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Leadership learning and development for global health: A case study of capacity building in southern Africa (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

For the past eight years, Bristol Leadership & Change Centre (BLCC), UWE, has been collaborating closely with the Malaria Elimination Initiative (MEI) to improve the management and leadership of healthcare programmes in Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Eswatini an... Read More about Leadership learning and development for global health: A case study of capacity building in southern Africa.

The micro-ethics of discomfort: Addressing the perfect/imperfect ethical dichotomies of International Development (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper, we develop an understanding of what we refer to as the ‘micro-ethics of discomfort’ and, on its basis, propose an approach to addressing ethical challenges in the research field, especially in relation to International Development (ID)... Read More about The micro-ethics of discomfort: Addressing the perfect/imperfect ethical dichotomies of International Development.

Becoming phu nam and other stories: Researching leadership practices in Laos and the ethics of cross-cultural engagement (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This keynote lecture offers a co-constructed auto-ethnographic account of the researcher’s journey toward ‘passing’ as a leader (phu nam) within a state-run service in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. The researcher was a foreigner in Laos emplo... Read More about Becoming phu nam and other stories: Researching leadership practices in Laos and the ethics of cross-cultural engagement.

Strengthening management, community engagement, and sustainability of the subnational response to accelerate malaria elimination in Namibia (2022)
Journal Article

Leadership and management skills are critical for health programs to deliver high-quality interventions in complex systems. In malaria-eliminating countries, national and subnational health teams are reorienting strategies to address focal transmissi... Read More about Strengthening management, community engagement, and sustainability of the subnational response to accelerate malaria elimination in Namibia.

Response to Raelin (2022)
Journal Article

We have been invited by Bastiaan Van Der Linden and Joe Raelin to write a response to Joe’s critique of our paper “Leadership Learning, Power and Practice in Laos: A Leadership-as-Practice Perspective,” published in Management Learning. The paper exp... Read More about Response to Raelin.

Concluding remarks (2022)
Journal Article

The authors of the exchange now reunite to offer some concluding remarks. Although there are many facets of ethical theory and practice that emanate from our commentaries, clearly a principal contribution is how a Western-originated concept, namely l... Read More about Concluding remarks.

Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions (2022)
Journal Article

This article explores a conceptually modified notion of liminality in order to make better sense of contemporary ‘flexible’ working life. Previous conceptualizations of liminality rely on the assumed existence of socially sustained boundaries and the... Read More about Learning to inhabit the liquid liminal world of work: An auto-ethnographic visual study of work-life boundary transitions.

Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination: Implementing quality and participative process improvements (2022)
Journal Article

Although it is widely recognized that strong program management is essential to achieving better health outcomes, this priority is not recognized in malaria programmatic practices. Increased management precision offers the opportunity to improve the... Read More about Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination: Implementing quality and participative process improvements.