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Dr Steven Parker

Profile summary

  • Central Academic Staff
  • Lecturer in Management
  • The Faculty of Business & Law
  • The Open University Business School
  • Department for Public Leadership & Social Enterprise
  • steven.parker

Professional biography

University Lecturer in the Department for Public Leadership and Social Enterprise (PuLSE). Prior to joining the OU I worked in local government as a social worker and manager, and previously taught at INLOGOV, Birmingham University and De Montfort University. My teaching interests are public management, project management, and public services design.  

D.SocSci (Policy Studies), University of Bristol; PGCertHE; SFHEA.

Research interests

Public management;

Public services;

Project studies.

Recent Conference Attendance

Social Outcomes Conference 2023 (SOC23); Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford (September 2023)

 

Publications

Leading for public value in multi-agency collaboration (2023-01)
Parker, Steven; Hartley, Jean; Beashel, Jim and Vo, Quoc
Public Policy and Administration, 38(1) (pp. 83-106)

Editorial: Public value for all? Considering the parameters of public value co-creation (2023)
Cluley, Victoria; Parker, Steven and Radnor, Zoe
Public Money & Management, 43(1) (pp. 1-3)

After the applause: understanding public management and public service ethos in the fight against Covid - 19 (2022)
Shand, Rory; Parker, Steven; Liddle, Joyce; Spolander, Gary; Warwick, Lisa and Ainsworth, Susan
Public Management Review ((Early Access))

A typology of dis/value in public service delivery (2022)
Parker, Steven; Cluley, Victoria and Radnor, Zoe
Public Money & Management ((Early Access))

New development: Expanding public service value to include dis/value (2021)
Cluley, Victoria; Parker, Steven and Radnor, Zoe
Public Money & Management, 41(8) (pp. 656-659)

Leading and recognizing public value (2019-06-27)
Hartley, Jean; Parker, Steven and Beashel, Jim
Public Administration, 97(2) (pp. 264-278)

New development: What is the meaning of philosophy for local government officers? (2019)
Parker, Steven
Public Money & Management, 39(3) (pp. 224-227)

New development: Reconnecting public service ethos and multi-agency collaboration. What are the possibilities and prospects for new local collaborative environments? (2016)
Parker, Steven
Public Money & Management, 36(1) (pp. 61-66)

Debate: Public service motivation, citizens and leadership roles (2015)
Parker, Steven
Public Money & Management, 35(5) (pp. 330-332)

Leading and recognizing public value (2024)
Hartley, J.; Parker, S. and Beashel, J.
In: Cook, B. J. ed. Challenges to Public Value Creation: Authority, Process, and Complexity ((In Press))
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan

Understanding renewed Public Service Ethos (PSE) in public management: policy, purpose, and pedagogy (2022-11-18)
Shand, Rory; Parker, Steven and Elliott, Catherine
In: Diamond, John and Liddle, Joyce eds. Reimagining Public Sector Management: A New Age of Renewal and Renaissance?. Critical Perspectives on International Public Sector Management (pp. 103-112)
ISBN : 978-1802620221 | Publisher : Emerald

Elected Officials in an Era of Austerity: Stewards, Mediators, and Catalysts (2020-03-28)
Needham, C.; Mangan, C.; Bottom, K. and Parker, S.
In: Sullivan, H.; Dickinson, H. and Henderson, H. eds. The Palgrave Handbook of the Public Servant (pp. 1-19)
ISBN : 978-3-030-03008-7 | Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan, Cham

What Does Working in the Public Services Mean? Describing the public service ethos in practice (2016)
Parker, Steven
In: Lawton, Alan; van der Wal, Zeger and Huberts, Leo eds. Ethics in Public Policy and Management: A global research companion (pp. 239-256)
ISBN : 9780415725286 | Publisher : Routledge | Published : Abingdon, Oxon

Standardising multi-agency safeguarding hubs (MASH): Building a framework to effectively identify and manage risk (2023-03-23)
Shorrock, Sarah; Parker, Steven; Addidle, Gareth; Dimelow, Mark; Liddle, Joyce; Martin, Douglas; Proctor, Tony and Olive, Philippa
Emerald Open Research

The Future of Local Councils (2023-01-25)
Giovannini, Arianna; Griggs, Steven; Jones, Alistair; Parker, Steven and Rose, Jonathan
The Society of Local Council Clerks

The Twenty-First Century Councillor – Lessons from the Literature (2016-10)
Parker, Steven; Bottom, Karin; Mangan, Catherine and Needham, Catherine
University of Birmingham

The 21st Century Councillor (2016-10)
Mangan, Catherine; Needham, Catherine; Bottom, Karin and Parker, Steven
University of Birmingham

Researching the values of participants attending strategic boards in public services: Semi-structured interviews, documentary research and observation (2015-01-01)
Parker, Steven
SAGE Publications Ltd