Steve Martin (British academic)

Stephen James Martin (born 27 February 1961) is a British academic. He is Professor of Public Policy & Management and the Director of the Wales Centre for Public Policy at Cardiff University.[1]

Stephen Martin
Born (1961-02-27) 27 February 1961
Alma materAston University
University of Oxford
Occupation
  • Academic

Education

Steve Martin was educated at Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School in Rochester, Hertford College at University of Oxford, and Aston University.  He was awarded an Open Scholarship to the University of Oxford and gained a Congratulatory Double First in 1982. He was awarded a PhD by Aston University in 1987 for his research on state funded support to small and medium sized businesses in rural England.   

Career

Martin's previous academic appointments include: an ESRC Research Fellow at Aston Business School; Lecturer in Public Sector Management at Aston University; and University Research Fellow and Reader in Public Policy Evaluation at the University of Warwick.  

At Warwick, he led the Local Authority Research Consortium, through which researchers co-produced with politicians and local authority officers a series of policy relevant studies on managing organisational and external change. In 1997 he led a research team that was commissioned by the UK government to study its flagship Best Value pilot programme designed to improve the cost effectiveness and quality of local government services in England.

Martin was appointed as a Professor at Cardiff Business School in 2000 where he established the Centre for Local & Regional Government Research[2], which he led until 2013. The Centre has attracted more than £10 million in external research funding. It is recognised as one of the leading public management research groups in the world, rated third overall in an independent study conducted by academics at Erasmus University[3] and ranked fourth in the 2018 Academic Ranking of World Universities.[4] Martin and his colleagues at Cardiff completed major studies on public service improvement with a particular focus on Best Value inspection, Comprehensive Performance Assessment and Corporate Peer Challenge.[5] He has also evaluated external interventions in failing councils in England and Wales.

In 2013 Martin was asked by the First Minister of Wales to establish and lead the Public Policy Institute for Wales, which was succeeded in 2017 by the Wales Centre for Public Policy. The Centre is one of the UK’s What Works Centres. It collaborates with leading researchers to provide ministers, officials and public service leaders with authoritative independent evidence and expertise and is researching the role which evidence plays in the policy process.  In 2018 the Centre won the 20th Anniversary Cardiff University Award for Impact on Policy.[6]

Government adviser

Martin has given evidence to numerous Parliamentary select committees and inquiries and served on a range of advisory bodies. He is a past Treasurer of the UK Evaluation Society[7], was a non-executive director of the Local Government Improvement and Development Agency from 2003–2010 and of the New Local Government Network from 2007–2016. In 2009 he was appointed as the lead member of the UK Government’s Expert Panel on Local Governance. He was a member of independent panel on Assembly Members’ remuneration in 2007–2008, and in 2005–2006 he served as the Academic Adviser to the Independent Review of Local Public Services chaired by Sir Jeremy Beecham.[8]

Publications

Martin has published more than 80 articles in academic journals including Public Administration Review, Public Administration, Regional Studies, Public Management Review, Urban Studies, and the British Journal of Management, and over 200 reports commissioned by governments and other agencies. He is the co-editor of Policy & Politics and the public sector expert on the scientific committee of the Chartered Association of Business Schools’ academic journal guide.[9]

Personal life

He lives in Penarth, South Wales, with his wife, Hattie.[10]

References
  1. Director, Professor Steve Martin. "Professor Steve Martin – People". Cardiff University. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  2. "Centre for Local and Regional Government Research". Cardiff University.
  3. Van de Walle, S; van Delft, R. "Publishing in Public Administration". International Public Management Journal. 18 (1): 87–107.
  4. "ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2018 - Public Administration | Shanghai Ranking - 2018". www.shanghairanking.com. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  5. "Peer challenges". www.local.gov.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  6. Director, Professor Steve Martin; Policy, Wales Centre for Public. "Drive for better public policy clinches award". Cardiff University. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  7. "Welcome". UKES – the UK Evaluation Society. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  8. DWM, DPSP (6 September 2007). "Beyond Boundaries: Citizen-Centred Local Services for Wales". webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Archived from the original on 8 January 2008. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  9. "Academic Journal Guide 2018". Chartered Association of Business Schools. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
  10. Who's Who 2018. Bloomsbury. 2017. ISBN 9781472935014.


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