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An amazing adventure series. Valentine is a porcupine that lives in
a boring town. The townsfolk think she dances too much. She dresses
weird. Her boombox has skulls on it...yuck Valentine learns that it
is great to be different and discovers how to make friends.
Academia is an important site for producing knowledge, which is
crucial in driving economies and societies around the globe at the
beginning of the 21st century. Yet surprisingly little is known
about how contemporary universities are shaped by the formal and
multiple demands they face from national policy requirements,
particularly performance measurement. What effects do these
policies have on individual universities and the academics who work
within them? While policy surely has impacts on institutions and
academics, there are also numerous other things that shape academic
life. This book's starting point is that there are three main
shaping forces that govern academia - intellectual curiosity,
disciplinary traditions and research policy. Bringing these three
levels together into a framework, this book examines how academia
is governed, both formally and informally, bridging the different
aspects of governing knowledge networks through a large
multi-country study. Author Jenny Lewis uses a large empirical
study of academics in three countries (Australia, Britain and New
Zealand) and in the broad disciplinary areas of the humanities,
social sciences and sciences, to demonstrate the analytical
framework's application. The book also offers some needed
directions on what policy should and can do, providing a snapshot
of contemporary academic life in different disciplines and in
different countries, from the perspective of academics on the
frontline.
Academia is an important site for producing knowledge, which is
crucial in driving economies and societies around the globe at the
beginning of the 21st century. Yet surprisingly little is known
about how contemporary universities are shaped by the formal and
multiple demands they face from national policy requirements,
particularly performance measurement. What effects do these
policies have on individual universities and the academics who work
within them? While policy surely has impacts on institutions and
academics, there are also numerous other things that shape academic
life. This book's starting point is that there are three main
shaping forces that govern academia - intellectual curiosity,
disciplinary traditions and research policy. Bringing these three
levels together into a framework, this book examines how academia
is governed, both formally and informally, bridging the different
aspects of governing knowledge networks through a large
multi-country study. Author Jenny Lewis uses a large empirical
study of academics in three countries (Australia, Britain and New
Zealand) and in the broad disciplinary areas of the humanities,
social sciences and sciences, to demonstrate the analytical
framework's application. The book also offers some needed
directions on what policy should and can do, providing a snapshot
of contemporary academic life in different disciplines and in
different countries, from the perspective of academics on the
frontline.
The glowing, painterly poems of Jenny Lewis' first collection take
soundings in the depths: of the layers of the pasts that create a
life, of the sources of self and creativity, of the structures
beneath the surface. It is a region of loss and of recovery, the
realm where memories are stored and poetry is made. Ghosts appear.
An unknown father, the 'young South Wales Borderer' who died when
Lewis was a few months old, bequeaths an irrecoverable sense of
incompleteness to his child. Poems about being sent away to a
Masonic school, aged seven, reflect the shadow that loss casts,
while a later sequence suggests how the missing pieces may be
recovered from the depths. "Fathom" is an intense and textured
collection that leads the reader from surfaces to the heart of
things. In the end is a sense of affirmation, where self is made
whole.
To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to
understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making
them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and
motivates them. However, the current literature takes little
account of this, preferring instead to frame the decisions as the
outcomes of a rational search for value-maximising alternatives; or
the result of systematic and well-ordered institutional and
organisational processes.
Yet understanding how personal and emotional factors interact
with broader institutional and organisational influences to shape
the deliberations and behaviour of politicians and bureaucrats is
paramount if we are to construct a more useful, nuanced and dynamic
picture of government decision making. This book draws on a variety
of approaches to examine individuals working in contemporary
government, from freshly-trained policy officers to former cabinet
ministers and prime ministers. It provides important new insights
into how those in government navigate their way through complex
issues and decisions based on developed expertise that fuses
formal, rational techniques with other learned behaviours,
memories, emotions and practiced forms of judgment at an individual
level.
This innovative collection from leading academics across
Australia, Europe, the United Kingdom, and North America will be of
great interest to researchers, educators, advanced students and
practitioners working in the fields of political science, public
management and administration and public policy.
Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a
Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning
deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women
were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own
language – emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures
the powerful allure of the world’s oldest poem and gives it a
fresh dynamic while creating a fastpaced narrative for a new
generation of readers.
To understand public policy decisions, it is imperative to
understand the capacities of the individual actors who are making
them, how they think and feel about their role, and what drives and
motivates them. However, the current literature takes little
account of this, preferring instead to frame the decisions as the
outcomes of a rational search for value-maximising alternatives or
the result of systematic and well-ordered institutional and
organisational processes. Yet understanding how personal and
emotional factors interact with broader institutional and
organisational influences to shape the deliberations and behaviour
of politicians and bureaucrats is paramount if we are to construct
a more useful, nuanced and dynamic picture of government
decision-making. This book draws on a variety of approaches to
examine individuals working in contemporary government, from
freshly-trained policy officers to former cabinet ministers and
prime ministers. It provides important new insights into how those
in government navigate their way through complex issues and
decisions based on developed expertise that fuses formal, rational
techniques with other learned behaviours, memories, emotions and
practiced forms of judgment at an individual level. This innovative
collection from leading academics across Australia, Europe, the
United Kingdom and North America will be of great interest to
researchers, educators, advanced students and practitioners working
in the fields of political science, public management and
administration, and public policy.
Taking Mesopotamia was originally inspired by Jenny Lewis's search
for her lost father - the young South Wales Borderer who fought in
the ill-fated Mesopotamian campaign of World War I. Through
reconstructed diary extracts, witness statements, formal poems and
free verse, the book extends into a wider exploration of the recent
Iraq wars. It also includes translations of a number of the poems
into Arabic, and photographs taken by Lewis's father on campaign in
1916. Woven throughout the book is a strand inspired by The Epic of
Gilgamesh, whose themes of hubris, abuse of power and fear of death
show us how little the world has changed in four thousand years.
The New Management Reader examines the circumstances and ideas that
are currently shaping management. The book is divided into two
sections. Part I looks at the ways in which change will have a
lasting impact on management. Key areas covered include gender
issues, ethical and green awareness, information technology and the
Ôshrinking world’. Part II focuses on the emerging issues and
concepts that will shape management thinking and practice in the
future, looking at information management, networking and
collaboration, new models of management, and high involvement
organizations.
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