Mark Jayne

Educational background

PhD Sociology, Staffordshire University, 1997- 2001.

MA Geography, University of Sussex 1993-1995.

BA (Hons) Geography, Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Keele 1989-1991.

Employment history

Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Manchester Sept 2005 - Current.

Research Fellow, University of Leeds Jan 2005 - Sept 2005.

Research Associate, University of Sheffield July 2004 - Dec 2004.

Creative Industries Development Project Leader, Staffordshire University Sept 2002 - July 2004.

Teaching Fellow, University of Birmingham Sept 2001 - July 2002.

Research Associate/Part-time Lecturer, Staffordshire University Jan 1997 - Sept 2002.

My research interests focus on the cultural economy of cities. In particular my work considers the relationships between production, consumption, regulation and policy. I am also interested in representation, identity, lifestyles and forms of sociability. My work considers how these practices and processes are differentially and discursively constructed and how they impact on urban restructuring in both general and specific ways. Specifically, I seek to make a major contribution to geographical knowledge relating to the following interrelated and overlapping issues:

City cultures and consumption

My research in this area focuses on the ways in which the city is moulded by consumption and how consumption is moulded by the city. Starting with my PhD thesis Geographies of Consumption and Urban Regeneration my initial work identified the ways in which presence (or not) of consumption cultures has affected the ability of cities to compete in a highly competitive urban hierarchy. This culminated in the production of a single authored book entitled Cities and Consumption (Routledge 2005) which has sold around 2,000 copies is (the first volume in a new series entitled Critical Introduction to Urbanism edited by Malcolm Miles and John Rennie Short) and has received positive reviews in the journals Progress in Human Geography and Urban Studies. This volume is complemented by a paper in Geography – An International Journal reflecting on the changing relationship between production and consumption cultures in the contemporary city and how this has been theorised by cultural geographers.

I am currently working on a research project entitled Family Life and Alcohol Consumption: a Study of the Transmission of Drinking Practices, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (with Prof Gill Valentine and Dr Myles Gould - both at the University of Leeds). While there is a significant body of research about young people’s (aged 13-24) alcohol consumption and some evidence of changing intergenerational patterns of drinking, this project is focused on the processes through which drinking patterns are transmitted within families.

Prior to the current alcohol research project I also was involved in a Joseph Rowntree funded project (led by Prof. Gill Valentine and Dr. Sarah Holloway) entitled Drinking Places: Social Geographies of Consumption exploring the impact of socio-economic processes in shaping place-specific cultures of alcohol consumption in two contrasting geographical communities. Six papers have already been published from this research (two papers have appeared inProgress in Human Geography and the others in the Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Journal of Rural Studies, Space and Polity and Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy). A special edition of the high profile ´alcohol studies´ journal Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy was published in 2008, and a research monograph entitled (Dis)Orderly Geographies: Alcohol, drinking, drunkenness (Ashgate) will be published in 2009. It is planned that further journal articles and book chapters will emerge from this project. The project represented the first attempt to develop a research agenda for studies of geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness and has featured in the UK Governments Youth Alcohol Action Plan. The final report can be viewed at The Joseph Roundtree Foundation website. The research team is also currently working on several research bids that will seek to extend and broaden the work to include international case studies.

Urban and regional regeneration

During my PhD work I began to look at urban and regional restructuring and the increasing spatial and social polarisation of the city. This was initially focused on investigating the development of distinct spaces such as urban villages and quarters, culminating in several book chapters (in City Visions edited by David Bell and Azzadine Hadour, and Reclaiming Stoke-on-Trent edited by Tim Edensor). Following this work I jointly edited a book (with David Bell) entitled City of Quarters: Urban Villages in the Contemporary City (Ashgate 2004) which extended this interest beyond spaces such as cultural and ethnic quarters to also include marginalised spaces and places such as red-light districts and ghettos. The volume has sold around 800 copies in its first year of publication, is now being regularly referenced in urban geography and cultural policy and planning literature and has received positive reviews in journals such as Social and Cultural Geography, Professional Geographer, European Journal of Communication, Capital and Class, Sociology, Journal of Nordregio, Housing Studies and Urban Policy and Research.

I have also been involved in a number of research and consultancy projects relating to the role of cultural and creative industries in urban and regional regeneration (see Research and consultancy monies below). This has overlapped with my academic writing focused on policy and practice at local, regional, national and international levels (Capital and Class and Environment Planning C: Government and Policy). In particular I have investigated the way in which design has been used as a motif of regeneration (The International Journal of Cultural Policy and Local Economy). This work sought to critically assess the range of different practices and initiatives that are being drawn under the "design-led" umbrella, and has featured in the UK governments Department of Culture Media and Sports landmark document Culture at the Heart of Regeneration. Future research plans include a study of the role of creative industries in rural regeneration and the growth in creative/cultural industries transnational trade fairs and missions.

