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Shaun French

Associate Professor in Economic Geography, Faculty of Social Sciences

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Teaching Summary

Undergraduate.

I convene and teach on the following third year undergraduate modules:

Geographies of Money & Finance (GEOG3012)

European Urban Geographies (GEOG3007)

Current PhD supervision.

Yuning Fang: Glocalised Higher Education Hub in the making? A case study of Shenzhen's HE sector (co-supervised with Professor Sarah Hall).

Past PhD supervision: Completed PhD theses.

Kieran Phelan (2021) Slow Fashion, Made in Britain: weaving the geographies of Harris Tweed (co-supervised with Professor Louise Crewe).

Graham Stack (2021) Riga as a black market' offshore financial centre (co-supervised with Professor Andrew Leyshon).

Alistair Grey (2020) Performing agriculture in post-Soviet Ukraine (co-supervised with Professor Andrew Leyshon).

Milo Bettocchi (2020) Squatting Utopia? Gender, Race, Sexuality, Class and Squatting in South London (co-supervised with Professor Steve Legg).

Alex Laxton (2020) 'Making home' in Build to Rent (BTR)/coliving - exploring an emergent young renter subject in the context of new institutional investment in the London rental market (co-supervised with Professor Peter Kraftl, University of Birmingham).

Joseph Hewitt (2018) Disability, development and financial exclusion: A study of the socio-economic barriers to accessing microfinance encountered by people with physical disabilities in Kampala, Uganda (co-supervised with Associate Professor Trudy Owens).

Anthony Udueni (2011) Mapping the social responsibility of small business as discourse and practice: An investigation of African and Caribbean microbusinesses in London and Nottingham, UK (co-supervised with Associate Professor Susanne Seymour).

James Corah (2010) The Economic Geographies of Religious Institutions (co-supervised with Professor Andrew Leyshon).

Thomas Wainwright (2009) The geographies of credit scoring and securitisation (co-supervised with Professor Andrew Leyshon).

Karen Lai (2007) Approaches to 'Markets': The development of Shanghai as an international financial centre (co-supervised with Professor Andrew Leyshon).

External examination of PhD theses.

Liam Keenan (2017) Financialisation, the brewing industry and the changing role of the pub in Britain and Germany (Newcastle University)

Camille Aznar (2014) Risk, financial exclusion and migrant workers in London (Queen Mary)

Paul Vallance (2008) Knowledge in the UK Videogames Development Sector: A Practice Based Approach (Newcastle University).

Research Summary

Research interests in the geographies of economic practice and knowledge. Epistemic communities, institutions, professions and spaces of the production and circulation of business knowledge and… read more

Selected Publications

  • MUELLERLEILE, CHRIS and FRENCH, SHAUN, 2022. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE. 54(1), 136-143
  • CLARE, N., DE NORONHA, N., FRENCH, S. and GOULDING, R., 2022. Geography Compass.
  • BOOTH, KATE, LUCAS, CHLOE, ERIKSEN, CHRISTINE, DE VET, ELIZA, TRANTER, BRUCE, FRENCH, SHAUN, YOUNG, TRAVIS and MCKINNON, SCOTT, 2022. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. 80,
  • BOOTH, K, LUCAS, C and FRENCH, S, eds., 2022.

Current Research

Research interests in the geographies of economic practice and knowledge. Epistemic communities, institutions, professions and spaces of the production and circulation of business knowledge and praxis. Specific research has focused on three areas. First, financial services and money, and in particular the long-term insurance sector (life assurance, health insurance and pensions); socially responsible investment; and financial centres. The latter involving an engagement with wider theories of industrial clustering and agglomeration. Second, work on financial services professionals has led to a more general interest in professions, professionals and business knowledge communities. I am especially interested in the current importance of 'softer' professional groups such as human resources and marketing. Third, e-commerce and the increasing significance of software and information communications technologies for business. I am interested in the ways in which business practice becomes embedded in technology and the ways in which hardware and software themselves produce new economic practices and relationships.

Research grants.

2017-2020: Australian Research Council When Disaster Strikes: Under-insurance in an age of volatility (Co-investigator, PIs Kate Booth and Bruce Tranter, University of Tasmania, and Christine Eriksen, University of Wollongong, Aus$484,000).

2015-2016: Wellcome Trust Seed Award, Insuring Health Care in a Digital World (Co-Investigator, PI Professor Liz McFall, Open University, 拢34,068).

2015-2016: ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, Nottingham Financial Inclusion Action Plan (PI, 拢2,450)

2012: Financial Services Research Forum, 海角黑料, Changing geographies of bank and building society branch networks in the UK: 1989-2012 (Co-investigator with Professor Andrew Leyshon and Dr Sam Meek, 拢2,278).

2012: Integrating Global Society Priority Group, 海角黑料, Towards a critical geoeconomics of the currency wars (Co-investigator with Professor Andrew Leyshon, 拢4,000).

