Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins - Staff Profiles - University of Gloucestershire

Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins is an applied social scientist specialising in regional development and local government policy, with a focus on improving economic outcomes for places and people outside major cities.

Biography

Bryonny uses mixed methods to inform evidence-based policy decision-making at multiple governance scales. She has a growing track record of research commissioned by local and national government in the UK, including evaluation studies and business case development. In 2023-24 she is a UKRI Policy Fellow, seconded to the Welsh Government’s joint division for local government finance reform.

Bryonny regularly collaborates with EU partners. Bryonny’s work was featured in the European Commission Joint Research Centre’s Handbook of Sustainable Urban Development Strategies and she joined the advisory group for the Handbook of Territorial Development Strategies. Her work on the Commission’s Startup Village initiative has also been released as a Science for Policy Report. Bryonny is currently Work Package Lead on the Horizon Europe RUSTIK project, which is developing new data and methods to help policymakers make better decisions for sustainable transitions in rural areas.

Since joining the CCRI in 2020, Bryonny has been part of the National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE) team, in partnership with Newcastle University and Warwick Business School. Bryonny was previously based in the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University, where she was affiliated to the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research and Data (WISERD) and recognised as one of the Welsh Crucible’s emerging research leaders.

Qualifications

PhD in Social Anthropology, University of Melbourne, 2014
MA (Hons) in Anthropology, University of Auckland, 2007
BA in Anthropology, University of Auckland, 2004
BCom in Management and Employment Relations, University of Auckland, 2004

Membership of professional bodies

Fellow, Regional Studies Association
Member, UK Evaluation Society

Teaching & Research

Teaching

Bryonny is available for postgraduate research supervision and welcomes enquiries on research areas including:

– Socio-economic development in rural and peripheral places and regions.
– Evidence and evaluation for place-based policy initiatives.
– Tax policy and local development or municipal finance.
– Data linkage and microdata applications to policy or evaluation, especially in non-urban areas.
– Affordability and living costs.
– Metascientific approaches to government-commissioned research.

Bryonny also welcomes enquiries regarding exchanges or short-term visits from postgraduate researchers based at other institutions.

Research

Bryonny’s current and recent research projects include:

– Cymru Wledig LPIP Rural Wales
– Horizon Europe RUSTIK project (Rural Sustainability Transitions through Integration of Knowledge for improved policy processes)
– National Innovation Centre for Rural Enterprise (NICRE)
– Horizon 2020 ROBUST project (Rural-Urban Outlooks: Unlocking Synergies)
– Horizon 2020 IMAJINE project (Integrative Mechanisms for Addressing Spatial Justice and Territorial Inequalities in Europe)

Publications

Publications from Bryonny Goodwin-Hawkins can be found in the Research Repository

Subject Areas

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