Steve Shaw
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Director, Transport Research and Consultancy Unit (TraC)+44 (0)207 133 3362s.shaw@londonmet.ac.uk |
Research Interests and Expertise
- Sustainable transport and tourism
- Improving public spaces and journey environments
- Built heritage and cultural tourism in disadvantages areas
- Ethnic and cultural minority neighbourhoods as visitor attractions
- Engaging diverse communities in the design and management of urban spaces
Dr. Stephen J. Shaw BA (Hons), PG DipTP, MRTPI, FCIT, FILT, FRGS is Reader in Regeneration and City Management and Director of the Transport Research and Consultancy (TRaC), a centre within Cities Institute for making sustainable transport more attractive for more people and firms. Following a previous career he worked as a Chartered Town Planner. He has published a range of books and articles on urban mobilities, cultural tourism and sustainable regeneration. His research and publications have focused, in particular, on the improvement of urban spaces and the journey environment. His expertise includes the development of more effective approaches to engaging and connecting communities, firms and other stakeholders, especially in disadvantaged areas that are socially and ethnically diverse. Stephen currently chairs the Cultural Tourism Committee of ICOMOS-UK (UNESCO World Heritage organization).
Current/recent projects and awards
Partner: Interreg IVB North Sea Region Programme: Project 'E-Mobility' on adaptation of cities to electric vehicles (LondonMet academic partner in consortium led by University of Hamburg), 2011-14 [£150,000 Net to LondonMet];
AHRC Connected Communities Programme, seminar series: ICE-SaV on Improved Community Engagement through Spatial and Visualization methods (representing LondonMet in collaboration with Universities of York and Abertay Dundee) 2011/12, hosting the final seminar 'Engaging the "quieter voices" through community mapping' at LondonMet, 24th October 2011;
Collaborator: EPSRC & AHRC Science & Heritage programme Research Clusters 'Preserving Our Past: Consensus or Collision?' (2007/8) and 'Ecologies of Modern Heritage' (2009/10);
Co-Investigator: EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environments Programme (LondonMet Lead with University College London, Loughborough University): Urban Transport and Urban Design, ‘Accessibility and User Needs in Transport for Sustainable Urban Environments’, Main Studies 2004-10 [GR/S90867/01 and EP/E040764/1, Main Study Phase 1 2004-7 £891,000 Gross, £300,000 Net to LondonMet, Phase 2 2007-10 £770,000 Gross, £287,609 Net to LondonMet];
Collaborator in international Research Programme 'Ethnic Neighbourhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption', Cities Innovation Program (StIP), funded by Netherlands Institute for City Innovation Studies (NICIS) and the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) (2006-8);
Co-Investigator: EPSRC Follow-on grant 'Sustainability and the 24-hour City: A Collaboration with the Creative Arts' (with University of Salford) in collaboration with two artists at the URBIS Centre, Manchester and at the London Architecture Biennale (2006/7) [EP/DO30706/1];
Canadian High Commission, Sustained Studies in Canadian Issues Program, Sustainable Cities, with Graeme Evans and Jo Foord, (2005/7);
Principal Investigator: EPSRC Sustainable Urban Environments Programme (LondonMet Lead with University College London, Loughborough University): Urban Transport and Urban Design, 'Accessibility and User Needs in Transport', (2003/4) [GR/S18304/01, £152,000 Gross, £60,000 Net to LondonMet];
Collaborator: ESRC 'Mobile Network' Research Cluster, including presentation of case study based research project on air travel by international students at 'Freedom to Fly' seminar, (2002/3);
Canadian High Commission, Sustained Studies in Canadian Issues Program, Social Cohesion and Exclusion: Cultural Development and Diversity in Neighbourhood Renewal, with Graeme Evans, Michael Mason and Jo Foord, (2001/3).
Books and monographs:
Shaw, S. (2012 in press) 'Ethnic Quarters: Exotic Islands or Hotbeds of Trans-national Innovation', in M. Smith and G. Richards (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism, London and New York: Routledge.
Shaw, S. and Bagwell S. (2012 in press) 'Ethnic Minority Restaurateurs and the Regeneration of “Banglatown” in London's East End', in V. Aytar and J. Rath (eds.) Selling Ethnic Neighborhoods: The Rise of Neighborhoods as Places of Leisure and Consumption, New York: Routledge, in press.