Urban governance

My interest in urban and regional regeneration led to me to address the difficulty of representing the multiple ways in which individuals, organisations and institutions respond to regeneration initiatives. A paper published in Environment and Planning A discussed the conceptually important but nonetheless difficult task of unpacking the complex ways in which individuals and groups take up strategic positions when consuming urban regeneration initiatives. I am also interested in the new wave of democratically elected mayors in the UK and seek to theorise the role of such powerful individuals within urban regimes.

In addition I am also currently undertaking research funded by the University of Manchester´s Research Support Fund into the twinning of Manchester (UK) with cities around the world. Twinning, an activity initiated in Europe at the end of the second world-war in order to facilitate reconciliation via economic and cultural relationships is now ubiquitous and most cities throughout the world have multiple twin partners. Despite its prevalence, however, there has not been a major study or a significant body of literature that addresses this important topic. Based on interviews with key informants this research is investigating the development, current motivations, practices and outcomes of Manchester’s international urban twinning partnerships. A number of papers will emerge from this research in 2008 as well as a research bid on twinning in collaboration with Prof. Phil Hubbard (Loughborough University) and Dr. David Bell (University of Leeds).

The urban hierarchy

My work focused on the urban hierarchy has been focused on theorising the political, economic, social, cultural and spatial conditions that impact on cities’ ability to compete at different spatial scales of the urban hierarchy. This was initially pursued through a book chapter looking at the small city as an archetypal European urban form (in Urbanism and Globalisation edited by Frank Eckardt and Dieter Hassenpflug) and more substantively in a book (edited with David Bell) entitled, Small Cities: Urban Experience Beyond the Metropolis (Routledge 2006).  Small Cities which has sold around 800 copies is the first attempt to think about and discuss this long-ignored topic in urban studies and will be followed by an agenda-setting journal article published in the International Journal of Urban and Regional research. Small Cities has received positive reviews in the journals Urban Studies and Progress in Human Geography. David Bell and I are currently working with colleagues in Canada, USA, Australia and Europe to develop an international research bid focusing on small cities.

Year 1:

• GEOG10301 Introductory tutorials.

Year 2:

• GEOG20201 Cities and consumption.
• GEOG20072 New York field course (Course Leader)
• GEOG20771 Communications skills course.
• GEOG20062 Dissertation support.

Year 3:

• GEOG33010 Global cities
• GEOG30700 Team project and general paper.

Postgraduate:

• GEOG7791 Doing geographical research I: Philosophies and methods.

Books

Holloway, S.L., Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2009) (Dis)Orderly Geographies: alcohol, drinking,  drunkenness, Aldershot: Ashgate (Forthcoming).

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds.) (2006) Small cities: urban experience beyond the metropolis, London: Routledge.

Jayne, M. (2005): Cities and consumption, London: Routledge.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds.) (2004): City of quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city, Aldershot: Ashgate.

Journal articles

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2009) ‘Small cities? Towards a research agenda’, International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, (Forthcoming)

Holloway, S. L., Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. ‘‘‘Sainsbury’s is my local’’: English alcohol policy, domestic drinking practices and the meaning of home’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33, 532-547.

Jayne, M., Valentine, G., and Holloway S.L. (2008) ‘Geographies of alcohol, drinking and drunkenness: a review of progress’, Progress in Human Geography, 32 (2), 247-263.

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2008) ‘Fluid boundaries: ‘British’ binge drinking and ‘European’ civility, alcohol and the production and consumption of public space’, Space and Polity, 12 (1), 81-100.

Jayne, M., Valentine, G., and Holloway S.L. (2008) ‘The place of drink: geographical contributions to alcohol studies’, Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy, 1-14.

Valentine, G., Holloway, S. L., Knell, C. and Jayne, M. (2007) ‘Drinking places: young people and cultures of alcohol consumption in rural environments’, Journal of Rural Studies, (Forthcoming)

Jayne, M., Holloway, S. and Valentine, G. (2006) "Drunk and disorderly: alcohol, urban life and public space", Progress in Human Geography, Vol. 30, (4), 451-468.

Jayne, M. (2006) "Cultural geography, consumption and the city", Geography: An International Journal, Vol. 91 (1), 34-42.

