Professor David Bailey PhD, FeRSA

Professor David Bailey

Department of Management
Professor of Business Economics

Contact details

Telephone
+447981925713
Email
d.g.bailey@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
Department of Management
Birmingham Business School
University House
Birmingham
B15 2TT

David Bailey is Professor of Business Economics at the Birmingham Business School, and a Senior Fellow of the ESRC’s programme, exploring the impacts of Brexit on UK automotive and manufacturing. He has written extensively on industrial and regional policy, especially in relation to manufacturing and the auto industry. He has been involved in a number of recent major projects including the recent Horizon2020 RISE project MAKERS where he led the Work Package on Industrial Policy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the leading journal Regional Studies and Chair of the RSA Europe Think-Tank and policy forum.  His latest co-edited book ‘Keeping the Wheels on the Road. UK Auto after Brexit’ has recently been published by Bite-Sized Books. David is a regular media commenter and newspaper columnist. Tweet him

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. Birmingham Business School. 2003
  • M.Soc.Sc. Russian and East European Studies / Economics. University 麻豆精选. (Funded by an ESRC Competition Award). 1990
  • B.Soc.Sc. Economics. First Class Honours. University 麻豆精选. 1988

Teaching

David teaches on a number of modules including:

  • Employment, Business Development and Policy in the EU (final year BSc undergraduate module)
  • Issues in Management (MSc International Business module)
  • Intermediate Business Economics (2nd year undergraduate module delivered in Singapore)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Hearne, D & Bailey, D 2025, '', Regional Studies, Regional Science, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 338-356.

Ruyter, AD, Bentley, G, Hearne, D, Bailey, D & Nielsen, B 2024, '', Contemporary Social Science, vol. 19, no. 1-3, pp. 199-222.

Bailey, D, De propris, L, De ruyter, A, Hearne, D & Ortega-Argil茅s, R 2023, '', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, pp. 1-16.

Hildreth, P & Bailey, D 2023, '', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences, pp. 1-20.

Bailey, D, De Ruyter, A, Macrae, C, Mcneill, J & Roberts, J 2022, '', Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Bailey, D, De Ruyter, A, Hearne, D & Ortega-argil茅s, R 2022, '', Regional Studies.

De Propris, L & Bailey, D 2021, '', Regional Studies, vol. 55, no. 10-11, pp. 1617-1629.

Harrison, J, Delgado, M, Derudder, B, Anguelovski, I, Montero, S, Bailey, D & De Propris, L 2019, '', Regional Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, pp. 129-139.

Bailey, D, Clark, J, De Propris, L, Colombelli, A, Corradini, C, Derudder, B, Fratesi, U, Fritsch, M, Harrison, J, Hatfield, M, Kemeny, T, Kogler, D, Lagendijk, A, Lawton, P, Ortega Argiles, R & Usai, S 2019, '', Regional Studies, vol. 54, no. 1, 1, pp. 1-4.

Bailey, D, Pitelis, C & Tomlinson, PR 2018, '', Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1521鈥�1542.

Bailey, D, Corradini, C & De Propris, L 2018, '', Cambridge Journal of Economics, vol. 42, no. 6, pp. 1567-1584.

Clark, J & Bailey, DG 2018, '', Regional Studies, vol. 52, no. 6, pp. 741-744.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

De Propris, L & Bailey, D 2018, . in R Hira, J Eatie & D Siegel (eds), Engineering Globalization Reshoring & Nearshoring: Management & Policy Issues. World Scientific, Singapore . <>

Chapter

Bailey, D & De Propris, L 2018, . in World Scientific Reference On Innovation. vol. 2, World Scientific, pp. 41-66.

Editorial

Bailey, D, Clark, J, Colombelli, A, Corradini, C, De Propris, L, Derudder, B, Fratesi, U, Fritsch, M, Harrison, J, Hatfield, M, Kemeny, T, Kogler, DF, Lagendijk, A, Lawton, P, Ortega-Argil茅s, R, Otero, CI & Usai, S 2020, '', Regional Studies, vol. 54, no. 9, pp. 1163-1174.