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Dr Michael Farrelly
Development Policy and Practice
The Open University
Walton Hall
Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA
United Kingdom
Email: m.farrelly@open.ac.uk
Position: Research Fellow
Biography
Michael gained his ESRC funded PhD from Lancaster University where he studied and applied Critical Discourse Analysis to practices of democracy and participation in local government forums in the UK. On completing his PhD he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Liverpool on a Defra funded project that examined the role of ‘lay’ members of scientific advisory boards. He moved the University of Birmingham and worked in the Institute of Local Government Studies where he researched democratic practices in Birmingham, Copenhagen and Rotterdam and then moved to the Centre for Public Service Partnerships where he worked on various projects on partnership working.
Michael joined the OU as a research associate in 2009. He worked with Bob Jessop at the Cultural Political Economy Research Centre, Lancaster University, for six months in 2010 and returned to the OU to work on an analysis of UK research policy on bioenergy.
Research areas:
Michael’s research interests are in democracy, democratic theory and practice, local politics (both in the UK and comparatively), policy analysis and environmental politics – specifically, UK bio-energy policy and low-carbon economy. Theoretically and methodologically his interests are in critical discourse analysis and cultural political economy.
Recent work has focussed on developing concepts and methods for analysing the financial crisis that emerged in 2007 from the perspective of cultural political economy. He is now researching UK bio-energy research policy and its relation to ‘knowledge’ and ‘low-carbon economy.’
Publications:
- 2010 (forthcoming) Koller, V. and Michael Farrelly “Darstellungen der Finanzkrise 2007/08 in den britischen Printmedien,“ Aptum.
- 2010 Farrelly, M. Stephen Jeffares and Chris Skelcher "Rethinking network governance: new forms of analysis and the implications for IGR/MLG" in Ongaro, E. et al (eds), Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the European Union and the United States, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 87-107.
- 2010 Farrelly, M. and Helen Sullivan “Discourses of Democracy in Neighbourhood Governance,” Critical Policy Studies, 4(3) 234-249.
- 2010 Farrelly, M and Chris Skelcher “Democratic Milieu: Analysing Democracy in the New Governance,” Representation, 46(2) 139-159.
- 2010 Farrelly, M. “Critical Discourse Analysis in Political Studies” Politics, 30(2) 98-104.
- 2009 Farrelly, M. “Citizen Participation and Neighbourhood Governance: Analysing Democratic Practice”, Local Government Studies, 35(4) 387-400.
- 2008 Farrelly, M. “Global Discourses of Democracy and an English City”, Journal of Language and Politics, 7(3) 413-430.
Current Research Project:
Policy Reports:
2008 Jones K.E., Irwin A., Farrelly M., Stilgoe J. “Understanding, Assessing and Applying Non-Expert (Lay) Contributions to Scientific Advisory Bodies,” DEFRA
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