1,958 research outputs found
Down East Bookshelf piece on three Maine mystery writers--Gerry Boyle, author
No full textDown East Bookshelf piece on three Maine mystery writers--Gerry Boyle, author of Pretty Dead; William Landay, author of Mission Flats; and Lee Child, author of Persuader. With author profiles and book reviews
What is Local Government for? Refocusing local governance to meet the challenges of the 21st Century
No full textSince the North East voted ‘No’ to an elected regional assembly, devolution in England has gone back to the drawing board.New Localism has not gone away. Yet for people in England to be convinced of the value of power being devolved to their communities, they need a local governance system that delivers something other than the ‘same again’ style politics that often passes them by. They need to feel confident that the local institutions they elect really do control what truly matters locally – transport and mobility, employability, crime and safety, management of the environment, healthy lifestyles, and community cohesion.What is local government for? offers a model of local governance in England that meets the challenges of the 21st Century. The author, local government expert Professor Gerry Stoker does so by reconsidering the purposes, functions and powers of local government, complete with new structures of governance at the strategic and neighbourhood levels. In doing so, he provides a way forward to a more accountable and engaging system of local politic
Preview of a reading by Maine author Gerry Boyle, which is being presented at No
No full textPreview of a reading by Maine author Gerry Boyle, which is being presented at Nonesuch Books in South Portland April 25
Novel Dialogue 1.6: Military Sci-Fi Minus the Misogyny: Kameron Hurley with Gerry Canavan (AV)
No full textGerry Canavan talks to geek feminist author Kameron Hurley about her Hugo-nominated novel The Light Brigade. A love-hate letter to military science fiction, The Light Brigade turns the form on its head. It is built around women fighters, queerness, and defying authority while being at the bottom of the chain of command. The novel also has surprising roots in the history of anti-apartheid resistance in South Africa where Kameron lived for a time to research women's roles in armed revolt. We discuss delayed reveals of characters' race and gender in sci-fi in light of the genre's history of White supremacy and male-dominated narratives. Kameron and Gerry also revisit some of the juiciest, pulpiest fiction around the stuff we loved as kids but don't talk about or teach in the classroom (shh!)
Flood story: Gerry Davis [curator and exhibition catalogue author]
No full textExhibition organiser of Flood Story, an exhibition by Gerry Davies, accompanied by an illustrated catalogue with a foreword by Taylor, at Drawing Projects UK. Gerry Davies' exhibition, Flood Story, takes speculative thinking about global warming and rising sea levels to extremes. His drawings imagine environments so submerged, tangled and lost to us that they can only be visited by scuba divers. The drawings made in a silvery mix of graphite and varnish depict interiors, villages, towns and cities smashed and flooded. Banal 21st Century objects - clothes iron, bicycle – are silted down to become future fossils and archaeology. For us, today, inundation events on this scale are in the far future, yet when viewing these drawings the feeling is of looking back into history and a record of the past. Through this sense of a shift in time they suggest we, and the divers, have been transported forward in time to look back at the remains of our environmental folly. The first showing of this series of drawings, the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue supported by Lancaster University, where Gerry Davies is a Senior Lecturer
Transforming local governance: from Thatcherism to New Labour
No full textDrawing on the author's unrivalled experience and expertise in both research and policy-making, this important new book provides a systematic assessment of the changing nature of local governance in Britain and a conceptual framework for understanding the new governance of localities. The author analyzes in detail what New Labour has been trying to do to local governance and management and assesses how and why it has achieved only a mixed record of change. The book concludes by providing a vision of good local governance and an assessment of future challenges for research and refor
Reimagining England: English voices, spaces and institution building
No full textGerry Hassan asks whether the factors that have given rise to the so-called English Question are concerned with identity and culture or governance and legitimacy - or both - before looking to possible solutions Copyright (c) 2009 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2009 ippr.
Big Al\u27s: Ten Years on
No full textThis case study was developed by Gerry Mortimer of the Dublin Institute of Technology. It was developed as a basis for class discussion, rather than to illustrate effective or ineffective handling of an administrative situation. The author acknowledges the assistance of research student Tara Rooney in preparing this case and of Simon Walker and Blathnaid Ni Fhatharta of Kepak Convenience Foods and Niamh MacHale of An Bord Bia (Irish Food Board) in facilitating its development
The development of Malaysian SMEs in Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) sector
No full textPhysical resources and capital goods are traditionally seen as the foundation for long-term national prosperity. Japan and Taiwan have little of such things, yet they have experienced rapid economic growth and social development. Something else must have driven their engine for growth. An extensive literature (for example Romer, 1990; Helpman, 2004; Solow, 1956) suggests that the driving force is the consistent eagerness of their people to acquire knowledge and exploit ideas from worldwide sources, and then begin to innovative and create a continuous stream of new products, industries, technologies and business models. In this context, we focus on two significant issues. First, we focus on entrepreneurs who basically develop wealth by transforming low-return and obsolescent investments into high-return, cutting edge innovations. Secondly, we focus on the ICT sector, which makes up one of the most dynamic sectors of a modern knowledge-based economy (Sami, Tammi & Meristo, 2004)
The politics of management and leadership in Irish post-primary schools A study of WSE reports, 2006-2007
No full textThis study exam ines management and leadership in Irish post-primary schools, as portrayed in W hole
School Evaluation (W SE) reports for the period 2006-07. Management and leadership are contested
and ambiguous terms, so the examination of the WSE reports was conducted through the lens of
Critical Discourse Analysis (C D A ). CDA enabled a critical study which interpreted the relevant
aspects o f the WSE reports in their historical and political contexts. These contexts shaped
understandings, practices and official expectations regarding m anagem ent and leadership. Spillane\u27s
(2006) understanding o f distributed leadership provided a conceptual m odel o f school leadership
which helped guide the critical analysis.
The research problem arose from the lack of an agreed national understanding o f school management
and leadership. The following research questions emerged. Firstly, how objective was the process that
the inspectorate used to report on management and leadership activity in Irish post-primary schools?
This is a question about the research and reporting methods used by the inspectors in the first 100
published W SE reports, 2006-07. The second question is, what do these same WSE reports reveal, or
not reveal, about management and leadership activity in post-primary schools? Thirdly, what do the
reports say about the inspectorate\u27s preferred model for management and leadership?
This study is a critique of the process which generated the W SE reports as well as a critique o f what is
reported. On the basis o f the findings for 2006-07, the author concludes by arguing that the WSE
reports do not provide adequate consistency and clarity, and that their frequent am biguity is in large
part due to the absence o f a shared national understanding o f school management and leadership.
While such an understanding may be achievable the WSE process itself was also problematic in terms
o f securing reliable and accurate data. The findings also indicate that the inspectorate tended to
favour a managerialist model f management and leadership. In light of the current erosion of the
partnership model in education this managerialism may become more pronounced
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