Evaluating the impact of the East Midlands Development Agency: annex 3: supplementary papers

A series of papers providing background information pertinent to the evaluation of the economic impact of emda's activities. Includes timelines for relevant strategies, a guide to the changing structural context of the Regional Economic Strategies, and examples of Strategic Added Value (SAV) activities

Evaluating the impact of East Midlands Development Agency: annex 1 summary strand level assessements

Quantitative summary tables for each of the 12 strand evaluations that comprised the major three-year evaluation of the economic impact of emda's activities since its establishment in 1999

Evaluating the impact of the East Midlands Development Agency: annex 4: progress to res targets

An update on progress towards the high level outcome targets set out in the 2003 Regional Economic Strategy, to provide context for a major three-year evaluation of the economic impact of emda's activities since its establishment in 1999

Manufacturing advisory service in the East Midlands – historical evaluation

A report on the longitudinal evaluation of the Manufacturing Advisory Service (MAS) covering the period from its establishment in 2005. The evaluation looks at net economic impact and the appropriateness of the design and delivery of the service, in addition to identifying any areas for improvement

Evaluating the impact of East Midlands Development Agency: overall assessment report - executive summary

Exective summary of the overall findings report from a major three-year evaluation of the economic impact of emda's activities since its establishment in 1999

Evaluating the impact of East Midlands Development Agency: overall assessment report

Overall findings report from a major three-year evaluation of the economic impact of emda's activities since its establishment in 1999. Draws together findings of studies of each of the 12 strands of the 2003 Regional Economic Strategy. The approach is primarily a 'bottom-up' microeconomic methodology consistent with national evaluation guidance

East Midlands inland waterways study

This study assesses the potential of the East Midlands' inland waterways to contribute to economic development and to identify projects and interventions that will deliver against the priorities of the regional economic strategy

Toolkit for the evaluation of emda strategic programmes 2007/08-2009/10

The toolkit provides logic models, methodologies, and research instruments for evaluating a range of different types of intervention relevant to emda's portfolio. It was developed to provide a common analytical framework for evaluating individual emda funded projects in a way that was consistent with the wider evaluation of the impact of emda's strategic programmes

Regeneration at transport interchanges final report

This report sets out an overview of the rationale for investment in transport interchanges and provides an implementation framework to guide decision making by emda and its public and private sector partners in respect of opportunities for investment in transport interchange projects. The intention is that the implementation framework can be used by all partners across the region to provide consistency and to assist in the development, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of transport interchange project intervention

Work relations and the multiple dimensions of the work-life boundary: Hairstyling at home

This article proposes a multidimensional approach to analysis of the work-life boundary and examines the affects of particular social and organizational relations on the preservation or porous-ness of different dimensions. In line with Nippert-Eng (1996), it is suggested that different dimensions of the boundary are reinforced or weakened by different social and organizational pressures. Analysis describes a specific type of multidimensional breaching – instances when work is taken outside of the worksite (spatial breaching) and is carried out outside of work-time (temporal breaching). Empirical research was conducted among hairstylists working in salons and barbershops in a city in the North of England. Because of the nature of the tasks involved in hairstyling – that the skills involved are widely exchangeable and so may be employed in extra-work environments and temporalities – hairstylists provide a nice site for investigating the circumstances when this does (or does not) occur. Data collection involved a comprehensive self-completion survey of salons and barbershops in the city (response rate: 40%; N=132) and semi-structured interviews with 70 stylists working in 52 salons or barbershops. Findings demonstrate that work relations (hairstylists’ structural relations of production – whether a worker is an owner-proprietor, chair-renter, on-commission stylist, basic-only stylist, or trainee) are critical in determining both workers’ ability and desire to resist the seepage of work into their social lives as well as the particular dimensions of the boundary that are breached. This is because work relations affect the relative importance of four identified motivations for taking work out of the salon (income production; training; inter-personal reciprocity rooted in social relations; and inter-personal reciprocity rooted in the workplace)