Granger, R,. Willis, J., Burkmar, J., Quinn, C., Bingham, G. and Hancock, E. (2021) Design for Productivity, Leicester Business Festival, 18 November 2021
Granger, R. (2021) Experimentalism in Place-Shaping: new ways of governing in political science? Panel Convenor, Public Administration Committee Annual Conference, Leicester 7-8 September 2021
Granger, R. (2021) BBB and Levelling-Up, Leicestershire Cares Webinar, 30th June 2021
Granger, R. and McLaughlin, H. (2021) Women Leadership for Innovation, Leicester Innovation Week, 23 June 2021, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University and PwC.
Granger, R. (2021) 6 Models of the Creative Industries: the social turn of arts, Monash University, Culture, Media and Economy Group, 28th May 2021.
Granger, R.C. (2021) Sharing Cities: From Cotton to Culottes and Back Again, at Creating thriving high streets after Covid-19, CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University, 12 May 2021
Granger, R. (2021) Sharing Economies, Institute for Chartered Accountants East Midlands, 23 April 2021, Leicester.
Granger, R. (2021) The High Street Reframed. BBC East Midlands, 1 April 2021
Granger, R. (2021) Scaling the Sharing City to Unlock Economic Value, Business Desk East Midlands City Vision Event: Leicester’s Post Covid Economy, 26 March 2021, Leicester.
Quinn, C. and Granger, R. (2020) Innovation in Practice: the othering of innovation, Leicester Business Festival, 6 November 2020
Granger, R. and Quinn, C. (2020) Head-to-Head with Innovation: the immersive experience sector, Holovis International, Hinckley, Leicester Business Festival, 5 November 2020
Granger, R. (2020) The Future of Cities, BBC East Midlands 29th October 2020
Granger, R. (2020) Covid as the Great Urban Fix and a City Branding Reboot for Cultural Cities, IX Jornadas Internationales Arte y Ciudad Conference, Madrid Complutense University, 22 October 2020
Granger, R. (2020) Leicester’s Aesthetics During Lock-Down, BBC Leicester 28th August 2020
Granger, R. (2020) Out-of-Town Retail and the City Experience, East Midlands Today 27th August 2020
Granger, R. (2020) Transforming Innovation through Connections: FLOKK, Leicester Business Voice 10 July 2020 https://www.lbv.co.uk/news-and-views/
Granger, R.C. (2020) Disruptive Wonderment and the Role of Tactical Urbanism in Cities. Leicester Castle Business School Research Conference, 8th July 2020
Granger, R.C. and Lerpiniere, C. (2020) Culture, Design, and the Sm(Art) City, 23 June 2020, Leicester Castle Business School
Granger, R.C. (2020) Creative Conversations, 01 June 2020 – The Good, The Bad, and the Other in Creative Cities. Rethinking the role of creative skills in cities.
Granger, R.C. (2020) The Impact of COVID on Retail and Consumption in the City, East Midlands Today, 6th May 2020
Granger, R.C. (2020) Embodied Relations and the Materiality of Cities,
Madrid Complutense University, ‘Branding and Identity of Cities’, 1-3 April 2020
Granger, R.C. (2020) Host with Heseltine Institute, Liverpool: Inspiring Cities, St Martins Conference Centre, Leicester 30-31 March 2020
Leicester Urban Innovation Lab (2020) Friars Mill, Leicester, 24 March 2020
Leicester Business Voice (2020) Smart Governance, 26 February 2020, University of Leicester Innovation Centre
BBC East Midlands (2019) Local Production and Sustainable Retail, East Midlands Today 20 December 2019, Leicester.
