Global City-Region Governance, Ten Years On

Ten Years on

The careers of doctors qualifying in the United Kingdom ?ver the decade 1974 to 1983 are being studied by a Qroup now based in Oxford (1). As part of the study, the doctors who graduated from Bristol in 1976 were surveyed about career preferences during their preregistration year (2), but unlike those qualifying in 1974, 1977, 1980 and 1983 they are not being followed to assess career progress....

Ten Years On

The year of 2014 is the the 10-th year since I joined the Computer Vision Group of ANU/NICTA; it also marks the 10th year that I have entred (and been working in) the field of comptuer vision, thanks to my academic supervisor Professor Hartley who introduced me to this research field. In 2004, Richard suggested me to attend the ECCV-2004, desipite that I did not have any paper in the conference...

History, Structure and Agency in Global Health Governance; Comment on “Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 – Are We Ready?”

Ilona Kickbusch’s thought provoking editorial is criticized in this commentary, partly because she fails to refer to previous critical work on the global conditions and policies that sustain inequality, poverty, poor health and damage to the biosphere and, as a result, she misreads global power and elides consideration of the fundamental historical structures of political and material power tha...

New City-Regional Governance in London: Redefining the Relationship between City and Region

Current academic discussions on economic development make a case for 'regional governance' in city-regions and stress the importance of 'appropriate' institutional and policy-making frameworks for effective, 'joined-up' government bringing together the interests of cities and their regional hinterlands. In England, as part of devolutionary processes, regions have experienced a resurgence in pol...

Ten years of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.