All Outputs (144)

Can community contracts bridge the gap between the public and service providers? (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper

The strategic defence review 1998: Politics, power and influence in government decisions (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper

This study explores the UK Strategic Defence Review [SDR] 1997/98 from a strategy process perspective. The review in contrast to previous reviews was intended to be transparent and policy rather than resource led. The paper adopts a case study approa... Read More about The strategic defence review 1998: Politics, power and influence in government decisions.

Deliberate self-harm in the South West: Setting a research agenda (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper

Enterprise imaging: The visualisation of resource base (2011)
Preprint / Working Paper

Purpose – To present a methodology for the visual representation of resources within a multi-organisational enterprise. The visualisation shows resource dependency and co-ordinators utilised by an alliance relationship to deliver an outcome. Design/... Read More about Enterprise imaging: The visualisation of resource base.

Exceptional action in policymaking: Employing network analysis to capture leadership and political entrepreneurship (2010)
Preprint / Working Paper

Actions of political agents on exceptional political outcomes cannot be validated on mere descriptions of decision making. Agency at the micro level needs to be integrated with the action of all agents at the macro level and contextualised to specif... Read More about Exceptional action in policymaking: Employing network analysis to capture leadership and political entrepreneurship.

Growing adaptively? Responding to climate change through regional spatial planning in England and Australia (2010)
Preprint / Working Paper

Compares regional planning responses in the South West of England and South East Queensland to dealing with the issues of housing growth and climate change adaptation.

Exceptional agency: Political brokerage in EU lobbying (2010)
Preprint / Working Paper

Interest intermediation is integral to the consultation process of most EU legislative acts. On occasion, the agenda is not set by the most prominent political actors but by peripheral political entrepreneurs, exploiting opportunities to exercise br... Read More about Exceptional agency: Political brokerage in EU lobbying.

What is this thing called heterodox economics? (2010)
Preprint / Working Paper

Evolving science communication: learn, adapt, collaborate (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper

In March 2009 the Science Communication Unit (SCU) at the University of the West of England, Bristol (UWE) hosted a symposium to investigate key issues around transferability and sustainability in science communication and public engagement. The symp... Read More about Evolving science communication: learn, adapt, collaborate.

Preparatory study for a seminar on rural-urban linkages fostering social cohesion (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper

Paper discusses the ways in which urban-rural linkages can be conceptualised, can be supported through public policy and can support the policy outcome of both social and territorial cohesion.

'Girls into physics - action research' research briefing (2009)
Preprint / Working Paper

Censorship, state restrictions and democracy in Belarus (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper

Persuading consumers to make healthy nutritional decisions (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper

Report into the establishment of marine protected areas in UK waters under existing legislation (2008)
Preprint / Working Paper

The purpose of this report is to put into plain English the legal issues, which underlie the establishment of marine protected areas (MPAs). Though there are numerous legal vehicles for regulating marine activities, the creation of closures for purel... Read More about Report into the establishment of marine protected areas in UK waters under existing legislation.

Statistical disclosure control in a research environment
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Critical citizens online: Adding to or subtracting from conventional media regulation?
Preprint / Working Paper

Somerset PCT insights: Smokefree homes
Preprint / Working Paper

The role of international commodity exchanges in the formation and transmission of prices and price risk along international coffee chains
Preprint / Working Paper

The 1990s has seen a shift in policy from multilateral price stabilisation schemes towards market liberalisation and private risk management strategies in the context of income stabilisation for agro-commodity exporting low-income countries. This pap... Read More about The role of international commodity exchanges in the formation and transmission of prices and price risk along international coffee chains.

Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales
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The division of labour between labour economists and organisation theorists results in there being little or no (epistemic) connection between the disciplines of labour economics and organization theory, and little or no recognition of the (ontic) co... Read More about Working Paper 10. Organsing unions, organising communities? Trades unions councils and community union politics in England and Wales.

Transforming our world: Afrophobia and the need for disaggregated statistics to monitor equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development
Preprint / Working Paper

This working paper of advocates disaggregated data collection and analysis, as asserted by Target 17.18 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In this respect the researcher re-asserts this is imperative for norm and policy development to ad... Read More about Transforming our world: Afrophobia and the need for disaggregated statistics to monitor equality in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.