Panellist, East Midlands Chamber 2019 State of the Economy Conference, 14 November 2019, Shirebrook, Nottingham
Convenor, Inspiring Cities (2019), Inno House, Leicester 26-27 November 2019 http://inspiringcities.uk
Soulsby, P. and Granger, R.C (2019) Urban Innovation Labs in Leicester. LCB Depot, Leicester, 30 October 2019
Granger, R.C. (2019) Informality as a Hidden Culture Within Value-Creating Spaces, ‘Hidden Culture’, RGS-IBG Conference London, 27-30 August 2019,
Granger, R.C. (2019) Creative Splintering and the Rise of Civic Creativity, CAMEo Re-Futuring Creative Economies, 5-6 September 2019, University of Leicester,
Granger, R.C. (2019) Maker Spaces as Micro Industrial and Innovation Districts in Fab Cities, Nordic Geographers Meeting Trondheim, 16-19 June 2019 https://www.ntnu.edu/geography/ngm-2019
Granger, R.C. (2018) Gender Pay Gaps and the Creative Industries, East Midlands News, Leicester 31 October 2018
Granger, R.C. (2018) Spatial Fixity and Revanchist Renewal in Post-Industrial Cultural Cities: the cultural heartlands, for ‘neoliberal megaprojects: Variegated Analytical Landscapes’ RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2018, Cardiff 28-31 August 2018
Granger, R.C. (2018) Co-creation, Maker Spaces and Micro Industrial Districts: new and alternative economic spaces, 5th Global Conference on Economic Geography, University of Cologne, July 2018
Granger, R.C. (2018) Disrupting Universities in the Creative Economy: Crowded ecologies; quintuple helixes and third spaces, for ‘Creative Economies’, University of West of England, Bristol, July 2018
Granger, R. (2018) Crowdsourcing Techniques for Analysis of Creative Cities, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University CCIRG, 27 May 2018
Granger (2018) Measuring Cultural and Creative Impact: Flokk and Crowdsourced Relational Platforms, RMIT, Melbourne, 15 May 2018
Granger, R.C. (2018) Creative and Cultural Roles in Cities: Role Renegotiation and the Quintuple Helix from the View of the University, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, 25 April 2018
Granger, R. (2018) Regenerating the Highstreets, BBC Radio Leicestershire, 11 April 2018
Granger, R.C. (2017) Disrupting The Role of Universities in the Creative Industries, Creative Coffee, Leicester, 8th November 2017
Granger, R.C. and Bazaz, P. (2017) Disruption in the Creative Industries. Set the Bar, Leicester. 21st September 2017
Granger, R.C. (2017) The Fate of the UK’s High Streets: Leicester, PM, Radio 4. 15 September 2017
Granger, R.C. (2017) Technology and the Creative City, Session Convenor, Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual Conference, Sponsored by the Urban Geography Research Group, 29 August-1 September 2017, London
Granger, R.C. (2017) Cityscapes for Smarter Cities: Revisiting ecologies, ecosystems, and institutional thickness in a digital age, Technology and the Creative City, Session Convenor, Royal Geographical Society-IBG Annual Conference, Sponsored by the Urban Geography Research Group, 29 August-1 September 2017, London
Burton, N., Granger, R. and Barton, S. (2017) Leicester City: From success to legacy, International Football History Conference 15-16 June 2017, Manchester Metropolitan University/Etihad Stadium
Granger, R.C. (2017) Crowded Ecologies and the Quintuple Helix in Creative Cities, DRUID, 13-15 June 2017, New York
Granger, R.C. (2017) Chair, Colloquium of Creative and Cultural Industries, Leicester Castle Business School, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, 8-9 May 2017
Granger, R.C. (2017) Chair, The Impact of Creative Technologies, Colloquium of Creative and Cultural Industries, Leicester Castle Business School, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, 8-9 May 2017
Granger, R.C. (2017) Creativity and Culture in Leicester: the role of universities? Colloquium of Creative and Cultural Industries, Leicester Castle Business School, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, 8-9 May 2017
Granger, R.C. (2017) Achieving Creative Enterprise in the UK Context, Copenhagen Business School, 3 May 2017
Granger, R.C. (2017) Data Overload and SMART Working, Reconfigurations of Work Series, Urban Studies Foundation, 21-22 April, Portsmouth University
Granger, R.C. (2017) Leicester’s Creative City, documentary for the ‘The Sustainability of Leicester’s Creative City’ Project.
