Overseas Lectures
The following lectures were either given to members of overseas governments on the basis of a special invitation or were keynote addresses to conference panels.
| March 2001 |
Back to Basics: Reconstruction and Development in Sri Lanka | Consortium of Humanitarian Agencies/ Government of Sri Lanka, Hilton Hotel, Colombo, Sri Lanka |
| April 2001 |
Neo-liberalism and Policy Transfer in a Competition State: the Case of Welfare Reform in Britain | International Studies Association Regional Conference, Hong Kong |
| March 2002 |
Evaluating the Social Impact of Equitization in Vietnam | Institute of Social Sciences, Hochiminh City, Vietnam |
| Market Reform and Policy Transfer | ||
| Sept 2002 |
Policy Transfer in Global Perspective | University of ITESM, Mexico City, Mexico. |
| Dec 2002 |
Understanding Governance and the Role of Public Administration | Keynote lectures delivered to the Afghan Assistance Coordination Authority, |
| Transparency and Accountability | Kabul, Afghanistan | |
| Policy Transfer in Global Perspective | ||
| Key Challenges in Public Administration and Development | ||
| Policy Evaluation and Post-war Reconstruction | ||
| Change Management | ||
| March 2003 |
Evaluating the Social Impact of Equitization in Vietnam | Keynote lectures delivered to the Confederation of Labour, |
| Market Reform in Comparative Perspective | Hochiminh City Vietnam | |
| April 2003 |
Policy Transfer in Global Perspective | Keynote lectures delivered to the National School for Public Administration, |
| Administrative Reform in the UK | Beijing, China | |
| Administrative Reform in Comparative Perspective | National School for Public Administration, Beijing, China | |
| Globalisation, New Labour and the Rise of the British Competition State | Keynote lectures delivered to the Central Party School, Beijing, China | |
| The New Governance: Positive and Negative Lessons for China | Xi’An Provincial Government Training College, Xi’An, China | |
| Oct 2004 |
Studying Public Administration in the UK: a York Perspective | British Council Exhibition, Beijing, China |
| Understanding UK Governance | Department of Public Administration, keynote lectures delivered to the Renmin University, Beijing, China | |
| Using Policy Transfer as a Tool for Rational Policy-making | Keynote lecture delivered to the Central Party School, Beijing, China | |
| Policy Transfer in Global Perspective | Keynote lecture delivered at WWUN conference ‘Strategic Management in Urban Governance’ at Zhejiang University, Hanzhou | |
| May 2005 |
Understanding UK Governance | Keynote lecture delivered to the Department of Public Administration, Renmin University, Beijing, China |
| Policy Transfer in Global Perspective | Keynote lecture delivered to the Department of Political Science, Peking University, Beijing, China | |
| Oct 2005 |
Mid-term Evaluation of the NSP: Theory and Method | Keynote lecture delivered to the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Rural Affairs, Kabul |
| March 2006 |
Mid-term Evaluation of the NSP: Preliminary Findings | Keynote lecture delivered to the World Bank and the Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Rural Affairs, Kabul |
| May 2006 |
Towards Public Value Management | Keynote lecture delivered to the Department of Public Administration, Nanjing University, Nanjing |
| Nov 2006 |
The World Bank and Post-war Reconstruction: the Case of Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Programme | Keynote lecture delivered at the British Council Exhibition, Tokyo |
| March 2007 |
The World Bank and Post-war Reconstruction: the Case of Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Programme | Keynote lecture delivered to the Institute of Governance and Public Management, Warwick University |
| May 2007 |
Understanding Embedded Corruption in Public Administration – Some Comparative Observations | Conference on , Transparency International/International Business Solutions/School of Public Administration, Renmin University, Beijing |
| Towards Public Value? Negotiating the Problems of Networked Governance | Invited lecture, First Sino-European Conference on Public Administration, School of Public Administration, Renmin University, Beijing | |
| New Directions in Chinese and European Public Administration | ||
| Post-war Reconstruction and the World Bank: the Case of Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Programme | Invited lecture, School of Public Administration, Zhengzhou University | |
| Towards Public Value? Administrative Reform in the UK | Invited lecture, National Development and Reform Commission, PRP China, Beijing | |
| June 2007 |
New Labour and the Rise of the New Constitutionalism | Symposium on “Ten Years of New Labour”, Centre for British Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull |
| Nov 2007 |
Negotiating the Problems of Network Governance | China-Europe Public Administration Conference, China National School of Administration |
| March 2008 |
‘A Project in Search of a Bid Idea?’ Gordon Brown and Public Services Reform | Symposium on ‘the Brown Effect’, Centre for British Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull |
| April 2008 |
New Labour and the Rise of the New Constitutionalism | PSA Conference, Swansea |
| Post-war Reconstruction and the World Bank: the Case of Afghanistan’s National Solidarity Programme | ||
| Administrative Reform in International Perspective | Special workshop on ‘Administrative Reform’ convened for the PM of Kazakhstan, Astana | |
| Performance Measurement and Service Delivery | ||
| Principles and Practice in E-Governance | ||
| July 2008 |
Administrative Reform in International Perspective | Keynote lecture at TIRI’s Integrity in Public Administration Conference, Central European University, Budapest |
| Sept 2008 |
Cameron’s Competition State | Symposium on ‘Cameron’s Conservatives’, Centre for British Politics, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Hull |