• Why is austerity governable? A Gramscian urban regime analysis of Leicester, UK 

  Bua, Adrian; Davies, Jonathan; Cortina-Oriol, Mercè; Thompson, Ed (Article)

  Austerity has been delivered in the UK without durably effective resistance. Read through a dialogue between urban regime theory and Gramsci’s theory of the integral state, the article considers how austerity was normalized ...

• Research proposals: a practical guide 

  Denscombe, Martyn (Book)

• Creative Splintering and the Rise of Municipal Creative Economies 

  Granger, R.C. (Book chapter)

  Drawing on Leicester as a second tier creative city in the UK, the chapter examines creative economies expressed through accounts of precarity, inequity, and polarisation. In the literature, these are presented as the ...

• Teaching Public Affairs – The Cinderella Subject of Journalism Courses 

  Jones, Alistair; Clark, Torrin (Conference)

  Public Affairs: Even the name of the serious part of Journalism courses is problematic. For years this absolutely essential, but often maligned, part of so many university Journalism courses, has been taught by ‘a guy ...

• Parish Councils – a real resurgence? 

  Jones, Alistair (Conference)

  This paper explores the ways in which parish councils are being revived. No longer are they dismissed as being superfluous or a joke. Instead, they appear to be taking up the reins of local government, and trying to make ...

• Going Local on Tax Raising 

  Jones, Alistair (Article)

• English Local Government and Environmental Matters 

  Jones, Alistair; Copus, Colin (Book chapter)

• Rebels Leading London: the mayoralties of Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson compared 

  Stafford, Max; Bennister, Mark; Worthy, Benjamin (Article)

• Using photo-elicitation to understand experiences of work-life balance. 

  Cassell, Catherine; Malik, Fatima; Radcliffe, Laura (Book chapter)

  We explore the use of photo-elicitation methods in a study of how people manage their daily work-life balance and conflict. In doing so, we outline some important methodological issues for those who seek to use these methods ...

• Participant Reflexivity in Organisational Research Design 

  Cassell, Catherine; Radcliffe, Laura; Malik, Fatima (Article)

  Despite the considerable interest in researcher reflexivity within the organizational literature, little attention has been paid to participant reflexivity, here defined as the reflexive considerations of research participants ...

• Airports and ageing passengers: A study of the UK 

  Graham, Anne; Budd, Lucy; Ison, Stephen; Timmis, Andrew (Article)

  Globally, improved standards of living, nutrition and medical treatment are extending human life expectancy and enhancing quality of life with the result that an increasing number of ageing passengers are using airports. ...

• AUTONOMIA DIFFERENZIATA COME PROCESSO DAL BASSO: I REFERENDUM REGIONALI IN PROSPETTIVA COMPARATA 

  Giovannini, Arianna; Vampa, Davide; Giovannini (Article)

  In Italian: In questo contributo i referendum per l’autonomia di Lombardia e Veneto vengono analiz-zati con riferimento a consultazioni che hanno portato alla differenziazione delle strutture di governance territoriale ...

• Understanding Arab Capitalisms: Patrimonialism, HRM and Work in Saudi Arabia 

  Hammer, Anita; Adham, Ayman (Article)

  This article critiques the scholarship on contemporary Arab societies for according a primacy to state-capital relations and neglecting the significance of capital-labour relations. Both, the comparative capitalism approach, ...

• Councillor Ethics: A Review of The Committee on Standards in Public Life’s ‘Local Government Ethical Standards’ 

  Rose, Jonathan; Copus, Colin (Article)

  The Committee on Standards in Public life (CSPL) new report Local Government Ethical Standards presents a detailed review of local government ethics in England, aiming to highlight both best practice and areas for improvement. ...

• Gypsy and Traveller Sites: the revised definition’s impact on assessing accommodation needs 

  Cottle, S.; Munns, R.; Murdoch, A.; Richardson, Joanna; Ruston, S.; Soucek, N. (Technical Report)

  Technical report for EHRC on the impact of the Planning Policy for Traveller SItes (2015) on site delivery

• The Collective Magic of Community Action: a Review of William Mazzarella’s The Mana of Mass Society 

  Richardson, Joanna (Article)

  This is an extended book review article with an research engaged critique on William Mazzarella's 'Mana of Mass Society'

• The Entrepreneurial Dimensions of Transnational Education 

  Eatmon, T.D.; Granger, R.C.; Abrantes, B.F.; Forsberg, C. (Book chapter)

  Transnational education is a growing trend in higher education that decouples learning from the location of the awarding institution. However, few studies of entrepreneurial universities have considered entrepreneurial ...

• Evaluating the impact of a workplace parking levy on local traffic congestion: The case of Nottingham UK 

  Dale, Simon; Frost, Matthew; Ison, Stephen; Quddus, Mohammed; Warren, Peter (Article)

  A Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) scheme raises a levy on private non-domestic off street parking provided by employers. In April 2012 Nottingham became the first UK City to implement such a scheme with the revenue generated ...

• An evaluation of the economic and business investment impact of an integrated package of public transport improvements funded by a Workplace Parking Levy 

  Dale, Simon; Frost, Matthew; Ison, Stephen; Nettleship, Ken; Warren, Peter (Article)

  Hypothecated revenue from the Nottingham Workplace Parking Levy (WPL) is being used to fund additional tram lines, refurbish the Nottingham Railway Station and to sustain the supported Linkbus network. This strategy aims ...

• The magnificent “I” in business education: Evidence from Greece 

  Anninos, Loukas; Chytiri, Alexandra-Paraskevi; Chytiri, L. (Article)

  The goal of this research study has been twofold. First, to examine the level of narcissism and its individual traits in students who study business, in the particular context of a regional country such as Greece and second, ...

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