2011-12: EPSRC Fund, Swansea University, Disconnecting communities? University tuition fees, social exclusion, and the financialization of student subjectivities (Co-investigator, PI Professor Marcus Doel, Swansea, 拢19,650).

2010-12: British Academy, Calculating careless lives: An economic geography of the enhanced and impaired annuity market in the UK (PI, 拢3,963)

2008-9: Financial Services Research Forum, 海角黑料, The buy-to-let market in transition? (Co-investigator with Professor Andrew Leyshon, 拢13,759).

2004 - 2005: Economic and Social Research Council, The Changing Geography of British Bank and Building Society Branch Networks1995-2003, (Co-investigator with Professor Andrew Leyshon and Dr Paola Signorretta, 拢45,174).

Recent Research Presentations.

French, S. 'Nottingham Financial Resilience Partnership', Nottingham Engaged 2018: Global Research, Civic Impact conference, 海角黑料, 17th September 2018.

French, S. 'The constitutive outsides of academic labour and the social reproduction of Geography', invited speaker, Area Panel Reclaiming and Reimagining the Landscapes of Higher Education, RGS-IBG Annual Conference, University of Cardiff, Cardiff, 30th August 2018.

French, S. 'Domesticating flood risk: 'Flood Re' and the reimagining of home insurance in the UK', Institute of Australian Geographers, Auckland, New Zealand, 11-14th July 2018.

French, S. 'NFRP: REF Impact case study' at the Faculty of Social Science Research Event, 4th July 2018.

French, S. 'Nottingham Financial Resilience Partnership', invited panel discussant at the Re: Imagining Economies: Governing Inclusive Finance Workshop, Newcastle University, 27th June 2018.

French, S. 'Tackling Financial Vulnerability: Lessons from the NFRP', invited speaker at the 'Focus on Financial Vulnerability in Nottingham Stakeholder Engagement Workshop', Nottingham City Council Strategic Review, Nottingham Trent University, 25th May 2018.

French, S. 'Queering the Biofinancial subject: Figuring the child in the straight space-times of debt' in the Financial Life of Social Reproduction session, AAG Conference, New Orleans, 10-14th April 2018.