Shaw, S. (2012) Faces, spaces and places: social and cultural impacts of street festivals in cosmopolitan cities, in S. J. Page and J. Connell (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Events, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 401-414.
Shaw, S. and Ferdinand N. (2012 in press) Events in our changing world, in N. Ferdinand and P. Kitchin (eds.) Events Management: an International Approach, London: Sage Publications, pp. 5-22.
Shaw, S. (2007a) Cosmopolitanism and Ethnic Cultural Quarters, in G. Richards and J. Wilson (eds.) Tourism, Creativity and Development, London and New York: Routledge, pp. 189-200.
Shaw, S. (2007b) Ethnoscapes as Cultural Attractions in Canadian World Cities, in Smith, M. (ed.), Tourism, Culture and Regeneration, CABI, pp. 49-58.
Orbasli, A. and Shaw, S. (2004) 'Transport and visitors in historic cities', in L. Lumsden and S. Page (eds.) Progress in Tourism and Transport Research: Issues and agendas for the New Millennium, pp. 93-104, Oxford: Pergamon.
Aitchison, C., MacLeod, N., and Shaw, S. (2000) Leisure and Tourism Landscapes: Social and Cultural Geographies, (paperback edition) London and New York: Routledge.
Shaw, S. (1997) 'Municipality and Civic Pride in Canada', in K. Hay and J. Sheldrake (eds.) Public Transport: A Century of Progress? Aldershot: Ashgate.
Shaw, S. (1995) 'Transport and the Assertive Consumer', in J. McConville and J. Sheldrake (eds.) Transport in Transition, pp. 40-59, Aldershott: Ashgate.
Shaw, S. (1993) Transport: Strategy and Policy, Oxford: Blackwell.
Journal Articles and Conference Papers:
Shaw, S. (2012, in progress) 'Enhancing the social benefits of pedestrian environments: methodologies to challenge the “declining publicness of public space?' to be submitted to Urban Studies.
Shaw, S. (2011) Publications Review: 'Issues in Cultural Tourism Studies: Second Edition, by Melanie K. Smith, Annals of Tourism Research.
Shaw, S. (2011) 'Marketing Ethnoscapes as Spaces of Consumption: Banglatown - London's Curry Capital', Journal of Town and City Management, Volume 1, number 4, March-May, 381-395.
Shaw, S. (2010) 'Governmental and street-level cosmopolitanism in Montréal', Annual Conference of the British Association of Canadian Studies, 7th April, University of Cambridge.
Shaw, S. (2008) 'Hosting a Sustainable Visitor Economy: Messages from London's Banglatown', Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, 1 (3) December/January, 275-285.
Shaw, S. (2009) 'Mapping the inconspicuous consumption practices of disadvantaged groups: The implications for urban design', Annual International Conference of the Royal Geographical Society, 26-28th August, Manchester.
Shaw, S. (2009) 'Designing in more passengers – light rail in Stuttgart', Access by Design, Centre for Accessible Environments, June/July, pp. 27-31.
Shaw, S. (2009) 'Urban Regeneration and Sustainable Communities –Insights from the British Experience', Sino-UK Collaborative Workshop on Community engagement and governance structures for urban development and regeneration, University College London, 1st June.
Shaw, S. (2009) 'Understanding Public Spaces through Community Mapping and Archaeology', Annual Conference of Institute of Field Archaeology, Torquay, 7th April.
Evans, G. and Shaw, S. (2009) 'Inclusive Design for the Whole Journey Environment', “Include” International Conference, Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Art, London, 6th April.
Shaw, S. (2008) 'Hosting a Sustainable Visitor Economy: Messages from London's Banglatown', Journal of Urban Regeneration and Renewal, Volume 1, Number 3, December/January, pp. 275-285.
Shaw, S. (2007) 'Conflict and Consensus in London's 'Banglatown': Engaging Diverse Communities at Street Level', EU REVIT/ CABERNET Conference on Regeneration and Brownfield Sites, Stuttgart, Germany, 25th-27th April
Shaw, S. and Forrester, J. (2007) 'Spaces, Places and Faces: Tools for Successful User Participation in Urban Design' “Include” International Conference, Hamlyn Centre, Royal College of Arts, London, 2-4th April.
Shaw, S. (2007) 'Ethnic Quarters as Heritage Attractions: Accommodating Visitors in Multicultural Neighbourhoods', Nigel Seeley Memorial Lecture, The Centre for Sustainable Heritage, Bartlett School of Graduate Studies, UCL, 22nd. March.
