Isabelle Dedieu
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PhD title: Network of cities, Network of experts and urban policy transfer
Isabelle’s research will aim to investigate the role and the use of networks of cities and network of experts in urban policy transfer process. The objective of this research is threefold:
1. to analyse the effects of policy transfer on policy making. To do so, the concept of policy transfer would be defined in the relationship with the concepts of network and expertise. She would really insist on the necessarily terrestrial-bounded nature of the multiple players actors involved and the necessity of acknowledging the territorial embeddness of policies and policy transfer.
2. to define the very notion of expertise and consultancy in a dynamic way.
3. to focus on the network as a tool for policy transfer and the mobility of policies. How policy networks across space are strategically built? Who has created such network and then who participates in it? How these networks (re) shape and lubricate the mobility of policy?
The case study is an European Union's program based on decentralized cooperation between cities from EU and Latin America: URB-AL program. This program consists of several thematic networks related to urban issues.
Supervisors: Prof Rob Imrie and Dr Mike Raco
Isabelle’s research will aim to investigate the role and the use of networks of cities and network of experts in urban policy transfer process. The objective of this research is threefold:
1. to analyse the effects of policy transfer on policy making. To do so, the concept of policy transfer would be defined in the relationship with the concepts of network and expertise. She would really insist on the necessarily terrestrial-bounded nature of the multiple players actors involved and the necessity of acknowledging the territorial embeddness of policies and policy transfer.
2. to define the very notion of expertise and consultancy in a dynamic way.
3. to focus on the network as a tool for policy transfer and the mobility of policies. How policy networks across space are strategically built? Who has created such network and then who participates in it? How these networks (re) shape and lubricate the mobility of policy?
The case study is an European Union's program based on decentralized cooperation between cities from EU and Latin America: URB-AL program. This program consists of several thematic networks related to urban issues.
Supervisors: Prof Rob Imrie and Dr Mike Raco
Biography
Isabelle holds a BA in Geography in Planning (Hon.) and a BA in Geography of Development (Hon.) from Michel de Montaigne Bordeaux University. She graduated in Geography and spatial development (distinction) in Bordeaux in collaboration with the University of Quebec with a thesis exploring the role of the border, between Ottawa and Gatineau belonged to the same metropolitan area, on the production and the management of the urban spaces.
She went on to gain a MSc in Geopolitics from Paris 8 Vincennes University in 2005, where she completed a dissertation on the cross-border cooperation between Vienna and Bratislava, two capitals and border cities in changing situation since the collapse of the Iron Curtain and more recently with the European Enlargement.
Isabelle worked as Policy office in the C.I.G.U (International Centre for Urban Management) based in Quito (Ecuador), focusing on local and participatory democracy processes mainly in the whole Latin America. In Paris, she also worked as project manager in a NGO dealing with micro-finance in 60 countries.
She went on to gain a MSc in Geopolitics from Paris 8 Vincennes University in 2005, where she completed a dissertation on the cross-border cooperation between Vienna and Bratislava, two capitals and border cities in changing situation since the collapse of the Iron Curtain and more recently with the European Enlargement.
Isabelle worked as Policy office in the C.I.G.U (International Centre for Urban Management) based in Quito (Ecuador), focusing on local and participatory democracy processes mainly in the whole Latin America. In Paris, she also worked as project manager in a NGO dealing with micro-finance in 60 countries.
