Live Working Papers
Between policy and practice on graduate
employability: lost in translation?
with Annika Coughlin, Presented at Annual conference of the Society for Research
into Higher Education, Liverpool, December2008
Understanding the competencies of college graduates:
possession, position, or process?
Keynote presentation to International Forum on Higher Education Evaluation,
Taiwan National Normal University, October 2008
Between
the management of human resources and the governance of employment? The case
of industrial training in the UK
Presented at "Reconnecting Critical Management", the Fifth International
Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester Business School, 11-13 July
2007
Training in the UK and Public policy
from Carr to Leitch: the potential application of the governance perspective
to a troubled arena
Presented at the Professional Standards Conference of Chartered Institute of
Personnel and Development, Nottingham University, June 2007
Reconsidering Graduate
Employability: Beyond Possessive-Instrumentalism (.pdf file)
Presented at the Seventh International Conference on HRD Research and Practice
Across Europe, University of Tilburg, 22-24 May, 2006
Becoming a graduate, becoming a manager:
the warranting of emergent identity
Presented at Critique and Inclusivity: Opening the Agenda, the 4th International
Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Cambridge, July 2005
Beyond Learnerism: Learning, Practices, Emergent Identity
Presented at the Fifth International Conference on HRD Research and Practice
across Europe, University of Limerick, May 2004
The
learning turn in education and training: liberatory paradigm or oppressive ideology?
Paper presented at 'Critique and Inclusivity: Opening the Agenda', 3rd
International Critical Management Studies Conference, Manchester July 2003
Higher Education and the Learning Agenda: A Degenerative
Programme?
paper presented at 'Students and Learning: What is changing?', Annual conference
of the Society for Research into Higher Education, Glasgow, December2002
Participation
in an e-age: negotiation and the Moor Park Explore Club (with Margaret Grieco,
Napier University, and The Moor Park Explore Club, Moor Park Community Group,
North Tyneside)
Paper presented at British Academy of Management Annual Conference 2002, 'Voice
Off: Management at the Margins' sub-theme
Can only managers (learn to) manage?: Management, practice
and trajectories of emergent identity
Paper presented to 3rd International Connecting Learning and Critique Conference
Cambridge University, 17th -19th July 2002
Emergent identity, education and distributed assessment:
an ethnomethodological exploration
paper presented at "Ethnomethodology: A Critical Celebration conference",
University of Essex, March 2002
E-rules for radicals?: community organising in an e-world
presented at "Organization Theory in Transition: Transitional Societies; Transitional
Theories", the 9th International Congress of Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organisation
Studies, December 2001, Hong Kong
E-experimenting:
building the Centre for Social Policy Studies (University of Ghana) website
(with Nana Araba Apt and Margaret Grieco, for the Odyssey Group)
presented at "Organization Theory in Transition: Transitional Societies; Transitional
Theories", the 9th International Congress of Asia-Pacific Researchers in Organisation
Studies, December 2001, Hong Kong
Decontaminating the concepts of 'learning' and
'competence': education and modalities of emergent identity
Paper presented in Education Stream of Second International Conference on Critical
Management Studies, Manchester, 2001
Meeting
the moment: Microfinance, ICT and the social exclusion agenda.
with Margaret Grieco
Paper presented to Ethics, Information Technology and Social Exclusion Conference,
Bolton, February 2001.
Archiving
social practice: the management of transport boycotts
with Miriam Green and Margaret Grieco
Paper presented at the Eighth International Colloquium of the network of Asia-Pacific
Researchers in Organisation Studies, Sydney, Australia, December 2000
Relational
identity and relational technology: distributed responsibility and action in
modern commerce and administration
with Margaret Grieco
Paper presented at the Eighth International Colloquium of the network of Asia-Pacific
Researchers in Organisation Studies, Sydney, Australia, December 2000
Is Learning a Contaminated Concept?
Paper prepared for Learning and Practice Conference of the Learning and
Critique Network, Manchester, 8 Nov 2000
Reframing Learning: Performance, Identity
and Practice
Presented at Critical Contributions to Managing and Learning: 2nd Connecting
Learning and Critique Conference, Lancaster University, July 2000
‘Calling up culture: information spaces and information flows as the virtual dynamics of inclusion and exclusion', (with Steve Little and Margaret Grieco), presented at IFIP WG9.4 Conference: Information Flows, Local Improvisations and Work Practices, Cape Town, May 2000 (in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format)
Reframing the skills agenda in higher education: graduate
identity and the double warrant
Presented at conference on The Future Business of Higher Education, Lady
Margaret Hall, Oxford, March 2000
Electronic governance and commercial development
in Africa: the grassroots perspective.
