Professor David Heald
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2011
- David Heald and Alasdair McLeod will
speak about the United Kingdom's experience of financing
devolution at the International Colloquium to be held in Brussels
on 9 December 2011 in the Flemish Parliament, which will be
celebrating its 40th anniversary.
- David Heald will speak on public audit at
the conference on 5 October 2011 in Cardiff, being organised by
the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
- David Heald will make a presentation on
"Public audit's role in relation to public expenditure
transparency" at the Annual Summit of the Chartered Institute of
Public Finance's Better Governance Forum on 13 October 2011.
- Together with Ron Hodges (University of
Sheffield), David Heald presented a paper at the 13th Biennial
Conference of CIGAR (Comparative International Governmental
Accounting Research), held at the University of Ghent on 9-10 June
2011. The paper was titled "The full cycle of a performance
management system: the Use of Resources assessment for English
local authorities".
- David Heald presented a paper on the
external surveillance of public finances at the First Global Transparency conference, held at Rutgers
University, Newark, New Jersey, on 19-20 May 2011. Material
from this presentation will be used in a planned
book chapter on "Strengthening fiscal transparency".
- David Heald acted as discussant on papers
presented at the session on "National fiscal frameworks:
the evidence", at the Banca d'Italia's Public Finance Workshop in Perugia on 31 March
- 2 April 2011. The overall theme is "Rules
and institutions for sound fiscal policy after the crisis"
and the Proceedings will be published in early 2012.
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David Heald participated in the annual meeting of OECD Senior Budget Officials on
Public-Private Partnerships, held in Paris on 24-25 March 2011. At that meeting,
he made a presentation on "PPP accounting: transparency and
governance".
- At a conference at the
University of Edinburgh on 18-19 March 2011, David Heald
presented a synopsis on "The prospects for
public expenditure". Later this will be revised for a book on "The
Crisis of Social Democracy", to be edited by Michael Keating
(University of Aberdeen) and David McCrone (University of
Edinburgh).
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On 15 March 2011, David Heald
gave a lecture on
"The architecture and governance of UK public audit" at the University of
Ulster. This will be developed into an academic paper.
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On 3 March 2011, David Heald
presented a seminar on "The uses and abuses of transparency" at the
York Management School, University of York
- On 7 February 2011, David Heald gave evidence to the
Communities and Local Government Committee of the House of
Commons on arrangements for local authority audit in England. This
followed the August 2010 decision by the UK Government to abolish
the Audit Commission. His written evidence can be found
as 'Audit
31' on the Committee's website. The
evidence session was web-cast live and remains available here
.
2010
- On 9 December 2010, David Heald was the
discussant on the United Kingdom case study of historical episodes
of fiscal adjustment, at the conference held in Washington DC by
the Fiscal Affairs Department of the International Monetary Fund.
The conference was entitled "Large
Fiscal Adjustment Plans". The country case studies will now be
revised for publication as a book.
- David Heald was a plenary session speaker
on 'The uses and abuses of public sector transparency'
at a conference in Rome on 2-3 December 2010. The
conference, whose theme was 'Reforming the
Public Sector - How to Make a Difference', was jointly hosted
by the Italian National School of Government (SSPA) and the SDA
Bocconi School of Management. The programme for the
event can be viewed
here,
though some late changes had to be made because some
speakers were unable to travel because of airport disruption due to
exceptionally bad weather.
- David Heald presented a paper on 'The
transparency of public expenditure and its substitutes' to a
workshop session at the 10th Anniversary Conference of the Utrecht
School of Governance, held on 18-19 November 2010,
the programme being available
here.
His paper will be revised in early 2011 for submission to
a planned journal special issue on transparency.
- On 5 November 2010, David Heald contributed to a
parallel session on 'The Economic Powers of Devolved
Administrations' at the Irish-Scottish Forum on 'The Politics of
Devolution'. This was held
at the Scottish Parliament, and was organised by the AHRC Centre
for Irish-Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen in association with
Queen's University Belfast. The programme for the
event can be viewed
here.
- On 3 November 2010, David Heald gave
evidence on the 2010 Spending Review to the Committee on Finance
and Personnel of the Northern Ireland Assembly. The transcript
and live
recording (starting 52 minutes into the broadcast) are
available on the Assembly website.
