Research Interests
Creativity and innovation in peripheral and rural regions; planning in slow-growth and declining cities; and regional development policy in Northern Ontario.
Ph.D Research
Dissertation Working Title:The Politics, Institutions, and Policies of Regional Development in Northern Ontario
The main objective of my research is to explore the politics surrounding the formation and implementation of regional economic development strategies Northern Ontario. It addresses theoretical questions regarding the politics of representation and economic development while also examining the implications of changing economic, political, and social trends for regional development policy. It also provides new empirical evidence on the history and challenges of economic development in a non-provincial periphery drawing on insights from literature on (re)scaling governance, regional and local development, politics of representation, and various spatial policy debates in geography.
Educational Background
2007 M.A. (PLANNING)
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
Advisor: Dr. Trudi Bunting
Thesis Title: Being Realistic About Planning in No Growth Communities:
Challenges, Opportunities, and Foundations for a New Agenda
2005 B.A. (GEOGRAPHY)
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
Supervisor: Dr. William Crumplin
Senior Thesis Title: The Greying of Remote Areas in the City of Greater
Sudbury
2005 APPLIED CERTIFICATE IN GEOGRAPHY
Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario
Research Awards
2009 STUDENT PAPER COMPETITION WINNER
Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN)
Annual Meeting, Halifax Nova Scotia, April 30th
Paper Entitled – Innovation and Creativity on the Periphery: Challenges and Opportunities in Northern Ontario
2007 MASTER’S ESSAY AWARD
Canadian Association of Geographers’ Ontario Division Annual Meeting
Laurentian University, October 20th, 2007.
Essay Entitled: Destined to Decline? A Critical Analysis of Downtown Revitalization
Initiatives in the Greater Sudbury, CMA
2004 UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH AWARD
Canadian Association of Geographers’ Ontario Division Annual Meeting
University of Waterloo, October 30th, 2004.
Research paper entitled: Urban Renewal: War on Squalor or Urban Beautification.
Publications
Hall, H.M. and Donald, B. 2011. Clarifying Creativity and Culture in a Small City on the Canadian Periphery: Challenges and Opportunities in Greater Sudbury. In A. Lorentzen and B. van Heur (ed), Cultural Political Economy of Small Cities. Routledge. In Press.
Donald, B. and Hall, H.M. 2010. Slow-growth and Decline in Canadian Cities. In T. Bunting, P. Filion, and R, Walker (eds), Canadian Cities in Transition 4th Edition (pp.276-292). Don Mills: Oxford University Press.
Hall, H.M. 2009. Slow Growth and Decline in Greater Sudbury: Challenges, Opportunities, and Foundations for a New Planning Agenda. Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 18(1): 1-26.
Hall, H.M. and Donald, B. 2009. Innovation and Creativity on the Periphery: Challenges and Opportunities in Northern Ontario. Paper and policy published by the Martin Prosperity Institute, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, ref. 2009-WPONT-002. http://martinprosperity.org/media/pdfs/Innovation_and_creativity_on_the_Periphery-H_Hall-B_Donald.pdf
Hall, H.M. 2009. Being Realistic About a Growth Plan in Northern Ontario. Plan Canada. 48(4): 15-18.
Hall, H. and Hall, P. 2008. Decline and No Growth: Canada’s Forgotten Urban Interior. Canadian Journal of Regional Studies, 31(1): 1-18.
Recent Conference Presentations
Hall, H.M. 2010. For Every Region, Regional Development Agencies: The History and Next Generation of RDAs in Canada at a Special Workshop on the Next Generation of RDAs hosted by the Regional Studies Association, Volterra, Italy: November 19th.
Hall, H, M. 2010. Clarifying Creativity and Culture in a Small City on the Canadian Periphery: Challenges and Opportunities in Greater Sudbury at the Annual Meeting of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, London UK: September 1st.
Hall, H.M. 2009. “Innovation and Creativity on the Periphery: Challenges and Opportunities in Northern Ontario”, Student Paper Presentation for the Innovation Systems Research Network (ISRN) Annual Meeting, Halifax, NS: May 1st. Discussant – Philip Cooke, Cardiff University.
Hall, H,M. 2009. “Innovation and Creativity on the Periphery: Challenges and Opportunities in Northern Ontario” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Las Vegas, NV: March 24th.
Hall, H.M. 2008. “‘If you’re not growing, you’re dying’: The Urban Identity of Planning for No Growth”, at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, Quebec City: May 22nd.
Hall, H. 2008. “Being Realistic About a Regional Growth Plan in Northern Ontario, Canada”, at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, Massachusetts: April 15th.
Hall, H. 2007. “Destined to Decline? A Critical Analysis of Downtown Revitalization Initiatives in the Greater Sudbury, CMA”, at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers Ontario Division, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario: October 20th.
Hall, H. 2007. “Being Realistic about Planning in No Growth Communities: Challenges, Opportunities and Foundations for a New Agenda”, Special Session on Decline at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, San Francisco, California: April 20th.
CREATIVE COMMUNITIES BLOGGER
The Knowledge Impact in Society is a SSHRC sponsored project that connects academic knowledge with rural economic development needs in Eastern Ontario. The goal is to mobilize academic knowledge to grow healthier rural communities in Eastern Ontario through a collaborative effort among The Monieson Centre, led by its Director Dr. Yolande Chan, Queen’s School of Business, the Eastern Ontario CFDC Network, and the PELA CFDC. Through this project I write blogs about regional, rural, and community economic development in Eastern Ontario that are shared on the easternontarioknowledge.ca website. http://www.easternontarioknowledge.ca/index.php/community-blogs.html
VISITING RESEARCHER
September – December 2009, I was a visiting researcher in the School of City and Regional Planning at Cardiff University through the SSHRC Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplement.
SUPERVISOR: Dr. Betsy Donald
VISITING RESEARCHER HOST: Dr. Kevin Morgan, Cardiff University, (Autumn 2009)
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Heather
M. Hall (Ph.D. Candidate)