Philip Boland

Phone+44 (0)28 9097 6564
Emailp.bolandqub.acuk

Room 01.009 - Lanyon Building
United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am happy to supervise PhD students in the following areas:
1. Neoliberal urbanism
2. Economic development
3. Waterfront regeneration
4. Illegal drugs
5. Economics of religion
6. City branding
7. Cultural policies
8. World Heritage Sites
9. Digital technology

Research activity per year

33 Article
8 Chapter
4 Featured article
2 Commissioned report
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2025
(Dealing with) illegal drugs and "unwanted land-use": a socially inclusive future planning imagination for drug consumption rooms
Boland, P., Sturm, T. & Shorter, G. W., 17 Mar 2025, (Early online date) In: Journal of Planning Education and Research. 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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1 Citation (Scopus)

14 Downloads (Pure)
Professional planners' preparedness for digital transformation: an empirical analysis of PlanTech
Boland, P., McHenry, J., Potts, R. & Milz, D., 01 Feb 2025, In: Town Planning Review. 96, 2, p. 201-227 27 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2024
The politics of World Heritage Sites: city planning, bird shit architecture and European impunity
Boland, P., Hastings, T., Boland, P., McKay, S., Majury, N. & Galway, N., 01 Jul 2024, In: Territory, Politics, Governance. 12, 7, p. 1006-1027 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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4 Citations (Scopus)

187 Downloads (Pure)
2023

Overdose prevention centres, safe consumption sites, and drug consumption rooms: A rapid evidence review
Shorter, G. W., McKenna-Plumley, P., Campbell, K. B. D., Keemink, J. R., Scher, B. D., Cutter, S., Khadjesari, Z., Stevens, A., Artenie, A., Vickerman, P., Boland, P., Miller, N. M. & Campbell, A., 10 Nov 2023, London: Drug Science. 187 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report

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World heritage sites and the question of scale in governance and politics: a study of Stonehenge
Boland, P., Hastings, T., Kumar, M. S. & McKay, S., 01 May 2023, In: International Journal of Cultural Property. 30, 2, p. 155-176 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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1 Citation (Scopus)

76 Downloads (Pure)
2022
A ‘Planning Revolution’ or an ‘Attack on Planning’ in England: Democratisation, Digitisation and Digitalisation
Boland, P., Durrant, A., McHenry, J., McKay, S. & Wilson, A., 01 Apr 2022, In: International Planning Studies. 27, 2, p. 155-172 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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22 Citations (Scopus)

184 Downloads (Pure)
2021
All Aboard Belfast’s ‘Brandwagon’: From ‘Pariah City’ to ‘Energised City’
Boland, P. & McKay, S., 29 Nov 2021, In: Town Planning Review. 92, 6, p. 723-754 31 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2 Citations (Scopus)

371 Downloads (Pure)
Personality association and celebrity museumification of George Best (with nods to John Lennon)
Boland, P. & McKay, S., 01 Dec 2021, In: Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. 17, 4, p. 409-419 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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3 Citations (Scopus)

296 Downloads (Pure)
Religion, neoliberalism, planning: an analysis of Northern Ireland’s ‘superchurch’
Boland, P., McKay, S., Sturm, T. & Gale, R., 20 Apr 2021, In: Religion, State and Society. 49, 1, p. 61-79 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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364 Downloads (Pure)
2020
Illegal Geographies and Spatial Planning: Developing a Dialogue on Drugs
Boland, P., Murtagh, B., McKay, S. & Fox-Rogers, L., 21 Aug 2020, In: Territory, Politics, Governance. 8, 2, p. 177-203 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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8 Citations (Scopus)

657 Downloads (Pure)
Neoliberal Place Competition and Culturephilia: Explored Through the Lens of Derry~Londonderry
Boland, P., Murtagh, B. & Shirlow, P., 2020, In: Social and Cultural Geography. 21, 6, p. 788-809 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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17 Citations (Scopus)

611 Downloads (Pure)
Planning, Platforms, Participation: City Resilience and Illegal Drugs in Belfast
Boland, P., Fox-Rogers, L. & McKay, S., 2020, In: International Planning Studies. 25, 4, p. 320-339 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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7 Citations (Scopus)