- As part of Cardiff University’s
Wales Governance Centre's series of seminars on aspects of
devolution, one was held on Thursday 13 May 2010, in the
Council Chamber of the Glamorgan Building. The topic that
day was the taxing and borrowing powers of the UK
devolved administrations. David Heald was one of the speakers, alongside Cesar
Colino of UNED (the Spanish counterpart of the Open University), an expert
on the working of the devolved financing system in Spain. Alan Trench
(Edinburgh University) acted as discussant on the two
presentations.
- On 29 March 2010, David Heald gave a seminar to doctoral
students and staff at the University of Siena (Italy), summarising
the research that he has conducted with George Georgiou
(University of Birmingham) on Whole of Government Accounts. The
impressive poster for the seminar can be viewed
here.This
work is reported in the published
Public
Money & Management article
and in the paper presented on
3 December 2009 at the Abacus Forum, held at the University of
Sydney. The paper is currently under journal review.
- On 17 March 2010, David Heald
chaired a lecture on the fringe of the CIPFA Scotland
Conference. Professor John Baillie, Chair of the Accounts
Commission, spoke on 'Inspection and regulation post-Crerar - what
are the changes ahead and how will they benefit and/or
challenge the public services?'. This lecture was jointly organised by the
Public Policy & Management Association and the CIPFA Scottish Branch, being held
in the council chamber of Dundee City Council.
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On 7-8 January 2010, David Heald and Alasdair
McLeod (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Aberdeen Business School) presented
a paper on "The Taxation and Borrowing Powers of the UK
Devolved Administrations". This conference was held at Merton
College, Oxford, and was organised by the Political Studies
Association's Territorial Politics Group. The paper will be revised for journal
submission.
2009
- David Heald presented his co-authored paper with George
Georgiou (University of Birmingham) on 'The Macro-Fiscal Uses
of the UK Whole of Government Account' at the Abacus Forum, held
at the University of Sydney on 3 December 2009. A revised version
of this paper appears
here.
- David Heald presented his co-authored
paper with George Georgiou (University of Birmingham) on 'The
Regulation of Accounting for Public-Private Partnerships' to
the 65th Annual Conference of the International Institute
of Public Finance (IIPF), hosted on 13-16 August by
the University of Pretoria and held at the International Conference
Centre, Cape Town. A revised version of this paper will be published
in a special issue of 'Financial Accountability and
Management' in 2001. The latest typesript (dated December 2010) appears
here.
- David Heald presented his co-authored
paper with George Georgiou (University of Birmingham) on 'The
Regulation of Accounting for Public-Private Partnerships' to
the 12th Biennial Conference of CIGAR
(Comparative International Governmental Accounting Research), held on 28-29 May at
the Modena and Emilia Reggio University, Italy. A revised
version of this paper will be published in a special issue
of 'Financial Accountability and Management' in 2001. The latest typescript
(dated December 2010)appears
here.
- On 20 May 2009, David Heald gave a
seminar on ‘The regulation and substance of PFI accounting’ at the
School of Management, University of Bath.
- On 2 April 2009, David Heald gave a lecture at the University of Ulster
on the topic of 'Should Northern Ireland wish the abolition
of the Barnett formula?'.
- At the CIPFA Scotland 2009 Annual
Conference, held at the Edinburgh Conference Centre
on 20 March 2009, took part in a panel session on
‘Financial powers of Holyrood: A lever or barrier to economic
growth’. His fellow panellists were Sir Kenneth Calman and
Lord (David) Steel of Aikwood.
2008
- On 9 December 2008, David Heald participated in a
Round Table on devolution finance. This was held at the Hilton
Hotel, Cardiff and was organised by the (Holtham)
Independent Commission on Funding & Finance for Wales,
which has been established by the Welsh Assembly Government. The
evidence which he has submitted to this Commission is
available here.
- David Heald took part in a seminar organised by the University
of Glasgow's Law School on Monday 8 December
2008. This was in a series on Scotland's Constitutional
Future and focuses on ‘Devolution finance’. The other speakers
were David Bell (University of Stirling), Rosa Greaves (University
of Glasgow) and Richard Harris (University of Glasgow).
