Collaborative leadership and place-based development

Place leadership is at a critical juncture. Since the 1990s it has been taken-for-granted that for places to prosper, effective partnerships combining the interests of multiple stakeholders are essential. The leadership of place-based partnerships is crucial to their success and has accordingly received increased attention in academic and policy circles, but the notion of place leadership remains an ideological phenomenon founded on numerous case studies with few conclusions that can be generalised across wider spatial scales or beyond advanced economies. This paper examines place leadership through examining England’s Local Enterprise Partnerships (LEPs), in particular looking at the role of the private sector vis a vis the public sector. The complexity of these partnerships is explored, and the paper argues for the role of collaborative leadership to address that complexity. It contributes a set of guiding principle to guide new ways for place-based working that can better embrace the private sector and engender a more collaborative leadership practice

Hydraulic Performance of Full Flowing Perforated Pipe Underdrains Surrounded by Loose Laid Aggregate

Low Impact Development (LID) Best Management Practices (BMPs) are becoming increasingly popular. Many of these BMPs work to increase the infiltration of runoff into the underlying soil. However, some BMPs, including porous pavements and infiltration trenches, sometimes need additional sub-surface drainage to comply with local drawdown regulations or to prevent the trench or pavement filling with runoff leading to water percolating up to the surface. Unfortunately, there is very little information available on how these drains perform. The goal of this research is to aid engineers by developing stage – discharge relationships for a range of commonly available perforated pipes

Inclusion of Evaporation Physics in the Modeling of Water Availability in the Savannah River Basin

2012 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Exploring Opportunities for Collaborative Water Research, Policy and Managemen

Analysing the take up of Battery Electric Vehicles:An investigation of barriers amongst drivers in the UK

The stream of announcements in 2017, effectively banning the production and sales of internal combustion engine vehicles within the next fifteen-twenty years, indicate how governments are seeking to regulate a mass market transition to electric vehicles. Yet despite significant policy initiatives to stimulate their uptake, EV market share remains far short of the level required to push them into the mainstream. This paper identifies a multitude of potential barriers to uptake and investigates these from the largely ignored perspective of mass market drivers of ICE vehicles in a European context. In addition it assesses the extent to which barriers are inter-related, and can be reduced down to larger explanatory ‘factors’. Findings, drawn from an original survey of 26,000 motorists suggest that resistance to EV adoption is characterised by twelve barriers that can be reduced and conceptualised as ‘economic uncertainty’ and ‘socio-technical’ factors. In turn, economic uncertainty was found to be significantly associated with age and geography, whilst socio-technical issues are related to gender. Problems of EV adoption are shown to be complex and multi-faceted, not easily solved by tackling individual issues, but requiring a more holistic ecosystem approach, the key policy components of which are posited in this paper. Such analysis is significant in enriching academic discourse and informing effective strategy and policy that will facilitate the transition to EVs

Creating Social Legacy: Flow in Mega Event Ceremonies

The paper offers a novel conceptual framework linking narrative, attention, immersion, and flow as antecedents of social legacy using examples of polysemic events, such as mega event ceremonies. By doing this the paper uses a multidisciplinary approach to conceptualise the connection between narrative and social legacy, a relationship currently overlooked. Through the creation of this framework, we propose several key findings. First, narrative within polysemic events is useful for creating a targeted social legacy. This happens when the consumer’s attention is caught and maintained by the narrative, allowing them to become immersed in their experience. Second, we suggest that to optimise this process, the narrative must position consumers within a state of flow. Once in this state of flow, the individual’s goals shift to reflect that of the narrative thus contributing to social legacy. In proposing this framework, this paper makes a valuable contribution by addressing the surprisingly overlooked links between narrative, flow, and social legacy. Using the case of ceremonies, the paper also adds to the limited literature surrounding the social legacy of mega events, currently dominated by economic perspectives