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Dear All
POSTGRADUATE PROGRAMMES IN LOCAL AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Local and regional development is undergoing a period of unprecedented
change. New debates about globalisation, knowledge economy,
competitiveness, rebalancing, inclusion, sustainability and wellbeing
are profoundly changing the nature of local and regional development
definitions, processes, institutions and policies. International trends
towards decentralisation, regionalisation, city-regionalism and localism
are changing administrative and governance structures at the national,
regional, sub-regional and local levels. The global financial crisis,
economic downturn and austerity have generated thoroughgoing
reorganisation of economic development and regeneration arrangements and
practices. Such challenges have focused the minds of local and regional
policy-makers in shaping their responses to disruptive economic change
and building the adaptive capacity and resilience of local and regional
economies. Together, these inter-related developments are generating new
challenges and a demand to build capacity for analysis, strategy and
policy-making for local and regional development amongst individuals and
institutions in the public, private and voluntary and community sectors.
The Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS), Newcastle
University, has two postgraduate programmes that connect directly with
this emerging local and regional development agenda:
* MA, Diploma and Certificate in Regional Development
* MA in Regional Development (Research) (ESRC-recognised)
For each course participant, the courses aim:
* to provide knowledge and understanding of contemporary local and
regional development and governance theory, policy and practice in an
international context
* to develop the practical skills and capabilities required to
engage, research and participate in the emergent local and regional
development agenda
* to achieve a relevant postgraduate qualification in Local and
Regional
Development at MA, Diploma or Certificate level.
Course modules include: Local and Regional Development Theory and
Policy; Local and Regional Development and Governance; Local and
Regional Perspectives on the Knowledge Society; Local and Regional
Development:
Methodology, Analysis and Statistics; Labour Markets, Skills and
Training and the Research Dissertation.
The Local and Regional Development programme (MA, Diploma and
Certificate) has been validated by the Institute of Economic Development
(IED).
http://www.ied.co.uk/
Further details and the CURDs MA podcast are available from the
Postgraduate section in the CURDS website:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/study/
For further information, please contact:
Andy Pike
Professor of Local and Regional Development Degree Programme Director
Tel. +44(0)191 222 8011 Fax. +44 (0)191 232 9259
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Website: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/curds/people/profile/andy.pike
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