Jayne, M. (2005): "Creative industries: the regional dimension?", Environment and Planning C. Government and Policy, Vol 23., pp537-556.

Jayne, M. (2004): "Culture that works: creative industries development in a working-class city", Capital and Class, No. 84, pp199-210.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2003): "Assessing the role of design in local and regional economies" The International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol 9. No. 3, pp285-304.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2003): "Design-led urban regeneration: a critical perspective". Local Economy, Vol. 18. No.2, pp121-134.

Jayne, M. (2003): "Too many voices, "too problematic to be plausible": Representing multiple responses to local economic development strategies?" Environment and Planning A. Vol. 35, No.6, pp959-981.

Book chapters

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2008) ‘The Urban Order’, in Kitchin, R and Thrift, N (eds) The International Encyclopaedia of Human Geography, London: Elsivier (Forthcoming).

Jayne, M., Valentine, G. and Holloway, S. L. (2008) ‘Fluid boundaries - ‘British’ binge drinking and ‘European’ civility: alcohol and the production and consumption of public space’, in Rumsford, C. (ed.) Boundaries and Europe, London: Routledge (Forthcoming).

Bell, D., Holloway, S.L., Jayne, M. and Valentine, G. (2007) ‘Pleasure and leisure’, in Hubbard, P., Hall, T. and Short, J-R., (eds.) The Sage Companion to the City, London: Sage, pp 167-184.

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2006) ‘Conceptualizing small cities’, in Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds.) Small Cities: urban experience beyond the metropolis, London: Routledge. pp 1-18

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2006) ‘Afterword: sizing up small cities’ Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds.) (2006) Small Cities: urban experience beyond the metropolis, London: Routledge. pp245-248

Jayne, M. (2004): ‘Globalization and third-tier cities: the European experience’, in Eckardt, F. and Hassenpflug, D. (eds.), Urbanism and globalization. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, pp65-86

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2004) ‘Conceptualizing the city of Quarters’, in Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds.) (2004): City of quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city, Aldershot: Ashgate, p1-14

Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (2004) ‘Afterword: thinking in quarters’, in Bell, D. and Jayne, M. (eds.) (2004): City of quarters: urban villages in the contemporary city, Aldershot: Ashgate, p249-256.

Jayne, M. (2000): ‘The cultural quarter; (Re)locating urban regeneration in Stoke-on-Trent – a ‘city’ in name only’, in Edensor, T. (ed), Reclaiming Stoke-on-Trent: leisure, space, and identity in The Potteries, Stoke-on-Trent: Staffordshire University Press. pp19-41.

Holliday, R. and Jayne, M. (2000): ‘The potters holiday’, in Edensor, T. (ed), Reclaiming Stoke-on-Trent: leisure, space, and identity in The Potteries. Stoke-on-Trent: Staffordshire University Press. pp177-200.

Jayne, M. (1999): ‘Imag(in)ing a post-industrial Potteries’, in Bell, D. and Haddour, A. (eds.) City visions. Harlow: Prentice Hall. pp8-19.

Research and consultancy monies

Family Life and Alcohol Consumption: A Study of the Transmission of Drinking Practices, Joseph Rowntree Foundation (£100,000).**

Twin Cities: Geographies of Global Manchester, University of Manchester (£3,500)

Marie Curie European Commission Fellowship in Urban Studies (£2,500)

North Staffordshire Design Initiative, Advantage West Midlands (£56,000)*

Staffordshire’s County-Wide Local Cultural Strategy, Staffordshire County Council (£20,000)*

Lichfield’s  Local Cultural Strategy, Lichfield District Council (£11,000)*

Stoke-on-Trent’s Local Cultural Strategy, Stoke-on-Trent City Council (£14,000) *

Culturegen: Creative Industries Mapping, Stafford Borough Council (£6,000)*

Stoke-on-Trent Creative Industries Development, SRB6 (£62,000)*

Study of Creative Industries Development Initiatives in Staffordshire,

Staffordshire County Council (£9,000)*

Creative Industries Development in Shropshire, Shropshire County Council (£20,000)*

Staffordshire University’s Regional Strategy (£5,000)*

Regen School Feasibility Study, College in the Community (£24,000)*

An Evaluation of Neighbourhood Learning in Deprived Communities,

Learning and Skills Council (£15,000)*

Staffordshire University PhD Scholarship (£18,000)

*Co-principal researcher with David Bell
** Co-investigator with Gill Valentine and Myles Gould