Dr Diane Bernadette Spivey BA MA PhD

Biography

Occupation: Director Employer: SPV Consulting Memo: Diane is Director of SPV Consulting, a company she established in 2009 to provide economic and commercial development analysis and advice to the public, private and voluntary regeneration sectors. She combines this with visiting lecturer work at the University of Chester applying her regeneration knowledge to support the Housing and Regeneration Masters programmes work based learning modules and contribute to undergraduate teaching. A physical geographer by background with strong field research and Geographical Information System experience she has a BA (Hons) from the University of Brighton, Master's degree focused on permafrost research in the sub-arctic from Carleton University, Canada and a PhD which used GIS to model badland farm in South East Spain (University of Liverpool) funded and jointly supervised by University of Chester. She has worked as a lecturer at Liverpool Hope University and moved into the field of Environmental Due Diligence working for RPS Group Plc primarily in the French corporate mergers and acquisitions market. Over the past 12 years she has applied her skills in the field of economic development and commercial property regeneration in Liverpool and other areas of the Northwest.