Social Theory Applied

This post is a response to a question from Rille Raaper, a PhD student at the University of Glasgow, in response to my recent seminar - find the original comment here. What

Hello, my name is Dave Talbot. I am a 2nd year PhD student looking at the nature of interdisciplinarity in higher education, and practical undergraduate pedagogies around it. And I’m

The empirical evidence suggests that, far from creating a democratic and effective culture of accountability in the public sector, the new bureaucracy has contributed to a culture of suspicion, a

One regulatory mechanism accountability must inevitably encounter is time, although there is a surprising dearth of research on this relationship. This is surprising, as for Lipsky’s street-level bureaucrats, the exercise

In this post, Donald Gillies talks about his forthcoming book Educational Leadership and Michel Foucault (Routledge, July 2013)… The origins of this book were serendipitous. I gave a paper at the ECER

[This is the first of a series of posts related to my forthcoming ‘Theory and Methods’ seminar The politics of regulation: Exploring bureaucracy and its consequences for public sector professions,