Professor George Boyne

Professor George Boyne
Professor George Boyne
Professor George Boyne

Principal & Vice-Chancellor

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boyne@abdn.ac.uk
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+44 (0)1224 272135
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+44 (0)1224 272134
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Principal's Office, University Office
Old Aberdeen Campus
Regent Walk
AB24 3FX

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Biography

Professor George Boyne became Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen on 1 August 2018.

Professor Boyne led the creation of the University’s Aberdeen 2040 strategy which was launched in February 2020 to mark the 525th anniversary of the foundation of Kings College in Old Aberdeen. Aberdeen 2040, which builds directly on the university’s foundational purpose to be open to all and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in the service of others, won the Higher Education Strategic Planners Association award for University strategy of the year in 2021.

Professor Boyne is Chair of the University Senate, a member of the University Court and a member of the Board of the University’s Development Trust. His external roles include Chair of Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), Convenor of Universities Scotland Funding Policy Group, member of the Board of Opportunity North East, and member of the Aberdeen City Deal Joint Committee.

Professor Boyne has published extensively on the performance of public sector organisations and has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2010.

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Research

Funding and Grants

 

Housing Grant Policies: An Evaluation (1988-89, £21,000 Welsh Office, with A.Millington).

Local Government in Wales: Its Role and Functions (1990-91, £15,500, Joseph Rowntree Foundation).

Local Government Reform in Scotland and Wales (1993-94, £45,000, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with Grant Jordan, University of Aberdeen).

Spatial Equity and Local Government Finance: Who Gets What Where? (1995-97, £26,500, Leverhulme Trust, with Martin Powell, University of Bath).

Best Value in Welsh Local Government (1998-2000, £153,333, Welsh Office, with Richard Walker, Cardiff University, and Jennifer Law, University of Glamorgan).

Devolution and Regulation: Political Control of Public Bodies in Scotland and Wales (1999-2000, £44,000, ESRC, with Arthur Midwinter, University of Strathclyde, and Richard Walker, Cardiff University).

Strategy and Performance in Local Government (2001-2004, £163,893, ESRC, with Richard Walker, Cardiff University, and Jennifer Law, University of Glamorgan).

Long Term Evaluation of the Impact of Best Value (2001-2005, £1.1 million, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, with Steve Martin and Richard Walker, Cardiff University).

AIM Public Services Research Fellowship on Organizational Turnaround (2003-4 ESRC, £127k.)

Evaluation of Local Public Service Agreements (2003-7, £1.2 million, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; with the Office of Public Management).

Designing Outcome Measures For The Second Generation of Local Public Service Agreements (2004-6, £97k, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, with J.Law, University of Glamorgan).

Leadership Change and Public Services: Reinvigorating Performance or Reinforcing Decline? (2006-2008, £253k, ESRC, with P. John, Manchester, and O. James, Exeter)

Local Authority Size and Performance (2006-7, £56k, Department for Communities and Local Government, with R. Andrews, Cardiff University).

How Public Management Matters: Strategy, Networking and Local Service Performance (2006-2010, £750k, ESRC, with R. Walker, Hong Kong University, K. Meier, Texas A&M University, and L. O’Toole, University of Georgia).

Local Authority Form and Function: An Evaluation of the Impact of Structural Change (2008-2013, £820k, Department for Communities and Local Government; with the Office of Public Management and Price Waterhouse Coopers).

Chief Executive Succession and the Performance of Central Government Agencies (2010-2014, £216k, ESRC, with Oliver James, Exeter, and Nico Petrovsky, Kentucky).

 

Publications

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  • Best value in Welsh Local Government: Progress and prospects

    Boyne, G. A., Gould-Williams, J., Law, J., Walker, R.
    Managing Local Services: From CCT to Best Value. Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 68-86, 19 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Introduction: Processes, performance and best value in local government

    Boyne, G. A.
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Forewords and Postscripts
  • Managing local services: From CCT to best value

    Boyne, G. A.
    Taylor and Francis Inc.. 142 pages
    Books and Reports: Books
  • Organizational collaboration in the public sector: Do chief executives make a difference?

    Esteve, M., Boyne, G., Sierra, V., Ysa, T.
    Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 23, no. 4, pp. 927-952
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Innovations in structure: Experience from local government in the UK

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G. A.
    Handbook of Innovation in Public Services. Osborne, S. P., Brown, L. (eds.). Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., pp. 514-527, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Managing migration? Eu enlargement, local government capacity and performance in England

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G., O' Toole, L., Meier, K., Walker, R.
    Public Administration, vol. 91, no. 1, pp. 174-194
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Public choice theory and local government structure: An evaluation of reorganisation in scotland and wales

    Boyne, G. A.
    Local Government Reorganisation: The Review and its Aftermath. Taylor and Francis, pp. 56-72, 17 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Burdened by Bureaucracy? Determinants of Administrative Intensity in Public Organisations

    Boyne, G. A., Meier, K. J.
    International Public Management Journal, vol. 16, no. 2, pp. 307-327
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Party control, party competition and public service performance

    Boyne, G. A., James, O., John, P., Petrovsky, N.
    British Journal of Political Science, vol. 42, no. 3, pp. 641-660
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
  • Structural change and public service performance: The impact of the reorganization process in English local government

    Andrews, R., Boyne, G.
    Public Administration, vol. 90, no. 2, pp. 297-312
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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