Professor Simon Roodhouse welcomes you to this website which is intended to provide a valuable resource for policy makers, administrators, managers and researchers in the education training and cultural fields. It also explains the work of his international consultancy practice, Safe Hands (management) Ltd.
His work focuses on two major investigations, vocational learning and the creative (and cultural) industries. This approach enables the creative industries to be examined in the context of vocational learning and vocational learning to be referenced to an industry in this case, creative and cultural industries. This, for example, leads to consideration of training in the workplace, apprenticeships and the use of employer standards, national occupational standards, in further and higher education. Collecting information on these and other activities in the creature industries through primary data forms an important part of this work.
These vocational interests have been captured in his latest book Employers, Skills and Higher Education, Roodhouse, S; and Swailes, S, ISBN; 978- 1-904235-15-8 @ £19.95 is published by Kingsham Press Chichester.
Professor Simon Roodhouse has deepened his long standing work in these fields by investigating networks and the existence value of cultural organisations based on commissioned work from Cumbria County Council and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
The mechanisms for supporting the development of the creative Industries have proved of interest particularly when coupled with regeneration. In his recent book, Cultural Quarters: Principles and Practice, Professor Roodhouse explores this concept, its relationship to the creative industries and provides informative and detailed case studies. The book is proving popular and is to be published in Italy by Silvana Editoriale spa. The book can be ordered through this website.
The papers and reports found on the site are encouraged to be used and cited in research and policy papers. Please let us know how you use the material.
Our strategic consultancy, Safe Hands Management Ltd has been established to make available Professor Roodhouse’s expertise to advise and support cultural and educational organisations and agencies in the UK and internationally. Please go to the Safe Hands Management Ltd page on this site.
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This book will appeal to anyone interested in understanding how to improve and maintain standards in higher education and better meet the needs of employers. Through its coverage of recent policy initiatives and reactions to them, researchers will be able to draw on its definitive accounts of how vocational education and its accompanying concern for standards have developed in a British context. It will be of interest lo those in other countries around the world where occupational standards systems have been established and there is a policy and practice interest in employ ability and workforce development.
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This book provides a conceptual context for cultural quarters which argues for clarity of purpose and discusses the principles of urban design and planning when applied to this activity. These issues are examined through case studies drawn from Sheffield, Wolverhampton, Newcastle, Belfast, Dublin and Vienna with a reference to Manchester.
Estimated publication date: May 2006
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