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