Dr Rachel Ashworth

Qualifications

BA (Hons) Public Administration (Glamorgan) 1992
PhD (Cardiff) 2000 'Promises Versus Performance: An Empirical Analysis of the Relationship Between Election Manifesto Pledges and Local Government Policy-Making'.

Teaching profile

Rachel teaches:

BSc Business Management Year 1: Business Environment
BSc Business Management Year 2: Managing Public Services
BSc Business Management Year 3: Management and Public Policy in the EU

Selected publications

Recent Publications

Ashworth, R. and Entwistle, T. The Contingent Relationship between Public Management Reform and Public Service Work, in Blyton, Heery and Turnbull (eds), Reassessing the Employment Relationship, London: Palgrave, forthcoming 2010.

Ashworth, R., Boyne, G. and Entwistle, T. (2010) Theories of Public Service Improvement, Oxford: OUP.

Boyne, G. A. and Ashworth, R. E. (2010) Organizing Government, London: Sage.

Ashworth, R.E., Boyne, G.A. and Delbridge, R. (2009) Escape from the Iron Cage? Organizational Change and Isomorphic Pressures in the Public Sector, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19, 1, 165-187.

Newman, J. and Ashworth, R. ‘Changing Equalities: Politics, Policies and Practices’, in Bovaird, T. and Loffler, E. (2009) Public Management and Governance, London: Routledge.

Ashworth, R.E., Snape, S. and Aulakh, S. (2007) Plugging the Accountability Gap: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Regional Scrutiny, Environment and Planning 'C', 25, 2, 194-211.

Entwistle, T., Marinetto, M. and Ashworth, R.E. (2007) 'New Labour, the New Public Management and Changing Forms of Human Resource Management', International Journal of Human Resource Management, 18, 9, p.

Recent conference presentations

Andrews, R. and Ashworth, R. ‘Feeling the Heat? HRM Reform and Workforce Diversity in the English Fire Service’, presented at the International Labour Process Conference, Rutgers University, March 2010.

Ashworth, R.E., Boyne, G.A. and Entwistle, T.E. ‘Public Service Improvement: Theories and Evidence’, symposium presentation, BAM conference, Brighton, September 2009.

Ashworth, R.E., Delbridge, R. and Boyne, G.A. ‘Relationships between Societal Logics and Innovation Outcomes: The Case of Local Government Reform in the UK’, presented at EGOS, Barcelona, July 2009.

Activities

Rachel is a member of the Council of the British Academy of Management (BAM).

She established and convenes the Public Management and Governance BAM Special Interest Group, in addition to co-chairing the Public Management and Governance Track at the British Academy of Management conference.

She is a member of the ESRC Peer Review College for Research Grants and is a member of the ESRC Postgraduate Framework Referee College.

She sits on the editorial board of Local Government Studies and reviews articles for JPART, Public Administration, Policy and Politics, International Journal of HRM, Local Government Studies and the British Journal of Management.