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PMM is an independent review of policy, management and finance in the public services. Articles are reviewed by academics and practitioners to ensure quality and practical impact. PMM is owned and managed by CIPFA, which wishes it to be regarded as a neutral forum for debate and dissemination of knowledge. For subscription information, click here.
PMM has a multidisciplinary audience. It publishes articles which contribute new knowledge as a basis for policy or management improvements, or which reflect on evidence from public service management and finance. Readers include officials in all types of public service organizations; academics; consultants and advisers working with the public services; voluntary (third) sector organizations delivering public services; politicians; journalists; and students on both academic and professional courses. The editors welcome articles about developments outside the UK which offer clear lessons for British or other western practitioners.
PMM is published six times a year: in January, March, May, July, September and November. The journal is now in its 30th volume.
Articles for consideration by the editors should be sent to the Managing Editor: michaela.lavender@cipfa.org.uk
Two tribes
PMM’s July 2010 issue looks at the co-production of research by academic and practitioner communities - in other words what happens when academics and practitioners work together to carry out research. Theme editors Kevin Orr (University of Hull) and Mike Bennett (SOLACE) have organized a collection of articles that explore the politics and tricky issues involved in such undertakings. There have been many calls for academics and practitioners to work more closely together and to do so more often, but are the interests of each group complementary or prone to collide?
PMM is a particularly appropriate forum for this enterprise given its unrivalled ability to reach an engaged readership drawn from policy, practice and academia. The benefits of co-production hold enormous appeal including:
• Bringing to bear local knowledge on the field.
• Better informed policy-making.
• The generation of more practice-relevant research.
• Enabling academics to become better at communicating beyond other academics.
However, co-producing research is also an inherently political process involving negotiations between the members of two tribes. Given the increasingly wide and vocal exhortations to bridge gaps between these groups, this themed issue offers a timely opportunity to explore critically the thorny issues that face academics and practitioners involved in conducting collaborative research. Download the contents here.
Policy-making
PMM is now using its publisher’s advance publication system for highly time-sensitive articles that will influence national or supra-national governmental policy-making. The system is called iFirst and articles are available to our institutional and online subscribers. Articles published on iFirst will appear in a later printed edition of PMM exactly as they appeared in the iFirst version.
PMM and the ESRC Public Services Programme
PMM's themed edition based on the ESRC Public Services Programme, entitled Public Management by Numbers, can be downloaded at www.cipfa.org.uk/pt/pmm/download/PMM_public_management_by_numbers.pdf