Research Profile
Dr Gareth Enticott
Selected Publications
Gareth Enticott, Andrew Donaldson, Philip Lowe, Megan Power, Amy Proctor and Katy Wilkinson (2011) The Changing Role of Veterinary Expertise in the Food Chain. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (Special Issue: Managing Infectious Diseases in Animal and Plants), 366, 1573, 1955-1965.
Enticott, G. (2011) The Local Universality of Veterinary Expertise and the Geography of Animal Disease. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. In press.
Enticott, G. (2011) Techniques of neutralising wildlife crimes in rural England and Wales. Journal of Rural Studies, 27(2): 200-208.
Enticott, G. and Vanclay, F. (2011) Scripts, Animal Health and Biosecurity: The Moral Accountability of Farmers’ Talk about Animal Health Risks. Health, Risk and Society, 13(4): 293-309.
Enticott, G. and Franklin, A. (2009) Biosecurity, Expertise and the Institutional Void: The Case of Bovine Tuberculosis. Sociologia Ruralis, 49(4): 375-93.
Enticott, G. (2008) The spaces of biosecurity: prescribing and negotiating solutions to bovine tuberculosis. Environment and Planning A 40 1568 – 1582.
Enticott, G. (2008) The ecological paradox: social and natural consequences of the geographies of animal health promotion. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33 433–446.
Enticott, G. (2001) Calculating Nature: the case of badgers, bovine tuberculosis and cattle. Journal of Rural Studies, 17(2): 149-64.
Enticott, G. (2003) Risking the rural: nature, morality and the consumption of unpasteurised milk. Journal of Rural Studies, 19(4): 411-424.
Enticott, G. (2003) Lay Immunology, Local Foods and Rural Identity: Defending Unpasteurised Milk in England. Sociologia Ruralis, 43(3): 257-270.
Other Recent Publications
Published Papers and Book Chapters
Enticott, G. (2011) Ethnographic Practices and the Practices of Biosecurity. In Blyton, P. and Franklin, A. (Eds) Researching Sustainability. Earthscan: London.
Enticott, G. (2010) Everyday Ethics: TB Testing, In Practice July/August 2010.
Enticott, G., Walker, R. and Boyne (2009) The Use of Multiple Informants in Public Administration Research: Data Aggregation Using Organizational Echelons. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19(2):229-253.
Enticott, G. (2009) Rural Sociology and Animal Disease. Sociologia Ruralis, 49(4): 327-29.
Enticott, G. (2009) Pandemics, Epidemics and Endemics: The Importance of Animal Health for Environmental Policy and Planning. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning, 11(3): 263 — 268.
Enticott, G. and Franklin, A. (2009) Biosecurity, Expertise and the Institutional Void: The Case of Bovine Tuberculosis. Sociologia Ruralis, 49(4): 375-93.
Enticott, G., Walker, R. and Boyne (2009) The Use of Multiple Informants in Public Administration Research: Data Aggregation Using Organizational Echelons. Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 19(2):229-253.
Enticott, G. (2008) The ecological paradox: social and natural consequences of the geographies of animal health promotion. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 33 433–446.
Enticott, G. (2008) The spaces of biosecurity: prescribing and negotiating solutions to bovine tuberculosis. Environment and Planning A 40 1568 – 1582.
Bingham, N., Enticott, G. and Hinchliffe, S. (2008) Biosecurity: spaces, practices, and boundaries. Guest Editorial. Environment and Planning A, 1528 – 1533.
Enticott, G. and Walker, R. (2008) Sustainable Management and Organizational Performance: an Empirical Analysis of Public Organizations. Business Strategy and the Environment, 17(2): 79-92.
Enticott, G. (2007) Dirty Foods, Healthy Communities? Hybridty, Rurality and the Consumption of Unpasteurised Milk in Rural England.In Cox, R. and Campkin, B. (Eds) Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (London: IB Tauris) 168-77
Enticott, G. and Entwistle, T. (2007) The spaces of modernisation: Outcomes, indicators and the local government modernisation agenda. Geoforum, 38(5): 999-1011.
Entwistle, T. and Enticott, G. (2007) Agenda-setting in Local Public Service Agreements. Policy Studies, 28(3) 193-208.
Enticott, G. (2006) Modernising the Internal Management of Local Planning Authorities: Does it Improve Performance? Town Planning Review, 77(2): 147-172.
Andrews, R., Boyne, G. and Enticott, G. (2006) Performance Failure in the Public Sector: misfortune or mismanagement? Public Management Review, Vol. 8(2): 273 – 296. Winner of the Kooiman Best Paper Award.
