Dr Felicity Wray

• Biography  
• Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise
• Grants and Current Projects
• Publications
• Contact Details

Biography

Felicity is an economic geographer with interests in geographies of money and finance, particularly venture capital, entrepreneurship, plus urban and regional development strategies. Prior to her appointment at the Urban Research Centre in March 2010, Felicity undertook her postgraduate studies at the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies (CURDS) at Newcastle University in England and also worked at the Newcastle University Business School and the University of Western Australia.

Areas of Research/Teaching Expertise

Felicity's current research examines impediments to employment generation amongst Arabic businesses in Sydney’s West Central region.

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Grants and Current Projects

O’Neill, P. Wray, F. Wu, CT. (May – November 2010) Building Arabic Businesses in the Auburn-Bankstown Corridor, NSW Department of Industry and Investment

Wray, F and Swords, J. (February -July 2009) Tracing The Connectivity of North East of England’s Creative Cultural Industries, Northern Film and Media

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Publications

Book Chapters (edited)

Wray, F. Pollard, J. Marshall, J.N (2010) Finance and regional economic development (Eds) Tomaney, T. Pike, A. Pose, A in Handbook of Local and Regional Development Routledge, Oxford

Wray, F & Tomaney, J. & (2009) Public Universities and regional development: the case of Monash University in (Eds) Mohrman, K. & F.Jiang Universities and Regional Development

Hughes, A & Wray, F (2009) Corporate Responsibility In: Kitchin, R. and Thrift, N.J, ed. The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Elsevier, 2009.

Refereed Journal Articles

Wray, F (forthcoming) Translating comparative economy into material practice Dialogues in Human Geography.

Wray, F (forthcoming) Book review: Endogenous Regional Development Journal of Regional Science.

Charles, D. & Wray, F. (forthcoming) The English Science Cities: A New Phase in Science-based Urban Strategy International Journal of Knowledge-based Organizations.

Wray, F. (2011) Money, Space and Relationality: relational geographies and impacts of venture capitalists in two UK regions Journal of Economic Geography doi: 10.1093/jeg/lbq054.

Tomaney, J. & Wray, F. (2011) Universities and Regional Development: An Australian Perspective International Journal of Urban and Regional Research 35 5 913 -931.

Swords, J.& Wray, F. (2010) The connectivity of the Creative Industries in North East England – The Problems of Physical and Relational Distance Local Economy 25 4 305-318.

Reports

Urban Research Centre (forthcoming) Building Arabic Businesses: Alternative Pathways to Employment Generation in Auburn-Bankstown Corridor University Western Sydney, Parramatta.

Swords, J. & Wray, F. (2009) Understanding the connectivity of the North East’s Commercial Creative Industries Report for Northern Film and Media, England.

Wray, F (2009) Can a resource economy be a knowledge economy? The case of Western Australia FACTpaper 4 for Committee for Perth, Perth.

Commentary

Wray, F. (2011) An asset, not a problem: Australian Arabic businesses key to economic growth in Western Sydney Urban Concerns Issue 7 (September 2011) pp 3-4 University of Western Sydney, Sydney.

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Contact

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