  • MUELLERLEILE, CHRIS and FRENCH, SHAUN, 2022. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A-ECONOMY AND SPACE. 54(1), 136-143
  • BOOTH, K, LUCAS, C and FRENCH, S, eds., 2022.
  • BOOTH, KATE, LUCAS, CHLOE, ERIKSEN, CHRISTINE, DE VET, ELIZA, TRANTER, BRUCE, FRENCH, SHAUN, YOUNG, TRAVIS and MCKINNON, SCOTT, 2022. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION. 80,
  • CLARE, N., DE NORONHA, N., FRENCH, S. and GOULDING, R., 2022. Geography Compass.
  • VET, DE E., ERIKSEN, C., BOOTH, K. and FRENCH, S., 2019. International Journal of Disaster Risk Science.
  • CLARE, N., FIELD, R., FORSYTH, I., FREEMAN, C., FRENCH, S., JEWITT, S., LANGMEAD, K., MCGOWAN, S., MORRIS, C., NORCUP, J., SEYMOUR, S. and SOCCORSY, E., 2018. Demanding the impossible: a strike zine
  • APPLEYARD, L. and FRENCH, S., 2017. Available at: <https://theconversation.com/youve-got-to-fight-for-your-right-to-fair-banking-74944>
  • ANDREW LEYSHON, NIGEL THRIFT, LOUISE CREWE, SHAUN FRENCH and PETE WEBB, 2016. Leveraging Affect: Mobilizing Enthusiasm and the Co-Production of the Musical Economy. In: BRIAN HRACS, MICHAEL SEMAN and TAREK VIRANI, eds., The Production and Consumption of Music in the Digital Age Routledge. 248-262
  • CLIFFORD, N., COPE, M., GILLESPIE, T. W. and FRENCH, S., eds., 2016. Key Methods in Geography 3rd. Sage.
  • KNEALE, J. and FRENCH, S., 2015. Drugs: Education, Prevention and Policy. 22(2), 111-117
  • FRENCH, S. and KNEALE, J., 2015. Economic Sociology_the European Electronic Newsletter. 17(1), 16-24
  • FRENCH, S., 2014. Available at: <http://www.feps-europe.eu/assets/c3402ab3-eda8-4d5c-a7cd-daa3a6aa3d50/finance-and-inequality-in-europe-full-programme-and-roundtable-briefs.pdf>
  • KNEALE, J. and FRENCH, S., 2013. The relations of inebriety to insurance: geographies of medicine, insurance and alcohol in Britain, 1840-1911. In: HERRING, J., REGAN, C., WEINBERG, D. and WITHINGTON, P., eds., Intoxication and Society Palgrave Macmillan. 87-104
  • FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and MEEK, S., 2013. The Changing Geography of British Bank and Building Society Branch Networks, 2003-2012
  • FRENCH, S. and KNEALE, J., 2012. Journal of Cultural Economy. 5(4), 391-406
  • FRENCH, S. and LEYSHON, A., 2012. Dead pledges: Mortgaging time and space. In: PREDA, A. and KNORR CETINA, K., eds., The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Finance Oxford University Press. 357-75
  • FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and WAINWRIGHT, T., 2011. Progress in Human Geography. 35(6), 798-819
  • SWAIN, A., MYKHNENKO, V. and FRENCH, S., 2010. The Corruption Industry and Transition: Neoliberalising Post-Soviet Space?. In: BIRCH, K. and MYKHNENKO, V., eds., The rise and fall of neoliberalism: The collapse of an economic order? London: Zed Books.
  • FRENCH, S., LAI, K. and LEYSHON, A., 2010. Banking on Financial Services. In: COE, N. and JONES, A., eds., The Economic Geography of the UK London: Sage. 61-78
  • CLIFFORD, N., FRENCH, S. and VALENTINE, G., eds., 2010. Key Methods in Geography 2nd ed. Sage.
  • FRENCH, S. and LEYSHON, A., 2010. Environment & Planning A. 42(11), 2549-2559
  • CLIFFORD, N., FRENCH, S. and VALENTINE, G., 2010. Getting started in geographical research. In: CLIFFORD, N., FRENCH, S. and VALENTINE, G., eds., Key Methods in Geography 2nd ed. London: Sage. 3-15
  • LEYSHON, A. and FRENCH, S., 2009. British Journal of Politics and International Relations. 11(3), 438-460
  • FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and THRIFT, N., 2009. Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. 2(2), 287-302
  • FRENCH, S. and KNEALE, J., 2009. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 27(6), 1030-1053
  • FRENCH, S., 2009. Risk: Mastering Time and Space. In: HOLLOWAY, S.L., RICE, S.P., VALENTINE, G. and CLIFFORD, N., eds., Key Concepts in Geography 2nd ed. London, Sage. 392-404
  • LEYSHON, A., FRENCH, S. and SIGNORETTA, P., 2008. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 33(4), 447-465
  • KNEALE, J. and FRENCH, S., 2008. Drugs: Education, Prevention, and Policy. 15(3), 233-249
  • FRENCH, S., LEYSHON, A. and SIGNORETTA, P., 2008. Antipode. 40(1), 79-101
  • LEYSHON, A and SIGNORETTA, P. AND FRENCH, S., 2006. The changing geography of British bank and building society branch networks. In: HOUSE OF COMMONS TREASURY COMMITTEE, ed., Financial Inclusion: credit, savings, advice and insurance (HC 848-II). Volume II. House of Commons. 487-496
  • LEYSHON, A., WEBB, P., FRENCH, S., THRIFT, N. and CREWE, L., 2005. Media Culture & Society. 27(2), 177-209
  • LEYSHON, A., FRENCH, S., THRIFT, N., CREWE, L. and WEBB, P., 2005. Economy and Society. 34(3), 428-450
  • BAILEY, N. and FRENCH, S., 2005. The locational dynamics of financial services in regional cities. In: Changing Cities: Rethinking Urban Competitiveness, Cohesion and Governance Palgrave Macmillan Ltd, Basingstoke, UK.
  • FRENCH, S. and LEYSHON, A., 2004. Review of International Political Economy. 11(2), 263-288
  • FRENCH, S., CREWE, L., LEYSHON, A., WEBB, P. and THRIFT, N., 2004. Putting e-commerce in its place: Reflections on the impact of the Internet on the cultural industries. In: Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture Routledge, London and New York. 54-71
  • FRENCH, S., CREWE, L., LEYSHON, A., WEBB, P. and THRIFT, N., 2004. Putting e-commerce in its place: Reflections on the impact of the Internet on the cultural industries. In: Cultural Industries and the Production of Culture Routledge, London and New York. 54-71
  • BODDY, M., BASSETT, K., FRENCH, S., GRIFFITHS, R., LAMBERT, C., LEYSHON, A., SMITH, I., STEWART, M. and THRIFT, N., 2004. Competitiveness and cohesion in a prosperous city region: the case of Bristol. In: City Matters: Competitiveness, Cohesion and Urban Governance Policy Press, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK. 51-69
  • FRENCH, S., 2004. At: ABC Media Magazine
  • FRENCH, S., 2004. Journal of Economic Geography. VOL 4(NUMBER 2), 219-220
  • FRENCH, S. and LEYSHON, A., 2003. City of money? Financial services in the Bristol city-region. In: Urban Transformation: shaping the competitive city of the future 32-51
  • FRENCH, S., 2002. Environment and Planning A. 34(3), 513-542
  • THRIFT, N. and FRENCH, S., 2002. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 27(3), 309-335
  • FRENCH, S., 2001. Innovation and Social Learning: Institutional Adaptation in an Era of Technological Change Journal of Economic Geography. 4, 1-2
  • FRENCH, S., 2000. Geoforum. VOL 31(NUMBER 1), 101-119

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