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Pauline's second book is still available
Success at the Heart of Government.
Working with Ministers
Pauline tells the story of her time as a career civil servant at the heart of the last Conservative Government’s industrial policy.
She describes life alongside politicians in the Whitehall jungle as she clawed her way up the career ladder, trying to overtake her administrative colleagues, and recognising that she had to turn her uniqueness to her advantage. There are few senior civil servants who trained as research scientists and chartered engineers and even less have made an impact with science, engineering and technology as an academic, in parallel with success in their civil service career. And these are not women !
Her story is peppered with personal anecdotes as well as rare and illuminating technical and policy extracts. Starting from her first policy job as the most junior member of a small team in the Policy and Perspectives Unit, her success quickly led to her managing her own teams and advising on significant budget expenditures. Her final insights come from her time 15 years later as a member of the prestigious Senior Open Structure, leading a policy Branch in the Department of Trade and Industry.
This book continues her story since leaving Oxford and the research world which she wrote about in her earlier book ‘Quiet Quadrangles and Ivory Towers’.
You can purchase the book for £17.99 plus pp or download a copy as an eBook (PDF format) by following this link or through Amazon and Lulu but they take a huge cut!
Pauline's Open University Material
- General guidance, best practice and Application support
- Open Teaching - How to Maximise the Use of Open Source Software for Open University Tutoring - Our experiences using a Dual Booted Linux Laptop for Tutoring round the world.
- The OU Virtual Learning Environment - Efficient use of Forums and Email by Students and Tutors - first experiences with the new OU VLE and how we are setting up for use away from broadband. It includes important information on how to fix problems such as now to cut and paste into VLE Forum Postings when using Firefox.
- Guidance on Preparation of TMAs for Electronic Marking for Students - This is essential reading before submitting e-TMAs especially now there are many more tools and matching bear traps.
- Guidance on Electronic Marking of TMAs for Tutors - This contains a lot of useful information for marking e-TMAs - the OU has now included much of the original material in their guidance notes but it now contains information on setting up modern Word Processors, includng OpenOffice for easy marking and a lot of new tips and tricks.
- Technical Articles from Peter's existing series of "Howto" articles
which are topical and of interest to OU Staff, Tutors and Students.
- Global Computing and Communications - of interest to those who need to keep in touch round the world
- Fun with Ubuntu Linux - Actually a serious look at migrating from Windows to Linux to give security and economy in data use whilst traveling. We are now convinced and rarely use anything else although we do retain a dual-booted machine. This article is the entry point to a series covering specialised aspects of Linux Mint and Ubuntu.
- Resumes: Pauline's Open University Lecturing and Consultancy Experience and her Resume. (Restricted access, email us for a password using the message link below)
Pauline's General Material
- Watercolour Painting - Pauline's diary of progress since she restarted painting - just admire or buy a print.
- Diary of an Author - Pauline's experiences in succeeding in getting a book written and published - of interest to others either contemplating or already starting to write seriously.
- New - Completing the Circle - Research, the Law and the Challenges of Assisted Dying - Background to Pauline's dissertation on the differences in the law between England and New Zealand in this topical area which was successfully submitted for the Degree of Master of Laws (LL.M) - complete with a download of the dissertation.
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