Staff profiles
Professor Paul Lawless
MPhil, MRTPI
Phone 0114 225 3529
E-mail p.l.lawless@shu.ac.uk
Paul Lawless is professor of urban policy and the Assistant Dean for Research and Business Development for the Faculty of Development and Society. He is the former director of CRESR. He has more than 20 years experience of working within, and researching aspects of, urban regeneration. He has undertaken research projects into a range of regeneration topics including the relationships between transport investment and renewal, labour market analyses, community development and enterprise, etc.
He has received funding from the Department of Environment (DoE), Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR), Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions (DTLR), the Rural Development Council (RDC), the EU, the European Foundation, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) and the Leverhulme Trust.
Recent projects include a review of the regeneration evidence base and an evaluation of the Groundwork Trust. He is currently heading up the long term evaluation of New Deal for Communities for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit (NRU).
Research interests
- urban policy
- regeneration
- neighbourhood renewal
Current research projects
Please contact me for further details about these research projects and for summaries of the findings.
2005–2009 Phase 2: New Deal for Communities evaluation, Role: Director.
Selected reports (2001 onwards)
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CRESR (2005) New Deal for Communities 2001-2005: An Interim Evaluation - Research report 17. London, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister/NRU.
Academic publications (2001 onwards)
Lawless, P. (2006, forthcoming) Area based urban interventions: rationale and outcomes: the New Deal for Communities Programme in England. Urban Studies.
Lawless, P. (2002) Power and Conflict in Pro-growth Regimes: Tensions in Economic Development in Jersey City and Detroit. Urban Studies, 39 (8), pp. 1329-1346.
Lawless, P. (2001) Community economic development in urban and regional regeneration: unfolding potential or justifiable scepticism? Environment and Planning C, 19 (1), pp. 135-155.
Recent conference and seminar papers
Please contact me for a copy of the following
Aspects of neighbourhood policy and change drawing on NDC evaluation to
- BASW
- UK Evaluation Society
- Neighbourhood Renewal Unit
- the Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Glasgow University
- The Austrian Trades Union Federation, Institute of Economic Development, etc
PhD supervision
Four most recent on
- Gender and participation in regeneration projects in Sheffield
- Community engagement in regeneration projects in South Yorkshire
- Assistance for small firms: rationale and effects
- Community engagement in urban regeneration projects in Hull and Brazil
