 Richard Kerley is currently Professor of Management and Vice Principal at Queen Margaret University College, where he has been since January 2003. Previously at the University of Edinburgh and the Scottish Local Authorities Management Centre, University of Strathclyde. He has also been a visiting scholar at Yale University.
Prior to this Richard worked for four different councils, in community education and then latterly in staff and management development. He is currently also a Non Executive Director and chairs the board of The Audience Business; a director of the Centre for Scottish Public Policy and the Edinburgh Mela .
Richard is the author of The Organisation and Management of Scottish Regions and Districts 1975-1996 [Scottish Office 1997] Managing in local government [Macmillan 1994], Organising for Economic Development in Local Government [Convention of Scottish Local Authorities/Department of Employment 1989] , and various research papers in academic journals. He chaired the Scottish Executive Working Party on Renewing Local Democracy; the report of which was published in July 2000 and which was legislated for in June 2004 as the Local Governance Act.
He has supported research activities through grants from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation; Scottish Consumer Council; The Accounts Commission Scotland; Tayside, Edinburgh and Fife Councils; the Association of MBAs and The Scottish Office [ as was] . A range of the work covered by these grants included councillor recruitment & retrial; councillor working patterns and management competences in local government. He is currently working on research projects related to management development in public services; performance information and the impact on professional judgement and the regulation and management of public car parking.
|
