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Jen Nelles is a Professor of Systems and Spatial Analysis and Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Brookes Business School, co-director of the Oxford Regions, Innovation, and Enterprise Lab (ORIEL), and co-director of the RSA Network on Infrastructural Regionalism (NOIR). She holds a PhD, MA, and BA (Hons). Her research focuses on innovation policy, urban governance, regional economic development, and infrastructure dynamics, with emphasis on knowledge flows, regional intergovernmental organizations (RIGOs), and infrastructural regionalism.
Her work bridges academia and policy, including collaborations with Cambridge Econometrics on spatial innovation patterns and projects like the Innovation Cluster Map for DSIT. She co-leads Project RIGO, examining cross-boundary governance in the U.S., and has authored influential books such as Mobilizing the Metropolis (2023) and Discovering American Regionalism (2019). Recent grants include a £4.7M ESRC-funded Innovation and Research Caucus (2023–2026).
Her applied research addresses challenges like healthy aging, municipal collaboration post-COVID-19, and Indigenous-Canadian partnerships. She serves on editorial boards for Urban Affairs Review and Regional Studies, Regional Science, and her work emphasizes systemic approaches to governance and policy.
