Staff profiles
Dr Tony Gore
BA, MSc, MA, PhD
Phone 0114 225 3561
E-mail t.gore@shu.ac.uk
Tony is a principal research fellow in CRESR. He has extensive experience of research and evaluation on urban and regional issues, and is an acknowledged expert on labour market policy and coalfields regeneration.
Research projects include assessments of area-based regeneration strategies and initiatives (e.g. South Yorkshire Objective 1, Enterprise Zones); evaluation of a range of labour market pilot programmes such as the Working Neighbourhoods and Jobseekers' Mandatory Activity and City Strategies; estimates of real unemployment in former industrial areas; and research on collaborative governance arrangements across local and regional boundaries.
Tony is a key member of the CRESR data analysis and policy team, helping to develop its capacity in utilising a wide range of official data sources and GIS techniques. This has included the provision of technical assistance to European Structural Fund programmes.
Research interests
Tony has wide-ranging research interests covering
- methods and practice of policy integration and co-ordination
- cross-boundary and multi-level governance arrangements and practices
- EU employment policy and the Structural Funds
- geography of labour markets and economic development
- coalfields regeneration
He is a member of several academic and professional bodies
- Royal Geographical Society/Institute of British Geographers (Fellow)
- Regional Studies Association
- University Association for Contemporary European Studies
- Royal Town Planning Institute
He is book reviews editor for 'People, Places, Policy - Online', and a member of the editorial board of 'Planning Practice and Research'. He also acts as referee and book reviewer for 'Urban Studies', 'European Planning Studies', 'Local Economy' and 'Evaluation'.
Current research projects
Please contact me for further details about these research projects and for summaries of the findings.
2011–2012 Evaluation of the Village SOS Programme, BIG Lottery Fund. Role: Scheme research co-ordinator (Ashfield) and secondary data analyst.
2011 The Statistical Bias against Unitary Counties, Durham County Council. Role: Data analyst.
2011 Female Participation in the Leicester Labour Market - Follow-up Study, Leicester Enterprise Partnership. Role: Focus group facilitator and interviewer.
2010–2011 Implementation of the Offender Employment Review, Department for Work and Pensions. Role: Case study co-ordinator.
Selected reports (2001 onwards)
Please contact me for further details about these research projects and for summaries of the findings.
Crisp, R., Fothergill, S., Gore, T. and Platts-Fowler, D. (2009) Sheffield Worklessness Study: The characteristics, aspirations and skill needs of Incapacity Benefit claimants and Lone Parents on benefit.. Published by CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University.
Batty, E., Gore, T. and Powell, R. (2011) Participation of Women in the Labour Market in Leicester: Qualitative Follow-up Study (PDF 1.75MB). Sheffield: CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University
Beatty, C., Gore, T. and Powell, R. (2011) The Impact of Welfare Reform and Public Sector Spending Reductions on Low Income Households in Hampshire. Sheffield: Sheffield Hallam University.
Wells, P., Gilbertson, J. and Gore, T. and Crowe, M. (2010) Measuring the Big Society? Approaches, problems and suggested improvements. Final Report. Sheffield: CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University.
Wells, P., Gilbertson, J., Gore, T. and Crowe, M. (2010) A Big Society in Yorkshire and Humber? Sheffield: CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University.
Beatty, C., Fothergill, S., Gore, T. and Powell, R. (2010) Tackling worklessness in Britain's weaker local economies. Sheffield: CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University.
Beatty, C., Fothergill, S., Gore, T. and Wilson, I. (2010) The Seaside Tourist Industry in England and Wales. Employment, economic output, location and trends. Sheffield: CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University.
Beatty, C., Gore, T. and Powell, R. (2010) Participation of Women in the Labour Market in Leicester (PDF 922KB). Sheffield: CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University
Gore, T. (2009) Enterprise Zones Reports. London, Communities and Local Government.
Fletcher, D., Gore, T., Reeve, K. and Robinson, D. (2008) Social housing and worklessness: Qualitative research findings, Research Report No. 521. London, Department of Work and Pensions.
Fletcher, D., Gore, T., Reeve, K. and Robinson, D. (2008) Social housing and worklessness: Key policy messages, Research Report No. 482. London, Department of Work and Pensions.
Dewson, S., Casebourne, J., Darlow, A., Bickerstaffe, T., Fletcher, D., Gore, T. and Krishnan, S. (2007) Evaluation of the Working Neighbourhoods Pilot: Final report, Research Report No. 411. London, Department of Work and Pensions.
Gore, T., Fothergill, S., Hollywood, E., Lindsay, C., Morgan, K., Powell, R. and Upton, S. (2007) Coalfields and Neighbouring Cities: economic regeneration, labour markets and governance. York, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Beatty, C., Fothergill, S., Gore, T. and Powell, R. (2007) The Real Level of Unemployment 2007. Sheffield, Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University.
