Philip McCann receives Walter Isard Award for Scholarly Achievement

Professor Philip McCann, the Sir Terry Leahy Chair in Urban and Regional Economics in The Productivity Institute at the Alliance Manchester Business School, has received the Walter Isard Award for Scholarly Achievement.

This award pays tribute to regional scientists who have made significant theoretical and methodological contributions to the field of regional science throughout their careers. The award is made annually by the North American Regional Science Association and is the highest North American award in regional economics. Out of the 44 winners of the award since 1994, Philip is only the sixth scholar based outside of North America.

Find out more about Philip’s work on regional economics and productivity by reading his TPI research:

• Joining Up Pro-Productivity Policies in the UK
• Work-From-Home, Relocation, and Shadow Effects: Evidence from Sweden
• Is the UK Sterling-Zone an Optimal Currency Area? Comparisons with the Euro Area and the Rest of Europe Using City and Regional Investment Data
• Regions, cities and finance: The role of capital shocks and banking reforms in shaping the UK geography of prosperity
• Framing a place-based investment strategy for Rochdale
• Land use and planning reforms: strategic context, challenges and policy recommendations
• Access to capital and finance: strategic context, challenges and policy recommendations
• The Productivity Agenda
• Capital Shocks and UK Regional Divergence
• Levelling-up economics
• The work-from-home revolution and the performance of cities
• Levelling Up: The Need for an Institutionally Coordinated Approach to National and Regional Productivity
• The fiscal implication of levelling up and UK governance devolution