Biography
Paul Hepburn was awarded the Englander PhD studentship in IPEG and Politics and is supervised by Dr. Francesca Gains and Dr Andrew Russell. He previously worked in local government where he started his career in the Tenant Consultation Unit at Bolton MBC. After completing an MSc in Computation at UMIST he joined Oldham MBC where he became a member of their Corporate Policy Unit's management team with responsibility for social and economic research. He left Oldham to join Lancashire County Council to help them pursue their e-government agenda where he was involved in developing, procuring and implementing a shared services contact centre with direct responsibility for managing the partnership between the County Council and six District Councils.
His doctoral research is (provisionally) entitled 'The prospects for improving civic engagement amongst young adults through use of ICTs' and examines some of the assumptions of the information age about the potential for using new technologies to aid civic renewal.
TopJournal Articles
- Flynn, D.J. and Hepburn P.A., (1994) `Strategic Planning for Information Systems', European Journal of Information Systems, 1994, vol. 3 no. 3
Conference Papers
- Hepburn P. and Procter C. 'Developing a shared services contact centre in Lancashire' 2nd European Conference on E-Government (ECEG). Oxford, September 2002.
Paul Hepburn
PhD Student
Institute for Political & Economic Governance (IPEG)
Tel: 0161 275 0799
Email: Paul.Hepburn@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk