Staff
Ms Angela Brennan
Position(s):
Research Associate
Contact information:
Tel.: +44 (0)1223 (3)37149
Email: amb54
Research interests:
- Evaluation of Government Policies
- Socio economic regeneration
- Local labour markets
Angela is an applied economist with over 20 year's consultancy experience in a broad range of economic analysis and evaluation studies. She has an economics degree from the University of Kent and has specialised in survey based analytical techniques including data analysis. She has been heavily involved in the national evaluation of the Single Regeneration Budget which was undertaken on behalf of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister. Angela was also responsible for the survey management for the national evaluation of Enterprise Zones carried out for the Department of the Environment, and has worked on a number of other national evaluations including Regional Selective Assistance and the Inner City Task Forces.
She also worked on the national evaluation of New Deal for Communities examining value for money and the national evaluation of Neighbourhood Management Pathfinders for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit. More recently she was part of the team involved in the scoping study of Working Neighbourhoods Fund which looked at worklessness and how the WNF was being used to tackle it for the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Angela was also involved in the management of the Regional Studies Journal until 2005. She now manages the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society which publishes multi-disciplinary international research on the spatial dimensions of contemporary socio-economic-political change. Each issue is devoted to a particular theme selected by the international editorial team. The aim of the Journal is to understand the formative changes and developments associated with the new spatial foundations of today's globalizing world. It also examines how changes in the global economy are playing out across different spatial scales. The Journal is keen to encourage articles from a diverse range of theoretical perspectives http://cjres.oxfordjournals.org/.
Publications:
The Working Neighbourhoods Fund (WNF) scoping study. Worklessness and how WNF is being used to tackle it. Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge in association with Cambridge Econometrics and Educe Ltd. Department for Communities and Local Government, February 2010. (http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/communities/pdf/1457116.pdf)
The Single Regeneration Budget: Final Evaluation. Rhodes, J, Tyler, P and Brennan, A, with Otero-Garcia, M, Stevens, S, Warnock, C, Duffy, B and Williams, R, . Department of Land Economy, Cambridge 2009.
Assessing the effect of area-based initiatives on local area outcomes: Some thoughts based on the national evaluation of the Single Regeneration Budget in England. J Rhodes, P Tyler and A Brennan, Urban Studies, Vol 42, No 11, 1-28, 2005
New Development in area-based initiatives in England: The Experience of the Single Regeneration Budget. J Rhodes, P Tyler and A Brennan, Urban Studies Vol 40, No 8 pp1399-1426, 2003
Lessons and evaluation evidence from ten Single Regeneration Budget case studies – Mid Term Report. Department of Transport, Local Government and the Regions (2002)
Department of Land Economy (2002) Evaluation of the Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund: summary household survey results 1996-1999, Discussion Paper 122.
Tyler, P with Brennan, A and Rhodes, J, Second Final Evaluation of 2 SRB Short Duration Case Studies, Discussion Paper No 114, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, 2000.
Tyler, P with Brennan, A and Rhodes, J, The Nature of Local Area Social Exclusion in England and the Role of the Labour Market, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 16 (1), 2000.
Tyler, P with Brennan, A and Rhodes, J, First Final Evaluation of 3 SRB Short Duration Case Studies, Discussion Paper No 111, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, 1999.
Tyler, P with Brennan, A and Rhodes, J, The Distribution of the SRB Challenge Fund Expenditure in Relation to Local Area Need in England, Urban Studies, Vol 36, No 12, 1999.
Tyler, P, with Brennan, A and Rhodes, J, Evaluation of the Single Regeneration Challenge Fund Budget: a Partnership for Regeneration - an Interim Evaluation, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, 1998.
Tyler, P, with Brennan, A and Rhodes, J, New Findings on the Nature of Economic and Social Exclusion in England: Implications for New Policy Initiatives, Discussion Paper No. 101, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, 1998.
Tyler, P, with Brennan, A and Rhodes, J, The Distribution of Single Regeneration Budget Challenge Fund Expenditure in Relation to Local Area Needs in England, Discussion Paper 91, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge 1998.
Tyler, P, with Brennan, A and Rhodes, J, An Examination of Unsuccessful Bids, Discussion Paper No. 74, Department of Land Economy, Cambridge, 1997.
Final Evaluation of Enterprise Zones, HMSO, 1995 (in collaboration).
Evaluation of the Inner Cities Task Force Initiative, HMSO, 1991 (in collaboration).