Granger, R.C. (20-17) Spatial Relational Mapping and Leicester’s ‘Creative Open’ Project, National Centre for Universities and Business, London
Granger, R.C. and Jordan, J. (2017) What’s in a name? What’s in a space? Would any co-working space smell as sweet? Co-working Dynamics and the City, Cultural and Media Economics (CAMEo), University of Leicester, 1 March 2017.
Granger, R.C. (2017) Gender Pay Inequality, BBC East Midlands, 25 February 2017
Granger, R.C. (2017) The Elephant in the Lecture Theatre: Sharing ecologies, alternative economic spaces and the changing role of higher education in the creative economy, University of Portsmouth, 7 February 2017
Granger, R.C. (2016) Set the Bar: Brexit and the Creative Industries, Leicester Cultural Quarter, 2 November 2016
Granger, R.C. (2016) Sports-Led Growth, Place-Marketing, and Place-Making, Leicester Business Festival, De 51³Ô¹Ïapp University, 2 November 2016
Granger, R.C. (2016) Creative Leadership and Enterprise, British Council, Taipei, 19 October 2016
Granger, R.C. (2016) Platforms, Policies and Institution: Empowering or hindering creative agency? Fifth European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy, Seville, October 2015
Granger, R.C. (2016) Alternative Economic Spaces and Third Spaces in the Creative Economy: The elephant in the lecture theatre, serial mastery, and the changing role of higher education in the creative industries. Fifth European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy, Seville, October 2015
Granger, R.C. (2016) The Impact of Leicester City Football Club on Leicester, BBC Radio 4, 14 September 2016
Brown, D. and Granger, R.C. (2016) The Impact of Leicester City FC on Leicester, BBC East Midlands, 12 September 2016
Granger, R.C. (2016) The Geography of the Creative Economy, University of Chester, Shrewsbury, April 2016
Granger, R.C. (2015) Changing Visitor production and Consumption in Hastings – Post-Recession Regeneration or a Reworking of the Innovation Discourse? Fourth Global Conference on Economic Geography, Oxford, 19-23 August 2015
Granger, R.C. (2015) Live-Work Units: Evidence and policy debate, Middlesex University, 24-25 June 2015
Granger, R.C. (2015) Live-Work Units as Units of Creative Place-Making, Creative Place-making and Its Micropublics, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, 21-15 April 2015
Granger, R.C. (2015) A Tale of Two Cities: Spatial Change Through Rent Gap and Spatial Fixes, Planetary Rent Gaps, Shifting Capital Flows and the Gentrination of the Global Semi-periphery, Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago, April 2015
Granger, R.C. (2014) Panelist: Approaching Creativity and the Cultural Economy, Third European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy, Amsterdam October 2014
Granger, R.C. (2014) Understanding the Value of Culture in Macro Economic Analysis, Third European Colloquium on Culture, Creativity and Economy, Amsterdam October 2014
Granger, R.C. (2014) LETS and the Totness Pound as Alternative Economic Spaces, House of Commons Research Committee, May 2014
Granger, R.C. (2014) Spatial-Relational Mapping of Scotland’s Theatre Sector, Analyzing Urban networks, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference, London August 2014
Granger, R.C. and Park, H-Y (2014) Urban Change, Perceptions and Identities: Visitor-led Transformation of London’s Boundaries, Changing Boundaries in London, University of Lisbon, Portugal June 2014
Granger, R.C. (2013) Creative Cities as Spatial Fix, ESRC Seminar Series Crisis and the City: Austerity-led Financial Development, University of York, July 2013
Granger, R.C. (2013) Learning Lessons from Investment in America and Asia Pacific for European Post-Recession Cities. European Urban and Regional Studies, University of Sussex, July 2013
Granger, R.C. (2013) Learning Lessons from America and Asia Pacific for European Post-Recession Cities. Learning from Melbourne, Sydney, Singapore, and Chicago. Cities and the Crisis Workshop – London School, of Economics, 17 May 2013
Granger, R.C. (2012) ‘Piracy and the Creative Process: an alternative view of creative economies and innovation’, Session convenor, Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh, 2012 (sponsored by the Economic Geography Research Group, RGS)
Granger, R.C. and Mould, O. (2012) Portfolio Work and Urban Resilience, Royal Geographical Society, Edinburgh, 2012 (sponsored by the Economic Geography Research Group, RGS)
Granger, R.C. (2012) Creative Cities Panel Discussion. Lanchester Gallery Projects, Coventry, 24 May 2012.
