The regeneration sector can comprise a very wide range of geographical issues for example, - housing, cultural, economic, transport, environment, sport & recreation, land remediation, economics, tourism.The practicals and tutorial programmes also provide with with useful techniques - surveys, questionnaires, focus groups, GIS, site visits.
From an academic and practical viewpoint it also lets you consider the issue of scale - EU, National, Regional, Local government and its impacts on funding streams and strategy.
There are also a wide range of voluntary groups in Stoke who would benefit from someone being able to help them with reserach issues.

Career prospects -The regeneration has sector been expanding rapidly, there is a shortage of labour (wages are good) and there are jobs in the public and private sector all over the UK.

Barrow C J (2002) Social Impact Assessment. Arnold, London 303.49
Beatley T (2000) Green Urbanism: learning from European Cities. Island Press, US 307.1216094
Crawley M (2000) Urban Regeneration through partnership. Policy Press 307.760941
Duncan P & Thomas S (2001) Neighbourhood Management: a good practice guide CIH, London 307.3416
Edwards M & Fowler A (eds) (2002) The Earthscan Reader on NGO management. Earthscan, London
Howard M et al (2001) Poverty: the facts. CPAG, London 4th Edition  305.5690941
Lafferty W M (2001) Sustainable Communities in Europe. Earthscan, London 338.94
Schoon N (2001) The Chosen City. Spon, London 307.76 This is a very readable book written by a journalist who was given a sabbatical. Full of big ideas as well as useful history and background on our cities.
Wates N (2000) The Community Planning Handbook: how people can shape thier cities, towns and villages in any part of the world. Earthscan, London 307.14 Which is supported by this website.

Journals
Local Environment
Local Economy (there is a gap from 1996-1999)
Local Transport Today
Local Government Studies
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
Planning
Planning Practice and Research
Regional Studies
Regions - Newsletter of the Regional Studies Association
Regional Development Dialogue (some useful stuff in here but not as much as
other journals)
Tourism Management
TCPA - Planning
Town Planning Review
Urban Studies

There is also a set of useful links on the MSc Local Economic Regeneration website

• Teaching
• Industry and business
• Conservation
• Local authority
• Outdoor recreation

Work placement advice for students

Work placements homepage

 

 

 

 

Useful Links

Internal links

• Library Homepage
• Library Catalogue
• Library - part time and distance learners resources
• Electronic Journals
• Our RECHAR website
• Web of Science for finding articles
• Zetoc for finding articles
• Student web projects (internal only)

External Links

• Advantage West Midlands - Regional Development Agency
• Beth Johnson Housing Group - cause it's local
• Bized - portal for business and economic matters
• Business in the Community
• Cannock Chase Council
• Community Planning guidance
• Comparative Urban Regeneration in Europe
• Department of Food, Environment and Rural Affairs
• Department of Transport Local Government and the Regions Main site (DETR as was)
• DLTR - DETR (as was) Regeneration site - consultation papers policies and programmes     Urban Policy
• Development Trusts Association
• Ecotec.co.uk  - Adapt
• Europa web site
• Government Office for the West Midlands - font is a bit small
• Groundwork - for environmental matters
• Health Actions Zones
• Housingnet - about housing surprisingly enough
• Housing Outlook
• http://www.emptyhomes.com/ - National/regional stats.  Includes discussion room / reports etc...
• http://www.regen.net/ you need to register at this site
• Industrial Common Ownership Finance Ltd
• Info Regio - including Urban Auditing of Cities European Regional Development Fund and Cohesion Fund
• InStaffs (UK) Ltd the inward investment agency for Staffordshire inc property database
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation
• Learning Skills Council and a local site for Staffordshire
• Local Knowledge
• Market Towns site
• New Economics Foundation a radical think tank as it bills itself
• New Start magazine - we quite like this magazine
• North Warkwickshire Borough Council
• Partnerships Online - how to use IT to benefit communities
• The Planning Exchange
• Planning UK.com
• Portal between Sapling and Amazon - loads of material
• RECHAR - Innovation Management Centre based in Staffordshire
• Regeneration portal includes discussion forums another good site
• Regeneration and Renewal magazine another good site
• Regional Policy at the EU
• Resource for Urban Design Information
• Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors - plenty of useful stuff here
• Shrewsbury Council awarded Beacon status for town centre regeneration
• Social Exclusion Unit
• Social Science Gateway
• Society Guardian
• Stafford Borough Council
• Staffordshire County Council
• Staffordshire Moorlands District Council
• Staffordshire Parish Council Association
• Stoke on Trent City Council
• Stoke on Trent - history, photos etc - fantastic site for anyone interested or working in the city
• This is Staffordshire - news and a local portal
• Urban and Regional Regeneration Bulletin (URRB) lots of useful full text articles here
• Urban Task Force Report - for those who like to dream of how it could be
• West Midlands Rural Network

If you are an organisation that would like to be included on this list email me with your web address jon.fairburn@staffs.ac.uk