Welcome. This website comprises mostly Hilary's sociological papers and articles about patriarchy, (gendered) harmful practices (e.g. female genital mutilation / FGM) and thoughts on science, health, environmental issues, sociological analysis, social policy and good practice.
Regionalism And The Very High Skills Knowledge Economy
Which is the more challenging?
Is it to install, say, a number of large-scale commercial manufacturing units for similar but complex products in several sites across Europe? Or to bring to functionality, as other possible example, a particle accelerator (synchrotron) involving resources from many separate locations, but on one site? And who, in each case, should lead the development of the programme?
Hilary's Publications
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Hilary’s more recent public commentary is posted as on this website as the category Hilary’s Publications, Lectures & Talks.
Hilary’s lectures, reports, publications responsibilities & published papers include ~
(tbc) 2010: A Million Small Conversations, book on dialogue to support positive public service and other social transitions in a rapidly changing world
(tbc) late 2009: ‘Green Hubs, Social Inclusion and Community Engagement’, in a professional journal
2009: ‘From Regeneration to Sustainability: A northern take on knowledge’, Journal of Urban Regeration and Renewal, October
2009: ‘Where should we put the ‘evidence base’ when we make policy?’, New Start blog, July
2009: Biography (‘The tale of a jobbing sociologist’), British Sociological Association Sociologists Outside Academia magazine, June
2009: ‘Can Liverpool’s Arts And Culture Businesses Thrive Post-2008?’, Liverpool Chamber magazine of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, January / February
2009: ‘Was Liverpool a truly inclusive Capital of Culture in 2008?’, New Start magazine, January
2008: ‘Arachnid ‘art’, big toys and cultural communties’, a-n magazine, December
2008: ‘Liverpool 08: Cultural Turn or Cultural Tourism?’, lecture at the Architectural Association seminar supported by the Architectural Review, London, 5 December
2008: ‘If only scientists could remember – science has its responsibilities’, an analysis of the DIUS A Vision for Science and Society, Science Review, 5 November.
2008: DIUS Science and Society consultation submission, October
2008: From ‘Regeneration to Sustainability: A Northern Take On Knowledge’, keynote address at the NUREC conference, Liverpool, 28 July
2008: ‘Regeneration Rethink’ (equality and diversity), Public Service Review: Transport, Local Government and the Regions, issue 12, Spring
2008: ‘Places for People: Hope Street Quarter as a case study’, Communities and the Public Realm Masterclass, Bradford, 21 April
2008: ‘Alice in economic context’, (re: Big Science in Regional Economic Contexts: Daresbury Laboratory and the ALICE programme) Education Guardian letters page, 13 April
2008: Introductory speaker (and instigator) at the BURA Equality and Diversity Network Launch, London, 20 February
2008: Member, Editorial Support Team, Neighbourhood: The International Journal of Neighbourhood Renewal
2007: Putting scientific research in context, The Guardian (letters), 17 February
2006: ‘Can I have a speaker that reflects the community? Too white, too male and too posh. It’s time conferences had an injection of diversity’, New Start, 27 October, p.11 (website version)
2006: ‘Should women be starting more businesses?’, Vision (Liverpool Daily Post‘s regional business magazine), Summer, p.52
2006: Sure Start in Halewood: Service Provision Overview, report for Knowsley Metropolitan Borough Council, March
2006: ‘No-Win or Win-Win Gender and Babies Agenda?‘, Diverse Liverpool , March, pp. 113-115
2006: ‘Knowledge Economies and Big Science: A challenge for governance,’ Centre for Local Economic Strategies (CLES) Local Work: Voice, No.68, February (website version)
2006: ‘Make a move too far and you might find yourself exposed’, New Start, 27 January, p.11 (website version)
2005: ‘Regional Issues around the Very High Skills Knowledge Economy’, Knowledge Economy Network Conference, London
2005: Evaluation Report on the Positive Activities for Young People (PAYP) & Schools and Youth Service (SaYS) Collaborative Programme, Salford Youth Service
2005: ‘The Hope Street Quarter, Liverpool’, Northern European Cathedrals Conference, Liverpool2002: ‘Cultural Tourism as a Catalyst for Renaissance’, Mersey Partnership Cultural Impact Conference.
2000: Paper presented to the Secretary of State for Culture, and the Millennium Commissioners on the Hope Street Millennium Festival, London, September
2000: ‘Imagine all the people – and all the things they’d do…..‘, Manifesto for a New Liverpool (eds: M. Lyons & J. Egan), University of Liverpool et al
2000: Art at the Heart: The Role of Established Cultural Quarters in City Renaissance (commissioning editor, for HOPES: The Hope Street Association)
1987-96: Member of Editorial Board of Gender and Education
1993: ‘The Sociology of Science and the Science of Society’, Chapter 1 of Sociology Reviewed (eds: T. Lawson et al), Collins Educational
1991 onwards: articles and reports in the arts media and cultural publications (eg: Classical Music magazine, writing as Frances South) & many response / positional documents for CAMPAM and HOPES.
1991: ‘Gender, Curriculum and Assessment Issues at 14-16+’, Gender and Education, vol.3, no.1 (March)
1990: ‘Health Education’, Chapter 4 in The New Social Curriculum (ed: B. Dufour), Cambridge University Press
1986-90: Editor, Social Science Teacher (national professional journal)
1989: ‘”Recent, Relevant Experience”: How CATE legitimates narrowly defined concepts of teacher education’ (with W. Boxall), Journal of Further and Higher Education, vol.13, no.3 (Autumn)
1987: ‘Epidemiology and Community Health:a strained connection?’, Social Science & Medicine, vol.25, no.8 – later cited by WHO
1987: ‘Striking at the Heart: sociology’s place in the school curriculum’, The Guardian, 11 August
1987: The National Curriculum 5 – 16: Response of the Joint Forum of Academic and Teaching Associations in the Social Sciences
1986: Paper delivered to the Hungarian Academy of Sciences / SANA symposium of The Socio-Economic Consequences of World War Three (July, Budapest)
1986: ATSS Submission to the Winfield ESRC Enquiry on PhD Completion Rates
1984: ‘Doctors and Patients – Bird’s Eye or Worm’s Eye View?’, Scottish Medicine (December)
1983: ‘Women University Teachers of Natural Science, 1971-2: An Empirical Study‘, Social Studies of Science, vol.13, no.1, (February) (Report of M.Sc. research of same title)
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Hilary Burrage is a consultant, writer and practitioner sociologist with wide experience in regeneration, knowledge ecology and economy, sustainability and the delivery of social policy. Previously a college Senior Lecturer, Hilary is now a board director, researcher, coach and speaker. Also a community activist, and with regional and national experience with environmental, business, health, culture and regeneration bodies, Hilary has worked in many contexts, from Liverpool via London to Prague. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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