ESRC Research Seminars 2006/7
The ESRC agreed to fund a series of five seminars which started in September 2006 and concluded in March 2008. The series sought to set the scene for, determine and publicise a public leadership challenge. The overall aim of the seminar series was to set a public leadership challenge within the context of public sector reform. The series sought to draw the academic research agenda together in a more collaborative way with a view to determining whether and how research can better inform the development of consistent leadership standards and support public leaders in the improvement of services through effective collaborative leadership.
This was achieved through a series of five seminars in which leading academics from across a range of public sector disciplines discussed and contrasted the extent to which the public sector landscape was changing through current reform programmes and the extent to which these reforms pose challenges for the leaders of public services and how the effectiveness of public leadership can be evaluated in a consistent way.
The academics were supported by a range of organizations from across the wider research community and informed by key stakeholders from both government departments and public service organizations.
The outcomes of the seminar series are now being widely disseminated across the academic, policy and practitioner communities and it is hoped that it will ultimately lead to a public leadership research programme. A key element of this is to create a learning community for public leaders through this website. This will be supported by a book co-edited by Stephen Brookes and Keith Grint entitled 'The New Public Leadership Challenge' which is due to be published by Palgrave MacMillan in the summer of 2009. Have a look at the public leadership challenge.
Look at the Public Leadership Values Standards and Measures
Do you want to learn more? Contact us by emailing mailto:challenge@publicleadership.co.uk
You can download and view the ESRC Summary papers and Final Report by clicking on the links below :
Download :ESRC PLC Briefing Paper 01_2006
Download :ESRC PLC Briefing Paper 02_2006
Download :ESRC PLC Briefing Paper 03_2006
Download :ESRC PLC Briefing Paper 04_2007
Download :ESRC Final Summary Report July 08