Professor Nick Bailey

Nick Bailey is Professor of Urban Regeneration at the University of Westminster.  He originally qualified as a Town Planner, has worked in a number of planning and housing posts and has many years of teaching experience at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

In 1996 Nick helped launch London’s first Masters programme in Urban Regeneration and in 2004 received sponsorship from the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit to set up the first specialist programme in Neighbourhood Management.

Nick has been involved in a series of research projects on the new skills agenda and the implications for higher education and other providers.  He has also published widely on teaching and learning, the role of Local Strategic Partnerships and was joint author of Partnerships in British Urban Policy (UCL Press, 1995).

In 2003 he was funded by the Gulbenkian Foundation to research a study of community involvement strategies for development trusts and in 2006 published a good practice guide on mixed tenure housing for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.  He has prepared a similar Guide for the JRF in Scotland.  He is a member of the BURA panel for annual awards in community-inspired regeneration and Inspire East’s Skills Advisory Group.

Nick has many years experience as a board member of a Community Development Trust in Central London and assisted in the formation of the Development Trusts Association.