Nick Hope

Nick Hope joined NLGN in April 2008. His research fields are primarily sub-national governance, economic activism and development, employment and skills policy, local government finance and parliamentary and Whitehall reform.

His publications include ‘Challenging Perspectives: Improving Whitehall’s Spatial Awareness’, ‘Cities, Sub-Regions and Local Alliances: The MAA Forum Essay Collection’ , ‘Bordering on Prosperity: Driving forward sub-regional collaboration’, ‘We Can Work It Out: Local employment and skills for economic recovery’ and ‘Scanning Financial Horizons: Modeling the local consequences of fiscal consolidation’.

He has also authored several shorter reports, including ‘Lords of our Manor? How a reformed House of Lords can better represent the UK, ‘Licence to Skill: Streamlining the skills system by devolving skills to local authorities’, ‘Little Brother? Getting the balance right on surveillance powers’, ‘Can you Dig It? Meeting community demand for allotments’, ‘New Model Mayors: Democracy, Devolution and Direction’ and ‘Communities in Charge: Decentralisation and differentiation of charges and fees.

His work has received national coverage, including dedicated articles in The Times, the Economist, the Guardian, the Mirror and the Independent. He has made a number of media appearances, including The Politics Show, BBC Radio 5Live, BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales, and given presentations at conferences on a variety of topics.

He was previously Senior Researcher for the Rt Hon John Prescott MP in the Houses of Parliament, conducting research and writing speeches on economic regeneration, neighbourhood renewal, regional development, the environment, climate change, transport and housing. Prior to that he worked for the Rt Hon Ed Balls MP and in a Further Education College. He holds a first class Joint Honours BSc in Politics and Social Policy from the University of Bristol and a MA with distinction in British Politics (Parliamentary Studies) from the University of Leeds.

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