Staff profile
Dr Adrian Healy
Centre for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences
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Adrian’s expertise focuses on innovation and regional economic development, combining knowledge of innovation, education and research initiatives. In this capacity he has worked with local, regional and national authorities in the UK as well as with several of the European Commission Directorate Generals and other Member States.
His experience includes working as an advisor on regional innovation to DG Research advisory groups and as an expert advisor to the ODPM House of Commons Select Committee Inquiry into Regional Disparities in Prosperity in the UK. Adrian has an acknowledged expertise in the Structural Funds, and recently advised Higher Education Wales on their response to the Structural Fund Reflection Exercise in Wales. On a practical level Adrian has extensive knowledge of innovation policies and their evaluation, in the UK and abroad.
Adrian is currently examining the spatial dynamics of economic growth, with a particular consideration of patterns of regional innovation, the role of social innovation in regional growth and the resilience of regional economies.