Entwistle, T., Martin, S. and Enticott, G. (2006) The Politics of Performance Improvement. In Martin, S. (Ed) Public Service Improvement. Routledge: London.
Entwistle, T., Martin, S. and Enticott, G. (2005) Leadership and service improvement: Dual elites or dynamic dependency? Local Government Studies. 31 (5): 541-554.
Enticott, G. and Walker, R. (2005) Environmental Sustainability and Management Reform in Local Government: an Empirical Analysis. Policy and Politics, 33(2); 297-322.
Boyne, G. and Enticott, G. (2004) 'Are the "poor" different? The internal characteristics of local authorities in the five Comprehensive Performance Assessment groups'. Public Money and Management, 24(1): 11-18.
Enticott, G. (2004) 'Multiple voices of modernisation: some methodological implications'. Public Administration, 82, 742-56.
Walker, R. and Enticott, G. (2004) Using multiple informants in public administration: revisiting the managerial values and actions debate. Journal of Public Administration, Research and Theory, 14, 417-34.
Enticott, G. (2003) Researching Local Government Using Electronic Surveys. Local Government Studies, 29(2): 52-67.
Enticott, G. (2003) Risking the rural: nature, morality and the consumption of unpasteurised milk. Journal of Rural Studies, 19(4): 411-424.
Enticott, G. (2003) Lay Immunology, Local Foods and Rural Identity: Defending Unpasteurised Milk in England. Sociologia Ruralis, 43(3): 257-270.
Enticott, G. (2001) Calculating Nature: the case of badgers, bovine tuberculosis and cattle. Journal of Rural Studies, 17(2): 149-64.
Enticott, G. (2000) What is rurality? Heterogeneous relations and the differentiated countryside. Swansea Geographer, 35: 71-95.
Recent Conference Papers and Presentations
Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Biosecurity Knowledge Transfer Interventions in England and Wales, Fifth International M.Bovis Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, August 25-28th 2009.
The Expertise of the Veterinary Protocol, XXIII European Congress for Rural Sociology, Vaasa, Finland, August 2009.
Preventing the Paradox: Social Capital and the Surveillance of Bovine TB. Surveillance and Nonhuman Life ESRC Seminar Series, Newcastle University, January 8th, 2009.
"The lie of the land. From idiom to critique". With Keith Halfacree. Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, August 2008.
Holy Cow! Shambo and the Contested Solutions to Bovine Tuberculosis. Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, August 2008.
Scripts in Agriculture: Why farming scripts have policy relevance. With Frank Vanclay, Institute of Australian Geographers annual conference, Hobart, Tasmania, July, 2008.
Farmers’ Understanding of Biosecurity and Bovine Tuberculosis. Seminar presentation at University of Liverpool Veterinary School, 10th January, 2008
Oral and written evidence presented to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Select Committee’s inquiry into bovine tuberculosis (November, 2007)
Farmers’ Understanding of Biosecurity and Bovine Tuberculosis. Presentations to: Welsh Assembly Government (January, 2008); Defra TB Policy Team & TB Advisory Group (October, 2007) and TB Husbandry Group (September, 2007).
“Its luck if you go clear and bad luck if you go down”: Lay Epidemiology, Candidates for Bovine Tuberculosis and the Implications for Biosecurity. Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, August 2007.
“Biosecurity, “Sound Science” and “Partnership Decision Making”. Royal Geographical Society annual conference, London, August 2007 [with Alex Franklin].
Lay Epidemiology, Candidates for Bovine Tuberculosis and the Implications for Biosecurity. XXII European Congress for Rural Sociology, Wageningen, Holland, August 2007.
TB Policy: a role for biosecurity? Annual Badger Trust Conference, Derbyshire, July 2007.
“Biosecurity, “Sound Science” and “Partnership Decision Making”. XXII European Congress for Rural Sociology, Wageningen, Holland, August 2007 [with Alex Franklin].
Farmers’ attitudes to culling and curing badgers from bovine tuberculosis. Animals and Society II Conference, Tasmania, July, 2007.
The place of human-animals relationships in the control of disease: the case of bovine tuberculosis. Animals and Society Conference II, Tasmania, July, 2007 [with Alex Franklin].
The Spaces of Biosecurity. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, March, 2006.
Rural Policy and the New Localism: An Examination of Local Public Service Agreements. XXI European Congress for Rural Sociology, Keszthely, Hungary, 2005.
