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  • Do a PhD part-time from anywhere with me: Jem’s Quarterly #7

    Do a PhD part-time from anywhere with me: Jem’s Quarterly #7

    A PhD can be a fascinating experience that seeks relevance and draws on many schools of thought. … Continue reading Do a PhD part-time from anywhere with me: Jem’s Quarterly #7 → Read more

  • Jem’s Quarterly: Le Freak, Ain’t Chic

    Jem’s Quarterly: Le Freak, Ain’t Chic

    Are you freaked out by climate change? We should be. But it is difficult to stay freaked out for long. So I’ve often distracted myself with other important things to do. Or with fun. Or retreated into existential naval gazing. I’ve sometimes thought about tuning out and living lightly. But I’ve kept coming back to the question:… Read more

  • Postcard from Post-Britannia

    A history of the end of the UK 2008-2018.. . After bankers ransacked the country in 2008, the resultant unhappiness from unemployment and austerity was directed by corporate and government media away from banking and towards others that people could feel self righteous about: the unemployed, immigrants, muslims. This was stoked by a party previously founded by the bankers, called… Read more

  • Wild Over Algorithms: Jem’s Quarterly 5

    Wild Over Algorithms: Jem’s Quarterly 5

    I ignored it for a while. But as a Prof, it was time to submit to Google Scholar and let their algorithms pass judgement on my work. So I’ve an h-index of 20 and an i10-index of 35, from over 2000 citations. Have I lost you yet? Well at least most of my publications are… Read more

  • 2015 Publications

    2015 Publications

    In 2015 my research focused on currency innovation, leadership and corporate social responsibility. I shared some of this research via publications. Here are the links… My published academic outputs from 2015 On monetary reform and currency innovation… Ruddick, W., Richards, M. and Bendell, J. (2015) ‘Complementary Currencies for Sustainable Development in Kenya: The Case of… Read more

  • Beyond the Leadership Impasse

    Books on leadership are flying off the shelves and managers are flying in to leadership courses around the world. Is this helping them, their organisations and wider society? Or might some of the advice and training do more harm than good? More research on leadership is exposing some of the limiting assumptions of mainstream ideas and… Read more

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