Pedro Marques

Post-doc Geographer       

Hermann-Rodewald-Str. 9 / 

Room 9

D-24098 Kiel

Phone:   +49 431 880- 2438

Fax: +49 431 880-5290

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OVERVIEW

• Output

• Focus of Research
  

• Qualification & Employment
  

• Professional Review Activities

Output

OUTPUT

TOMANEY, J., P. MARQUES (forthcoming):

Evidence, policy and the politics of regional development: the case of high speed rail in the United Kingdom, Environment and Planning C

JAKOB, D., P. MARQUES (2013):

Rethinking Public Economic Geographies: The Politics of Relevancy, Professional Geographer, Advanced Publication

MARQUES, P. (2011):

Theories and Policies of Innovation: a critical review’, Geography Compass, 5/11: 838–850 

Policy papers

TOMANEY, J., P. MARQUES, P. MARSHALL (2011):

The Local and Regional Impacts of High Speed Rail in the UK: A Review of the Evidence, submitted to the House of Commons Select Committee on Transport.

SQW Ltd., Cambridge Econometrics Ltd., Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies and Institute of Employment Research (2011) Rebalancing the Economy Sectorally and Spatially. Report for UK Commission on Employment and Skills. London: UKCES

MARQUES, P. (2009): Inovação e Estratégia na Indústria de Moldes Portuguesa, O Molde, April Edition (Professional Magazine for the Portuguese Molds Industry)

Cornford, J.; Richardson, R.; Sokol, M.; Marques, P. and Gillespie, A. (2006) Transformation of Regional Societies Through ICTs: State(s) of the Art(s), final draft for TRANSFORM – Benchmarking and Fostering Transformative Use of ICT in EU Regions.

Focus of Research

FOCUS OF RESEARCH

Economic Geography

Evolutionary and Institutional Approaches

Global Production Networks

Policy and Politics

Research Projects

2011- Cluster life cycles: The role of actors, networks and institutions in emerging, growing, declining and renewing clusters

Funded by the European Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation (DFG: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft)

"Innovation and global production networks: two case studies of traditional industries in Portugal", Early Career Grant Scheme, funded by the Regional Studies Association

Qualification & Employment

QUALIFICATION & EMPLOYMENT

Qualification

2002

Sociology, Université Paris VII, ERASMUS exchange student

2005

BA Sociology, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa, Lisbon, Portugal

2006

MA in Regional Development, Newcastle University, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies

2009

(Spring Semester), visiting PhD candidate, Cornell University, Department of City and Regional Planning

Employment

10/2006-05/2007
Temporary Research Assistant, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University - Research project: TRANSFORM (funded by the European Commission)

04/2008-07/2008

Temporary Research Assistant, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University - Research project: A ‘British’ brand? The case of Burberry

10/2005-06/2010
Teaching assistant, Newcastle University

06/2010-09/2011
Research Associate, Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies, Newcastle University, Full-time

since 12/2011

Post doctoral researcher, Kiel University, Full-Time

Additional Qualifications

Delegate at the Summer Institute in Economic Geography, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 2010

10th Workshop on Institutional Economics, organised by Prof. Geoffrey Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, 2008

Events and Conferences Coordinator at the board of the Regional Studies Association

Co-organizer of the research network: Theorising Regional Development: the theoretical background of new concepts in regional studies, funded by the Regional Studies Association, 2007 – 2010

Member of the Regional Studies Association, Association of American Geographers

Awards

Taught postgraduate award for best MA dissertation in the United Kingdom by the Economic Geography Research Group (Royal Geographic Society – Institute of British Geographers), 2007

Taught postgraduate award for best MA dissertation in the United Kingdom by the Regional Science Association International - British and Irish Section, 2006

Professional Review Activities

PROFESSIONAL REVIEW ACTIVITIES

'Book review of Andrew Leyshon et al. (eds) ‘the Sage Handbook of Economic Geography’, Journal of Economic Geography, Published online February 9, 2012

‘Book review of James Rowe ‘Theories of Local Economic Development: Linking Theory to Practice’, Economic Geography Research Group, Online Book Reviews. 2009.

'Book review of Cristiano Antonelli 'Localised Technological Change - Towards the Economics of Complexity'', Journal of Economic Geography, (9), pp. 288-290. 2009.

'Book review of Karen Polenske 'The Economic Geography of Innovation'', Journal of Economic Issues, XLII, (3), pp. 880-882. 2008.