Newcastle University

Introduction

James Cornford is a Principal Research Associate. His research interests concern the social aspects of information and communication technologies, in particular in the context of public services, higher education and European regional development, and the management and development of the creative industries.

Background

In 2002 he joined the Business School as a Senior Lecturer and left again in 2007. He is currently part time researcher in the Institute for Policy and Practice.

Research Interests

The deployment, use and consequences of large scale information systems in public services and higher education (e-government)

Industrial and work organisation in old and new media

Information and Communciations Technologies and Regional Development in Europe

Current Work

Postgraduate Supervision

Supervision in the fields of e-government, information technologies in higher education and industrial structure and working practices in new media.

Projects

• AIM Fellowship in Excellence in Public Services: E-Government
  Project Leader(s): James Cornford
• AMASE Advanced Multi-Agency Service Environments
  Project Leader(s): Ian McLoughlin
• e2R - Enquiries to Registration - Case Study
  Project Leader(s): Rob Wilson
• e2R Research Project
  Project Leader(s): Paul Richter
• EPICs - E-Portfolios (JISC Regional E-Learning Pilot)
  Project Leader(s): Rob Wilson
• FAME (Framework for Multi-Agency Environments)
  Project Leader(s): Rob Wilson
• Integrating Telecare for Chronic Disease Management in the Community
  Project Leader(s): Rob Wilson
• JISC Understanding the Landscape for Information Environments and their Take-up (JULIET)
  Project Leader(s): James Cornford
• MUSIC Measuring and Understanding the Systems Integration Challenge
  Project Leader(s): James Cornford
• Shared Services and Public Sector Transformation: Processes and Outcomes
  Project Leader(s): Paul Richter
• Space Place and the Virtual University
  Project Leader(s): James Cornford
• The Biography and Evolution of Software Packages
  Project Leader(s): James Cornford
• TRANSFORM: Benchmarking and Fostering Transformative Use of ICTs in the Regions
  Project Leader(s): Ranald Richardson
• Understanding the Process of Implementing Electronic Local Government in England
  Project Leader(s): James Cornford

Postgraduate Teaching

Module Leader for Understanding and Managing Creativity (for MSc in Innovation Creativity and Enterprise Mangement (ICEm))

• Sugden B, Wilson R, Cornford J. Reconfiguring the health supplier market: Changing relationships in the primary care supplier market in England. Health Informatics Journal 2008, 14(2), 113-124.
• Wilson RG, Baines S, Cornford JR, Martin MJ. ‘Trying to do a jigsaw without the picture on the box’: understanding the challenges of care integration in the context of single assessment for older people in England. International Journal of Integrated Care 2007, 7, 1-11.
• Pollock N, Cornford J. ERP systems and the university as a “unique” organisation. Information Technology and People 2004,17 1 31-52.
• McLoughlin I, Cornford J. Transformational change in the local state? Enacting e-government in English local authorities. Journal of Management and Organization 2006, 12(3), 195-208.
• Cornford J, Pollock N. Putting the University Online: Information, Technology and Organizational Change. Buckingham, UK: Open University Press, 2003.
• Pollock N, Cornford J. The theory and practice of the virtual university: Working through the work of making work mobile. Minerva 2002,40 4 359-373.
• Cornford J. The Evolution of the Information Society and Regional Development in Europe. In: Avgerou, C., La Rovere, R.L, ed. Information Systems and the Economics of Innovation. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2003, pp.15-32.
• Walsh S, Baines S, Cornford JR. E-enabled active welfare: creating the context for work-life balance?. In: Perrons D; McDowell L; Fagan C; Ray K; Ward K, ed. Gender Divisions and Working Time in the New Economy: Public Policy and Changing Patterns of Work in Europe and North America. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006, pp. 183-192.
• Cornford J, Richter P. Customer focus in UK e-government: Or, putting the politics back into e-government. International Journal of Business Science and Applied Management 2007, 2(1), 34-46.
• Cornford JR, Richardson RGW, Sokol M, Marques PMF, Gillespie AE. Transformation of regional societies through ICTs: State(s) of the art(s): A discussion document. Germany: empirica, 2006. 022780.
• Cornford J, Wessels B, Richardson R, Gillespie A, McLoughlin I, Kohannejad J, Belt V, Martin M. Local E-Government: Process Evaluation of Electronic Local Government in England. London: Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, 2004.
• Richter P, Cornford JR, McLoughlin IP. The e-Citizen as talk, as text and as technology: CRM and e-Government. Electronic Journal of e-Government 2004, 2(3), 207-218.
• Gillespie AE, Richardson RGW, Cornford JR. Regional development and the new economy. EIB Papers 2001, 6(1), 109-131.
• Cornford JR, Gillespie AE, Richardson RGW. Regional development in the information society. In: Ducatel, K.; Webster, J.; Herrmann, W., ed. The information society in Europe: work and life in an age of globalization. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2000, pp. 21-44.
• Cornford J, Baines S, Wilson R. Representing the Family: how does the State "Think Family"?. Policy and Politics 2013. In Press.
• Richter P, Cornford J. Customer Relationship Management and Citizenship: Technologies and Identities in Public Services. Social Policy and Society 2008, 7(2), 211-220.
• Cornford J, Baines S, Wilson R, Richter P, Maniatopoulos G, Martin M. Evaluation of the JISC Information Environment (JULIET). Centre for Social and Business Informatics, Newcastle University: Report for Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), 2007. SBI Publications.
• Cornford J, Baines S, Wilson R, Maniatopoulos G, Martin M. Measuring and Understanding the Systems Integration Challenge in Higher and Further Education (MUSIC). Centre for Social and Business Informatics, Newcastle University: Report for Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), 2006. SBI Publications.
• Richter P, Cornford J. The e-Citizen as talk, as text and as technology. In: 6th International Conference on Organizational Discourse: Artefacts, Archetypes and Architexts. 2004, Amsterdam, Netherlands: London: KMCP.
• Pollock N, Cornford J. Fitting standard software to non-standard organisations. In: Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing. 2002, Madrid, Spain: ACM Press.