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Rory Shand

 

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Dr Rory Shand - (Rory Shand )

  • Job title: Lecturer in Public Management and Policy, School of Management (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
  • Address: Room 507, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon,
  • Postal address: Room 507, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
    Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
  • Telephone: +441752585740
  • Email: rory.shand@plymouth.ac.uk


Role
Lecturer in Public Policy and Management, focusing on Public Management and Public Policy, with specific interest in regeneration (projects, governance and leadership) and sustainability more broadly. I am Deputy director of the Sustainability, Leadership, Governance and Policy Research Group (SLGP). I sit on the Management group of the Institute for Sustainability Solutions Research (ISSR). I also sit on the executive group of the Public Administration Committee (PAC), and am convening the PAC conference 2012 here at Plymouth university. I am on the editorial board of Social and Public Policy Review, and have recently reviewed for the Austausch journal. I am teaching on the BSc Public Services, and am programme manager of the MSc Public Management. I am also currently supervising PhD topics on governance, leadership and ethics.  

Qualifications & background
PhD Politics, University of Sheffield (2007-2011)

MA Politics, University of Sheffield (2003-2004)

BA (Hons) Politics, University of Sussex (2000-2003)  

Professional membership
Public Administration Committee (PAC)

 

Roles on external bodies
Executive Committee member, Public Administration Committee (PAC)

Reviewer, Austausch
 


Teaching interests
BSc (Hons) Public Services

MSc Public Management

Business Ethics

MSc and PhD supervision  


Research interests
Public Administration; Public Management; Public Policy; Comparative politics; Sustainability and Regeneration  

Other research

Articles in review  

Shand, R. ‘Governing the Social City: regeneration in Berlin and the roles of actors in governance’ (Policy and Politics)

Howell, K.E. and Shand, R. ‘Welsh Devolution and Leadership: Power, Discourse and Identity’ (Policy and Politics)

Howell, K.E. and Shand, R. ‘The Public Good and Higher Education’ (Learning and Teaching in Higher Education)

 

Grants & contracts

Financial Awards won     

Fully funded Quota Phd studentship in Politics at University of Sheffield

 

Current Bids                                       

Joint bid with Professor Duncan Lewis, Dr. Tim Daley and Roger Higman  (Plymouth) on sustainability and food security  in the South West of England

Plymouth NIA with Dr. Tim Daley

 


Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Shand, R. and Sloan, S. (2012) ‘Regeneration vs. the Market: how were house prices in Barking affected by renewal projects in the area?’ Social and Public Policy Review (6) 1

Shand, R. ‘Problems using MLG in Comparative Politics: Alternatives and Solutions’ (2008) South East European Research Centre 2 (1): 334-357

Shand, R. (2009) ‘Comparing multi-level governance, community participation and networks: regenerating the Thames Gateway and Berlin’ available here: http://www.essex.ac.uk/government/research/colloquium%20abstracts/Paper_Shand.pdf

Books

Shand, R.
(forthcoming, 2013) Governing Sustainable Urban Renewal: Partnerships in Action London: Routledge

Chapters in Edited Books

Green, A. and Shand, R. (2011)Targets and Trust: goals in sustainability and regeneration under New Labour’ in Johns, N. and Green, A. (eds.) New Labour and Trust (Novo Press)

 

Reports & invited lectures
Report: Higman, R. and Shand, R. (2011) 'The Big Society and the Environment: the unconsummated marriage'  

Conferences organised
Public Administration Committee (PAC), Plymouth University, July 2012  


Other academic activities

Conferences and Papers                   

UACES Annual Conference, Passau, September 2012

ISBE Sustainability and Business Enterprise Conference, University of Sheffield, November 2011

Public Administration Conference (PAC) University of Birmingham, September 2011

Public Administration: a Discipline in Crisis? Aston University, April 2011

17th International Sustainable Development Research Conference, Columbia University: ‘How sustainability and regeneration became fashionable in UK policy making’, May 2011

 ISBE Sustainability Special Interest Group: Enterprise and the Big Society, University of Leeds, January 2011

On Sustainability conference, Hamilton, New Zealand, January 2011: ‘Meanings of sustainability in the UK public sector and regeneration’

 IASGP, May 2010, London: The role of communities in the Social City

Institutionalism event in Department of Politics, University of Sheffield, May 2010 IASGP, Aston University, May 2009: ‘Comparison and Convergence: Comparative Politics and Multi-level Governance in Brownfield regeneration in the Thames Gateway and Berlin’

PSA, Manchester, April 2009: ‘Cranes, the Games and communities: the role of Local governance, community participation and local democracy in regenerating the Thames Gateway and Berlin

Essex Colloquium, Dept. of Government, University of Essex; February 2009: ‘Comparing multi-level governance, community participation and networks: regenerating the Thames Gateway and Berlin’

PSA German Working Group, Sept 2008 paper: The role of two Green parties in regeneration initiatives: a comparative perspective

EPOP 2008, Poster: Role of die Grunen in Berlin Brownfield regeneration

 SEERC 2008, ‘Problems using MLG in Comparative Politics: Alternatives and Solutions’

 

Book Reviews                                     

For Political Studies Review
 
Elling, Bo Rationality and the Environment (2009)

Williams, A. The Enemies of Progress: The Dangers of Sustainability (2008) Imprint Academic

Baker, S. & Eckerberg, K. (2008) In Pursuit of Sustainable Development, ECPR

Jacqui Karn (2007) Narratives of Neglect, Willan  

Catherine M Donnelly (2007) Delegation of Governmental Power to Private Parties: A Comparative Perspective

Gerardo Munck and Michael Synder, ‘Passion, Craft and Method in Comparative Politics’ (2005)

 

Other Academic Roles

Deputy Director, Centre for Research in Sustainabile Leadership, Governance and Policy (SLGP)

Co-editor, Social and Public Policy Review

PAC Executive Committee Member

ISSR Team Management Member

 

Other work         

Project Manager for Research Rationale for School of Government, University of Plymouth

Part of a team which has launched new degrees, BSc and MSc in Public Services Management

Part of expert committee drafting response to Localism Bill, House of Commons, March 2011

Convener of guest lecture: Village SOS: Will it deliver where other regeneration projects have not? Professor Alan Lovell, Plymouth Business School, February, 2011

Data research on Australian elections (for Charles Lees Sheffield)

Organizer of Politics PhD Careers Workshop, Politics Dept, University of Sheffield, November 2009

Departmental Nominee for the Harvard/Manchester Institute for Social Change Workshop, January 2009

POL 220 Research Methods Workshop, March 2009 

Essex Summer School in Comparative Method, July 2008

Joint Co-ordinator of inter-departmental workshop between Politics and Town and Regional Planning, Sheffield University, June 2008

‘Environmental Policy in South-East Europe: the cases of Greece, Macedonia, Slovakia and Croatia’, 2007 (for Charles Lees, Sheffield)