Yr Athro Leighton Andrews
Professor of Practice in Public Service Leadership and Innovation
- andrewsl7@cardiff.ac.uk
- +44 (0)29 2087 6564
- F43, Adeilad Aberconwy, Rhodfa Colum, Cathays, Caerdydd, CF10 3EU
- Siarad Cymraeg
- Ar gael fel goruchwyliwr ôl-raddedig
Trosolwg
Leighton Andrews is Professor of Practice in Public Service Leadership and Innovation at Cardiff Business School.
Formerly Minister for Education and Skills and Minister for Public Services in Carwyn Jones's Welsh Labour Governments from 2009-16, a Deputy Minister in Rhodri Morgan's One Wales Government from 2007-9 and Assembly Member for the Rhondda from 2003-16. Prior to his election to the National Assembly in 2003, Leighton had had a successful career in the private, public and voluntary sectors. He was the BBC's Head of Public Affairs in London from 1993-1996 during its Charter Renewal campaign He ran a number of businesses in the public relations field and set up his own business after leaving the BBC. He has chaired the Digital News Taskforce for the Presiding Officer of the National Assembly since November 2016. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Public Affairs.
Bywgraffiad
Qualifications
- BA Hons, English and History, University of Wales, 1978
- MA History, University of Sussex, 1980
Media contributions
Leighton has written for an extensive range of publications in both print and digital format, including the Guardian, the Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Higher Education Supplement, the Western Mail, The New European, Golwg, Agenda, ClickonWales, and many others. He has broadcast regularly for a wide range of media outlets on both television and radio. Recent examples are listed on his personal website www.leightonandrews.com
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- FRSA
- NUJ
- PSA
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- 2004-2016, Honorary Professor, JOMEC, Cardiff University
- 2002-2003, Lecturer in Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC)
- 1997 Visiting Professor, University of Westminster
Ymrwymiadau siarad cyhoeddus
- March 2017 Central South Education Consortium
- November 2016, Velindre Hospital Trust Leadership Conference
- July 2016, Incerts annual education conference chair
- Numerous speeches asnd lectures as a Welsh Government Minister prior to that.
Cyhoeddiadau
2022
- Andrews, L. 2022. Performing Welsh Government 1999-2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices. Contemporary British History 36(1), pp. 124-156. (10.1080/13619462.2021.1996235)
2021
- Andrews, L. 2021. The forward march of devolution halted and the limits of progressive unionism. Political Quarterly 92(3), pp. 512-521. (10.1111/1467-923X.13044)
- Andrews, L. 2021. Mortality, blame avoidance and the state: constructing Boris Johnson’s exit strategy. In: Price, S. and Harbisher, B. eds. Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: framing public discourse. Routledge
- Andrews, L. 2021. ‘Like any wartime government’: Covid-19, Churchillian imaginaries, English exceptionalism and the battle of Britishness.. In: Pettit, J. ed. Covid-19, the Second World War and the Idea of Britishness. Peter Lang
- Andrews, L. 2021. The forward march of devolution halted. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2021, Virtual, 29-31 March 2021.
- Andrews, L. 2021. COVID-19 and the narrative capacity of governments: the case of the UK. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2021, Virtual, 29-31 March 2021.
2020
- Andrews, L. 2020. The role of Ministerial leadership - some reflections from Wales. In: Harris, A. and Jones, M. eds. Leading and Transforming Education Systems: Evidence, Insights, Critique and Reflections. Springer, pp. 91-104.
- Andrews, L. 2020. The BBC - Britishness, broadcasting, and the culture wars. In: Mair, J. ed. The BBC - A Winter of Discontent. Bite-Sized Books, pp. 47-53.
- Andrews, L. 2020. Facebook regulation: a process not a text. UK Copyright Centre and Creative Economy Centre (CREATe). Available at: https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/08/new-working-paper-facebook-regulation-a-process-not-a-text/
- Andrews, L. and Iosifidis, P. 2020. Regulating the Internet intermediaries in a post-truth world: Beyond media policy?. International Communication Gazette 82(3), pp. 211-230. (10.1177/1748048519828595)
- Andrews, L. 2020. Brexit, Cabinet norms and the ministerial code: are we living in a post-Nolan era?. Political Quarterly 91(1), pp. 125-133., article number: Volume91, Issue1 January–March 2020 Pages 125-133. (10.1111/1467-923X.12778)
- Andrews, L. 2020. Facebook regulation: a process not a text. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2020: Re-imagining Politics, Edinburgh, Scotland, 06-08 April, 2020.
- Andrews, L. 2020. Political leadership, discursive capacity and governance readiness in the age of Big Data.. Presented at: 5th PUPOL Conference 2020, The Hague, Netherlands, 15-16 October 2020.
2019
- Andrews, L. 2019. Algorithms, regulation and governance readiness. In: Lodge, M. and Yeung, K. eds. Algorithmic Regulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 203-223.
- Andrews, L. 2019. Facebook, the media and democracy: Big tech, small state?. Disruptions. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429466410)
- Andrews, L. 2019. Public administration, public leadership and the construction of public value in the age of the algorithm and ‘big data’. Public Administration 97(2), pp. 296-310. (10.1111/padm.12534)
2018
- Andrews, L. 2018. Telling governance stories: from Lecturer, to Minister, and Back!. PS: Political Science & Politics 51(1) (10.1017/S1049096517001871)
- Andrews, L. 2018. Governing Wales – hidden wiring and emerging cultural practice. Presented at: Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, 26-28 March 2018.
2017
- Andrews, L. 2017. How can we demonstrate the public value of evidence-based policy making when government ministers declare that the people ‘have had enough of experts’?. Palgrave Communications 3, article number: 11 (2017). (10.1057/s41599-017-0013-4)
- Andrews, L. et al. 2017. Algorithms, governance and regulation: beyond "the necessary hashtags". Project Report. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Andrews, L. 2017. The role of the Minister in driving innovation: some post-Ministerial perspectives on creating public value. Presented at: Public Service Innovation Conference (PUBSIC 2017), Lillehammer, Norway, 15-17 November 2017.
Research interests
- Public Service Leadership and Innovation
- Governance of Devolution
- Public policy-making
- Education
- Media.
