Come and join our team!

We are currently looking for a Professor specialising in Civic and Public Engagement and/or Place Based Policy Making.

We are open to a broad range of disciplinary perspectives on this topic (Humanities, Social Science, Psychology) and support and encourage applications from under-represented groups in the field.

If you have any questions about the role, please feel free to get in touch.

Information on the role is available here:

https://tuwpapps.tees.ac.uk/trent22live_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC179GF.open?WVID=2180376JUq

I guess now the contract is through, I can now tell you that from the start of September I'll be taking up the role of Associate Dean (Research and Innovation) in our School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law.

I'm really looking forward to working with a phenomenal interdisciplinary team of people and championing our work on people-centred policymaking, community futures, and creative placemaking in places and regions in transition.

Exciting times ahead.

My mind just wandered into a future where a call centre office block has become a listed building and English heritage site, tourists wandering around the ruin learning of an industrial past long forgotten.

Plastic telephones scattered on the floor, while a set of untouched biros are strictly preserved. In the corner, there is another smaller room. Inside a large table surrounded by odd looking leather chairs.

The woman next to me remarks how it would be impossible to sit in such a thing and focus. The door designates it "the boardroom". We are quickly shuffled along by the guide and shown the office vending machine and water cooler, described by the guide as the hub for office gossip.