Granger, R.C. (2012) The Spatialities of the Digital Economy, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, February 2012
Granger, R.C. (2011) Examining Flows and Creative Spaces - Spatial-Relational Mapping Digital and Creative Sectors in UK and North America, Creative Regions Summer School, University of Kent, Canterbury, July 2011
Granger, R.C. (2011) Spatial-Relational Mapping Techniques, Centre for Regional Economic Analysis, Fuergeisas Portugal, July 2011
Granger, R.C. (2011) Developing Empirical Tools for Relational Economic Geography – The Contribution of Spatial-Relational Mapping to New Economic Geography, RGS-IBG Annual International Conference Aug-Sept 2011, ‘After Relationality: New directions for economic geography’.
Granger, R.C. (2011) Convenor, ‘Post-Florida Cities’, Annual Meeting Association of American Geographers, April 2011, Seattle
Granger, R.C. (2011) Place Appeal and Place Retention in Creative Cities, Association of American Geographers, April 2011
Granger, R.C. (2010) Regeneration Management Network, 10th Anniversary Conference, Coventry, June 2010
Granger, R.C. (2010) Discovering Networks, Underground Scenes and Lock-in Through Relational Economics, Association of American Geographers, 14-18 April 2010
Granger, R.C. (2010) Constructing and Constricting Advantage in the UK Games Industry, UK Serious Games Institute, 28 April, 2010
Granger, R.C., Hamilton, C. and Evans, R. (2010) On the Trail of Richard Florida’s ‘Creative Class’ 10 Years On! Association for Cultural Economics International (ACEI), Copenhagen, 10-12 June 2010
Granger, R.C. (2010) What is Regeneration? Fierce Festival: Regeneration, Warwick Arts Centre, 28 June 2010
Granger, R.C. (2010) Learning about Sustainability from Cuba’s ‘Special Period’, UK Regeneration Management Research Network, Coventry 30 June 2010
Granger, R. and Hamilton, C. (2010) Sectoral and Organisational Lock-In in the Creative Industries: How strong ties can constrict rather than construct competitive advantage, European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Jonköping, 19-23 August 2010
Granger, R. (2010) Sustainable High Growth Strategies in Post-Industrial Economies, Uppsala University, Sweden, 23 August 2010
Granger, R. (2010) Creative Sustainability: a relational examination of underground scenes and creative lock-in, European Urban and Regional Studies, Vienna 15-17 September 2010
Granger, R. (2010) Cities at a Crossroads: achieving sustainability through relocalisation, European Urban and Regional Studies, Vienna 15-17 September 2010
Granger, R.C. (2010) Localisation as a sustainability tool, Regional Studies Association Winter Conference, London, November 2010
Granger, R., Piercy, E. and Goodier, C. (2009) Peak Oil: Learning lessons from Cuba’s ‘Special Period’, Nordic Environmental Social Sciences (NESS), London, June 2009
Granger, R. (2009) The Role of the Underground in the Performing and Digital Arts Scene, Regional Studies Association International Network “Creative Regions”, Cardiff, April 2009
Regeneration Advisor, Coventry Retail Development, Warwickshire Chamber of Commerce, June 2009
Planning and Regeneration Advisor, Planning Inquiry, Rugby Radio Mast, West Midlands, June 2009
Regeneration Advisor, BBC Radio (Coventry and Warwickshire), Jan 2008, August 2008
Granger, R. (2008) Public Policy Design and Accountability, International Urban Development Association Summer School, Masse Lubrense, Italy
Granger, R. (2008) Problematising Measurement of the Knowledge-Driven Economy, DIME International Conference, Newcastle University, Sept 2008