Gordon Kingsley

Associate Professor
School of Public Policy
Phone: 404-894-0454
Email: gordon.kingsley@pubpolicy.gatech.edu
Web sites:
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gk18/STEM [website for math science education research]
www.prism.gatech.edu/~gt7205c/GO-CART [website for transportation research - password required]

Ph.D., Syracuse University
Field: Public Administration

Dr. Kingsley has recently been appointed to a National Academy of Sciences panel entitled: The National Academies Board on Science Education: Review of NOAA's Education Programs.

Research:

Current research projects explore the impacts of public-private partnerships on the development and allocation of scientific and technical human capital. This work is being conducted in three policy domains examining the following: 1) the impact of educational partnerships on the development of math and science instruction; 2) strategies used by a public transportation agency for effectively managing large numbers of engineering consultants and contractors drawn from the private sector; and 3) the development of hybrid organizations and network organizations designed to channel resources from the public and private sectors to stimulate technology-led economic development.

National Science Foundation, Math Science Partnership. “Alternative Approaches to Evaluating STEM Education Partnerships: A Review of Evaluation Methods and Application of an Interorganizational Model.” 2003-present.

Georgia Department of Transportation. “Strategies to Strengthen Consultant Management Practices in GDOT.” 2002­2005.

National Science Foundation.  “Student and Teacher Enhancement Partnership (STEP) Program: An Evaluation of the Teaching Fellows Program.” Subcontract with CETL and CEISMC. July, 2001-present.

National Science Foundation. “STEP Up!”. This is a 5-year, $1.9 million renewal of the STEP project awarded to CETL and CEISMC. 2003 ­ present.

Publications:

Feeney, M. and Kingsley, G. forthcoming. “The Rebirth of Patronage: Have We Come Full Circle?” Public Integrity Gen, S. and Kingsley, G. 2007 “Effects of Contracting Out Engineering Services over Time in a State Department of Transportation.” Public Works Management and Policy. 12, 331-343.

DeHart-Davis, L. and Kingsley, G. 2005. “Managerial perceptions of privatization: Evidence from a state department of transportation.” State and Local Government Review, 37, 3, 228-241.

Kingsley, G. 2004. “On becoming just another contractor: contract competition and the management of science at Sandia National Laboratory.” Public Performance and Management Review, 28, 2, 186-213.

Kingsley, G. and Malecki, E. 2004. “Networking for competitiveness: The role of informal linkages for small firms.” Small Business Economics, 23, 71-84.

Rogers, J. and Kingsley, G. 2004. “Denying public value: The role of the public sector in accounts of the development of the Internet.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 14, 371–393.

Crocker, J., Cochran, J., Kingsley, G., and Wolfe, P. 2004. “Best Practices in Consultant Management at State Departments of Transportation.” Transportation Research Record.

Greely, T., Spector, B. and Kingsley, G. 2004. “Mechanisms for engaging stakeholders in productive meetings for science education reform.” Science Educator. [Contribution: 25%]

Farmer, M.C. and Kingsley, G. 2001. "Locating critical components of regional human capital." Policy Studies Journal, 29, 1, 165-180.

Pandey, S.K. and Kingsley, G. 2000. “Perceptions of red tape in public and private organizations: Alternative explanations from a social psychological model.” Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, 10, 4, 779-800.

Kingsley, G. and Melkers, J. 2000. “The art of partnering across sectors: the importance of set formation to network impacts in state R&D projects.” In Brudney, J., O'Toole, L. and Rainey, H. (Eds.), Advancing public management: new developments in theory methods and practices. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 97-108.