South-East Midlands Research Articles

An Exploratory Study of Knowledge Management for Enhanced Efficiency and Effectiveness: The Transformation of the Planning System in the UK Local Government

This paper explores the theoretical and conceptual frameworks, which are informing discussions about how the local government planning system in the UK can embrace the potential of knowledge management to deliver a smart and sustainable approach to physical and urban planning. The general environment of UK planning is contextualized. A number of frameworks are identified: Planning performance agreements (PPAs model); national planning policy framework (NPPF model); Killian pretty review (KPR model); planning portal (PP model); control shift framework (CSF model); framework for communities and local government (FCLG model); and the Nonaka and Takeuchi knowledge framework (SECI model). The authors propose a pragmatic framework (CMT model) and set this in the context of fieldwork being carried out over a period in five planning authorities in the South East Midlands of the UK. The implementation of such a framework will require a recognition of both social factors and technologies, including the key supportive and preventive factors. The growing availability of technology platforms, familiarity with the digital environment and factors pushing market and organisational change provide opportunities to realise necessary and important changes.

The Role of Innovative Communication Channels, Effective Coordination Strategy and Knowledge Management in the UK Local Government Planning System

This research is an exploratory study of innovative communication channels, effective coordination strategy and integrated knowledge management in the UK local government planning system. The UK local government planning system at present suffers delays, which slow down or prevent people building new homes, creating new facilities and bringing disused or neglected land and buildings back into productive use. This study has been carried out in the subject area to explore enhanced efficiency and effectiveness in the UK local government planning system. An integrated knowledge-based planning system is considered as an appropriate solution to achieve smart and sustainable development in the local government planning system. This research study is based primarily upon fieldwork conducted in five participating local authorities in the South East Midlands (Bedford Borough Council, Central Bedfordshire Council, Luton Borough Council, Milton Keynes Council and Northampton Borough Council) and on literature drawn from many different disciplines. A mixed methods approach is chosen for the research fieldwork. The key data collection methods applied during the fieldwork include: structured questionnaires, semi-structured interviews, online group forums, email correspondence, prearranged observations, literature review, document analysis and reviews of the local government publications and their statistical reports. The key purpose of this study is to investigate how the planning system in the UK local government can be transformed from its current "As-Is" state towards a smart and sustainable development future "To-Be" state.

Dialects in the Harley Miscellany: The Song of the Husbandman and The Poet’s Repentance

This essay reappraises the provenance of two richly alliterative lyrics in London, British Library, MS Harley 2253, The Song of the Husbandman and The Poet’s Repentance. It examines the earlier findings by G. L. Brook in his study of the original dialects of the Harley lyrics, and it argues that Brook’s conclusion, that these poems were composed in the south-east or South-East Midlands, is unsound. The evidence provided by rhymes, vocabulary, and verse form in fact suggests that both of these poems came from a region close to the Harley scribe’s own dialect area on the border of north Herefordshire.

For gode in Chaucer and the Gawain Poet

<i>For gode</i> in Chaucer and the <i>Gawain</i> Poet

Spalding’s Alliterative Katherine Hymn: A Guild Connection from the South-East Midlands?

Richard Spalding’s inventive alliterative hymn to St. Katherine of Alexandria, ca. 1400, is an East Midland product of the “high revival.” On grounds of internal, dialectal, and other circumstantial evidence it can be argued that the poem may have been composed and inscribed on a roll for the guild of St. Katherine in Stamford, Lincolnshire, or for a guild member. Conjectural links can be made between this well-documented parish guild, the local church, and the adjacent Carmelite friary. The composition of verse hagiography, often for patrons, was a distinctive part of the work of East Anglian literary friars. Such “Englishing” of Latin authorities points to the friar as an acknowledged member of a society in which his convent, confraternity, patron, patron saint, and reading matter of the saint’s life were also correlated; however, Spalding also appears to be influenced by the strong literary tradition of the dramatic works of this richly cultural region.

Consumer misbehaviour: an exploratory study of shopliftin

AbstractAlthough customer theft is traditionally researched from a criminological or psychological perspective, this paper investigates shoplifting as consumer behaviour, demonstrating that well‐defined models of normal consumer behaviour can be applied to aberrant behaviour such as shop theft. Empirical research is used to show how adults and teenagers form belief systems that amount to rational intentions in the decision to shoplift. The theory of planned behaviour (Ajzen, 1991) was used as the basis for two self‐report surveys which investigated the interaction between consumers' attitudes and beliefs about shoplifting and their perceptions of retail security. The first survey utilised a sample of shoppers from the South East Midlands; the second a sample of school students from the same area (861 respondents in total, 109 respondents admitting to shoplifting in the previous year). Both studies indicate that the decision to shoplift is influenced by pro‐shoplifting attitudes, social factors, opportunities for shoplifting and perceptions of low risks of apprehension. This implies that the deterrent messages we use must be reassessed. Copyright © 2002 Henry Stewart Publications.

