Professor David Norman Smith

I am the author of over 50 peer reviewed publications including books, journal articles and policy reports.

 

Outputs include: 

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• a social history of the relationship between UK railways and their passengers.

• an in-depth investigation of the practices of UK estate agents and their legal regulation.

• the first major study of university governance in the post-binary era of British higher education.

• changing leadership roles of university vice-chancellors in Britain, Sweden and the states of California and Georgia in the USA.

• the evolution of the role of pro-vice-chancellors in British and Australian universities. 

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Related research has examined management and performance issues in the higher education research base, including collaborative approaches to research and the relationship between research selectivity, management and the maintenance of research excellence.

 

Several strands of higher education work have also been explored in historical settings, including the role of the vice-chancellor as institution builder in the 1960s era of the new universities and the relationship between university academics and the BBC.

 

Selected publications include:

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(i) Journal articles

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Comunian, R., Taylor, C. and Smith, D.N.  (2013) The role of universities in the regional creative economies of the UK: hidden protagonists and the challenge of knowledge transfer, European Planning Studies. (Published online: 18 Apr 2013 DOI:10.1080/09654313.2013.790589).

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Smith, D.N., (2013) Academics, the ‘cultural third mission’ and the BBC: forgotten histories of knowledge creation, transformation and impact. Studies in Higher Education. Volume 38, Issue 5, 663-677.

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Smith, D.N. and Adams, J. (2008) Academics or executives? Continuity and change in the roles of pro-vice-chancellors. Higher Education Quarterly, 68, 4 Oct., 340-357.

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Bathmaker, Ann-Marie, Brooks, Greg, Parry, Gareth and Smith, David (2008) “Dual-sector further and higher education: policies, organisations and students in transition”, Research Papers in Education, 23:2, 125-137.

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Smith, D. N. (2008) Eric James and the ‘Utopianist’ Campus: Biography, Policy and the Building of a New University during the 1960s. History of Education, Volume 37, Number 1, June, pp. 23-42.

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Coles,J. and Smith,D.N. (2006) The Fifty-One Society: a case study of BBC Radio and the education of adults. Studies in the Education of Adults, 38(2), 210-224.

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Bocock, J., Baston, L., Scott, P. Smith, D.N. (2003) American influence on British higher education: science, technology and the problem of university expansion. Minerva, XLI (4), 327-346.

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Smith, D.N., Baston, L., Bocock, J., Scott, P. (2002) Americanisation and UK higher education: towards a history of transatlantic influence on policy and practice. Journal of Education Policy, 17 (4), 443-461.

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Smith, D.N. (2001) Collaborative research: policy and the management of knowledge creation in UK universities. Higher Education Quarterly, 55 (2), 131-157.

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Smith, D.N and Bocock, J. (1999) Participation and progression in mass higher education: policy and the FHE interface. Journal of Education Policy, 14 (3), 283-299.

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Smith, D.N. Bargh, C. Bocock, B. Scott, P. (1999) New leaders at the top? The educational and career paths of UK university vice-chancellors 1960-1996. Higher Education Management, 55(2), 131-157.

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Mackay, L., Scott, P., and Smith, D.N. (1995). Restructured and differentiated? Institutional responses to the changing environment of UK higher education. Higher Education Management, 7(2), 193-205.

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Smith, D.N., Bargh, C. Mackay, L. and Scott P. (1995) Central imperatives and local needs: the educational character and mission of further education in a centrally driven system. Higher Education Review, 28(1), 34- 50.

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Smith, D.N, Bargh, C., Scott, P (1995) Standard Systems, Non-Standard Students: The Impact of Consolidation on Access to Higher Education. Journal of Access Studies, 10(2), 120-136.

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Smith, D.N., Scott. P., and Mackay, L. (1993). Mission Impossible: Access and the Dash to Growth in British Higher Education. Higher Education Quarterly, 47(4), 316-333.

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Church, R.A. Outram, Q., and Smith, D.N., (1991) The 'isolated mass' revisited: strikes in British coal mining, The Sociological Review, 39, 1, February, pp 55-87.