Paper presented at the Institute for African Development, Cornell University,
September 2nd, 1999
Tele options for community business: an opportunity
for economic development in Africa.
with Margaret Grieco, The Business School, University of North London;
Paper presented to BITWorld '99, Cape Town - South Africa, 30th June-2nd
July,1999
The Making of Black Managers: Unspoken Issues of Identity Formation.
(with Gilbert Robinson).
Presented at The 1st International Conference on Critical Management Studies,
Manchester School of Management, UMIST, 14th -16th July 1999
The power of transparency:
the Internet, e-mail, and the Malaysian political crisis.
with Len Holmes, The Business School, University of North London;
Paper presented to Asian Management in Crisis conference, Association
of South East Asian Studies, UK, University of North London, 12th June, 1999
No space
is an island: ICT, electronic adjacency and civic empowerment. With Margaret
Grieco, The Business School, University of North London;
Paper presented at Conference on 'ICT Strategies for Islands and Small States',
UNESCO, Malta, March 1999.
Learning as a confidence trick: exorcising the ghost in the machine
Paper presented to conference on Emergent Themes in Management: Connecting
Learning and Crtique, Lancaster University and Leeds University, held at
University of Leeds, 15-17th July 1998.
One more time, transferable skills don’t exist
... (and what we should do about it)..
Presented at Higher Education for Capability conference, ‘Embedding Key Skills
Across the Curriculum', Nene College, Northampton, 27th February 1998
W(h)ither the Personnel Profession?
Presented to Conference on 'The Strategic Direction of HRM: Practice Meets
Academe: Dialogue or Disillusion?'
Nottingham Business School, 10th and 11th December 1997
Reframing the Ability-Based Curriculum in Higher Education
Presented to workshop of the Ability-Based Curriculum Network, London, 1996
The Making of Real Managers: Ideology,
Identity and Management Development
Presented at Conference on "The Strategic Direction of Human Resource Management:
Understanding and Practising Human Resource Management", Nottingham Business
School, December 1995
Competence and Capability:
From 'Confidence Trick' to the Construction of the Graduate Identity
Presented at conference on 'Beyond Competence to Capability and the Learning
Society', Higher Education for Capability, UMIST, November 1995
(Also published in O'Reilly, D. Cunningham, L. and Lester, S. (1998), Developing
the Capable Practitioner: professional capability through higher education,
London: Kogan Page)
The capability curriculum,
conventions of assessment and the construction of graduate employability
Presented at Conference on 'Understanding the Social World', University of Huddersfield,
17th-19th July 1995
Skills - A Social Perspective
Published in Assiter, A. (ed.) (1995) Transferable Skills in Higher Education,
London: Kogan Page
The Making of Real Managers: Ideology, Identity
and Management Development
Presented at Conference on "The Strategic Direction of Human Resource Management:
Understanding and Practising Human Resource Management", Nottingham Business
School, December 1995
Is competence a 'confidence trick'?
Keynote presentation at 'What is Competence?', the inaugural conference of The
Competence Network, Centre for Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester,
1st December 1994.
Knocking on the door, ringing the bell: higher education, graduate employment and the double warrant
paper presented at 'Recording Achievement' conference, University of North London and Higher
Education for Capability, March 1994
The Domestication of Management Knowledge?
Recent UK State Intervention in Management Education
Presented at 1993 Colloquium of the European Group for Organisational Studies,
on "The Production and Diffusion of Managerial and Organisational Knowledge"
Talking of Competence: How to Rescue a Useful Concept
presented at `Innovations at the Crossroads' Conference,
University College of North Wales, Bangor, January 1993
Understanding Professional Competence:
Beyond the Limits of Functional Analysis
presented at Course Tutors' Conference, Institute of Personnel Management at
UMIST, 6-8 July 1992
Dysfunctional Analysis? A Critical
Analysis Of The 'Standards In Training & Development' (with Sheila Marsh)
Presented at conference 'A Qualified Success? Critical Perspectives on Competence
Based Education and Training', held at Polytechnic of North London, 27 September
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