About the CPSO
The Centre for Public Services Organisations (CPSO) is based at Royal Holloway College, University of London, and brings together a number of research projects in the field of the organisational analysis of the public services. Our intention is to carry out rigorous and relevant research into contemporary public service organisations, in particular focusing on our core themes of:
- organisational change
- organisational learning
- decision-making
The CPSO seeks to further rigorous and relevant research into organisational and managerial issues in contemporary public services organisations. There continues to be intense political, policy and academic interest in the question of whether UK public services are likely to be transformed, radically 'modernised' or not within the next five or so years and this interest has if anything increased over the last year with the increased interest of the ESRC in this area. The public sector is now growing in size for the first time in a generation: 500,000 new public sector jobs have been created since 1997.
Further details regarding the aims and objectives, and academic themes of the CPSO can be found in the most recent Annual Report 