Principal & Vice-Chancellor
- About
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- Email Address
- boyne@abdn.ac.uk
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272135
- Telephone Number
- +44 (0)1224 272134
- Office Address
- School/Department
- Principal's Office
Biography
Professor George Boyne became Principal and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Aberdeen on 1 August 2018.
Professor Boyne led the creation of the University’s Aberdeen 2040 strategy which was launched in February 2020 to mark the 525th anniversary of the foundation of Kings College in Old Aberdeen. Aberdeen 2040, which builds directly on the university’s foundational purpose to be open to all and dedicated to the pursuit of truth in the service of others, won the Higher Education Strategic Planners Association award for University strategy of the year in 2021.
Professor Boyne is Chair of the University Senate, a member of the University Court and a member of the Board of the University’s Development Trust. His external roles include Chair of Universities and Colleges Employers Association (UCEA), Convenor of Universities Scotland Funding Policy Group, member of the Board of Opportunity North East, and member of the Aberdeen City Deal Joint Committee.
Professor Boyne has published extensively on the performance of public sector organisations and has been a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences since 2010.
Principal's Office Contacts
Heather Crabb - Head of Principal's Office
- Tel: +44 (0) 1224272404
- Email: h.crabb@abdn.ac.uk
J Ross Anderson - Governance & Executive Support Officer
- Tel: +44 (0)1224 273881
- Email: ross.anderson@abdn.ac.uk
Julia Garrow - Personal Assistant to Principal and Vice-Chancellor
- Tel: +44 (0)1224 272135
- Email: PrincipalPA@abdn.ac.uk
Fiona Beedie - Admin Assistant (8.30am to 1.45pm)
- Tel: +44 (0)1224 272134
- Email: fiona.beedie@abdn.ac.uk
Latest Publications
What Explains Agency Heads’ Length of Tenure? Testing Managerial Background, Performance, and Political Environment Effects
Public Administration Review, vol. 77, no. 4, pp. 591-602Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12735
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] University of Exeter institutional repository
When Bureaucracy Matters for Organizational Performance: Exploring the Benefits of Administrative Intensity in Big and Complex Organizations
Public Administration, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 115-139Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPublic sector motivation ad fonts: Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 20-35Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muw027
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The Politics of Agency Death: Ministers and the Survival of Government Agencies in a Parliamentary System
British Journal of Political Science, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 763-784Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123414000477
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Prosocial Behavior and Public Service Motivation
Public Administration Review, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 177-187Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12480
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- Research
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Funding and Grants
Housing Grant Policies: An Evaluation (1988-89, £21,000 Welsh Office, with A.Millington).
Local Government in Wales: Its Role and Functions (1990-91, £15,500, Joseph Rowntree Foundation).
Local Government Reform in Scotland and Wales (1993-94, £45,000, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, with Grant Jordan, University of Aberdeen).
Spatial Equity and Local Government Finance: Who Gets What Where? (1995-97, £26,500, Leverhulme Trust, with Martin Powell, University of Bath).
Best Value in Welsh Local Government (1998-2000, £153,333, Welsh Office, with Richard Walker, Cardiff University, and Jennifer Law, University of Glamorgan).
Devolution and Regulation: Political Control of Public Bodies in Scotland and Wales (1999-2000, £44,000, ESRC, with Arthur Midwinter, University of Strathclyde, and Richard Walker, Cardiff University).
Strategy and Performance in Local Government (2001-2004, £163,893, ESRC, with Richard Walker, Cardiff University, and Jennifer Law, University of Glamorgan).
Long Term Evaluation of the Impact of Best Value (2001-2005, £1.1 million, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, with Steve Martin and Richard Walker, Cardiff University).
AIM Public Services Research Fellowship on Organizational Turnaround (2003-4 ESRC, £127k.)
Evaluation of Local Public Service Agreements (2003-7, £1.2 million, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; with the Office of Public Management).
Designing Outcome Measures For The Second Generation of Local Public Service Agreements (2004-6, £97k, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, with J.Law, University of Glamorgan).
Leadership Change and Public Services: Reinvigorating Performance or Reinforcing Decline? (2006-2008, £253k, ESRC, with P. John, Manchester, and O. James, Exeter)
Local Authority Size and Performance (2006-7, £56k, Department for Communities and Local Government, with R. Andrews, Cardiff University).
How Public Management Matters: Strategy, Networking and Local Service Performance (2006-2010, £750k, ESRC, with R. Walker, Hong Kong University, K. Meier, Texas A&M University, and L. O’Toole, University of Georgia).
Local Authority Form and Function: An Evaluation of the Impact of Structural Change (2008-2013, £820k, Department for Communities and Local Government; with the Office of Public Management and Price Waterhouse Coopers).
Chief Executive Succession and the Performance of Central Government Agencies (2010-2014, £216k, ESRC, with Oliver James, Exeter, and Nico Petrovsky, Kentucky).
- Publications
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What Explains Agency Heads’ Length of Tenure? Testing Managerial Background, Performance, and Political Environment Effects
Public Administration Review, vol. 77, no. 4, pp. 591-602Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12735
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
- [ONLINE] University of Exeter institutional repository
When Bureaucracy Matters for Organizational Performance: Exploring the Benefits of Administrative Intensity in Big and Complex Organizations
Public Administration, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 115-139Contributions to Journals: ArticlesPublic sector motivation ad fonts: Personality traits as antecedents of the motivation to serve the public interest
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 27, no. 1, pp. 20-35Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muw027
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The Politics of Agency Death: Ministers and the Survival of Government Agencies in a Parliamentary System
British Journal of Political Science, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 763-784Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123414000477
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
Prosocial Behavior and Public Service Motivation
Public Administration Review, vol. 76, no. 1, pp. 177-187Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12480
- [ONLINE] View publication in Scopus
The Effects of Public Service Motivation on Collaborative Behavior: Evidence from Three Experimental Games
International Public Management Journal, vol. 18, no. 2, pp. 171-189Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10967494.2015.1012573
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New leaders' managerial background and the performance of public organizations: The theory of publicness fit
Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 217-236Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/muu008
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Evidence-based modelling of hybrid organizational strategies
Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, vol. 21, no. 1, pp. 1-23Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10588-014-9174-5
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Task complexity, organization size, and administrative intensity: The case of UK universities
Public Administration, vol. 92, no. 3, pp. 656-672Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/padm.12078
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Marching to different drummers? The performance effects of alignment between political and managerial perceptions of performance management
Public Administration Review, vol. 73, no. 6, pp. 833-844Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/puar.12131
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