麻豆传媒

Roles and Responsibilities

Director, Centre for Urban & Regional Development Studies (CURDS)

Qualifications

Ma (Hons) Geography, University of Dundee, 1995 

PhD Geography, University of Edinburgh, 1998

Background

2009-2013: Senior Research Fellow, School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow.

2001-2009: Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Aberdeen.

2000-2001: Research Fellow, Department of Geography and Environment, University of Aberdeen.

1999-2000: Research Associate, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cardiff University.

Memberships

Royal Geographical Society/ Institute of British Geographers (RGS / IBG)

Google scholar profile

https//scholar.google.co.uk/citations?user=SYM67L8AAAAJ

Research Interests  

I am an economic and political geographer whose research is centrally concerned with the institutions and politics of local and regional development. Recent work has contributed to debates in Evolutionary Economic Geography and to questions of urban and regional adaptation and change in particular. Since 2021, I have been leading an international project titled 'Beyond left behind places' with colleagues in CURDS/UCL, France & Germany. My future research agenda involves linking urban and regional development to sustainability transitions through new projects on: new renewable energy paths for coastal economies; labour market transition in energy intensive regions; and, joined-up sustainability transition at the community level (as part of a new ESRC Centre for equitable and sustainable low carbon living, led by the University of Manchester).

Current Postgraduate Supervision

Laura Ginn

Jeroen Royer (based at IfL Leipzig & University of Jena)

Undergraduate Teaching

GEO2099 Economic Geography

GEO3114 Local and Regional Development

Postgraduate Teaching

GEO8030 Geographical Inequalities & Policy

• Articles

  • Pike A, MacKinnon D, Tomaney J, Velthuis S. . Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2025, 18(3), e1-e5.
  • Dawley S, Mackinnon D, Steen M, Eadson W. . Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2026, 19(1), 193–212.
  • Mackinnon D, Kinossian N, Pike A, Beal V, Lang T, Rousseau M, Tomaney J. . European Urban & Regional Studies 2025, 32(3), 243-260.
  • Velthuis S, Royer J, Le Petit-Guerin M, Cauchi-Duval N, Franklin R, Leibert T, MacKinnon D, Pike A. . Regional Studies 2025, 59(1), 2417704.
  • Le Petit-Guerin M, Velthuis S, Royer J, Cauchi-Duval N, Franklin R, Leibert T, MacKinnon D, Pike A. . ZFW - Advances in Economic Geography 2025, 69(4), 177-190.
  • Sanderson R, Franklin R, MacKinnon D, Matthews J. . GeoJournal 2024, 89, 37.
  • Sanderson R, Franklin R, MacKinnon D, Matthews J. . Population, Space and Place 2024, 30(1), e2722.
  • Crisp R, Waite D, Green A, Hughes C, Lupton R, MacKinnon D, Pike A. . Urban Studies 2024, 61(7), 1209-1229.
  • Pike A, Beal V, Cauchi-Duval N, Franklin R, Kinossian N, Lang T, Leibert T, MacKinnon D, Rousseau M, Royer J, Servillo L, Tomaney J, Velthuis S. . Regional Studies 2024, 58(6), 1167-1179.
  • MacKinnon D, Afewerki S, Karlsen A. . Geoforum 2022, 135, 1-11.
  • MacKinnon D, Kempton L, O'Brien P, Ormerod E, Pike A, Tomaney J. . Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy & Society 2022, 15(1), 39-56.
  • MacKinnon D, Karlsen A, Dawley S, Steen M, Afewerki S, Kenzhegaliyeva A. . Regional Studies 2022, 56(4), 644-655.
  • MacKinnon D. . Territory, Politics, Governance 2020, n/a, n/a.
  • Pike A, Coombes M, Kempton L, MacKinnon D, O'Brien P. . Town & Country Planning 2020, 89(11), 409-416.
  • MacKinnon D, Dawley S, Pike A, Cumbers A. . Economic Geography 2019, 95(2), 113-135.
  • MacKinnon D, Dawley S, Steen M, Menzel MP, Karlsen A, Sommer P, Hansen GH, Normann HE. . Progress in Planning 2019, 130, 1-32.
  • Dawley S, Mackinnon D, Pollock R. . Journal of Economic Geography 2019, 19(4), 853-872.
  • Mackinnon D. . Geoforum 2017, 79, 70-80.
  • Pike A, MacKinnon D, Cumbers A, Dawley S, McMaster R. . Economic Geography 2016, 92(2), 123-144.
  • Dawley S, Mackinnon D, Cumbers A, Pike A. . Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society 2015, 8(2), 257-272.

• Book Chapter

  • Dawley S, Karlsen A, Mackinnon D. . In: Karlsen, J; Rypestøl, JO; Trippl, M, ed. Sustainable Regional Restructuring: Insights from Economic Geography and Regional Innovation Studies. Edward Elgar, 2025, pp.58-73.

• Editorial

  • MacKinnon D, Beal V, Leibert T. . Regional Studies 2024, 58(6), 1161-1166.