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Biography

Sarah Cotterill is a Research Associate at the Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG). Sarah is currently working on a project using experimental methods to explore the impact of interventions designed to improve civic engagement. The project 'Rediscovering the Civic and Achieving Better Outcomes in Public Policy' is being done jointly with Southampton University and is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Communities and Local Government (CLG) and the North West Improvement Network (NWIN).

Sarah's main research interests are in public sector partnerships, e-government, citizen participation and civic engagement. Sarah has recently completed her PhD at the University of Leeds . Her PhD research examined how English local authorities and their partners work together to implement electronic government. She has an MSc in Social Research Methods and Statistics and a BA in Politics and Modern History, both from the University of Manchester.

She previously worked for many years in the fields of housing, health and community regeneration for local authorities, a Health Action Zone and a New Deal for Communities regeneration partnership.

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Publications

• Cotterill S. (2008) ‘How Local Partnerships Can Contribute to the Delivery of E-Government’ in Chris Reddick (Ed) Strategies for Local E-Government Adoption and Implementation: Comparative Studies. IGI Global (forthcoming)
  
  
• Cotterill S. and King S.F (2007) ‘Public Sector Partnerships to Deliver Local E-Government: A Social Network Study’. In M. A, Wimmer, J. Scholl, Ake Gronlund (Eds) Electronic Government: 6th International Conference, EGOV 2007, Regensburg, Germany, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings (p. 240-251) Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
  
  
• King S.F. and Cotterill S (2007) Transformational Government? The Role of Information Technology in Delivering Citizen-Centric Local Public Services, Local Government Studies, 33(3):333-354

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Conferences

• Cotterill S., Richardson L.,Stoker G., Wales C. (2008) Reinvigorating the Civic: Searching for a Rationale for our Research Programme Paper presented at the Political Studies Association Conference, Swansea, 1st – 3rd April 2008
  
  
• Cotterill S. (2007) Public Sector Partnerships – A Model for Success? Paper presented at Leeds University Business School Annual Doctoral Conference, 13th-14th June 2007 (awarded 1st prize for poster presentation)
  
  
• Cotterill S. (2007) Using Social Network Analysis and qualitative research in case studies of public sector partnerships Paper presented at the International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXVII, 1st – 6th May 2007, Greece
  
  
• Cotterill S. (2006) The Role of Social Networks in the Development of English Local E-Government Paper presented at the Social Network Analysis Forum, Leeds, 30th June – 1st July 2006
  
  
• Cotterill S. and King S. (2006) The Role of Social Networks in the Development of English Local E-Government Paper presented at the Political Studies Association conference, Reading 4th – 6th April 2006
  
  
• Cotterill S. (2005) Electronic Government, Local Government and Quality of Life Paper presented at the UK Public Administration Committee Annual Conference, Nottingham 5th – 7th September 2005
  
  
• Cotterill S. (2005) Electronic Government, Local Government and Quality of Life Paper presented at the UK Academy for Information Systems Conference, PhD consortium, Newcastle 21st-22nd Mar 2005

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Reports

• Cotterill S. (2007) The Role of Social Networks in the Development of English Local E-Government working paper for the Local Governance and Quality of Life Postgraduate Research Programme
  
  

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