This article reviews the role of local voluntary and community sector infrastructure bodies in promoting and supporting community involvement in rural regeneration partnerships. It shows that they are an essential element in addressing the power and structural inequalities that have often dogged...

This article reports and evaluates the lessons of a comparative study of community involvement in rural regeneration partnerships in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. It highlights the distinctive challenges that its rural context place upon such involvement and finds three elements to be...

This article addresses a gap in the research literature on mergers in higher education by giving special consideration to the human resource dimension. It focuses on the forced merger of two higher education institutions that was implemented in Northern Ireland over 20 years ago and from which...

Cet article a pour objectif de parer à un manque dans la littérature consacrée à la recherche sur les fusions dans l’enseignement supérieur en abordant plus particulièrement la dimension humaine de la question. L’article porte sur la fusion forcée de deux établissements de...