Dr Josie Kelly

Lecturer

Economics and Strategy Group

• Phone:+44(0)121 204 3148
• Email: j.t.kelly@aston.ac.uk
• Room: SW909b
  

Education and Professional Qualifications

• 1997 PhD New Right Think Tanks and English Local Government Nottingham Trent
• 1991 BA (Hons) Politics with History  Wolverhampton

Teaching activity

• BS1131 Perspectives on Business and Management
• BS2246 Business Government and Society
• BSM922 Public Policy for BSR and Sustainable Development

Research Interests           

• Business and government relations
• Political consequences of globalisation and the global financial crisis.
• Public policy and governance.

Awards

• Audit Commission: Guiding, steering and regulating local governance' Economic and Social Research Council Award R000223154 1999 - 2000

• Regional Management: A consequence of multi-level governance and meta-governance? ESRC Research Seminar Series 2005 with Leslie Budd Open  University Business School 

Recent Publications  

• (2007)  The Curious Absence of Inter-Municipal Cooperation in England.  Public Policy and Administration, 22 (3)

• (2007) Reforming public services in the UK: Bringing in the Third Sector.  Public Administration 85 (4)

• With Taylor I.H. (2006)  Professionals, discretion and public sector reform in the UK: Re-visiting Lipsky.  International Journal of Public Sector Management, 167 629-642.

• (2006)  Central regulation of local authorities: an example of meta-governance', Public Administration 84 (3) pp 603-621.

• (2003) The Audit Commission. Guiding, steering and regulating local government. Public Administration 81 (3) pp 459-476.

• (2000) Labour's modernization of local government.  Public Administration 789 (3) pp 593-612.

Work in Progress

• Interdisciplinarity and Public Policy
• The Public Policy of Obesity
• Exercising Meta-Governance in Central-Local Relations in England: the Role of Knowledge Creators and Knowledge Brokers

Membership of Professional Bodies

Political Studies Association www.PSA.ac.uk