Louise Kempton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4457170 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Louise Kempton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Louise |
| FAMILY NAME | Kempton |
| SIGNATURE | KEMPTON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4684-5565 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 122 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Reimagining the civic university: From local leadership to civic partnership
Despite its widespread adoption in UK higher education discourse, the civic university concept remains weakly and unevenly realised in practice. This paper argues the core challenge facing the ‘civic university’ is not insufficient activity but a failure of embeddedness: civic engagement is rarely secured in governance, incentives or operating models, relying instead on fragmented initiatives, individual champions and short-term funding. Drawing …
Defining inclusive innovation: Challenges and Lessons for Innovation Districts
The concept of inclusive innovation has rapidly gained traction in academic and policy circles as a response to the distributional problems of traditional innovation strategies. It has since become a key focus in the design and implementation of innovation districts, geographically delineated spaces that foster collaboration among businesses and research institutions to drive innovation and economic growth. Despite this increasing interest, inclu…
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places
The recent wave of populism has focused attention on ‘left behind’ places as hotspots of discontent. Seeking to remedy their neglect in urban and regional studies, the aim of this paper is to engage with the problems of ‘left behind’ places and to stimulate fresh thinking about alternative approaches. Reflecting the complex and inter-connected issues facing such places, it argues that a new conception is required to address issues of belonging an…
Building collaborative platforms for urban innovation: Newcastle City Futures as a quadruple helix intermediary
There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world…
Facilitating spaces for place-based leadership in centralized governance systems: The case of Newcastle City Futures
This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with \nconstrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform \nsituated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity. The research \ncontributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership b…
The Civic University: The Policy and Leadership Challenges
Delivering smart specialization in peripheral regions: The role of Universities
Successful mobilization of the resources of universities can have a positive effect on regional economies; even more so in peripheral regions. The role of universities in regional development, innovation and growth comes into even sharper focus with the emergence of 'smart specialization' strategies, an ex-ante conditionality for accessing European Structural Funds from 2014. However, partnerships between universities and regions can fail to achi…
Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment: Vulnerable institutions and vulnerable places in England
The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify the most vulnerable institutions in the most vulnerable places with the greatest dependence on highe…
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places
The recent wave of populism has focused attention on ‘left behind’ places as hotspots of discontent. Seeking to remedy their neglect in urban and regional studies, the aim of this paper is to engage with the problems of ‘left behind’ places and to stimulate fresh thinking about alternative approaches. Reflecting the complex and inter-connected issues facing such places, it argues that a new conception is required to address issues of belonging an…
Facilitating spaces for place-based leadership in centralized governance systems: The case of Newcastle City Futures
This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with \nconstrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform \nsituated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity. The research \ncontributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership b…
Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment: Vulnerable institutions and vulnerable places in England
The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify the most vulnerable institutions in the most vulnerable places with the greatest dependence on highe…
Delivering smart specialization in peripheral regions: The role of Universities
Successful mobilization of the resources of universities can have a positive effect on regional economies; even more so in peripheral regions. The role of universities in regional development, innovation and growth comes into even sharper focus with the emergence of 'smart specialization' strategies, an ex-ante conditionality for accessing European Structural Funds from 2014. However, partnerships between universities and regions can fail to achi…
Building collaborative platforms for urban innovation: Newcastle City Futures as a quadruple helix intermediary
There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world…
Defining inclusive innovation: Challenges and Lessons for Innovation Districts
The concept of inclusive innovation has rapidly gained traction in academic and policy circles as a response to the distributional problems of traditional innovation strategies. It has since become a key focus in the design and implementation of innovation districts, geographically delineated spaces that foster collaboration among businesses and research institutions to drive innovation and economic growth. Despite this increasing interest, inclu…
Universities as anchor institutions in cities in a turbulent funding environment: Vulnerable institutions and vulnerable places in England
The paper examines universities as anchor institutions in the context of a major upheaval in the funding of English higher education. The various components of these changes are combined into a multivariate indicator of institutional vulnerability for universities in England. This is then linked to a classification of university cities to identify the most vulnerable institutions in the most vulnerable places with the greatest dependence on highe…
Delivering smart specialization in peripheral regions: The role of Universities
Successful mobilization of the resources of universities can have a positive effect on regional economies; even more so in peripheral regions. The role of universities in regional development, innovation and growth comes into even sharper focus with the emergence of 'smart specialization' strategies, an ex-ante conditionality for accessing European Structural Funds from 2014. However, partnerships between universities and regions can fail to achi…
The Civic University: The Policy and Leadership Challenges
Facilitating spaces for place-based leadership in centralized governance systems: The case of Newcastle City Futures
This paper explores how distributed and relational forms of place-based leadership can be facilitated in environments with \nconstrained local governance capabilities. It is based on an in-depth case study of a university-hosted collaborative platform \nsituated in a city/regional institutional landscape marked by limited local devolution and public sector austerity. The research \ncontributes to a fuller understanding of place-based leadership b…
Building collaborative platforms for urban innovation: Newcastle City Futures as a quadruple helix intermediary
There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world…
Reframing urban and regional ‘development’ for ‘left behind’ places
The recent wave of populism has focused attention on ‘left behind’ places as hotspots of discontent. Seeking to remedy their neglect in urban and regional studies, the aim of this paper is to engage with the problems of ‘left behind’ places and to stimulate fresh thinking about alternative approaches. Reflecting the complex and inter-connected issues facing such places, it argues that a new conception is required to address issues of belonging an…
Defining inclusive innovation: Challenges and Lessons for Innovation Districts
The concept of inclusive innovation has rapidly gained traction in academic and policy circles as a response to the distributional problems of traditional innovation strategies. It has since become a key focus in the design and implementation of innovation districts, geographically delineated spaces that foster collaboration among businesses and research institutions to drive innovation and economic growth. Despite this increasing interest, inclu…
Reimagining the civic university: From local leadership to civic partnership
Despite its widespread adoption in UK higher education discourse, the civic university concept remains weakly and unevenly realised in practice. This paper argues the core challenge facing the ‘civic university’ is not insufficient activity but a failure of embeddedness: civic engagement is rarely secured in governance, incentives or operating models, relying instead on fragmented initiatives, individual champions and short-term funding. Drawing …
Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Regional Development and Policy (3 works) · Economic geography (2 works) · Futures contract (2 works)