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Church, R.A. Outram, Q., and Smith, D.N.,  (1991) The militancy of British miners 1893-1986: interdisciplinary problems and perspectives, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Spring.

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Church, R.A. Outram, Q., and Smith, D.N.,  (1990) British coal mining strikes 1893-1940: dimensions, distribution and persistence, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 28, pp 329-349.

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Church, R.A. Outram, Q., and Smith, D.N.,  (1989) Towards a history of British miners' militancy, Society for the Study of Labour History Bulletin, 54,1, pp 21-36.

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Smith, D.N., (1987) Managerial Strategies, working conditions and the origins of trade unionism: the case of the tramway and omnibus industry, 1870-1891, Journal of Transport History, March pp 30-5.

 

(ii) Books

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Smith, D.N., Adams, J., Mount, D. (2007) UK Universities and Executive Officers: the Changing Role of Pro-Vice-Chancellors. London: Leadership Foundation for Higher Education.

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Adams, J. and Smith D. (2003) Funding research diversity. The impact of further concentration on university research performance and regional research capacity. London: Universities UK.

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Bargh C., Bocock, J., Scott, P. Smith, D. N. (2000) University Leadership: the Role of the Chief Executive. Buckingham: SRHE/Open University Press.

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Bargh, C., Scott, P. and Smith, D.N. (1996) Governing Universities: Changing the Culture? Buckingham: SRHE/Open University Press.

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Smith, D.N., Scott, P. and Lynch J. (1995) The Role of Marketing in the University and College Sector: A Study of How Marketing is Defined and Organised in British Universities and Colleges. Leeds: HEIST.

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Clarke, M., McConville, M., Smith, D.N., (1994) Slippery Customers: Estate Agents, the Public and Regulation. London: Blackstone Press.

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Smith, D.N., (1988) The Railway and Its Passengers: A Social History. Newton Abbot: David & Charles

 

(iii) Book chapters

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Smith, D.N. and Adams, J. (2009) Governance and the autonomous university: Changing institutional leadership in UK and Australian higher education, in J. Huisman (ed) International Perspectives on the Governance of Higher Education. Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

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Adams, J and Smith, D. N. (2007) Dearing, research and knowledge transfer: from Robbins to 'The Gathering Storm', in: D. Watson and M. Amoah (Ed.) The Dearing Report Ten Years On. London: Institute of Education.

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Adams, J. and Smith D.N. (2006) Evaluation of the British Research Assessment Exercise, in: Bakker, L., Boston, J., Campbell, L. and Smyth, R. (Eds.) Evaluating the Performance-Based Research Fund: Framing the Debate. Wellington NZ: Institute of Policy Studies.

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Watson, J., Ainley, P., Nelson, N., Smith, D., & Yeomans, D. (2001) Progression in and from Further Education: some problems for an integrated system of lifelong learning in: Coffield, F. (Ed.) What progress are we making with lifelong learning? Newcastle: University of Newcastle.

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Watson, J., Yeomans, D., Smith, D., Nelson, N. & Ainley, P. (2000). Higher Education and Diversity: Regional Learning Infrastructures and Student Progression, in: McNay, I. (Ed.) Higher Education and its Communities. Buckingham: SRHE/Open University Press.

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Smith, D., Scott, P., Bocock, J. and Bargh, C. (1998) Vice-chancellors and executive leadership in UK universities: new roles and relationships? in Little, B. and Henkel, M. (eds), Changing relationships between higher education and the State. London: Jessica Kingsley.

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Church, R.A. Outram, Q., and Smith, D.N., (1991) Theoretical orientations to miners' strikes, in Klaus Tenfelde et al (eds) Towards a Social History of Coal Mining,  (Beck Berlin), pp 565-81

 

(iv) Research reviews and reports

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Smith, D.N. and Brown, J. (2012) Research Network for Higher Education Leadership, Governance and Management: Landscaping Study.  Final report to the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Smith, D., Anderson, P., Brown, J., Scott, C. & Madden, K. (2011) Research in Higher Education Leadership, Governance and Management: Scoping and Consultation Exercise for the Establishment of a Research Information Network.  Report to the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education. Centre for Research in Lifelong Learning, Glasgow Caledonian University.

