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John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at University College London.

His research interests are focused on the political economy of local and regional

development. A Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the Regional

Studies Association, he is also a trustee of Redhills: the Durham Miners’ Hall and Sacriston

Youth Project.

Maeve Blackman worked as researcher with the Durham Miners’ Association and is currently

a senior research officer at Durham University and an associate lecturer at the Open University.

She has worked extensively in the field of public engagement at the arts. She holds a PhD from

Durham University.

Lucy Natarajan is Associate Professor in the Bartlett School of Planning at University College

London. Her research centres on knowledge in community engagement and spatial planning.

She is the co-editor of Engaged Urban Pedagogy. Participatory Practices in Planning and Placemaking

(UCL Press, 2023).

Dimitrios Panayotopoulos-Tsiros is a Research Associate and Lecturer at the Bartlett

School of Planning, University College London, with a background in architecture and urban

planning. His research centres on social and policy aspects of urban design. He has published

in Built Environment, Regional Studies and Urban Planning.

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite is Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century British History

at University College London. Her research focuses particularly on class, gender and politics.

She is co-author of Women and the Miners’ Strike, 1984–1985 (Oxford University Press, 2023).

Myfanwy Taylor is Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Bartlett School of Planning, University

College London. Her research focuses on urban economic development, planning and politics,

especially collaborative research with grassroots group, and she has published in International

Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Area and Antipode. She is a Trustee of West Green

Road/Seven Sisters Development Trust in North London.