Redesigning procurement in the public sector will be a vital part of meeting budget reductions.

In 2008/09, the public sector spent £220 billion on goods and services alone, accounting for one third of all spending. However, there is multiple overlap in terms of procurement processes and structures across the public sector and collaboration across organisational boundaries has been slow to develop. Chris Cox and Paul Rainford report from a recent seminar organised by the London School of Economics and the Design Council in which it was argued that innovative procurement will be crucial if the public sector is to reduce duplication, provide value for money and survive austerity.

Who Has The Potential To Benefit From Higher Education?

Higher Education is framed as something that should benefit the many opposed to the few. This is emphasised in policy that supports the belief that everyone who has the potential to benefit from Higher Education should be able to (HEFCE and OFFA, 2014a). This notion of ‘potential’ however is adopted in varying ways across institutions. This paper draws on a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of two access agreements from two institutions (one pre-1992 and one post-1992) situated within the same city. Whilst there were many differences within these agreements, this paper focuses on the notion of potential and who is targeted for these interventions. Examining this in the context of recent evidence on student attainment trajectories within compulsory education, this paper will explore how errant assumptions relating to how to identify potential may contribute to reproductions of inequality opposed to widening participation within Higher Education

Making internal conversations public: reflexivity of the connected doctoral researcher and its transmission beyond the walls of the academy

Advances in digital technologies, especially those associated with Web 2.0 such as blogs and Twitter, have created new spaces for discussion and to encourage the development of ideas. These advances have the ability to reduce the isolation of the doctoral researcher who may have previously been limited to discussions restricted to physical spaces such as departmental offices and at conferences. Whilst moving these conversations into public spaces can offer benefits, it also presents a distinct set of challenges. This paper adopts an autoethnographic approach in order to explore my experiences of using digital technologies to support my development as a doctoral researcher. Drawing on Archer’s (2003; 2007) theories of reflexivity and the internal conversation, it explores two critical incidents (Tripp, 1993) during my first year as a doctoral researcher. The first focuses on making sense of the rejection of a conference paper and the second on making sense of what ‘can’ and ‘should’ be said in a digital space as the result of tweeting and blogging at a conference. In doing so, this paper highlights the ways in which digital technologies have the capacity to support an individual’s varied modes of reflexivity. Through this, it also illuminates how bringing these conversations into a public space can also offer a form of public scholarship, opening up the inner workings of the academy to a wider public, challenging traditional academic practices. Consequently, the paper concludes with suggestions for future research and training needed to support digital scholarship for doctoral researchers

Review of \u3cem\u3eMen on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in our Communities.\u3c/em\u3e William Mardiglio. Reviewed by Will Rainford.

Book review of William Mardiglio, Men on a Mission: Valuing Youth Work in our Communities. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $60.00 hardcover

Cornering the Political Speech Market: Consequences of Corporate Speech Following Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

The author discusses the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case and argues the case was incorrectly decided and should be overturned

Review of \u3cem\u3eWorld\u27s Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America.\u3c/em\u3e Cynthia Duncan. Reviewed by William Rainford, University of California, Berkely.

Book review of Cynthia Duncan, World\u27s Apart: Why Poverty Persists in Rural America. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999. $27.50 hardcover

Environmental Management in Micro and Small Tourism Enterprises: An Owner-manager Perspective

This thesis seeks to gain insight into environmental management implemented by micro and small tourism enterprises and explore levels of awareness and interest among owner-managers of micro and small tourism enterprises toward schemes aiming for the environmental improvement of business. The research uncovers findings that elevate possibilities for reducing misinterpretation of terminology relative to sustainable tourism business. This research seeks to understand why the suggested lack of sustainable tourism implementation remains evident in tourism. Discussion from findings intends to draw attention to central themes relative to achieving research objectives and seeks to yield important information in the pursuit of sustainable tourism business. A qualitative, semi-structured interview approach was used to gain in-depth and detailed perspectives from owner-managers of micro and small tourism enterprises. Owner-managers interviewed were purposively chosen using non-probability sampling. Selection was based on providing a variety of tourism businesses and physical business locations across the case study region. Overall, findings suggest that owner-managers are implementing low levels of environmental management and have limited knowledge of what implementation of environmental management specifically involves, such as, how long it takes and how much it costs. The underlying values of owner-managers demonstrate potential opportunities for further implementation of sustainable business practice. In addition, owner-managers seemed to place importance in conducting business responsibly and having minimal impact on the environment so that quality of life remains for future generations. Essentially, research findings aid in the understanding of why the suggested lack of sustainable tourism implementation remains evident in tourism and pose future avenues for research in the pursuit of sustainable tourism business

Our Story: A True Historical Account of the Drew & Fairbanks Families of Florida Through the Life Story of a Great-Grandson

The author, a fourth generation Floridian, documents the saga of the Drew and Fairbanks families in Florida in the 1920\u27s, 1930\u27s and the World War II era. Although active in law practice and a Lt. Col. of the Army Reserves, his first love is a citrus grove situated in the wilds of Florida. PALMMhttps://digitalcommons.unf.edu/northeast_fla_books/1005/thumbnail.jp