Over the past 5 years four workshops have been held in London and Maastricht, plus special sessions convened at the AAG in New York (2012) , Chicago (2015), San Francisco (2016) and at the 2015 Regional Studies Association annual conference in Piacenza where 2 sessions were organised. Over 40 presentations including by academics (senior, mid and early career), research students, practitioners and policy-makers, have been made to audiences, totalling 200 people, with attendance at each event ranging from at least 20 to 50.
Mega-events and Regional Dimension
• Research Questions: policy, governance, identity
• Research Methods: evaluation, impacts
• Research Seminars:
2016: AAG 2016 Annual Conference, San Francisco, USA
2015: RSA Annual Conference 2015, Piacenza, Italy
2014: Mega Events & Culture, 2014, London 2012 Olympic Park, UK
2013: Back to the Future?, 2013, LondonMet, UK
2012: Evaluation and Measuring Impacts, 2012, LondonMet, UK
2011: Mega-Events and Regional Development, 2011, Maastricht University, NL