1 2 ND REGENERATION MANAGEMENT RESEARCH WORKSHOP 7 November 2001 UNIVERSITY of DURHAM ‘Assessing the Development of Sub-regional and Local Strategic Partnerships: A Comparison of Durham and Northumberland, North East, and Leicester, East Midlands’ by Joyce Liddle & Christos Apostolakis University of Durham, Business School Mill Hill Lane, Durham, DH1 3LB E-mail: joyce.liddle@durham.ac.uk & De Montfort University, Dept of Public Policy Scraptoft Campus, Leicester, LE7 9SU E-mail: capostolakis@dmu.ac.uk Correspondence please to Joyce Liddle and/or Christos Apostolakis at the above addresses