Key details
Professor Natasha T Vall
Pro Vice-Chancellor
Natasha Vall is Professor of Urban and Cultural History and Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of 杏吧app下载. Natasha undertook her BA Honours in History at the University of Sheffield and a scholarship funded PhD in History at Northumbria University. After completing her doctorate Natasha was awarded an AHRC fellowship at the Centre for North East England History. She was was appointed Lecturer in History in at Teesside University in 2006, conferred as Reader in 2011 and as Professor of urban and cultural history in 2016. In 2022, Natasha was appointed as Dean in the School of Social Sciences and Law, Teesside University, having previously undertaken a number of leadership roles including Institute Director, Head of Department and Associate Dean, Research and Innovation.
Responsibilities within the university
Pro Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Recognition
Elected Fellow
Royal Historical Society Fellow
Royal society of the Arts Trustee
Tees Valley Arts Non Executive Director
Redhills Community Interest Company Non Executive Director
Blind Tiger Trustee
Power of Women, ( 2022- 2024)
Research / Scholarly interests
Natasha has a longstanding interest in the history of cultural policy, culture-led regeneration and heritage, with a special focus on post-industrial cities. She has published widely in this field, including her 2011 critically acclaimed monograph, ‘Cultural Region’. She has supervised a number of PhD students working on the history of arts policy, cultural policy and urban regeneration. Natasha has led a number of grant funded initiatives and impact generating activities recently including the UKRI Impact Acceleration Account at Teesside University and a REF impact case study in 2021 on the reinterpretation of industrial heritage for the benefit of community stakeholders. Natasha's recent work has focussed on place-making through the lens of creative approaches with an emphasis on community co-production.
Key funded projects
Teesside University AHRC IAA (2022-2025) 拢450,000
NIHR Health Determinants Research Collaboration (HDRC) for the South Tees area (with South Tees Public Health) (2022-2027) 拢5,000,000
Co-Investigator AHRC infrastructure fund MIMA (2021-2022) 拢608,969
Co-Investigator Towards a Greener Tees Valley, UK Government Community Renewal Fund (2021-2022) 拢722,137
Principal Investigator Tees Valley Lab. UKRI, Enhancing Place Based Engagement (2019-2020) 拢28,000
Principal Investigator Great Place- Greater Tees. HLF/ACE, (2018-2020) 拢40,000 (evaluation)
Co-Investigator Steel Stories: Curating Industrial Heritage in a Landscape of Rapid Change, HLF (2017-2019) 拢70,000
Principal Investigator AHRC Northern Bridge DTP2 (2017-present) Co-Investigator
Media activity
Contributor, 'How to cure Small Town Blues', BBC Radio 4, Analysis, February 2024
Recent publications
McGrother, M., Ligouri, A., Blackburn Daniels, S., 'A song about, for and with', Everyday Creativity Conference, Conference hosted by the AHRC Everyday Creativity Network and Creative Lives, at Cecil Sharp House, London, England on Thursday 26th September 2024
Vall, N. 'Co-production of Place-based policy: The Case of Teesside, UK', Regional Studies Association Annual Conference, 2024, Global Challenges, Regional Collaboration and the Role of Places, Florence, Italy, https://www.regionalstudies.org/events/2024rsaannualconf/
Brockbank, A., Cotton, M., Knowles, M. Vall, N., Van Schaik, P. 'Understanding The Impact of Low Carbon Retrofit in Residential Properties, Webinar presentation, Built Environment Network, December 2022, 'https://www.built-environment-networking.com/event/impact-carbon-retrofit/
Paul Van Schaik, Matthew Cotton, Huda Dawood, Nashwan Dawood, Elena Imani, Mike Knowles, Charlotte Leighton, Susan Lorrimer, Andrea Mountain, Edgar Segovia, Rosemary Stubbs, Natasha Vall, 'Towards the Tees Valley Energy Transition – Residential Decarbonisation and Skills Analysis, Energy and Sustainable Futures, Proceedings of the 3rd ICESF, 2022https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/978-3-031-30960-1.pdf