Outputs (10)

Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production (2023)
Book Chapter
Cooijmans-Keizer, L. (2023). Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production. In A. Hagan (Ed.), Spotlights on Incunabula (11-30). Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/978900

During the latter half of the fifteenth century, the city of Deventer occupied a singular position within the northern Low Countries. As a thriving riverside centre of commercial, ecclesiastical, and scholarly endeavour, it attracted merchants, missi... Read More about Early Printing along the IJssel: Contextualising Deventer’s Success as a Centre of Incunabula Production.

Case study 10: Facilitating education leadership: Building and sharing an understanding amongst the programme team (2022)
Book Chapter
Malone, E., & Yorkstone, S. (2022). Case study 10: Facilitating education leadership: Building and sharing an understanding amongst the programme team. In J. Lawrence, S. Morón-García, & R. Senior (Eds.), Supporting Course and Programme Leaders in Highe

This case study describes the process of building a programme roadmap to enable a shared understanding and sense of ownership with the various tasks involved in the management of a suite of undergraduate programmes. Collaboration with the institution... Read More about Case study 10: Facilitating education leadership: Building and sharing an understanding amongst the programme team.

I just feel like this makes sense to me: Stuart’s Story (2021)
Book Chapter
Ford, E., & Lawson, S. (2021). I just feel like this makes sense to me: Stuart’s Story. In Stories of Open: Opening Peer Review through Narrative Inquiry (183-212). Chicago: ACRL Press

This chapter presents an interpretive narrative. It is the culminating document from our conversation that underwent the storying stories process.

Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education (2020)
Book Chapter
Yorkstone, S., Clarke, S., & Mann, J. (2020). Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education. In C. Devis-Rozental, & S. Clarke (Eds.), Humanising Higher Education: A positive approach to enhancing wellbeing (221-241). Cham: Palgrave Macmillan.

Lean management is a compelling concept, with a significant history, and although not always described as lean in name, is having an impact in Universities worldwide. Central to lean is the idea of beginning from true purpose, and the authors seek to... Read More about Lean as a Framework for Humanisation in Higher Education.

The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge (2020)
Book Chapter
Lawson, S. (2020). The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge. In M. P. Eve, & J. Gray (Eds.), Reassembling Scholarly Communications: Histories, Infrastructures, and Global Politics of Open Access (161-172). MIT Press. https://

To complement contemporary discussions on open access, this chapter considers public libraries as one element of the longer history of access to scholarly knowledge. A historical perspective reveals that access to knowledge has undergone a long, slow... Read More about The Political Histories of UK Public Libraries and Access to Knowledge.

Growing a Lean Approach in a Changing University (2019)
Book Chapter
Hurley, B., & Yorkstone, S. (2019). Growing a Lean Approach in a Changing University. In Global Lean for Higher Education: A Themed Anthology of Case Studies, Approaches, and ToolsNew York: Productivity Press

Edinburgh Napier University was a relatively early adopter of lean-type improvement in the United Kingdom Higher Education sector. The avoidance of the term “lean” was intended to allow for flexibility in approach, and was also to distance the activi... Read More about Growing a Lean Approach in a Changing University.

Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights (2017)
Book Chapter
Anjum, A., Aizad, S., Arshad, B., Subhani, M. M., Davies-Tagg, D., Abdullah, T., & Antonopoulos, N. (2017). Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights. In N. Antonopoulos, & L. Gillam (Eds.), Cloud Computing (153-17

With exabytes of data being generated from genome sequencing, a whole new science behind genomics big data has emerged. As technology improves, the cost of sequencing a human genome has gone down considerably increasing the number of genomes being se... Read More about Big data analytics in healthcare: A cloud based framework for generating insights.

Lean universities. (2016)
Book Chapter
Yorkstone, S. (2016). Lean universities. In T. Netland, & D. J. Powell (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Lean Management. Routledge

This chapter examines lean implementation in higher education (HE) institutions. There is evidence of lean initiatives beginning in HE in the US in the early 2000s; there is also some evidence of business process improvement activity before this time... Read More about Lean universities..

Becoming a Lean University: The Case of the University of St Andrews. (2014)
Book Chapter
Robinson, M., & Yorkstone, S. (2014). Becoming a Lean University: The Case of the University of St Andrews. In Leadership and Governance in Higher Education: Handbook for Decision-makers and Administrators. Raabe Verlag

This article looks at how “lean” can be successfully introduced into a higher education setting by discussing what has become known as ‘The St Andrews Model’. The article demonstrates that “lean” can be adapted to suit the particular circumstances of... Read More about Becoming a Lean University: The Case of the University of St Andrews..

Understanding Collaboration in Knowledge Processes in Indian Industry (2011)
Book Chapter
Annamalai Vasantha, G. V., & Chakrabarti, A. (2012). Understanding Collaboration in Knowledge Processes in Indian Industry. In Sustaining Innovation (63-78). New York: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2077-4_5

Collaborative design supports quality innovation in reduced cost and time to market; this is critical to sustain organizations within the current competitive product development landscape. Understanding the knowledge processes that occur through coll... Read More about Understanding Collaboration in Knowledge Processes in Indian Industry.