Jonathan Gosling
Biographic Data
| ID | 1500650 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan Gosling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan |
| FAMILY NAME | Gosling |
| SIGNATURE | GOSLING J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2613-4237 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Integration of a vertical voluntary medical male circumcision program into routine health services in Zimbabwe
The global health community has recognized the importance of integrating and sustaining health programs within national health systems rather than managing stand-alone ‘vertical’ interventions. Corresponding with these objectives, international aid donors are embracing the principle of localization. Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) in Zimbabwe is a large vertical HIV prevention program that was primarily funded through development assis…
Confucian Virtue Ethics and Ethical Leadership in Modern China
Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination
Although it is widely recognized that strong program management is essential to achieving better health outcomes, this priority is not recognized in malaria programmatic practices. Increased management precision offers the opportunity to improve the effectiveness of malaria interventions, overcoming operational barriers to intervention coverage and accelerating the path to elimination. Here we propose a combined approach involving quality improve…
Will we know what counts as good leadership if Things Fall Apart? Questions prompted by Chinua Achebe’s novel
Suggestions that change can be handled through ‘adaptation and resilience’ assume continuity of cultural norms and value judgements, but here we explore what might happen if cultural assumptions are upset by radically discontinuous change. We ask what it means to be in change that is beyond adaptation, change that utterly confounds our notions of what is good or great, what is natural or just; in particular, what would it mean for leadership? The…
Citizens of the academic community? A societal perspective on leadership in UK higher education
This paper presents a societal perspective on academic leadership by exploring the preoccupations of academics as citizens rather than as employees, managers or individuals. It uses a listening post methodology to ask ‘what is it like to be a citizen of an academic institution in contemporary Britain?’ Three listening posts, comprising 26 participants from 15 higher education institutions, were conducted and analysed. A number of common themes we…
Fictional Leaders
In Book III of the Laws, Plato (1997) lays out a series of qualifications that make a leader fit to rule. The first four of these relate to traditional forms of authority through birth and social status: the right of the noble to rule the serf, the parent the child, the master the slave and the old the young. The fifth relates to the authority of those with a superior nature, over the weak. This indeterminate, ‘superior nature’ parallels the traj…
Adaptable buildings
Things Fall Apart
Considering ours as a time of crisis, this chapter asks: what if this were not simply an episode, but really the end of an era?; for example, if we face fundamental changes of the scale and order that affected African societies when impacted by colonialism
Social dreaming and ecocentric ethics
The article considers the role of dreams as social, rather than individual, phenomena and suggests that as such they may serve as resources for 'future imaginings' with respect to potentially devastating consequences of climate change (and other transgressions of planetary boundaries). Adopting a socio-analytical perspective, it contemplates the possibility of a societal level 'cosmology episode' caused by catastrophic climate change; a critical …
Fictional Leaders
The spiritual organization
This article offers a theoretical contribution to the current debate on workplace spirituality by: (a) providing a selective critical review of scholarship, research and corporate practices which treat workplace spirituality in performative terms, that is, as a resource or means to be manipulated instrumentally and appropriated for economic ends; (b) extending Etzioni's analysis of complex organizations and proposing a new category, the "spiritua…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
In this article we present findings from research in 12 UK universities that sought to capture a range of perspectives on `distributed leadership' and reveal common and competing experiences within and between institutions. From analysis of findings we identified two principle approaches to the distribution of leadership: `devolved', associated with top-down influence, and `emergent', associated with bottom-up and horizontal influence. We argue t…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
The term `distributed leadership' has been prominent in research into educational management for some time. A number of articles have recently questioned the explanatory utility of the concept; in this article we examine its rhetorical function in higher education institutions. We suggest that it has served to contain, and to some extent ameliorate, two contradictions in the experience of academics who take on managerial roles or who exert leader…
Leadership in Higher Education
Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
Leadership Competencies
This article indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalize and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders, yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two sets of data: a review of leadership competency frameworks and an analysis of participant reports from…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
The term `distributed leadership' has been prominent in research into educational management for some time. A number of articles have recently questioned the explanatory utility of the concept; in this article we examine its rhetorical function in higher education institutions. We suggest that it has served to contain, and to some extent ameliorate, two contradictions in the experience of academics who take on managerial roles or who exert leader…
Leadership Competencies
This article indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalize and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders, yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two sets of data: a review of leadership competency frameworks and an analysis of participant reports from…
Social dreaming and ecocentric ethics
The article considers the role of dreams as social, rather than individual, phenomena and suggests that as such they may serve as resources for 'future imaginings' with respect to potentially devastating consequences of climate change (and other transgressions of planetary boundaries). Adopting a socio-analytical perspective, it contemplates the possibility of a societal level 'cosmology episode' caused by catastrophic climate change; a critical …
