Government eBooks

A year in review: An overview of the Swindon and Wiltshire Economy in 2021.

Risk management and information governance are two core governance activities. Without both disciplines in place, few organisations can expect to achieve sustainable success. While they are essential separately, they complement each other.

This eBook explores the ever growing importance of ensuring adequate cyber security awareness training within universities.

Do we still need meeting rooms? What the 6 types of pre-pandemic office ‘meetings' can teach us about the future of the workplace

Here, the Swindon and Wiltshire team explain how the Getting Building Fund is delivering in the area - with big expectations for future investments.

Here, the Swindon and Wiltshire Growth Hub team explain how they are supporting businesses and delivering projects.

Here, Alison White discusses navigating the 'new normal' - how will changes to ways of working during the COVID-19 crisis stay with us?

Here, Professor Richard Beardsworth discusses progressive state leadership via the new, Biden US administration and the global fight against climate change.

Here, Alison White and Fintan Burke discuss post-COVID return to the workplace and what that future could look like.

Here, Lifescience Legal Design discuss the legal status of CBD and hemp in the European Union.

Here, Lifescience Legal Design analyse the current situation of medical cannabis and hemp regulation, discussing the ongoing plans of the US, UK and the EU.

Professor Darren Griffin, University of Kent, and Dr Julia Stephenson, Brunel University London, discuss how to create and deliver an online lecture during these pandemic times

Here, Professor Wolfgang Seibel explains how “black swans” in public administration are responsible for disasters like Grenfell.

Varberg's plan: Vision 2025 "Swedish west coast's creative hotspot" is a collective goal that was being engineered 2015.

PLACEmaking provides a detailed insight into the decline of young workers accepting jobs in traditional offices, highlighting the need for employers to adapt to the modern working world.

Bernd Hayo, Professor at the University of Marburg provides an in-depth and compelling look at central banks and monetary policy through the eyes of the population.

In this fascinating piece of analysis, Professor Richard Beardsworth, details his views on progressive state leadership and the rise of populist nationalism.

Here, Dr Anouk Tersteeg and Dr Gideon Bolt from the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University explain how civil society organisations deal with diversity within an assimilationist context, arguing the case of Rotterdam.

Here, Alice Reid and Richard Smith, Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, explore the areas of mortality, work and migration with a specific focus on tuberculosis (TB).

In this detailed insight from Placemaking, we find out if smart working is contributing to the rising levels of employee unhappiness and dissatisfaction.