Participation in agenda setting bodies

Fingleton

Invited expert to workshop organized for NSF-supported the CSISS (the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science, to be held in Santa Barbara, California. [www.csiss.org]), Jan 11-14, 2001. The CSISS is embarking on a 5-year programme of infrastructure-building efforts aimed at promoting integration in social science research through developing and enhancing a spatial perspective.

UK Member of the Management Committee (plus two working groups) for a European Concerted Research Action designated as COST Action (A17) “Small and Medium Enterprises, Economic Development and Regional Convergence in Europe” The budget for this international collaborative effort has been estimated as 5million EUROS in 1995 prices. TheMemorandum of Understanding will remain in force for a period of 4 years.First meeting of Management Committee attended in Brussels 17 November 2000, second meeting scheduled for 23-25 March, in Barcelona

Deputy Editor, Environmetrics

Editorial Board, International Journal of Development Planning Literature

Editorial Board, International Regional Science Review

Local organiser (with J McCombie) ESRC Urban and Regional Economics Study Group Meeting Downing College, Cambridge, January 1996

McCombie

Local organiser (with B Fingleton) ESRC Urban and Regional Economics Study Group Meeting Downing College, Cambridge, January 1996

Joint organiser of Globalisation, Crisis? What Crisis? Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, September 1999. Supported by the British Academy

Economic Editor of the Asian Development Outlook, OUP, 1999 and 2000

Associated Editor and contributor to the Encylopadea of Political Economy (Routledge, 1999). Invited contributor to the Reader’s Guide to the Social Sciences

Member of the editorial board of the Zargreb International Review of Economics and Politics.

Tyler

East Anglian Branch Chairman of the Regional Studies Association. Organisor of a range of seminars on regional economic development.

Member of Regional Development Agency 'Wise Men' Panel.

National and international linkages

Fingleton

Invited expert to workshop organized for CSISS (the Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science) to be held in Santa Barbara, California [www.csiss.org]), Jan 11-14, 2001

McCombie

Convenor of the Post Keynesian Study Group.

Member of the International Advisory Panel of the Association of Political Economy

Tyler

Research /Lecture trips have included visits to Korea and Japan and Central Europe.

Course Director of the Cambridge International Land Institute Malaysian Course. Academic Director of the Cambridge Central and Eastern European Land Summer School. Over the years the course has been attended by about 150 participants to date, creating a growing and influential network covering 17 countries.

Visiting research posts in other institutions

Fingleton

January - July 1998 Jean Monnet Fellowship, Department of Economics, European University Institute, Florence

McCombie

Consultant for the Asian Development Bank (1998/1999)

Tyler

Visiting Professor at Queen's University, Belfast