Sarah Ayres
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Professor Sarah Ayres | |
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| Awards | Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (2024) |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Aston University (BSc, PhD) |
| Thesis | (2001) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Public policy |
| Sub-discipline | Governance, territorial governance, place-based policy |
| Institutions | Aston University University of Bristol |
| Main interests | Territorial and collaborative governance, place-based leadership, public policy, devolution |
Sarah Ayres FAcSS is a British academic and Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the School for Policy Studies, University of Bristol, and current Chair of the Regional Studies Association (RSA). Her research focuses on territorial and collaborative governance, and the role of state, market, and civil society actors in addressing complex social challenges.
Ayres earned a first-class BSc in Public Policy and Management & Social Studies from Aston University in 1997 and a PhD in Public Sector Management from the same institution in 2001, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
Career
Ayres joined the University of Bristol in 2005 as a Lecturer in the School for Policy Studies, later becoming Senior Lecturer, Reader, and, in 2019, Professor of Public Policy and Governance.[1] From 2002 to 2005 she was a Research Fellow at Aston University.
She was Co-Editor of the academic journal Policy & Politics from 2012 to 2020.[2] Ayres is on the Editorial Advisory Boards of three top quartile international public policy journals, namely Policy Sciences,[3] Public Management Review[4] and Policy & Politics.[5]
Ayres is Co-Investigator and work package lead for the project Tackling the Root Causes Upstream of Unhealthy Urban Decision Making (TRUUD), a £6.7 million transdisciplinary research programme funded by the Medical Research Council and running from 2019 to 2025.[6][7]
In 2024, Ayres became Chair of the Regional Studies Association[8] and was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences.[9]