352 Downloads (Pure)
2019
Fashioning a city of culture: ‘life and place changing’ or ’12 month party’?
Boland, P., Murtagh, B. & Shirlow, P., 28 Feb 2019, In: International Journal of Cultural Policy. 25, 2, p. 246-265 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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37 Citations (Scopus)

822 Downloads (Pure)
Social economics, poverty and violence after peace
Murtagh, B., Grounds, A., Boland, P. & Fox-Rogers, L., 07 Mar 2019, p. 1-20. 20 p.
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Urban restructuring, social economics and violence after conflict
Murtagh, B., Grounds, A., Boland, P. & Fox-Rogers, L., 12 Oct 2019, In: Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal. 4, 2-3, p. 220-238 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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2018
‘Young people in a city of culture: ‘ultimate beneficiaries’ or ‘economic migrants’?’
Boland, P., Murtagh, B. & Mullan, L., 17 Jan 2018, In: Journal of Youth Studies. 21, 2, p. 178-202 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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9 Citations (Scopus)

462 Downloads (Pure)
2017
Community asset transfer and strategies of local accumulation
Murtagh, B. & Boland, P., 06 Jul 2017, (Early online date) In: Social and Cultural Geography. 20, 1, p. 1-20
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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9 Citations (Scopus)

881 Downloads (Pure)
Community involvement in spatial planning: Economic development in Merseyside
Boland, P., 12 Jul 2017, The Changing Institutional Landscape of Planning. Taylor and Francis, p. 230-256 27 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

1 Citation (Scopus)
Contested heritages and cultural tourism
Murtagh, B., Boland, P. & Shirlow, P., 06 Feb 2017, (Early online date) In: International Journal of Heritage Studies. 23, 6, p. 506 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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25 Citations (Scopus)

1302 Downloads (Pure)
On the waterfront: neoliberal urbanism and the politics of public benefit
Boland, P., Bronte, J. & Muir, J., Jan 2017, In: Cities. 61, p. 117-127 11 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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87 Citations (Scopus)

1625 Downloads (Pure)
Regional development agencies: The experience of Wales
Boland, P. & Lovering, J., 01 Nov 2017, Regional Development Agencies and Business Change. Taylor and Francis, p. 89-108 20 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2015

The Belfast Waterfront: Prospects for the 21st Century
Muir, J., Bronte, J. & Boland, P., 2015, A Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Essays in Honour of Malachy McEldowney. Institute of Spatial and Environmental Planning, QUB, p. 71-90 19 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
The New Waterfront: Who Benefits?
Muir, J., Boland, P., McKnight, M. & Bronte, J., 2015, RICS Research Trust.
Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
2014
The relationship between spatial planning and economic competitiveness: the ‘path to economic nirvana’ or a ‘dangerous obsession’?
Boland, P., Apr 2014, In: Environment and Planning A. 46, 4, p. 770-787 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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45 Citations (Scopus)

1772 Downloads (Pure)
2013
Sexing up the city in the international beauty contest: the performative nature of spatial planning and the fictive spectacle of place branding
Boland, P., 2013, In: Town Planning Review. 84, 2, p. 251-274
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
49 Citations (Scopus)
2010
Sonic Geography, Place and Race in the Formation of Local Identity: Liverpool and Scousers
Boland, P., Mar 2010, In: Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 92, 1, p. 1-22 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
51 Citations (Scopus)
‘‘Capital of Culture - you must be having a laugh!” Challenging the official rhetoric of Liverpool as the 2008 European cultural capital’
Boland, P., Nov 2010, In: Social and Cultural Geography. 11, 7, p. 627-645 19 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
87 Citations (Scopus)
2008
British drugs policy: Problematizing the distinction between legal and illegal drugs and the definition of the ‘drugs problem’.
Boland, P., 2008, In: Probation Journal. 55, 2, p. 171-187 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
16 Citations (Scopus)
The construction of images of people and place: Labelling Liverpool and stereotyping Scousers.
Boland, P., Dec 2008, In: Cities. 25, 6, p. 355-369 15 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
64 Citations (Scopus)
2007

Unpacking the Theory-Policy Interface of Local Economic Development: An Analysis of Cardiff and Liverpool
Boland, P., May 2007, In: Urban Studies. 44(5-6), 5-6, p. 1019-1039 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

