Toby Lowe

Visiting Professor in Public Management

Biography

Toby spent 15 years working across the public and voluntary sectors in the UK, working in both policy and delivery roles. He is on secondment to CPI from Newcastle Business School, where he has been working alongside public and voluntary sector organisations to develop an alternative paradigm for public management - one which enables public service to work more effectively in complex, dynamic environments.

Toby Lowe

Visiting Professor in Public Management

Biography

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Seven things to know about outcomes-based contracting

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Learning together: Reflections from our Human Learning Systems Action Learning Group

Human Learning Systems - A practical guide to doing public management differently

Using learning to improve health outcomes in Scotland

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'Learning together’: reconceiving home care in England

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Learning as a strategy to improve national education – insights from the Finnish National Agency for Education’s Innovation Centre

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Beyond adaptation: lessons from the frontline on how shared learning fosters trust

Public services as if people matter: Doing commissioning differently in Liverpool

Progressive Thinking: Ten Possible Futures for Public & Community Services

Human Learning Systems: A Complexity Friendly Approach to Public Services

“The simple answers are wrong:” Toby Lowe on the need for a new kind of accountability in public services

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