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Milton Keynes (UK), 6th-7th April 2017

With the opportunity to submit conference papers to a special issue of the journal Public Administration.

Examining what leadership achieves for society, or segments of society, is a critical element of understanding political and public leadership. This conference invites papers which examine this theme, in terms of the public and social value outcomes of leadership. Other papers on public and political leadership are also welcome, beyond this key theme. Public and social value is important to conceptualise and understand because we live in a period of profound, fast and simultaneous changes in the economic, social, political, ecological, technological and organisational systems. In this context, there is an extraordinary moment of opportunity for leadership scholarship and practice. The aim of the PUPOL (Public and Political Leadership) international academic network is to contribute to solutions and helps societies and their leaders address such challenges through research and scholarship focusing on the role of leaders and leadership in the public and political domains. 

Submission deadline paper proposals and abstracts (500 words) 30/11/2016
Decision on papers  15/12/2016
Deadline for early bird registration  15/01/2017
Final deadline for submission of full papers and for registration 15/03/2017

The conference fee will be £125 for early bird registration and £160 after that date.

Special issue of the journal Public Administration
We are delighted to announce that a special issue on the topic of the conference -leadership for public and social value- will be published in Public Administration with Jean Hartley, Mark Bennister, Alessandro Sancino, and Sandra L. Resodihardjo as guest editors. Please keep an eye out on the website of Public Administration to see the call for papers. For now we just want to draw your attention to the fact that the first deadline for a preliminary accept/reject by the special issue editors is end of June 2017. You can send your paper to the corresponding special guest editor Alessandro Sancino (alessandro.sancino@open.ac.uk). If you get preliminary accepted, we will provide feedback which you can take into account when editing your paper before submitting it to the Public Administration website before 1 October 2017. Your paper will then go through the Public Administration's regular peer review process upon which the Public Administration's editors will decide on an accept, revise & resubmit or reject. If you are considering submitting a paper to this special issue, we strongly suggest handing in a full conference paper so you can get additional feedback during the conference before submitting it to us by the end of June.

For more information on the 2017 conference and for abstract submission (500 words): alessandro.sancino@open.ac.uk