Dr Gillian Bristow - Associate Member
Career Experience and Qualifications
Dr Bristow is currently a Senior Lecturer in Economic Geography at the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University.
BA (Hons) First Class: Economics, Cardiff University, (1991).
PhD, Cardiff University, (1995).
Research Areas of Interest
Devolution finance; fiscal federalism and the territorial distribution of public expenditure; regional economic change and restructuring; and the evaluation and analysis of UK and EU public policy in relation to regional and rural development objectives.
Research Projects
Critical Reflection on Regional Competitiveness: Theory, Policy and Practice (book for Routledge).
Sustainable Clusters? An Exploration of the Sustainability of Cluster Initiatives in Wales and the Netherlands (with Dr Peter Wells). Total Grant: £3,000. BRASS, Cardiff University (2008).
Study of Community Benefits from Wind Farms (with Dr Richard Cowell and Professor Max Munday). Total Grant: £10,000. Welsh Assembly Government Economic Research Grant (2006/07).
(Note – the final report, Wind farm development in Wales: assessing the community benefits, is now available from the Welsh Assembly Government website).
Study of Economic Impact of Road Pricing Scheme in Cardiff (with team from Cardiff University). Total Grant: £20,000. Cardiff Council (2006/07).
The Impact of Objective One in Wales (with Kevin Morgan). Total Grant: £4,000. BBC Wales (2006/07).
Review of Energize Programme and Energy Sector Developments in Pembrokeshire (with Welsh Economy Research Unit). Total Grant: £8,000. Pembrokeshire Business Initiative (2007).
Publications
Bristow, G., (2011) Critical Reflections on Regional Competitiveness, London, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-47159-6.
Articles
Bristow, G., Munday, M., and Cowell, R. J., (2011) Wind farms in rural areas: how far do community benefits from wind farms represent a local economic development opportunity?, Journal of Rural Studies, 27, pp. 1 – 12.
Entwistle, T., Bristow, G., Hines, F., Martin, S. and Donaldson, S. (2007) ‘The Dysfunctions of Markets, Hierarchies and Networks in the Meta-Governance of Partnership’, Urban Studies, 44(1): 63-79.
Wells, P. and Bristow, G. (2007) 'Embedding eco-industrialism into local economies: the search for sustainable business and policy paradigms', Progress in Industrial Ecology vol. 4 nos. 3/4, pp. 205 - 218.
Bristow, G. (2005) Everyone's a ‘winner’: problematising the discourse of regional competitiveness, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 5 (3), 285 - 304.
Bristow, G. and Wells, P. (2005) Innovative Discourse for Sustainable Local Development: A Critical Analysis of Eco-Industrialism, International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development, Volume1, no.s 1/2, pp. 168 – 179.
Bristow, G., Bishop, P. and Gripaios, P.(2004) Determinants of Call Centre Location: Some Evidence for UK Urban Areas, Urban Studies, Volume 40 (13), 2751 - 2768.
Bristow, G. and Bache, I. (2003) Devolution and the Fractured Executive: The Public Expenditure Impact of European Funding, British Journal of Politics and International Relations vol. 5 no. 3, pp. 405 - 427.
Bristow, G., Munday, M. and Gripaios, P. (2002) The Location of Financial Call Centres in the UK, Service Industries Journal, 22 (3), pp. 117 - 134.
Bristow, G., Banks, J. and Marsden, T. (2002) The Social Management of Rural Nature: Understanding Agrarian-Based Rural Development, Environment and Planning A, Volume 34 (5), 809 - 825.
Bristow, G. (2002) Assessing Welsh Funding Needs, Agenda, Summer 2002, pp. 8 - 11.
Bristow, G., McGovern, M., Kay, A. and Pickernell, D. (2002) Turkey's Don't Vote for Christmas? An Analysis of Horizontal Fiscal Equalisation Experiences in Australia and the United Kingdom, Australian Economic Papers vol. 21, no. 4, pp. 81-94.
Bristow, G., Cowell, R. and Marsden, T. (2001) Tensions, Limits and Potentials: Evaluating Rural Development Policies in Scotland, European Urban and Regional Studies, Volume 8 (3), 235 - 252.
Bristow, G. and Blewitt, N. (2001) The Structural Funds and Additionality in Wales: Devolution and Multi-Level Governance, Environment and Planning A, Volume 33 (6), 1083 - 1100.
Bristow, G. (2001) Bypassing Barnett: The Comprehensive Spending Review and Public Expenditure in Wales, Economic Affairs, September 2001, pp. 44-47.
Bristow, G. (2000) Structure, Strategy and Space: Issues of Progressing Integrated Rural Development in Wales, European Urban and Regional Studies 7 (1) 19 - 33.
Bristow, G., Munday, M. and Gripaios, P. (2000) Call Centre Growth and Location: Corporate Strategy and the Spatial Division of Labour, Environment and Planning A 32 (3) 519 - 538.
Bristow, G. and Marsden, T. (2000) Progressing Integrated Rural Development: A Framework for Assessing the Integrative Potential for Sectoral Policies, Regional Studies 34 (5) 455 - 469.
Bristow, G., Banks, J. and Marsden, T. (2000) Food Supply Chain Approaches: Exploring their Role in Rural Development, Sociologia Ruralis 40 (4) 424 - 438.
Book Chapters
Bristow, G. and Morgan, K. (2006) 'De-industrialisation, the new service economy and the search for post-industrial prosperity', in Hooper A.J. and Punter J. (eds) Capital Cardiff 1974- 2020: Regeneration, Competitiveness and the Urban Environment, University of Wales Press, October 2006 (pp. 47-70).
Bristow, G. and Lovering, J. (2006) 'Shaping events or celebrating the way the wind blows? The role of competitiveness strategy in Cardiff’s ‘ordinary transformation’', in Hooper A.J. and Punter J. (eds) Capital Cardiff 1974- 2020: Regeneration, Competitiveness and the Urban Environment, University of Wales Press, October 2006 (pp. 311-329).
Bristow, G. (2005) 'Power of the Purse', in Osmond, J. (ed) Welsh Politics Comes of Age: Responses to the Richard Commission, Institute of Welsh Affairs: Cardiff; pp. 63-77.
Bristow, G. 'Renewing Rural Wales', in Bryan, J. and Jones, C. (eds) Wales in the 21st Century: an Economic Future, Macmillan, London; 71-86.
Bristow, G. and Kay, A. 'Spending Autonomy in Wales: Setting the Budget within the Framework of the Barnett Formula', in Osmond J. and Jones B. (ed) Building a Civic Culture: Institutional Change, Policy Development and Political Dynamics in the National Assembly for Wales, Institute of Welsh Affairs, Cardiff; pp. 83-96.
Bristow, G. 'Finance', in Osmond J. and Jones B. (ed) Birth of Welsh Democracy: The First Term of the National Assembly for Wales, Institute of Welsh Affairs, Cardiff; pp. 75-88.
Contact Details
Tel: +44 (0)29 208 75388
Fax: +44 (0)29 208 74845
Email: BristowG1@Cardiff.ac.uk
Room number: Room 1.54, Glamorgan Building
Cardiff University,
Glamorgan Building,
King Edward VII Avenue,
Cardiff, Wales, U.K.
CF10 3WA.
