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Felicia Fai
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Associate Professor & Co-Director of the Centre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy (CGRIS) at the School of Management, University of Bath,UK. Researching regional economic innovation & growth, industrial strategy.
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I find the growth and potential implications of coworking spaces fascinating what about you? Looking for a PhD student with a genuine passion and curiosity about issues in this space. See my call for applicants.

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Coworking spaces: implications for Business start-ups, Innovation and Regional Growth at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Coworking spaces: implications for Business start-ups, Innovation and Regional Growth at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
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September 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Interested in. #Phd in #industrialstrategy #regionaldevelopment. Join @fmfai.bsky.social Chris Dimos at @uniofbath.bsky.social. Details below 👇🏼 @regstud.bsky.social @uresg76.bsky.social @dgbailey.bsky.social @uniofbathipr.bsky.social

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Place-Based Industrial Strategy and Regional Development at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Place-Based Industrial Strategy and Regional Development at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
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September 12, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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PhD opportunity at #UniversityofBath, #CGRIS in UK industrial strategy in relation to defence. Further details here
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#phd #industrialstrategy #findaphd #cgris #defencesectors… | Phil Tomlinson
Are you interested in doing a #PhD and in #industrialstrategy? #findaphd In #CGRIS based at University of Bath School of Management, Felicia Fai and I are…
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March 19, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Our Co-Directors @fmfai.bsky.social @prt1969.bsky.social have secured funding from the #IRC to explore whether/how #coworkingspaces can improve the uptake of #BusinessInnovationSupportServices in #Englishregions @uniofbathnews.bsky.social @regstud.bsky.social

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March 7, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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Water companies in England and Wales have been under close scrutiny of late with pollution of river issues and prices. Should they be renationalised? See the views of my CGRIS & University of Bath colleague @Rob Branston here. www.linkedin.com/posts/j-robe...
J Robert Branston on LinkedIn: Alexis Conran | Times Radio | The Times and the Sunday Times
I was very fortunate to feature on Times Radio on Sunday as part of the Alexis Conran show, where together with Baroness Jones, we debated the future of the…
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February 26, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Our fantastic PhD student @laurasmyth.bsky.social is exploring #regionalskills #skillsnarratives with a specific focus on #digitalskills in #leftbehindplaces. #MadeSmarter

Check out Laura's profile below 👇
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PhD profile: Laura Smyth
How do the stories we tell ourselves about an area influence the skills we develop? Laura Smyth, a second-year PhD student in our Centre for Governance, Regulation and Industrial Strategy (CGR&…
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February 18, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Join us at @cgrisbath.bsky.social next Thursday for Ian Jackson (@wlvuni.bsky.social) #hybridseminar on #environmentalinnovation

Zoom registration: shorturl.at/pbTY9

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February 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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The challenge of balancing both more equitable and even growth across subnational regions & using leading regions for international competitiveness is a huge quandary for regional policy, UK. apple.news/AjjuPNe1VTAK...
How Labour can unshackle Britain’s most innovative region — The Economist
It will have to confront the charge of elitism
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February 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Phil Tomlinson & I have just launched our Centre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy-CGRIS account on Bluesky ! Come follow us! @cgrisbath.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Call for papers on “Collaborative Spaces in Third Places” for a SI of Contemporary Social Science.
Coedited with @IlariaMariotti. We invite papers from across the social sciences on work occurring in coworking-, maker-, hacker-spaces open labs etc.

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Collaborative spaces in Third Places: evolution, typologies, impacts and policies
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January 29, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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New blog from my PhD Student @Sophia Zihan WANG , member of the Centre for Governance, Regulation & Industrial Strategy (CGRIS) about her thesis on regional skills development and the role of coworkingspaces.
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#CGRIS #coworkingspaces #industrialstrategy
January 29, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Latest @cssjournal.bsky.social SI Editorial on Beyond Levelling Up with @fmfai.bsky.social and @dgbailey.bsky.social 👇🏼

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Beyond levelling up: where next to revive lagging regions?
Published in Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences (Vol. 19, No. 4, 2024)
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January 20, 2025 at 11:22 AM