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Dr Steven Parker

Lecturer In Public Management

Department for Public Leadership & Social Enterprise

steven.parker@open.ac.uk

Biography

D.SocSci (Bristol); MA/CQSW (Leicester); BA Hons (Essex); PGCertHE; SFHEA.

Associate Lecturer in Public Management at the Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham (INLOGOV).  

Researcher in local goverment and public services.

Previously employed in local government as a social worker and manager.

Publications

Book Chapter

Embedding critical project management approaches into public entrepreneurship (2025)

Multi-Agency Safeguarding as a form of Public Entrepreneurship. (2025)

Leading and recognizing public value (2024)

Understanding renewed Public Service Ethos (PSE) in public management: policy, purpose, and pedagogy (2022)

Elected Officials in an Era of Austerity: Stewards, Mediators, and Catalysts (2020)

What Does Working in the Public Services Mean? Describing the public service ethos in practice (2016)

Digital Artefact

Public value in public values (2025)

Standardising multi-agency safeguarding hubs (MASH): Building a framework to effectively identify and manage risk (2023)

Journal Article

Navigating co-production with disadvantaged service users: Local heritage as an agent of value co-creation (2025)

New development: Is Nolan enough? Why senior officers need to understand public values at the street-level perspective (2025)

From apothecary to ‘McPharmacist’? Skills utilisation amongst community pharmacists in England (2025)

The contribution of project management to public management: Developing conceptual linkages (2025)

The struggle for linking strategic and front-line outcomes in local government service delivery (2024)

Local government procurement in English regions: organisations, collaborations and mechanisms (2024)

Editorial: Public value for all? Considering the parameters of public value co-creation (2023)

A typology of dis/value in public service delivery (2023)

After the applause: understanding public management and public service ethos in the fight against Covid - 19 (2023)

Leading for public value in multi-agency collaboration (2023)

New development: Expanding public service value to include dis/value (2021)

Leading and recognizing public value (2019)

New development: What is the meaning of philosophy for local government officers? (2019)

New development: Reconnecting public service ethos and multi-agency collaboration. What are the possibilities and prospects for new local collaborative environments? (2016)

Debate: Public service motivation, citizens and leadership roles (2015)

Other

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

Report

Enhancing Support of Diverse Motherhoods for Work Inclusion: A Policy Brief (2025)

Supporting Diverse Motherhoods for Work Inclusion (2025)

Responsible Hazardous Waste Management: Challenges and Opportunities for Small and Medium Businesses (2025)

The Future of Local Councils (2023)

The Twenty-First Century Councillor – Lessons from the Literature (2016)

The 21st Century Councillor (2016)