The spiritual organization
This article offers a theoretical contribution to the current debate on workplace spirituality by: (a) providing a selective critical review of scholarship, research and corporate practices which treat workplace spirituality in performative terms, that is, as a resource or means to be manipulated instrumentally and appropriated for economic ends; (b) extending Etzioni's analysis of complex organizations and proposing a new category, the "spiritua…
Citizens of the academic community? A societal perspective on leadership in UK higher education
This paper presents a societal perspective on academic leadership by exploring the preoccupations of academics as citizens rather than as employees, managers or individuals. It uses a listening post methodology to ask ‘what is it like to be a citizen of an academic institution in contemporary Britain?’ Three listening posts, comprising 26 participants from 15 higher education institutions, were conducted and analysed. A number of common themes we…
Leadership in Higher Education
Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
Leadership Competencies
This article indicates how the competency approach to leadership could be conceived of as a repeating refrain that continues to offer an illusory promise to rationalize and simplify the processes of selecting, measuring and developing leaders, yet only reflects a fragment of the complexity that is leadership. To make this argument we draw on two sets of data: a review of leadership competency frameworks and an analysis of participant reports from…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
In this article we present findings from research in 12 UK universities that sought to capture a range of perspectives on `distributed leadership' and reveal common and competing experiences within and between institutions. From analysis of findings we identified two principle approaches to the distribution of leadership: `devolved', associated with top-down influence, and `emergent', associated with bottom-up and horizontal influence. We argue t…
Distributed Leadership in Higher Education
The term `distributed leadership' has been prominent in research into educational management for some time. A number of articles have recently questioned the explanatory utility of the concept; in this article we examine its rhetorical function in higher education institutions. We suggest that it has served to contain, and to some extent ameliorate, two contradictions in the experience of academics who take on managerial roles or who exert leader…
Leadership in Higher Education
Author's draft version; post-print. Final version published by Sage available on Sage Journals Online http://online.sagepub.com
The spiritual organization
This article offers a theoretical contribution to the current debate on workplace spirituality by: (a) providing a selective critical review of scholarship, research and corporate practices which treat workplace spirituality in performative terms, that is, as a resource or means to be manipulated instrumentally and appropriated for economic ends; (b) extending Etzioni's analysis of complex organizations and proposing a new category, the "spiritua…
Fictional Leaders
Fictional Leaders
In Book III of the Laws, Plato (1997) lays out a series of qualifications that make a leader fit to rule. The first four of these relate to traditional forms of authority through birth and social status: the right of the noble to rule the serf, the parent the child, the master the slave and the old the young. The fifth relates to the authority of those with a superior nature, over the weak. This indeterminate, ‘superior nature’ parallels the traj…
Adaptable buildings
Things Fall Apart
Considering ours as a time of crisis, this chapter asks: what if this were not simply an episode, but really the end of an era?; for example, if we face fundamental changes of the scale and order that affected African societies when impacted by colonialism
Social dreaming and ecocentric ethics
The article considers the role of dreams as social, rather than individual, phenomena and suggests that as such they may serve as resources for 'future imaginings' with respect to potentially devastating consequences of climate change (and other transgressions of planetary boundaries). Adopting a socio-analytical perspective, it contemplates the possibility of a societal level 'cosmology episode' caused by catastrophic climate change; a critical …
Citizens of the academic community? A societal perspective on leadership in UK higher education
This paper presents a societal perspective on academic leadership by exploring the preoccupations of academics as citizens rather than as employees, managers or individuals. It uses a listening post methodology to ask ‘what is it like to be a citizen of an academic institution in contemporary Britain?’ Three listening posts, comprising 26 participants from 15 higher education institutions, were conducted and analysed. A number of common themes we…
Will we know what counts as good leadership if Things Fall Apart? Questions prompted by Chinua Achebe’s novel
Suggestions that change can be handled through ‘adaptation and resilience’ assume continuity of cultural norms and value judgements, but here we explore what might happen if cultural assumptions are upset by radically discontinuous change. We ask what it means to be in change that is beyond adaptation, change that utterly confounds our notions of what is good or great, what is natural or just; in particular, what would it mean for leadership? The…
Effective management of district-level malaria control and elimination
Although it is widely recognized that strong program management is essential to achieving better health outcomes, this priority is not recognized in malaria programmatic practices. Increased management precision offers the opportunity to improve the effectiveness of malaria interventions, overcoming operational barriers to intervention coverage and accelerating the path to elimination. Here we propose a combined approach involving quality improve…
Confucian Virtue Ethics and Ethical Leadership in Modern China
Integration of a vertical voluntary medical male circumcision program into routine health services in Zimbabwe
The global health community has recognized the importance of integrating and sustaining health programs within national health systems rather than managing stand-alone ‘vertical’ interventions. Corresponding with these objectives, international aid donors are embracing the principle of localization. Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision (VMMC) in Zimbabwe is a large vertical HIV prevention program that was primarily funded through development assis…
Sociology (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (6 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Higher Education Governance and Development (4 works) · Leadership (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Economics (3 works)