Simon Marvin

Mike Hodsonis Research Fellow at the Centre for Sustainable Urban and Regional Futures (SURF), University of Salford. His research interests focus on urban transitions to low-carbon economies, the ways in which this may or may not happen and understandings of the lessons to be learned from such processes. Mike has developed projects around this agenda funded by the European Commission, UK research councils and sub-national government.Simon Marvinis Professor and Co-Director of SURF which is a mainly self-financing inter-disciplinary research centre within the University of Salford, established in 1999. He is an acknowledged national and international expert on changing relations between neighbourhoods, cities, regions and infrastructure networks in a period of rapid technological change, environmental concern and institutional restructuring. Simon's research has been funded by the UK ESRC, EPSRC, the European Commission and a number of commercial funders and public agencies.