Transport governance expert Reardon made professor

Louise Reardon, who is the Parliamentary Thematic Research Lead for Transport, has been made Professor of Governance and Public Policy at University of Birmingham.

She joined the University of Birmingham Department of Public Administration and Policy in  2017 as a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Local Government Studies (INLOGOV), having previously been a Research Fellow at the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds. She was awarded her PhD from the Department of Politics, University of Sheffield in 2014.

Thematic Research Leads are academics who work part-time in Parliament alongside their academic day jobs, acting as a bridge between research and Parliamentary communities. The aim is to help facilitate and grow the use of academic research evidence within Parliament, to support things like scrutiny and advice for MPs.

Reardon is a political scientist  recognised for her expertise in transport policy and governance, with research on issues including how institutions work together across scales to advance local transport goals , technological innovation, and sustainability. She is also on the advisory board of the  Department for Transport’s Transport Research Innovation Grant.