Centre for Urban Development

and Environmental Management

Staff

Michelle Wishardt
Research Fellow
Tel: +44 (0)113 8121976
Email: m.wishardt@leedsmet.ac.uk

Michelle’s research work began as a Parliamentary research assistant while studying for an MSc (Econ) at the London School of Economics. She has since worked on a variety of research projects, funded by a range of international organisations. Some of these have entailed periods of work in East and West Europe. She has recently contributed to four ESPON projects (1.1.1 Polycentricity, 1.1.2 Urban-Rural Relations, 3.2 Spatial Scenarios and 3.3 Competitiveness and Sustainability) with Simin Davoudi and worked with Eamonn Judge on his transport economic study in Poland. She lectures on a part-time basis.

Selected Publications

A Comparison of the Interventions of Regional and International Organisations in the Social Policy Development of the ‘New Eastern Europe’, ISPRU Occasional Paper No. 2, 1995.

The Council of Europe’s Role in Influencing Post-Communist Social Policy, Research Paper presented to the World Congress of East European Studies, Warsaw, 6-11 August, 1995.

The Making of Post-Communist Social Policy; The Role of International Agencies, Journal of Social Policy, Volume 26, Part 1, January 1997. (Joint authored with Bob Deacon)

The International Labour Organisation and the Council of Europe in the Post-War Period: International and Regional Conceptions of Poverty Compared, Paper presented to the Conference to mark the centenary of Seebohm Rowntree’s first study of poverty in York, University of York, 18-20 March, 1998.

Global Social Policy: International Organisations and the Future of Welfare, Sage, (Bob Deacon, with Paul Stubbs and Michelle Hulse), 1997.

Environmental/Economic Development Issues in the Polish Motorway and Roads Programme: Preliminary Results from a Survey of Polish Local Authorities (with Eamonn Judge and Konrad Werpachowski), Paper presented to the Annual Conference of the University Transport Group, Loughborough University, January, 2003.

Counterurbanisation and its implications for Ryedale, Regional Review, Vol. 14, No. 2, Autumn 2004 (with Simin Davoudi)

Polish Gminas’ Attitudes To Government Motorway And Road Plans: Issues Of Administrative Reform, Environment And Regional Economic Development, PRZEGLĄD GEOGRAFICZNY, 2004, 76, 2 (with Eamonn Judge and Konrad Werpachowski)

Environmental and economic development issues in the Polish motorway programme: some findings on local authority attitudes, Journal of Transport Geography, 12:4, 2004 (with Eamonn Judge and Konrad Werpachowski)

The Polycentric Turn in the Irish Spatial Strategy, paper for Special Issue of Built Environment, Vol. 31, No.2 (2005) (with Simin Davoudi)

Lisbon-Gothenburg Scenarios: Some Policy Recommendations, Italian Geographical Journal (forthcoming) (with Ian Strange and Simin Davoudi)