Policy Reports
Enticott, G. (2008) Final Evaluation of the Biosecurity Intensive Treatment Area. WAG: Cardiff.
Enticott, G. (2008) Bovine Tuberculosis Health Check: Veterinary Capacity in Wales. WAG: Cardiff.
Enticott, G., Boyne, G. and Chen, A. (2007) Long Term Evaluation of Local Public Service Agreements: Second Survey Report. London: ODPM.
Enticott, G. (2006) Evaluation within EPC. Technical Services Division, Welsh Assembly Government.
Martin, S., Walker, R.M., Ashworth, R., Boyne, G., Enticott, G. Entwistle, T. (2006) Long-Term Evaluation of Best Value: Final Report. London: ODPM.
Enticott, G., Boyne, G. and Chen, A. (2005) Long Term Evaluation of Local Public Service Agreements: First Survey Report. London: ODPM.
Enticott, G. (2005) A Case-book of Rural Innovation. Commission for Rural Communities: Cheltenham.
Martin, S., Walker, R.M., Ashworth, R., Boyne, G., Enticott, G. Entwistle, T. (2005) Long-Term Evaluation of Best Value: Second Interim Report. London: ODPM.
Entwistle, T. and Enticott, G. (2004) Researching Rural Dimensions to Local Public Service Agreements. London: Countryside Agency.
Martin, S., Walker, R.M., Ashworth, R., Boyne, G., Enticott, G. and Entwistle, T. (2004) Long-Term Evaluation of Best Value: First Interim Report. London: ODPM.
Martin, S., Walker, R.M., Ashworth, R., Boyne, G., Enticott, G. Entwistle, T, Law, J., Dowson, L, and Sanderson, I. (2003) Long-Term Evaluation of Best Value: Baseline Report. London: ODPM.
Enticott, G., Walker, R.M., Boyne, G., Martin, S. and Ashworth, R. (2002) Best Value in English Local Government: Summary Results from the Census of Local Authorities in 2001. London: ODPM.
Other Papers
Enticott, G. and Cowell, R. (2003) 'Best Value: so whatever happened to sustainability?' EG Magazine 9(8), 3-5.
Martin, S., Walker, R. and Enticott, G. (2003) New View on Best Value Benefits. Local Government Chronicle. October 18th, p.18.
Other Conference Papers
Drivers of the Performance of Local Public Services: An empirical analysis of the impact of current reforms’, British Academy of Management Annual Conference, 2005 [with S.J. Martin, A. Chen, and T. Entwistle]
Performance Failure in the Public Sector: misfortune or mismanagement? Eighth International Research Symposium on Public Management, Milan, April, 2005 [with Andrews, R., and Boyne, G.].
Sustainable Management and Organizational Performance: an Empirical Analysis of Public Organizations. Greening of Industry Conference, Hong Kong, November 2004 [with R. Walker].
Exploring Variations in Management Reform Values and Actions: A Longitudinal Analysis. Seventh International Research Symposium on Public Management, Hong Kong, April 2003 [with R Walker].
Promoting Health Eating and Local Foods: Incompatible goals? Unpasteurised Milk, Lay Immunology and Rural Identity. Annual Meeting of the Rural Economy and Society Study Group, Cardiff, September 2002.
Corporateness and organizational performance in local government: an empirical analysis. Sixth International Research Symposium on Public Management, University of Edinburgh, April 2002 [with R. Ashworth, G. Boyne, S.J. Martin and R.M. Walker]
Risking the Rural: Moral Behaviours and the Consumption of Unpasteurised Milk. XIX European Congress for Rural Sociology, Dijon, France, September 2001.
Volunteering for the rural? Unravelling community action in rural Britain. RGS-IBG annual conference, Plymouth, January 2001. [with A. Ellis].
The Possibilities and Practicalities of using Actor Network Theory in Rural Community Studies. Rural Research and Qualitative Methods RESSG seminar series, Leeds, June 2000.
Doing your PhD: Ethnography, Actor-Network Theory and Rural Studies. Rural Geography Study Group Postgraduate Conference, Swansea, May 1999.
The Spaces of Sports Science. Leisure Studies Association Conference, Leeds, July 1998.
Hybrid ruralities and the differentiated countryside’. Association of American Geographers annual conference, Boston, March 1998.
Heterogeneous relations and the differentiated countryside. RGS-IBG annual conference, Kingston, January 1998.
Heterogeneous Relations and the Construction of Rural Space. Rural Economy and Society Study Group annual conference, Worcester, September 1997.