urban answersLectures and Presentations

Robin Hambleton has given lectures and presentations in over twenty countries. He has been an invited speaker at the annual conferences of many associations concerned with local government and public management - in the UK, the USA, Australia and New Zealand – and has given numerous public lectures to broader audiences.

Urban Answers has given presentations to:

• Department of Communities and Local Government (CLG) (June and Sept 2008)
• The Local Government Association (LGA) (July 2008)
• The Municipal Association of Victoria (November 2007 and November 2005)
• City Club of Los Angeles
• European Union Committee of the Regions (CoR)
• International academic conferences in more than 20 countries:

Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, The Netherlands, Scotland, USA, and Wales.

• Life in the Urban Landscape International Conference in Sweden
• New Zealand Annual Local Government Conference
• OECD
• Society of Local Authority Chief Executives (SOLACE)
• University of Bristol – Annual Policy Studies Association Lecture (2006)
• US National League of Cities (NLC), Reno, USA (2006)
• Tongji University, Shanghai, China (2007)