- David Heald presented a paper by George Georgiou (Birmingham)
and himself to a seminar in Siena (31 August - 2 September 2008)
on developments in Whole of Government Accounts. This was
organised by the Universities of Siena and Sydney. The conference
website is at: http://www.consolidation.unisi.it.
A revised version of their paper has been published in Public
Money and Management, available here.
- David Heald facilitated the Intra-Accountancy Institutes'
PFI/PPP conference on 16 July 2008. This was hosted by the London
Society of Chartered Accountants in the Great Hall of the
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. The other
speakers were practitioners involved in varying aspects of the
Private Finance Initiative.
- David Heald and George Georgiou (Birmingham) presented a paper
on ‘The regulation and substance of PPP accounting’ to the 12th
Annual Financial Reporting and Communication Conference. This was
organised by Cardiff Business School and held in the University's
Glamorgan Building on 3-4 July 2008. The conference website is here.
- David Heald spoke in the session on ‘Looking beyond Barnett:
options for financing devolution', at the Constitution Unit's
‘Inside Devolution 2008’ conference. This was held at the British
Academy on 22 May 2008. The conference programme is here.
2007
- David Heald gave a presentation to the British Academy of
Management's Research Methodology Special Interest Group on 18th
May 2007 at Oxford Brookes University. This presentation was on
‘Using management research to influence policy-makers’. A revised version will be published
in 2010 in a book edited by Cathy
Cassell (Manchester) and Bill Lee (Sheffield).
- David Heald was a discussant of papers on the public finances
of Germany and China at the 2007 Banca d'Italia Public Finance
Workshop, held at the Bank of Italy conference centre in Perugia,
29-31 March. The Conference Proceedings will be published in due
course.
2006
- The British Academy held a Panel Discussion on Monday 18
September 2006, to mark the publication of Transparency:
The Key to Better Governance?, Proceedings of the British
Academy Volume
135, 2006, Oxford University Press, edited by Christopher Hood
and David Heald. The speakers were Onora O’Neill (President of the
British Academy and a contributor to the book), Deirdre Curtin
(Utrecht School of Governance), and the two editors. Copies of the
book can be purchased here.
- David Heald presented a paper on ‘Financing the Devolved
Administrations’, at the HM Treasury/ESRC seminar on ‘The
Economics of Devolution’, held in the Churchill Room in the
Treasury on 27 January 2006.
2005
- David Heald presented a paper on ‘Fiscal sustainability: the
case of the United Kingdom’, at the conference on ‘Long-term Budget
Challenge: Public Finance in the G7’. This was held at the
Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC on 2-4 June 2005, and
co-sponsored by the Tower Center for Political Studies at the
Southern Methodist University.
- David Heald and Christopher Hood (Oxford) organised a workshop
on ‘Transparency: The Word and the Doctrines’, on 14 January 2005
at the British Academy. This was co-sponsored by the British
Academy and the ESRC Public Services Report Programme. A report on
the workshop is available here.
Subsequently, the papers presented at the workshop have been
published as Transparency:
The Key to Better Governance? (Proceedings of the British
Academy Volume 135, 2006), edited by David Heald and Christopher
Hood. David Heald contributed two chapters to this book: Chapter 2
on ‘Varieties
of transparency’; and Chapter 4 on ‘Transparency
as an instrumental value’.
2004
- David Heald presented the research results from his ESRC
Devolution and Constitutional Change Research Programme project on
devolution finance at an ESRC/Association of Regional Laboratories
conference at Ramside Hall Hotel, Durham on 16 November 2004. A summary
of project findings can be found on the ESRC ‘Society Today’
web pages.
- David Heald gave his inaugural lecture at the University of
Sheffield, on 19 May 2004, on the topic of ‘Gordon Brown’s Billions: the Dilemmas
of Spending Review 2004’.
2003
- David Heald and Alasdair McLeod presented the findings of
their ESRC Devolution Finance project to a seminar jointly
convened in Edinburgh on 17 December 2003 by the Scottish
Executive and the ESRC Devolution and Constitutional Change
programme.
