Dr Chay Brooks
Management School
UOS-The University of Sheffield
United Kingdom
Biography
Chay is a Lecturer in International Entrepreneurship at the University of Sheffield. Chay completed his doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge which explored the geographies of American philanthropy and its emergence as a catalyst of economic, political and social change. Chay was Director of Studies in Geography at Queens' College, University of Cambridge until 2015. Chay joined Sheffield University Management School in 2014 as a Research Associate focusing on local economic development within the region. This was followed by a prominent role within the ESRC-Innovate UK Innovation Caucus providing social science insights to inform the future directions of UK innovation policy.
Research Interest
Global philanthropy • International entrepreneurship and small business • Local economic development • Historical and social entrepreneurship
Publications
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Brooks, C. (2015). ‘The ignorance of the uneducated’: the Ford Foundation, the IIE, and the Geographies of Educational Philanthropy. Journal of Historical Geography, 48 36-46.
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Williams, N., Brooks, C., Brooks, C. and . (2016). Hidden Clusters: the articulation of agglomeration in City Regions. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 34(8) 1776-1792.
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Brooks, C., Vorley, T. and Williams, N. (2016). The role of civic leadership in fostering economic resilience in City Regions. Policy Studies, 37(1) 1-16.
