Dr Charlotte Hoole

The Department of Strategy and International Business
Research Fellow II

Contact details

Email: c.hoole@bham.ac.uk
Twitter: @CJHoole

Address: City-REDI
Birmingham Business School
Ash House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham
B15 2TT

Charlotte Hoole is a Research Fellow II at the City Region Economic and Development Institute (City-REDI), University of Birmingham. Charlotte’s research interests lie broadly in the geography and political economy of local and regional development, governance and policy. Previously, Charlotte worked as a Post-doctoral ESRC Fellow in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield. She has eight years of experience in academic and consultancy posts, during which she has carried out research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Research England, local government in England, BEIS, Innovate UK, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Bank of England, the European Union and the Swiss National Science Foundation. Charlotte completed her PhD in 2018 at the University of Sheffield, focused on place leadership and governance in a city-regional context.

Qualifications

PhD, Urban Studies and Planning, University of Sheffield, 2018
BA (Hons), Geography, University of Sheffield, 2012

Biography

Charlotte completed her degree in Human Geography from the University of Sheffield in 2012, before receiving a scholarship in 2013 to undertake a PhD in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the University of Sheffield (awarded in 2018). Her doctoral thesis investigated sub-national leadership and governance in the context of city-regionalism, devolution and austerity in England since 2010.

Since the beginning of her academic career, Charlotte has carried out research that aims to inform and influence local, regional and national policymaking. For this she has received funding from the Economic and Social Research Council, local and national government in England, and a number of UK-based charities.

In 2015, Charlotte completed a 3-month internship within Sheffield First Partnership, funded by the ADH Crook Fellowship Scheme. In 2016, she then joined City-REDI in the Birmingham Business School where she worked for two years as a Policy and Data Analyst. More recently, after completing her PhD in early 2018, she won an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship to continue her research on city-regions, devolution and local governance at the University of Sheffield.

In 2019, Charlotte returned to the University of Birmingham as a Co-Investigator of LIPSIT ‘Local Institutions, Productivity, Sustainability and Inclusivity Trade-offs’, funded by the ESRC.

Research

Research interests

Urban and regional policy and planning
Local and regional governance
Region-building and soft spaces of planning
Local and regional histories and identities

Publications

Articles in peer-reviewed journals:

Tilley, H., Newman, J., Connell, A., Hoole, C., Mukherjee, A. In press. A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge. Regional Studies.
Gherhes, C., Hoole, C., & Vorley, T. 2022. The ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance: regional identity and contested city-region-building in the UK. Regional Studies, 1-15.
O’Farrell, L., Hassan, S., & Hoole, C. 2022. The university as a Just anchor: universities, anchor networks and participatory research. Studies in Higher Education, 1-12.
Green, A., Parke, C., Hoole, C., & Sevinc, D. 2021. Unlocking inclusive growth by linking micro assets to anchor institutions: The case of skilled overseas migrants and refugees and hospital jobs. European Urban and Regional Studies, 28(4), 450-465.
Dlabac, O., Zwicky, R., Hoole, C., Chu, E., & O’Farrell, L. 2021. The Democratic Foundations of the Just City: Key Insights from a European Comparative Study. The Planning Review, 57(4), 84-99.
Hoole, C., and Hincks, S. 2020. Performing the city-region building: Imagineering, devolution and the search for legitimacy. Environment and Planning A, 52(8).
Hoole, C., Hincks, S., and Rae, A. 2019. The Contours of a New Urban World: Population Growth and Density in 30 Megacities since 1975. Town Planning Review, 90(6).

Published policy reports:

Newman, J., Seaford, C., Collinson, S., Hoole, C., et al. 2021. Delivering levelling up: Don’t turn on the taps without fixing the pipes. Available at: https://lipsit.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/FINAL-Levelling-up-Report-digital.pdf.
- Green, A., Rossiter, W., Taylor, A., Hoole, C., et al. 2021. Mapping the architecture of economic development policy and strategy across the Midlands Engine pan-region. https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/43286/1/1444589_Rossiter.pdf.
- Seaford, C., Collinson, S., Hoole, C., et al. 2020. Achieving levelling up: The structures and processes needed. Available at: https://lipsit.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Levelling-up-Report-final-Nov.pdf.
- Rae, A., and Hoole, C. 2020. Analysing global megacities with GHSL data. JRC Atlas of the Human Planet 2020. https://ghsl.jrc.ec.europa.eu/documents/Atlas_2020.pdf?t=1608576520.
- Riley, R., Billing, C., Bramley, G., Green, A., Hoole, C., Taylor, A. 2020. Professional & Business Services sector: Creating further demand and growth outside London. Available at: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/866329/professional-business-services-sector-growth-outside-london.pdf.

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