The ‘good’ professional regulator

How to be a good professional: existentialist continuing professional development (CPD)

This article reflects on the construct and practice of continuing professional development (CPD) and its significance for the professional careers workforce. The article presents the idea of the CPD triad and considers how professional bodies, employers and individuals can each benefit from a practitioner's ongoing commitment to continuing professional development. The tension between the pract...

Professional ethics are needed to be a good physician.

Metaphors for ‘good’ and ‘bad’ deaths: A health professional view

This paper discusses the metaphors used by sixteen palliative healthcare professionals from around the United Kingdom in semi-structured interviews to describe what they see as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ deaths. The interviews, conducted for the large-scale “Metaphor in End-of-Life Care” project, are set against the background of contemporary practices and discourses around end-of-life care, dying and qu...

Good Girl, Bad Boy: Corrupt Behavior in Professional Tennis

This paper identifies matches on the male and female professional tennis tours in which one player faces a high payoff from being “on the bubble” of direct entry into one of the lucrative Grand Slam tournaments, while their opposition does not. Analyzing over 378,000 matches provides strong evidence for corrupt behavior on the men’s tour, as bubble players are substantially more likely to beat ...

The best as the enemy of the good: utopian approaches to professional practice in UK museums

In the decades after World War Two, professional practice in UK museums was characterised by dissatisfaction with the status quo, accompanied by attempts to bring rigour and order to bear where before there was said to have been slovenliness and idiosyncrasy. Some of these initiatives were focused on the work of individual museums, others across the broader sector. Articulations of curatorial p...