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Recognising the impact of our Emeritus Fellows’ publications

Wednesday 22 March 2023

 

St Catharine’s Emeritus Fellows have been recognised by international research organisations for the impact of their publications. Professor Ron Martin (1974; Emeritus Fellow 2015) has received two awards in recent weeks, one of which was jointly awarded to Professor Peter Tyler (1983; Emeritus Fellow 2020).

Research.com, a leading academic platform for researchers, revealed that it has included Professor Martin in its 2023 List of the World’s Top 2000 Best Scientists in Economics and Finance, based on academic papers and citations. Only 5 UK geographers are in that list. The platform also gave him the 2023 Economics and Finance Research Leader Award.

Professor Martin, who is also Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Cambridge, commented:

“Lately, my research activities have been focused on four areas: the resilience of cities and regions to major economic, environmental and health shocks; the geographic al dimensions of the productivity slowdown; the scale of the levelling up challenge; and the novel application of evolutionary theory and concepts to the study of the long-run economic performance and transformation of cities and regions.

“In addition to these awards, I have been pleased to see my work inform expert advice and policy design within the European Commission as well as the UK Treasury, the Department for Business and the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. I was also honoured to chair a major roundtable on the geography of the UK’s productivity problem organised jointly by the British Academy and the Treasury.”       

The Regional Studies Association, an international learned society concerned with the analysis of regions and regional issues, also awarded its 2023 Best Book Blog Award to Professors Martin and Tyler for their outstanding contribution to the field of regional studies. Their blog entitled ‘Levelling up left behind places: Only a bold mission-orientated policy will succeed’ was published on the Regional Studies Association website in early 2022.

Professor Martin added, “It was a pleasure to collaborate with Peter on this blog to draw attention to spatial economic inequalities. As we emphasise in our blog, large and persistent spatial inequalities in economic prosperity and opportunity have become a source of social discontent and political disillusionment: even a threat to democracy. It is imperative that politicians seize the current unique opportunity to restore a sense of economic and social belonging across a post-Brexit, post-pandemic UK.”    

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