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Universities UK (2010) The Future of Research. Report for Universities UK prepared by Evidence, a Thomson Reuters business . (D.N.Smith is a Research Associate of Evidence, a Thomson Reuters business, and contributing author to the Report). London: Universities UK, ISBN 978 1 84036 232 9.

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Smith, D.N. and Taylor, C. (2009) Knowledge transfer in the arts and humanities: policy images and institutional realities  13-16. Ad Lib, 38 June 2009 Journal for Continuing Liberal Adult Education.

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Adams, J., Mount, D.R. and Smith, D.N. (2008) Strategically Important and Vulnerable Subjects: an interim evaluation of HEFCE’s programme of support.  Report to HEFCE. HEFCE Research and Evaluation Reports.

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Bathmaker, Ann-Marie, Brooks, Greg, Parry, Gareth and Smith, David (2008) Combining Further and Higher Education: Policy, Organisation and Progression. Teaching and Learning Research Briefing, No. 40. TLRP/ESRC.

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Smith, D.N., Adams, J. and Mount, D. (2007) UK Universities and Executive Officers: the Changing Role of Pro-Vice-Chancellors. Final Report. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Research and Development Series.

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Smith, D.N., Adams, J. and Mount, D. (2006) Changing role of the pro-vice-chancellor. Leadership Foundation for Higher Education, Engage, 7, 3.

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Adams, J., Mount, D., Smith, D.N., Ackers, L., Gill, B. Oliver, L., Hazlehurst, S. (2005) Researchers in higher education institutions: scoping study of career development and human resource management. HEFCE, 05 05, 1-39.

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Adams J, Mount D, Smith D.N. and Taylor R. (2005) Impact of selective funding of research in England, and the specific outcomes of HEFCE research funding. A report to HEFCE by Evidence Ltd.. HEFCE Research and Evaluation. 

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Adams, J. and Smith, D. (2004) Research and regions: an overview of the distribution of research in UK regions, regional research capacity and links between strategic research partners. Higher Education Policy Institute, Report, 9, 1-61.

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Smith, D., Adams, J., Mount, D., Reeve, N., Wilkinson, D. (2004) Highly Skilled Technicians in Higher Education. Report to the HEFCE.

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Adams, J. and Smith D. (2003) Funding research diversity. Universities UK. 

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Adams, J., Mount, D., Reeve, N., Smith, D., Wilkinson, D. (2002) Maintaining research excellence and volume: A report by Evidence Ltd to the Higher Education Funding Councils for England, Scotland and Wales and to Universities UK. HEFCE.

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Adams, J. and Smith D. (2001) White Rose: Collaboration for Research and Innovation between three Yorkshire Universities, in Alison Rees (ed.) Collaboration in Commonwealth Universities: Three Case Studies. Association of Commonwealth Universities: London, 53-73.

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Smith D.N. and Katz, S. (2000). Collaborative approaches to research. A Report to the HEFCE within the Fundamental Review of Research Policy and Funding. HEFCE Publications.

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Barnes, Bocock, Burdett, Brownlow, Howard, Parry, Scott, Smith and Thompson (1998) The nature of higher and further education sub-contractual partnerships. HEFCE Publications, 98(58), 1-60.

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Bargh, C., Scott, P. and Scott, P., and Smith, D. (1995) Standard systems, non-standard students: experiences of progression from further to higher education. Final Report to the Esmee Fairbairn Charitable Trust (ref 94/2258).

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Bargh C., Scott, P., & Smith, D. (1995) Access and Consolidation: The impact of steady state on opportunities for non-standard applicants to universities and colleges.  Report to HEFCE by CPSE, University of Leeds.

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Bargh C, Scott P & Smith D (1994), Access and Consolidation: the impact of reduced student intakes on opportunities for non-standard applicants. Report to HEFCE by CPSE, University of Leeds.