Principal applicant: Dr Andrew Brown
School: LUBS
Project awarded: December 2016
A collaboration between iBuild and FESSUD, the CITIES theme, the PPRU, and Leeds City Council will generate a report on valuation followed by a development of structures and process to facilitate collaboration of University researchers, local and regional authorities and stakeholders.
Headed by Dr Andrew Brown, the report will place local authority valuation, financing and funding considerations within the context of ‘financialisation’. Financialisation refers to the increasing prominence and emerging new roles for finance at local, national and international scales of the past thirty years of so. It has been studied extensively by FESSUD and iBUILD, research from which the report will draw.
The report will also assess whether, when placed within the wider context of financialisation, it is possible to identify new insights on valuation, financing and funding of systems of provision that can aid the local authority in meeting its long-term economic, social and environmental objectives.
Aided by the generation of the report, the team will develop structures and processes to facilitate collaboration between University researchers on this topic and local and regional authorities and stakeholders. Its rationale is as follows: CITIES, iBUILD and FESSUD have extensive local, national and international stakeholder networks. These structures, processes and strategic principles are required to facilitate long-run collaborations with these stakeholders to yield ongoing policy impacts. Experience suggests that co-production of a policy report, linked to specific policy decisions and processes, can significantly aid such structured collaboration.