Civil and public service
Research Topic
Language: English
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Research problems linked to this topic
- How can we best measure staff engagement and capture their views on more complex aspects of systems leadership in the Civil Service, which move away from the simple hierarchical model of leadership down managerial chains?
- How can public services contribute to reducing the ethnic disparities identified by the Race Disparity Audit’s website Ethnicity Facts and Figures?
- What is the range of productivity performance across public services in the UK? What are the characteristics of highest productivity public services and what needs to happen to raise productivity in lower productivity services? How could existing measures of public sector productivity be further improved? Which countries have the highest productivity in their delivery of public services? What lessons can the UK learn from international best practice?
- What does ‘ideal’ judicial diversity look like? What promotes, enables, and sustains diversity within senior levels of the judiciary? At what point within a career path does enabling activity lead to greater future judicial diversity?
- What does the evidence show was more or less effective about the particularly intense engagement between local and national government during the pandemic, and what we have learnt about the key enablers developed between the tiers of government in this last period? Which of these would most helpfully be sustained in future (e.g. data sharing)?
- What impact do eligibility criteria for judicial roles have on recruitment and diversity, and does this enable sustainability of the judiciary? What motivates individuals to apply for, and remain within, judicial roles?
- How is demand for public services expected to vary ten, twenty, thirty years from now? What will be the main sources of changing demand? What actions need to be taken now to best prepare?
- How can we ensure the all-round capability of civil servants in a changing world? What will be the best learning and development methods in the future Civil Service? What technologies should government be exploring in order to enable this?
- How can the Civil Service stay abreast of, and learn from, new practices in organisational design/operating models across third, private, and the wider public sector? How can information taken from academic research feed into these developments?