A place-based approach will support regions to realise their aspirations of no longer being left behind. But what is that and how should they do it?
Sanne Velthuis
Sanne Velthuis is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University. She has previously worked as a research associate at the Inclusive Growth Analysis Unit at the University of Manchester. She is a mixed-methods researcher interested in the analysis of spatial inequalities and uneven economic, demographic, and social development, as well as how these inequalities are lived and experienced by people living in different kinds of places. She currently works on a research project on ‘left behind places’ in the UK, Germany and France.