Charlotte Hoole
Biographic Data
| ID | 1500204 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Hoole |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Hoole |
| SIGNATURE | HOOLE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6987-7797 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Building place-based capacity in an asymmetric system
Covid-19 sub-regional economic recovery partnerships
This article contributes to the literature on the concept of soft spaces of governance. These are frequently described as open, informal, voluntary, flexible and effective governance spaces where there is increasing activity. This article’s novelty rests on new conceptual and empirical insights on the role of soft spaces of governance in the context of a shock event. It focuses on associated sub-regional economic recovery planning during the Covi…
Megatrends and regions
Megatrends have been thrust into focus in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising geopolitical tensions between major global powers and the escalating impacts of climate change. The consequences of megatrends are felt heterogeneously across regions due to their differing social, physical and natural capital. This article outlines key megatrends and uses interviews with key stakeholders in the English Midlands to gain insights into how mega…
The intersection of productivity and governance capacity in spatial inequality
Effective local and regional governance is important for tackling economic inequality between regions. However, a common problem is that the effectiveness of governance institutions also has an unequal spatial distribution. The relationship between regional distributions of productive and governance capacity is therefore crucial for a state’s ability to revitalise lagging regions. In this paper, we consider England’s ongoing attempt to address sp…
England’s catch-22
International studies show that relative levels of regional (de)centralisation are associated with more or less balanced patterns of economic growth, well-being and resilience. Alongside supporting specific levels and types of devolution, prior studies emphasise the quality of local institutions as a key factor underlying balanced growth. This study empirically confirms the relative lack of devolution alongside large and growing disparities acros…
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge
National governments are increasingly focusing on ‘place’ in attempts to tackle economic challenges. This puts pressure on regions to deliver productivity improvements. Drawing from stakeholder interviews, document analysis and secondary data analysis, this paper considers the productivity policy levers available to regional leaders. Three UK regions are compared in relation to four policy levers (nodality; authority; treasure; organization) and …
Mechanisms of metagovernance as structural challenges to levelling up in England
At the time of writing, the UK government is attempting to tackle place-based inequality through its ‘levelling up’ agenda. To be effective, such interventions require local institutions with the capacity, powers, and budgets to develop and implement long-term strategies. Multi-level metagovernance, the ongoing reorganisation of local governance systems by the central state, has become a salient political process in England, characterised by frag…
The ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance
With the structuring of subnational governance driven primarily by economic goals, an issue that has become increasingly overlooked is that of identity. Drawing on interviews with stakeholders from the Sheffield City Region, the paper builds on Jones and Woods’ framework of 2013 of ‘material’ and ‘imagined’ coherence, demonstrating the ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance in the context of rescaling from regions to city-region…
The university as a Just anchor
In this paper, we connect literature on civic universities and anchor institutions with the notion of visibility to explore how universities can play more engaged roles in their areas. We introduce the concept of ‘just anchors’, which are institutions with strategies to achieve local social, economic and epistemic justice goals through collaboration in networks of other anchors and knowledge co-production with citizens. This paper is based on dat…
Unlocking inclusive growth by linking micro assets to anchor institutions
This paper contributes to anchor institution, migrant and refugee integration, skills utilisation and inclusive growth debates. Via a pioneering innovative approach to inclusive urban development linking together physical infrastructure development and neighbourhood management approaches to urban regeneration, it explores the potential for micro assets within communities to be linked to macro assets of large spatially immobile anchor institutions…
Performing the city-region
This paper provides new conceptual and empirical insights into the role city-regions play as part of a geopolitical strategy deployed by the nation state to enact its own interests, in conversation with local considerations. Emphasis falls on the performative roles of economic models and spatial-economic imaginaries in consolidating and legitimising region-building efforts and the strategies and tactics employed by advocates to gain credibility a…
The Housing Question
In The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City, Edward Murphy and Najib Hourani explore questions of present-day housing inequality. Drawing upon the work of
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge
National governments are increasingly focusing on ‘place’ in attempts to tackle economic challenges. This puts pressure on regions to deliver productivity improvements. Drawing from stakeholder interviews, document analysis and secondary data analysis, this paper considers the productivity policy levers available to regional leaders. Three UK regions are compared in relation to four policy levers (nodality; authority; treasure; organization) and …
Mechanisms of metagovernance as structural challenges to levelling up in England
At the time of writing, the UK government is attempting to tackle place-based inequality through its ‘levelling up’ agenda. To be effective, such interventions require local institutions with the capacity, powers, and budgets to develop and implement long-term strategies. Multi-level metagovernance, the ongoing reorganisation of local governance systems by the central state, has become a salient political process in England, characterised by frag…
England’s catch-22
International studies show that relative levels of regional (de)centralisation are associated with more or less balanced patterns of economic growth, well-being and resilience. Alongside supporting specific levels and types of devolution, prior studies emphasise the quality of local institutions as a key factor underlying balanced growth. This study empirically confirms the relative lack of devolution alongside large and growing disparities acros…
The ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance
With the structuring of subnational governance driven primarily by economic goals, an issue that has become increasingly overlooked is that of identity. Drawing on interviews with stakeholders from the Sheffield City Region, the paper builds on Jones and Woods’ framework of 2013 of ‘material’ and ‘imagined’ coherence, demonstrating the ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance in the context of rescaling from regions to city-region…
The university as a Just anchor
In this paper, we connect literature on civic universities and anchor institutions with the notion of visibility to explore how universities can play more engaged roles in their areas. We introduce the concept of ‘just anchors’, which are institutions with strategies to achieve local social, economic and epistemic justice goals through collaboration in networks of other anchors and knowledge co-production with citizens. This paper is based on dat…
Performing the city-region
This paper provides new conceptual and empirical insights into the role city-regions play as part of a geopolitical strategy deployed by the nation state to enact its own interests, in conversation with local considerations. Emphasis falls on the performative roles of economic models and spatial-economic imaginaries in consolidating and legitimising region-building efforts and the strategies and tactics employed by advocates to gain credibility a…
The Housing Question
In The Housing Question: Tensions, Continuities, and Contingencies in the Modern City, Edward Murphy and Najib Hourani explore questions of present-day housing inequality. Drawing upon the work of
Performing the city-region
This paper provides new conceptual and empirical insights into the role city-regions play as part of a geopolitical strategy deployed by the nation state to enact its own interests, in conversation with local considerations. Emphasis falls on the performative roles of economic models and spatial-economic imaginaries in consolidating and legitimising region-building efforts and the strategies and tactics employed by advocates to gain credibility a…
Unlocking inclusive growth by linking micro assets to anchor institutions
This paper contributes to anchor institution, migrant and refugee integration, skills utilisation and inclusive growth debates. Via a pioneering innovative approach to inclusive urban development linking together physical infrastructure development and neighbourhood management approaches to urban regeneration, it explores the potential for micro assets within communities to be linked to macro assets of large spatially immobile anchor institutions…
The ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance
With the structuring of subnational governance driven primarily by economic goals, an issue that has become increasingly overlooked is that of identity. Drawing on interviews with stakeholders from the Sheffield City Region, the paper builds on Jones and Woods’ framework of 2013 of ‘material’ and ‘imagined’ coherence, demonstrating the ‘imaginary’ challenge of remaking subnational governance in the context of rescaling from regions to city-region…
The university as a Just anchor
In this paper, we connect literature on civic universities and anchor institutions with the notion of visibility to explore how universities can play more engaged roles in their areas. We introduce the concept of ‘just anchors’, which are institutions with strategies to achieve local social, economic and epistemic justice goals through collaboration in networks of other anchors and knowledge co-production with citizens. This paper is based on dat…
England’s catch-22
International studies show that relative levels of regional (de)centralisation are associated with more or less balanced patterns of economic growth, well-being and resilience. Alongside supporting specific levels and types of devolution, prior studies emphasise the quality of local institutions as a key factor underlying balanced growth. This study empirically confirms the relative lack of devolution alongside large and growing disparities acros…
A place-based system? Regional policy levers and the UK’s productivity challenge
National governments are increasingly focusing on ‘place’ in attempts to tackle economic challenges. This puts pressure on regions to deliver productivity improvements. Drawing from stakeholder interviews, document analysis and secondary data analysis, this paper considers the productivity policy levers available to regional leaders. Three UK regions are compared in relation to four policy levers (nodality; authority; treasure; organization) and …
Mechanisms of metagovernance as structural challenges to levelling up in England
At the time of writing, the UK government is attempting to tackle place-based inequality through its ‘levelling up’ agenda. To be effective, such interventions require local institutions with the capacity, powers, and budgets to develop and implement long-term strategies. Multi-level metagovernance, the ongoing reorganisation of local governance systems by the central state, has become a salient political process in England, characterised by frag…
The intersection of productivity and governance capacity in spatial inequality
Effective local and regional governance is important for tackling economic inequality between regions. However, a common problem is that the effectiveness of governance institutions also has an unequal spatial distribution. The relationship between regional distributions of productive and governance capacity is therefore crucial for a state’s ability to revitalise lagging regions. In this paper, we consider England’s ongoing attempt to address sp…
Covid-19 sub-regional economic recovery partnerships
This article contributes to the literature on the concept of soft spaces of governance. These are frequently described as open, informal, voluntary, flexible and effective governance spaces where there is increasing activity. This article’s novelty rests on new conceptual and empirical insights on the role of soft spaces of governance in the context of a shock event. It focuses on associated sub-regional economic recovery planning during the Covi…
Megatrends and regions
Megatrends have been thrust into focus in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, rising geopolitical tensions between major global powers and the escalating impacts of climate change. The consequences of megatrends are felt heterogeneously across regions due to their differing social, physical and natural capital. This article outlines key megatrends and uses interviews with key stakeholders in the English Midlands to gain insights into how mega…
Building place-based capacity in an asymmetric system
Political science (9 works) · Economics (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (4 works) · Local government (4 works) · Management (4 works) · Public Administration (4 works) · Regional science (4 works)