Glacial erosion of the Wash and Fen basin and the deposition of the chalky till of eastern England

It is widely accepted that the low-lying area of eastern England comprising the Wash and the Fens was excavated by the Anglian ice sheet. Moving first from the northwest and then from the north, the ice moved rapidly across the deformable bed on the Jurassic mudrocks and rode up over the Chalk escarpment, eroding the scarp face and setting back the lowered escarpment by several kilometres. The eroded material was deposited beyond the basin as the Chalky till of the southeast Midlands and East Anglia. In this paper reconstruction of the form of the preglacial landscape of the Jurassic and Cretaceous outcrops allows estimation of the excavated volume of both mudrock (312 km 3) and of chalk (243 km 3), a total of about 555 km 3. This volume, and the lithological mix, matches closely the reconstructed volume (estimate 363 km 3) of the now-dissected chalky till around the margins of the glacial lobe. The amount of erosion achieved by the Anglian ice sheet amounts to 3–4000 Bubnoffs (B) — i.e. mm ka −1, even if we allow 20 ka for a complex glaciation; this far exceeds rates of erosion recorded anywhere with the British Isles today: Even if averaged over the 440,000 yr since that event the rate is 167 B, far greater than the erosion achieved on similar rocks within the adjacent unglaciated Thames basin, estimated at 45 B.

Changes in Membership Recruitment and Social Composition in Ten Rural Old Dissent Churches in the South-East Midlands, 1715–1851

Grace aux sources provenant de dix Eglises rurales non-conformistes anglaises du sud-est des Midlands, l'A. entend analyser l'evolution du recrutement et de la composition sociale de ces Eglises entre 1715 et 1851. L'idee d'un changement numerique et social de la dissidence entre 1715 et 1851 est confirmee par les sources bien que dans l'ensemble, ces changements se soient fait sentir plus tardivement que l'on a bien voulu le dire. La prosperite de chaque Eglise semble avoir ete un facteur determinant du changement; la proportion des femmes s'est accrue, le nombre de gentlemen diminue

The Romano-British farmstead at Odell its and setting: some reflections on the Roman landscape of the south-east Midlands

(1981). The Romano-British farmstead at Odell its and setting: some reflections on the Roman landscape of the south-east Midlands. Landscape History: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 17-26.

Brooks Field, Southeast Midland Basin, Irion County, Texas: ABSTRACT

Brooks Field, Southeast Midland Basin, Irion County, Texas: ABSTRACT

IEE South-East Midland Centre: Chairman's address. Take care of the pennies

IEE South-East Midland Centre: Chairman's address. Take care of the pennies

IEE South-East Midland Centre, Rugby Area: Chairman's address. Review of economics of security of supply

IEE South-East Midland Centre, Rugby Area: Chairman's address. Review of economics of security of supply

UNEMPLOYMENT AND REGIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURES

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale GeografieVolume 64, Issue 5 p. 325-331 UNEMPLOYMENT AND REGIONAL DEMOGRAPHIC AND ECONOMIC STRUCTURES SOME UNDERLYING DIMENSIONS * A. J. PARKER, Corresponding Author A. J. PARKER Dublin**Lecturer in geography, University College Dublin.Search for more papers by this author A. J. PARKER, Corresponding Author A. J. PARKER Dublin**Lecturer in geography, University College Dublin.Search for more papers by this author First published: January 1973 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9663.1973.tb00102.xCitations: 1 *The author is indebted to the guidance of Dr. J. Salt and Dr. P. A. Wood who were intimately concerned with the South-East Midlands project while the author was at University College London, and to Stuart Daultrey for commenting upon the manuscript. Grateful thanks are also due to the government departments who provided access to their records. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume64, Issue5January 1973Pages 325-331 RelatedInformation

The Viatores, Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands. London: V. Gollancz, 1964. Pp. 526, including 138 pp. of strip maps and 18 pp. of sections. £3 10s.

The Viatores, Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands. London: V. Gollancz, 1964. Pp. 526, including 138 pp. of strip maps and 18 pp. of sections. £3 10<i>s</i>.

Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands. By The Viatores. 8½ × 5½. Pp. 526, including 166 pp. maps and diagrams + pls. 17. London: Victor Gollancz Ltd.1964. £3. 10s.

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Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands. By ‘The Viatores’

Roman Roads in the South-East Midlands. By ‘The V<scp>iatores</scp>’

The Fossils and Palæontological Affinities of the Neocomian Deposits of Upware and Brickhill

PHOSPHATIC deposits may be said to occur, in this country, on all horizons from the Bala limestone to the crag, yet do they most abound in the “strata below the chalk,” and particularly in those portions of the Cretaceous system which underlie the chalk of the south east Midlands. Thus Cambridge is almost as famous for its coprolites as Newcastle for its coals, and the economic inferiority of the Mesozoic rocks has of late years been partially redeemed, in consequence of the numerous workings in these valuable beds.