Person

Benneworth, Paul

1974–2020

"Paul Benneworth graduated in Human Geography from Oxford University in 1995 with a double first, specialising in economic and urban geography. That same year, he started working as a Research Assistant for Northumbria Police, in the UK and registered for a part-time Ph.D. at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies at the University of Newcastle. In early 1996, he moved from the police to work at CURDS as a junior research associate, and remained there for thirteen years, completing his Ph.D., achieving a permanent position (‘tenure’) and university lectureship in the school of architecture, planning and landscape. His research in this period focused on the role of entrepreneurship, innovation and technological change in regional economic development, in particular the influence of universities in less successful regions, the subject of his Ph.D. thesis (completed 2002). In August 2009, he moved to the Center for Higher Education Policy Studies at the University of Twente, in the Netherlands, as a Senior Research Associate, to extent his interests in the relationships between universities and society."(Heranet.info)

Høgskulen på Vestlandet, Norway