Gore, T. (2005) The CISWO One-Stop Shop Project: External Evaluation. Final Report to the Coal Industry Social Welfare Organisation and the Big Lottery Fund.
Wells, P., Hanson, S., Gore, T. et al. (2003) South Yorkshire Objective 1 Programme Mid Term Evaluation: Final Report. Yorkshire and the Humber Structural Funds Evaluation Steering Group. Leeds, Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber.
Johnson, S., Gore, T. and Atkinson, J. (2003) The Local Impact of the European Social Fund (ESF) in England. Final Report to the ESF Evaluation Team. London/Sheffield, Department of Work and Pensions.
Gore, T., Powell, R. and Wells, P. (2003) The Contribution of Community Businesses to the Rural Economy of Yorkshire and the Humber. Sheffield, CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University.
Beatty, C., Fothergill, S., Gore, T. and Green, A. (2002) The Real Level of Unemployment 2002. Sheffield, CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University.
Fordham, G., Gore, T., Knight-Fordham, R. and Lawless, P. (2002) The Groundwork Movement: Its role in neighbourhood renewal. York, Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Gore, T. and Smith, N. (2001) Patterns of Educational Attainment in the British Coalfields - Research Report No. 316. London, Department for Education and Skills.
Yeandle, S., Gore, T., Pickford, H. and Stiell, B. (2001) Employment, Family and Community Activities in the UK: A new balance for women and men. Report EF00114. Dublin, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions.
Academic publications (2001 onwards)
Gore, T. (2011) Review - Understanding Policy Success: rethinking public policy. People Places Policy Online, 5 (1), pp. 46-49.
Gore, T. and Hollywood, E. (2009) The role of social networks and geographical location in labour market participation in the UK coalfields. Environment and Planning C, 27 (6), pp. 1008 - 1021.
Gore, T. (2008) Collaborative Governance and Territorial Rescaling in the UK: A Comparative Study of Two EU Structural Funds Programmes. GeoJournal, 72 (1-2), pp. 59-73.
Gore, T. and Fothergill, S. (2007) Cities and their Hinterlands: How Much Do Governance Structures Really Matter? People Places Policy - Online, 1 (2), pp. 55-68.
Gore, T. and Webber, D. (2006) Dematerialising Economies and Local Growth: The Case for ad hoc Governance, Chapter 4 in Walzenbach, G., ed., European Governance: Policy making between Politicization and Control. Ashgate, Aldershot, Hampshire, pp.53-67.
Gore, T., Wells, P. and Powell, R. (2006) The Contribution of Rural Community Businesses to Integrated Rural Development: 'Local Services for Local People.' Cahiers d'Économie et Sociologie Rurales, No. 80, pp. 29-52.
Gore, T. and Jones, C. (2006) Yorkshire and the Humber, Chapter 9. In: Benneworth, P., Hardill, I., Baker, M. and Budd, L. (eds), The Rise of the English Regions? Routledge Regional Development and Public Policy Series, pp. 248-278.
Gore, T. (2006) Review of 'Exploring the Tomato: Transformations of Nature, Society and Economy', by Mark Harvey, Steve Quilley and Huw Beynon. Economic Issues, 11 (1), pp. 120-122.
Gore, T. (2005) Extending Employability or Solving Employers' Recruitment Problems? Demand-led Approaches as an Instrument of Labour Market Policy. Urban Studies, 42 (2), pp. 341-353. (Also published as Chapter 10 in McQuaid, R., Green, A. and Danson, M., eds. (2006) Employability and Local Labour Market Policy. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 146-158.)
Gore, T. (2004) The Open Method of Co-ordination and Policy Mainstreaming: the European Employment Strategy and Regional Conversion Programmes in the UK. European Planning Studies, 12 (1), pp.123-141.
Webber, D. and Gore, T. (2002) Dematerialising Local Economies: A Case for ad hoc Governance? Local Economy, 17 (2), pp. 140-160.
Dabinett, G. and Gore, T. (2001) Institutional Influences on EU Funded Regional Technology Development in the UK: A Study of the Yorkshire and East London Regions in the 1990s. European Planning Studies, 9 (8), pp.995-1010.
PhD supervision
Tony is currently director of studies for three PhDs and advisor to four others. The topics are as follows
- Learning to Work: The Intermediate Labour Market Approach to Social Exclusion (Hallam Studentship)
- Community Regeneration: The Information Society in Deprived Areas of South Yorkshire (ESRC CASE Studentship)
- Re-designing Rural Governance: New Institutions for Old? (ESRC CASE Studentship)
- Institutions, power and scale: exploring the politics of economic development in Northern England (Hallam Studentship)
- Constitutional Change and Community development: Voluntary and community structures and relationships under Welsh devolution (ESRC Quota Studentship)
- Spaces of Informalization: Geographies of Manners and Behaviour at Music Festivals (ESRC Quota Studentship)
- Social, political and environmental action in an individualised 'consumer society' (ESRC Quota Studentship)
