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The development of strategic clinical leaders in the NHS in Scotland (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). The development of strategic clinical leaders in the NHS in Scotland. Leadership in Health Services, 337-353. https://doi.org/10.1108/17511871111172376

Purpose
– The paper seeks to describe a national strategic and multi-professional clinical leadership programme designed and developed for the National Health Service in Scotland. It addresses the policy imperatives behind the programme, the local a... Read More about The development of strategic clinical leaders in the NHS in Scotland.

Action learning and organisation development: overlapping fields of practice (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Action learning and organisation development: overlapping fields of practice. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 93-102. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2011.581017

This paper explores the relationship between action learning and Organisation Development (OD). It proposes that they are overlapping fields of practice, with interesting similarities and differences. Both fields of practice are experienced as challe... Read More about Action learning and organisation development: overlapping fields of practice.

Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war (2011)
Journal Article
D'Oro. (2011). Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 207 -221. https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2011.583930

Since the publication of Davidson’s “Actions, Reasons and Causes” the philosophy of action has been dominated by the view that rational explanations are a species of causal explanations. Although there are dissenting voices, anti-causalism is for the... Read More about Reasons and causes: the philosophical battle and the meta-philosophical war.

The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure? (2011)
Book
Carter, E. (2011). The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure?. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7228/manchester/9780719070488.001.0001

Parties of the extreme Right have experienced a dramatic rise in electoral support in many countries in Western Europe over the last two and a half decades. This phenomenon has been far from uniform, however, and the considerable attention that the m... Read More about The Extreme Right in Western Europe: Success or Failure?.

Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village. Ageing and society, 103 - 129. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X11000079

There is currently much debate in the United Kingdom policy and practice literature about how best to respond to the care and accommodation needs of people as they retire and grow older. Against a policy background which espouses the benefits of ‘ li... Read More about Then and now: evolving community in the context of a retirement village.

Developing leaders and leadership in health care: a case for rebalancing? (2011)
Journal Article
(2011). Developing leaders and leadership in health care: a case for rebalancing?. Leadership in Health Services, 8-18. https://doi.org/10.1108/17511871111102490

Purpose
– The paper aims to describe the emerging critique of leader development in health care and to describe an alternative approach.

Design/methodology/approach
– The paper explores the growing critique of leader development, highlighting th... Read More about Developing leaders and leadership in health care: a case for rebalancing?.