51 Citations (Scopus)
2006

Competitive cities: unpacking the theoretical debates
Boland, P., 2006, Capital Cardiff 1975-2020: Regeneration, Competitiveness and the Urban Environment. Punter, J. & Hooper, A. (eds.). University of Wales Press, p. 15-30 16 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2005

Wales’ Objective 1 Performance: A Half-Time Assessment
Boland, P., 2005, In: Contemporary Wales. 17(1), p. 66-78 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
2004

Wales and Objective 1 Status: Learning the Lessons or Emulating the Errors?
Boland, P., Mar 2004, In: European Planning Studies. 10(2), 2, p. 249-270 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)
2001

Community Involvement in Spatial Planning: Economic Development in Merseyside
Boland, P., 2001, The Changing Institutional Landscape of EU Spatial Planning. Albrechts, L., Alden, J. & De Rosa Pires, A. (eds.). Ashgate Publishing Ltd, p. 237-265 29 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
2000

Regional Development Agencies: The Experience of Wales
Boland, P. & Lovering, J., 2000, Regional Development Agencies and Business Change. Bentley, G. & Gibney, J. (eds.). Ashgate Publishing Ltd, p. 89-108 20 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Urban governance and economic development. A critique of Merseyside and objective I status
Boland, P., 01 Jan 2000, In: European Urban and Regional Studies. 7, 3, p. 211-222 12 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
16 Citations (Scopus)
1999

Community Economic Development in Knowsley, Merseyside: Rhetoric versus reality
Boland, P., 1999, In: Local Economy. 14(3), p. 214-231 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

6 Citations (Scopus)
Contested Multi-Level Governance: Merseyside and the European Structural Funds
Boland, P., 1999, In: European Planning Studies. 7(5), 5, p. 647-664 18 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

33 Citations (Scopus)
Devolution and Economic Development: A Captious Comment From Wales
Boland, P., 1999, Regions, 226, p. 36 38 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Merseyside and Objective 1 Status, 1994-1999: Implications for the Next Programming Period
Boland, P., Nov 1999, In: Regional Studies. 33(8), 8, p. 788-792 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

11 Citations (Scopus)
Merseyside and Objective 1 Status: Some lessons on how not to proceed in Wales
Boland, P., 1999, Regions, 221, p. 22 30 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Merseyside’s Objective 1 Programme, 1994-1999: Critical Reflections From a Rear View Mirror
Boland, P., 1999, Merseyside Business Prospect, Volume 14, 2, p. 18 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
North Wales and Objective 1 Status: A Cautionary Message From Merseyside
Boland, P., 1999, The North Wales and Cheshire Business Prospect, 5, 2, p. 21 24 p.
Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Featured article
Wales and Objective 1 Status: Some lessons from Merseyside
Boland, P., 1999, In: Welsh Economic Review. 11(2), p. 36-40 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1996

Institutional Mechanisms and Regional Development in Merseyside: Objective 1 Status
Boland, P., Sept 1996, Regional Development Strategies: A European Perspective. Alden, J. & Boland, P. (eds.). Jessica Kingsley Publishers, p. 107-128 22 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Regional Development Strategies: A European Perspective
Boland, P. (Editor) & Alden, J. (Editor), Sept 1996, Jessica Kingsley Publishers. 250 p.
Research output: Book/Report › Book
Regional Development Strategies in Europe: A Comparative Analysis
Boland, P., Sept 1996, Regional Development Strategies: A European Perspective. Alden, J. & Boland, P. (eds.). Jessica Kingsley Publishers, p. 296-304. 1 p.
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
1995

Economic and Urban Regeneration in a European Union Region: A Case Study of Merseyside and its Objective 1 Strategy
Boland, P., 1995, Liverpool City Council.
Research output: Working paper
Lean Production: Clean Break or More of the Same?
Boland, P., 1995, Cardiff University, (Paper in Planning Research; no. 142).
Research output: Working paper
Merseyside: implications of objective 1 status and the government office
Boland, P., Mannin, M. & Wallace, J., 01 Jan 1995, In: Regional Studies. 29, 7, p. 698-705 8 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
7 Citations (Scopus)

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