- On behalf of David Heald and himself, Alasdair McLeod gave a
key note paper at the Regional Studies Association’s 2003 Annual
Conference, the topic of which was ‘Economic Governance
Post-Devolution: Differentiation or Convergence’. This was held in
London on Friday 21 November 2003. This formed the origin of their
published
article providing a full numerical analysis of the operation
of the Barnett formula.
- David Heald and Alasdair McLeod gave a paper on ‘Scotland’s
fiscal relationships with England and the United Kingdom’, at the
second part (‘Present and Future’) of the ‘Union of the Crowns’
seminar held in Edinburgh on 6-7 November 2003. This event was
jointly organised by the British Academy and the Royal Society of
Edinburgh to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the union of the
crowns of England and Scotland. The
first part (‘Past’) took place in London in September 2003. The
overall theme was ‘England and Scotland in the Union from 1603:
Anglo-Scottish Relations - Past, Present, Future’. Their paper was
subsequently published as ‘Scotland’s
fiscal relationships with England and the United Kingdom’, in
W.L. Miller (ed), Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1900 to
Devolution and Beyond, Proceedings of the British Academy Vol.
128, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 95-112.
- David Heald was a discussant at
one of the sessions of the Bank of Italy’s 5th Workshop on Public
Finance, the subject of which was ‘Tax Policy’. This Workshop was
held in Perugia on 3-5 April 2003.
- David Heald spoke at a seminar,
organised by the Northern
Ireland Economic Council and held in Belfast on 13 March 2003,
about the findings of his Report on
the funding of the Northern Ireland Assembly. The related Policy
Research Brief is available here.
- David Heald gave a seminar on ‘Funding the Northern Ireland
Assembly’ on 12 March 2003 at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ulster,
Jordanstown. This drew upon his Report
for the Northern Ireland Economic
Council, which was published on 3 March. The related Policy
Research Brief is available here.
2002
- David Heald gave a public lecture (Financing Devolution: What
Should Follow Barnett?) on 20 November 2002 at the Royal Society
of Edinburgh, as part of the series (Has Devolution Delivered?)
organised by the David Hume Institute. The slide
sequence is on the David Hume Institute website. After the
lecture he appeared with Andrew Wilson MSP (then Scottish National
Party Spokesperson on Economy, Enterprise & Lifelong Learning)
on BBC Radio Scotland’s ‘Politics Tonight’.
- David Heald gave a seminar on ‘Fiscal Transparency: Spending
Reviews, VFM and the Barnett Formula’ on 4 October 2002 at the
Conference of the Northern Ireland Civil Service Economist Group,
held at the Slieve Donard Hotel, Newcastle, County Down.
- David Heald took part in a session on ‘Transport Financing: A
Comparison of Available Options’ on 19 September 2002, at the
Scottish Transport Studies Group’s conference on ‘Transport
Devolution and Integration: Comparing Objectives, Financing and
Delivery’, held in Glasgow.
- David Heald presented a paper on ‘Beyond Barnett? Funding
Devolution’, at a seminar organised by the Institute for Public
Policy Research in Edinburgh on 18 April 2002. A copy of the book
chapter based on that paper appears here.
- David Heald presented a paper on ‘Fiscal transparency:
concepts, measurement and UK practice’ to the Department of
Accounting & Finance, University of Manchester, on 27 February
2002 (a revised version has now been published in Public
Administration, and appears here).
- David Heald and Alasdair McLeod presented papers on ‘Fiscal
equalisation’ and ‘Revenue raising and tax sharing’ in Birmingham
on 18-19 January 2002 [more]. This
work has now been published in a special issue of Regional and
Federal Studies, the article being available here.
2001
- International Seminar on ‘Accounting, Finance and Management
Control in Public Services’, organised by the Open University
Business School and held in Milton Keynes on 14 November 2001 [more].
- Glasgow Caledonian University Division of Accounting &
Finance Seminar Series, in which David Heald
presented a paper on Financing
UK Devolution in Practice.
- Symposium of Foreign Experts on ‘Fiscal Imbalance’, organised
by the Quebec Government’s Commission sur le déséquilibre fiscal,
13-14 September 2001 [more].
- Seminar on ‘Researching England’, University of Birmingham, 26
March 2001 [more].
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