Collinge, C 2018, An Industrial Policy Framework for High Value Engineering. in Y Zhang & M Gregory (eds), Value Creation Through Engineering Excellence: Building Global Network Capabilities. 1 edn, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-18.

Collinge, C & Hall, S 2018, Hegemony and regime in urban governance: Towards a theory of the locally networked state. in Transforming Cities: Contested Governance and New Spatial Divisions. Taylor and Francis, pp. 129-140.

Collinge, C & Srbljanin, A 2017, The ICT industries: Corporate behaviour and regional change. in Regional Development Agencies and Business Change. Taylor and Francis, pp. 197-216.

Bailey, D, Collinge, C & Coulson, A 2012, Local and regional responses to recession in context: Setting the scene in the UK. in The Recession and Beyond: Local and Regional Responses to the Downturn. Taylor and Francis, pp. 141-154.

Barber, A, Pareja-Eastaway, M & Collinge, C 2011, Leadership Challenges in the Inner City: Planning for Sustainable Regeneration in Birmingham and Barcelona. in Leadership and Place.

Staines, A & Collinge, C 2010, Distributed knowledge and creativity in the European new media sector. in Platforms of Innovation: Dynamics of New Industrial Knowledge Flows. Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 140-169.

Commissioned report

Bentley, G, Collinge, C, Gibney, J & MacNeill, S 2013, RISE: Regional Integrated Strategies in Europe: West Midlands Case Study . European Commission, Luxembourg.

Collinge, C 2012, RISE: Regional Integrated Strategies in Europe: Final Report. ESPON: ERDF, Luxembourg.

Collinge, C 2010, EURODITE: Regional Trajectories to the Knowledge Economy: A Dynamic Model. Integrated Project: Sixth Framework Programme, vol. Project 006187, European Commission, Brussels.

Working paper

Collinge, C 2014 'Undoing metaphysics: the spatial metaphor debate revisited' pp. 1-19.

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