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Rosamund Chester Buxton BA (Hons), Liverpool, MPhil, Glasgow and Strathclyde
Research Associate
- Accounting and Financial Management Research Group
- Publications
- +44 (0)1509 223176
- BE.2.47 (Sir Richard Morris Building)
- R.B.ChesterBuxton@lboro.ac.uk
Rosamund is a Research Associate working on a variety of projects including the use of the shared services model to deliver public and private sector services
. Rosamund has a BA Honours degree in Economic and Social History from the University of Liverpool and a Masters of Philosophy in Social History from the University of Glasgow and the University of Strathclyde.
Prior to joining the School in May 2011, Rosamund worked in public sector research for seven years. Firstly as a Assistant Research & Strategy Officer at Coventry City Council, where she developed research and data for council performance measurement and service delivery. Secondly as a Researcher at the Audit Commission, where she delivered qualitative and quantitative research for Audit Commission National Studies.
Rosamund’s research interests include:
- the application of value for money principles to the delivery of public and private sector services;
- using performance measurement techniques to deliver value for money in public services;
- the use of combined qualitative and quantitative research methods and secondary and administrative data in academic research;
- the interplay between academic and public sector research; and
- the changing role of gender and the feminine in the home and the workplace in the UK from 1700 to the present day.
Publications
Conferences:
Chester Buxton, R. and Radnor, Z., ‘How do they do it?: Understanding Back Office Efficiency Savings made by English Councils’, 13th IRSPM Annual Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 2009
Journal articles:
Chester Buxton, R. and Radnor, Z., ‘How do they do it?: Understanding Back Office Efficiency Savings made by English Councils’, International Journal of Public Sector Management, to be published
Research contributions to Audit Commission National Studies
Audit Commission, Lofty ambitions: The role of councils in reducing domestic CO2 emissions, Audit Commission, 2009
Audit Commission, When it comes to the crunch: How councils are responding to the recession, Audit Commission, 2009
Audit Commission, Risk and return: English local authorities and the Icelandic banks, Audit Commission, 2009
Audit Commission and Tenant Services Authority, Tenant involvement: Assessing landlords’ progress, Audit Commission and Tenant Services Authority, 2010
Audit Commission, Improving value for money in adult social care, Audit Commission, 2011
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