Shaw, S. (2007) 'Spaces, Places and Faces: Tools for Participation in Urban Design' University of Strathclyde Research Seminar Programme, Glasgow, 21st. February.
Shaw, S. (2006) 'Cities and National Success: Rapporteur's Report of the Canada-United Kingdom Colloquium, 24-26 November 2005, Cardiff, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Shaw, S. and Thomas, C. (2006) 'Social and Cultural Dimensions of Air Travel Demand: Hypermobility in the UK?' Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Volume 14, No. 2, pp.209-215.
Shaw, S. (2006) 'The Development of Tourism to Regenerate Disadvantaged Urban Areas', presented at Regeneration and Tourism, Marketing Cities 2006, 2nd. Annual Conference, London, 28th November.
Shaw, S., Forrester, J. and Karmowska, J. (2006) 'Tourism Spaces: Tools for Participation in Urban Design', Association for Tourism and Leisure Education (ATLAS) Conference, Lodz, Poland, 20-22nd September.
Shaw, S. and Bagwell, S. (2005) 'Re-imaging Multicultural Cityscapes for Leisure Consumption: Approaches to Revitalization in Canada and the UK' Canadian Congress of Leisure Research, Nanaimo, British Colombia, May.
Shaw, S. (2005) 'Tackling Social Exclusion in Urban Transport: Principles into Practice?' Cabernet 2005: International Conference on Managing Urban Land, Belfast, April.
Shaw, S (2004) 'The Canadian world city and sustainable downtown revitalisation: Messages from Montreal 1962-2002', pp. 363-377, British Journal of Canadian Studies, 16 (2).
Shaw, S., Bagwell, S. and Karmowska, J. (2004) 'Ethnoscapes as Spectacle: Re-imaging Multicultural Districts as New Destinations for Leisure and Tourism Consumption', Urban Studies, 41 (10), pp. 1983-2000.
Shaw, S. and Karmowska, J. (2004) 'Multicultural heritage of European cities and its re-presentation through regeneration programmes', Journal of European Ethnology, Volume 34: 2, pp. 41-56.
Shaw, S. (2004) Book review: David Banister (2003), Transport Planning (2nd. Edition), pp. 455-6, Planning Perspectives, volume 19 (4).
Shaw, S (2004) 'Collaboration and competitive advantage: Local business networks and downtown tourism in Vancouver', ATLAS Conference, Naples, April.
Shaw, S (2004) 'Accessibility and user Needs in Transport, How Can Developments in Mainstream Transport Technology Help Visually Impaired Passengers?', RNIB seminar, London, April.
Shaw, S. and Karmowska, J. (2003) 'Conservation and Multiculturalism: Revitalization of Historic Neighbourhoods in East London and Cracow', for US ICOMOS International Symposium Managing Conflict and Conservation in Historic Cities, Maryland, April
Shaw, S. (2003) 'Book Review: F. Inglis (2002) 'The Delicious History of the Holiday', Tourism, Culture and Communication, Volume 4, Number 1, pp. 55-6.
Shaw, S. (2003) 'Creativity and Conflict: Multicultural Heritage in London's City Fringe', in Kozlowski, R. (ed.) Proceedings of the 5th. EC Conference Cultural Heritage Research: A Pan-European Challenge, pp. 146-150, Cracow: Polish Academy of Sciences
Shaw, S. (2001) 'Multicultural Quarters: Issues in Regeneration', Multiculturalism and the European City, conference with University of East London and University of Uppsala, London Docklands Campus, September
Shaw, S. (2001) 'Social Exclusion and Conflict: Regeneration in London's City Fringe', Annual Conference of the Institute for Archaeology, University of Newcastle, May
Evans, G. and Shaw, S. (2001) 'The Role of Urban Tourism and Transport in Regional Development and Regeneration', European Association of Tourism and Leisure Education, 10th Anniversary International conference, Tourism, Innovation and Regional Development, Dublin, October.
Evans, G. and Shaw S. (2001) 'Urban Leisure and Transport: Regeneration Effects' in Journal of Leisure Property, Volume 1, number 4, pp. 350-372.
Shaw, S. and MacLeod N. (2000) 'Creativity and Conflict: Cultural Tourism in London's City Fringe', in Tourism, Culture and Communication, Volume 2, Number 3, pp. 165-175
Contact
Tel: +44 (0)207 133 3023
E-mail: s.shaw@londonmet.ac.uk
