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 Who is Joe Painter

Joe Painter is a Professor in the Department of Geography and Associate Director in the International Centre for Regional Regeneration and Development Studies(ICRDS) at the University of Durham in the U.K

Education

Joe Painter has two degrees in Geography for University of Cambridge(BA) in 1987 and the Open University(PhD)in 1991.

Academic career

He started to work as a teacher in the 90's.Between 1991 and 1993 he was a  geograpghy's lecturer in the university of wales, Lampeter.After this experience he  changed to the university of Durham till 2001. In this year he was cast as a reader in geography at University of Durham turning him into proffesor at the same university in 2004. In parallel he has became member of different kind of organizations and magazines. From 1996 to 1999 he was editor of magazine Area. From 1997 he is a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board, Space and Polity and from 2002 of  the Canadian Geographer too. Actually he is combining his job in the university of durhman with being the associate director of the international centre for Regional Regeneration and Development studies.

What is his field  His research interests include in general : political geography and political theory, democracy and citizenship, regionalism in Europe, urban politics and the geographies of the state and governance. In particular - Urban and regional politics and policy - Regional identity - Geographies of citizenship and democracy - Geographies of the state, governance and regulation - Political geographies of European integration - Social and political theory

Joe Painter and Biopolitics The main field of his research is the Regionalization of Biopolitics in the U.K. Regions have become central to the production of biopolitics across many domains to  analyse this he proposes to answer some basic questions like: - Why are we seeing the regionalization of biopolitics in britain? - What are the conditions of possibility for this? - What are the implications? - Is it happening elsewhere? He thinks that government offices must play a central role in the implementation and application of governments policies and programmes deployed in regions. Government offices are involved in regenerating communities, fighting crime, tackling housing nedds, improving public health, raising standards in education and skills and reducing unemployment. Skills's problems seems to be the primary problem to face in regionalization of biopolitics. Skills are an individual attributes and capacities. We need to try to increase the skill's level of region's young citizens to make them into high skilled workers with property values, attitudes and behaviours. We find two problems at regional level: -Low skill equilibrium: estructural problems like a low skill workforce, few high skill jobs,emplyers of skilled workers choose not to invest or incentive's scarcity. -Out migration of skilled workers. Since this point of view we need to change the skills landscape through a regional economic strategy to accurate that the workforce achieves high skill levels to let the region compete in a globally world by maximising the potential of the knowledge economy It will be important to change the perceptions of the employers and individuals in stimulating the importance of academic qualifications, employer's investments and workforce's health. It supposses a priority thus, to reduce rates ofworklessness in order to reduce the gap between region and national's averages.It is necessary to achive a higher skilled worforce to increase region's levels of tolerance and openness leading to higher levels of enterprise, innovation and activity. This tolerant and productive population will appeal more creative and skilled people. Indeed to start this process at the regional level and get successful results is basic to join  some requirements.First we need to set a delimited definiton about region's concept. Afterwards is important to demarcate region's population workforce by making regional statistics.In the other hand skills problem must be face and recognised as not only national but regional too. Therefore precise strategies can be designed and applied on a consistent way. Following with the study we need to measure some rates like: population,qualifications, skills,etc..so the government must appear to offer its potent technology and resources to calculate these measurements. It impplies setting policies to manage populations instead individuals at general biopolitics scope, while the implications at region biopolitics will depend on institutional factors.