1. Nicola Headlam Postgraduate Research Seminar 27 th November 2009

3. Part One : The Process

4. My First Year

5. First Year … doubts, lack of certainty, direction, confidence

6. First Year… juggling too many plates

7. First Year … drowning in literature

8. By the second year…

9. Second year… getting over fear of chapters

10. Second year… dealing with the media!!

11. 2 nd year lessons… here she is again!!

12. Third Year / Writing Up (!)

13. Third Year... Light at the end of the tunnel

14. Third Year... Next strategic move?

15. Third Year... Personal development and reflection

21. Methods. Qualitative : Elite Interviewing Participatn Observation Quantitative : Formal SNA Aim : to explore how far Local and Multi -Area Agreements [LAAs and MAAs] as emergent, hybrid governance mechamisms manifest both the properties and dysfunctions of markets, hierarchies and networks, how these are brokered within localities and to what effect. LAA/MAA = policy instrument LAA/MAA operational reality . To explore the relationships between national-regional-local scales (structure) as they affect economic development and regeneration governability 3. To make recommendations for policy and practice 4. To unpack the role of the LAA broker or city-regionalist within partnership governance (agency – scope at scale) 5. To develop an evaluative framework using SNA to map differing models of LAA/MAA 6. To use these models for assessing specific LAA/MAAs 1.To establish what the LAA/MAA are now and what they are for . Methods. Socio-spatial biography Integrative Mixed methods data, documentary, participant observation, qualitative generation of SNA maps. Fig. 1 Overall Research Strategy (April 2009) Objectives & Methods

26. treating networks for economic development and regeneration as networks

28. Police Local Partnership governance architecture Duty on local councils and other local partners to work together to agree a single set of priorities through a Sustainable Community Strategy and a Local Area Agreement Three year delivery plan: Local Area Agreement (LAA) Council Local Neighbourhoods Local Strategic Partnership Long term Sustainable Community Strategy (SCS) Service Charter Service Charter Health Private sector Community sector Local Neighbourhoods

35. Governability (Kooiman)

36. Governance ‘entitites’ TYPE I TYPE II general-purpose jurisdictions task-specific jurisdictions non-intersecting memberships intersecting memberships jurisdictions organized on a limited number of levels no limit to the number of jurisdictional levels system-wide architecture flexible design

38. Regeneration – Governance 4 phases

39. Co-ordination Retrenchment Proliferation Consolidation

43. Different types of networks

56. The Government (publicwhip.org.uk)

57. Centrality

61. The North West Joint Economic Commission (JEC)

62. North West Joint Economic Commission Regional Economic Council

63. AGMA

64. SNA Greater Manchester MAA-LAA (accountabilty)

65. SNA with local government decentred

68. Governance Entity Type Type I Type II Partnership Model / moment New Governance Model for GMCR adopted by AGMA in Autumn 2009 Operation of Manchester Enterprises from 2005-2009 Skills required to work model reticulated brokerage policy entrepreneurialism To what end Democratic Process Management Reification – Conceptualisation Construction of Evidence Base Political oversight Built in including scrutiny Obscure – Executive only? Role of private sector Built in Majority on ME Board Central government connections ? Intense, sporadic, improvised Mechanisms framing activity SCR – GM Strategy MAA development MIER Defined by Comprehensive, inclusive, organisational relationships Small, tight, personal networks Future role Assured Emergent Stable Small element of large structure – subsumed. Future funding – too “grade-rich”? Unstable - Obsolete in current form?