Dr Emma Clarence

Professional biography

Emma has long standing academic research interests in women and politics, and public policy, as well as non-academic interests in local development.

Publications and reports include:

with Edward Wastnidge, 'International Divisions: Territory and Economics', D818, The OU, 2023.

with Edward Wasnidge, 'Conceptualising International Division', D818, The OU, 2023.

with Teresa Ashe, 'Engaging with global challenges', in D113 Global challenges: social science in action 2, edited by Kathryn Medien, Andy O’Cain and Michael Pryke, The OU, 2023.

‘European Citizenship’, DD316 Modern Political Ideas, Milton Keynes: The OU, 2019.

'The Russian Revolution: The role of ideas', DD316 Modern Political Ideas, Milton Keynes: The OU, 2019.

At Metro Dynamics contributed to:

• Great Britain’s Western Powerhouse, London: Metro Dynamics, 2016.
• AdiEU: The Impact of Brexit on UK Cities, London: Metro Dynamics, 2016.
• No-one left behind: in pursuit of growth for the benefit of everyone: Report of the Barking and Dagenham Independent Growth Commission, London, 2016.

with Madeleine Gabriel, People Helping People: the future of public services, London: Nesta, 2014.

with Kathleen Stokes et al., Making Sense of the UK Collaborative Economy, London: Nesta, 2014.

‘Social infrastructure and social services’, in Centre for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ed.) Regional Transformation in the Balkan Countries, Pecs: Hungarian Academy of Science, 2011.

with Elisa Campestrin, ‘Employment and Labour Markets’, in Centre for Regional Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (ed.) Regional Transformation in the Balkan Countries, Pecs: Hungarian Academy of Science, 2011.

with Antonella Noya and Gary Craig (eds.) Community Capacity Building: Creating a Better Future Together, Paris: OECD, 2009.

with Antonella Noya (eds.) The Social Economy: Building Inclusion Economies, Paris: OECD, 2007.

with William A. Maloney and Grant Jordan, ‘Activating Participation: Generating Support for Campaign Groups,’ in S. Roßteutscher (ed.) Rescuing Democracy: The Lure of the Associative Elixir, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 133-150.

‘Gender’ in D. McIver (ed.) Contemporary Political Issues, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 131-144.

‘Social Policy: Women and Asylum in the United Kingdom’, in J. Freedman (ed.) Gender and Insecurity: Migrant Women in Europe, London: Ashgate Publishing, 2003, pp.19-33.

‘Railways: A Policy Derailed’, Parliamentary Affairs: A Journal of Comparative Politics, Vol. 56. No. 3, 2003, pp. 456-470.

‘One Nation’ and ‘Pauline Hanson’ entries in E.E. Cashmore (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Race and Ethnic Relations, London: Routledge, 2003.

with Grant Jordan, ‘Government, Civil Service and Public Policies,’ in R. Axtmann (ed.) Understanding Democratic Politics: Concepts, Institutions and Movements, London: Sage, 2003, pp. 114-123.

Guest editor of Public Policy and Administration special issue on Evidence Based Policy, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2002.

‘Technocracy Reinvented: the new evidence based policy movement’, Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 17, No. 3, 2002, pp. 1-11.

‘Ministerial Responsibility and the Scottish Qualifications Agency’, Public Administration, Vol. 80, No. 4, 2002, pp. 791-803.

with Christopher Painter, ‘UK Local Action Zones and Changing Urban Governance’, Urban Studies, Vol. 38, No. 8, 2001, pp. 1215-1232.

with Christopher Painter, ‘New Labour and Intergovernmental Management: Flexible Networks or Performance Control?’, Public Management: an international journal of theory and politics, Vol. 2, No. 4, 2000, pp. 477-498.

‘Citizenship and Identity: the case of Australia’, in S. Roseneil and J. Seymour (eds.), Practising Identities: Power and Resistance, London: Macmillan, 1999.

with Christopher Painter, ‘Area based partnerships: UK Action Zones and collaborative purpose’, in S. Shruijer (ed.) Multi-organizational partnerships and co-operative strategy, Amsterdam: Dutch University Press, 1999, pp. 123-128

with Christopher Painter, ‘Public Services Under New Labour: Collaborative Discourses and Local Networking’, Public Policy and Administration, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1998, pp. 8-22.

Emma has taught and contributed to a range of Open University modules including the current modules DD102, DD103, DD211 and DD316, D113 and D818.

From August 2022 Emma will be module co-chair of DD211.

As a member of the module team for the Module DD316 Emma contributed to the Blocks on citizenship and revolution, co-authoring module material and developing associated audio and video material.

For the postgraduate module D818, Emma contributed to the opening weeks of Block One on economic inequality and for D113co-authored module material introducing the academic disciplines of economics, politics, philosophy and international relations.