Equal Opportunities International: Volume 26 Issue 4

Passing the buck: gender and management of research production in UK Higher Education: Management perspectives from a case study

Catherine Fletcher

The paper seeks to evaluate the views of manager‐academics on gender equity and research in one UK institution.

Training managers constructing their identities in English health and care agencies

Linda Bell

The “Training to Communicate” research (1999‐2001) explored “communication” training needs and provision in 76 health and social care public and independent sector agencies in…

Exploring the policy and research implications for the British National Health Service and its customers

Anne Fearfull, Nicolina Kamenou

The paper aims to explore tensions around race, ethnicity, culture and religion and discusses the potential impact on the delivery of quality health care in the UK through the…

Provision of public services in an age of managerialism: looking better but feeling worse

Kazem Chaharbaghi

The paper seeks to examine the masculinist assumptions and effects of managerialism on public services through a trifocal model that considers their provision along professional…

Contested terrains within the neo‐liberal project: The re‐organisation of services for children in Europe: gender, citizenship and the forging of New Public Management within professional child care social work practice in Europe

Marion Ellison

This paper sets out to explore the relationship between gender, New Public Management (NPM), citizenship and professional and user group identities and relationships within child…

Women's movements: abeyant or still on the move?

Jim Barry, John Chandler, Elisabeth Berg

The paper seeks to offer a consideration of the adequacy of the concept of abeyance in accounting for women's movement processes in non‐social movement organisations in periods…

Guest editorial

Jim Barry, Elisabeth Berg, John Chandler