Researchers

Professor Adam T. Tickell, University of Bristol
Dr Adrian Smith, Queen Mary, University of London

Aims and objectives

The project has three main aims:

• to provide advanced training in research methods, skills and theories in economic geography

• to demonstrate the utility of combining quantitative and qualitative methods

• to develop an internationally network cohort

Access to bursaries

The Summer Institute will provide 20 bursaries for eligible UK participants funded through the Research Methods Programme covering all fees, local costs and travel. Additionally, the journals Economic Geography, Geoforum and Antipode are funding limited bursaries for overseas participants.

How to apply

Applications are invited via the Summer Insitute web site at www.wun.ac.uk/economicgeography.

The Summer Institute

The Summer Institute will take place between 11 July and 16 July at the University of Bristol. It is focused on both graduate students and new researchers (postdocs and junior lecturers). There will be up to 35 participants who will have an extensive opportunity for deliberation, reflection and sustained discussion including facilitated discussion groups, participant presentations, debates and panels, training and skills development modules and keynote and plenary sessions:

• plenary presentations from four invited global contributors

• thematic discussions, debates, and conversations, dealing with major issues confronting economic geography

• skills-based sessions
  
  

Output

In addition to the meeting itself, deliverables will include (a) the establishment of a Summer Institute web site and (b) contributions to a forthcoming edited volume “Politics and Practice in Economic Geography”. The web site will include papers presented at the meeting, supporting documentation, forthcoming meetings, application procedures and fellowship programmes and a means for those unable to attend the meeting to make use of the associated materials. Links will be established to the major economic geography web sites.