A Kentucky newspaper:
Mayor Jim Gray announced the appointments of three new city commissioners on Tuesday.
[including]...Beth Mills commissioner of social services...Mills also is returning to city hall, this time as commissioner of the department where she worked for more than 14 years. Since 2004, she has worked at the University of Kentucky as a faculty member and director of field education for the College of Social Work.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2011/01/05/1586972/gray-appoints-commissioners-for.html#more#ixzz1AMVH21y4
My comment: Wouldn't it be great if British local authorities and universities made it possible for senior staff to move back and forth between academic and management posts? We should question some of the pressures that make careers that cross this line almost impossible.
If the English Social Work Reform Board implementation of the Taskforce' recommendations go ahead in the current economic climate then it is going to be necessary for educators to prove they are uptodate with practice experience and I am not sure researching practice will be enough to count. There was some high level work done some years ago about the idea of Researcher/practitioners and Practitioner/researchers but it all got shelved. I had high hopes for it and there was going to be money attached.
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