Degrees

BA (First Class) in Social Sciences (Politics) University of York 1968

B.Litt. University of Glasgow 1971

D.Litt. University of York 1987

Employment

Director, ESRC Research Programme, 'Public Services: Quality, Performance, Delivery', 2004-present

Gladstone Professor of Government and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford University, 2001-present

Professor of Public Administration and Public Policy, LSE, 1989-2000

Professor of Government and Public Administration, Sydney University 1986-9

Senior Teaching Fellow, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore 1984-5

Lecturer, Department of Politics, University of Glasgow, 1972-77 and 1979-86

Research Fellow, SSRC Machinery of Government Project, University of York (Institute of Social and Economic Research) 1977-9

Honours

Elected Fellow of the British Academy, 1996

Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics, 2001-3

Honorary Professor, School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham, 1995-2000

Elected Academician, Academy of Learned Societies in the Social Sciences 2001

Awarded Public Management Research Association's H. George Frederickson Award for Career Contributions to Public Management Research, 2007

Elected fellow of the Sunningdale Institute, 2007

June Pallot Award for Best Article in the International Public Management Journal 2008, for "Rating the Rankings: Assessing International Rankings of Public Service Performance" (with Ruth Dixon and Craig Beeston).

Routledge Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Field of Public Management, 2010, from the International Research Society for Public Management

Guest of honour at the 2010 High Table at The Center for Public Administration and Policy at VirginiaTech on March 26-27, 2010 in Blacksburg, Virginia. Details and photos can be found here.

Visiting Positions

Visiting Professor, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong 1999-2000

D.N. Chester Senior Research Fellow, Nuffield College, Oxford, Trinity Term 1995

Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship, January-March 1995, project on regulation of public bureaucracies by other bureaucracies (spent at the Humboldt University, Berlin and University of Copenhagen)

Simon Senior Research Fellow, University of Manchester, autumn term 1994

Visiting Research Fellow, Project on "Staatsaufgaben" Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, University of Bielefeld, 1989

Visiting Research Fellow, Project on "Steuerung und Erfolgskontrolle im öffentlichen Sektor" Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, University of Bielefeld, Mar-Aug 1982