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Sally spent over 10 years working in local economic, enterprise and employment development in Hammersmith, Spitalfields and Bedfordshire where she was a Principal Economic Development Officer. Sally holds an honours first degree in Management Sciences from Lancaster and an MBA. In 1996 she returned to academia to do a PhD at the School of Geography, Manchester University comparing the contemporary political economies of two cities, Manchester (UK) and Lyon (France), embedded in their particular histories and multi-scalar contexts. This also explored and compared modes of inter-city competition/co-operation and offered a critique of UK policy in the area. Sally currently works as a Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Research on Innovation and Competition (CRIC), Manchester Business School, University of Manchester.
These include developing Karl Polanyi’s ideas of Instituted Economic Process (with Dr Mark Harvey), the organisation of exchange, the emergence of markets and non-market provision, the historical development of market research. Also Sally works on environment and sustainability from the point of view of disciplinary interfaces between innovation studies and industrial ecology, and markets for environmental technologies and services. She retains an interest in cities, city-regions and local economic development. Sally is part of a small group at the Institute of Innovation developing a network and research interests in nanotechnology. A special collection of papers on nano-technology for the journal Technology Analysis and Strategic Management (TASM) is proposed.
The Use and Limitations of Indicators in the Context of City-Region Development Strategy. A joint CRIC/PREST collaborative project commissioned by Manchester Knowledge Capital November 2005 – final report delivered June 2006.
Industrial Ecology and Spaces of Innovation. This book project is the output of two seminars in 2003 which brought together experts in the field of environmental innovation and industrial ecology. It explores the opportunities and limits of building theoretical and substantive research linkages across the two disciplines. Edited by Ken Green and Sally Randles it will be published in October 2006 by Edward Elgar. Sally co-ordinates an e-group, currently with 80+ members which brings together academics and practitioners with environmental innovation and industrial ecology backgrounds. New members are welcome.
Intermediating Production and Consumption : A History of Market Research in Britain. This is a CRIC research project (with Professor Alan Warde) with a book planned and in preparation to be published by Routledge. The work develops Bourdieu’s field/practice theory to study how production and consumption are intermediated through time by groups of expert knowledge workers, such as market researchers (populating an occupational field) who develop an epistemic base and sets of techniques (populating a scientific field) and are organised into units of production to sell/deliver their services (populating an administrative field), in competition with other groups of knowledge workers contesting the same intermediating space.
New Polanyian Perspecitives is a book collection edited by Ronnie Ramlogan, Sally Randles and Mark Harvey which will be published by MUP in 2006. In the first part of the book authors write within the intellectual tradition of Karl Polanyi. In the second part, this is developed, in particular using as a springboard his central idea of Economy as Instituted Process.
Work identifying multi-disciplinary partners for research on different aspects of nano-technologies is at an early stage.
Green, K and Randles, S. eds (2006) Industrial Ecology and Spaces of Innovation, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
Randles, S (2006), ‘Multi-scalar Landscapes, Trans-national Corporations and Industrial Ecology’, Special edited collection on Industrial Ecology and Regional Development eds Deutz, P. & Gibbs, D. in Progress in Industrial Ecology (accepted, currently being modified).
Ramlogan, R. Randles, S. & Harvey, M. eds. (2006) New Polanyian Perspectives : Developments and reflections on the work of Karl Polanyi, Manchester: MUP, forthcoming
Randles, S. & Dicken, P (2004) ‘Scale and the Instituted Construction of the Urban: Comparing the Cases of Manchester and Lyon’ Environment and Planning A, Vol. 36,11
Randles, S. (2003) ‘Issues for a Neo-Polanyian Research Agenda in Economic Sociology’ International Review of Sociology Vol 13, No2, July, pp409-434
Randles, S (2002) ‘Complex Systems Applied: The merger that made GlaxoSmithKline’ Technology Analysis and Strategic Management, Vol 14, No 3 Sept 2002, pp 331-354
Harvey, M. & Randles, S. (2002) ‘Market exchanges & “ Instituted Economic Process” an analytical perspective’ Revue d’Economie Industrielle, Special Issue, No 101, 4th trimester, pp11-30
I am interested in supervising PhD topics that relate to my research interests, especially:
Email: Sally.Randles@manchester.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)161 275 7378
Fax: +44 (0)161 275 7361
CRIC has combined with PREST to form the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research (MIoIR).
New book: Trust in Food, A Comparative and Institutional Analysis by Unni Kjaernes, Mark Harvey & Alan Warde.
CRIC Final Report to ESRC:"Main Report" and "CRIC Performance Indicators 1997-2006".
'Instituted Or Embedded? Legal, Fiscal and Economic Institutionalisation of Markets' by Mark Harvey
'Beyond Efficiency and Market Shares: Competition within the Finnish Games Industry' by Mirva Peltoniemi
'Accounting for Economic Evolution: Fitness and the Population Method' by Stan Metcalfe
'Innovation and Final Consumption: Social Practices, Instituted Modes of Provision and Intermediation' by Andrew McMeekin & Dale Southerton
'Alfred Marshall’s Mecca: Reconciling the Theories of Value and Development' by Stan Metcalfe