Outputs (165)

Healthy returns: Leadership learning and innovation climate in the UK health sector (2017)
Journal Article

Sir Ian Carruthers’ (2011) report for the Department of Health entitled ‘Innovation, Health and Wealth’ highlighted a pressing need for the NHS to improve its capacity for innovation to deal with growing demand and shrinking/static budgets, a challen... Read More about Healthy returns: Leadership learning and innovation climate in the UK health sector.

Enhancing district delivery and management of agriculture extension in Lao PDR (2017)
Report

Background and methodology
Lao PDR has a well-established network of central, provincial and district agricultural extension units. The extension system has benefited from several decades of Official Development Assistance (ODA) projects which have... Read More about Enhancing district delivery and management of agriculture extension in Lao PDR.

Editorial: Beyond behaviour change (2017)
Journal Article

Editorial to the special Social Business issue.

Critical factors for self-sustaining farmer organizations in Northern Laos (2017)
Report

The SRA reported on here involved three groups of stakeholders—local farmers represented by their community-elected organizational leaders, government service providers represented by district and provincial extension agents and leaders, and a team o... Read More about Critical factors for self-sustaining farmer organizations in Northern Laos.

A comparative study of appropriateness and mechanisms of hard and soft technologies transfer (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 Elsevier Inc. Technology transfer continues to play a significant role in fostering economic growth, enterprise and human capability development in many emerging and developing economies. In this paper, we examine the appropriateness and mecha... Read More about A comparative study of appropriateness and mechanisms of hard and soft technologies transfer.

The role of the state in feminisation and quality of employment: A comparison of teaching profession in the UK & Pakistan (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Teaching is considered one of the ‘female’ occupations in most countries around the world (Anker, 1998; Gaskell & Mullen, 2006). Feminization does pave the way to increase the presence of women in work but it does not imply women’s access to power i... Read More about The role of the state in feminisation and quality of employment: A comparison of teaching profession in the UK & Pakistan.

Creating change through feminist solidarities: Critical actors building critical mass (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Europe has an increasingly ageing workforce and will experience an on-going reduction in its working age population (ILO, 2016). In parallel, we are witnessing a shortage of skills in some economically critical industries, especially engineering, whi... Read More about Creating change through feminist solidarities: Critical actors building critical mass.

Feminist democracy in a Brexit environment - a political dynamic more than hegemony When you do things together with others, you hold that inside you - a glimpse of the world you are trying to create (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The co-authors of this paper have come together as feminist activists who are also researchers. Between us we represent several organisations with a mission to promote and defend women’s equality, working with local, regional and national and interna... Read More about Feminist democracy in a Brexit environment - a political dynamic more than hegemony When you do things together with others, you hold that inside you - a glimpse of the world you are trying to create.

Developing national entrepreneurship education strategies for human capital development and youth employability: prospects and challenges (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Gender equality and political change in Northern Ireland (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Most examples of political change in recent times have had negative connotations for equality. By comparison equality has been at the centre of positive political change in Northern Ireland (NI). Stemming from the Belfast Agreement in 1998, non-dis... Read More about Gender equality and political change in Northern Ireland.