• Performance management
• Local governance, community leadership, community planning and strategies
• Strategic management
• Organisational development and change
• Rural proofing
• Management training and development
• Councillor development

Current and recent projects

• Scoping the Capacity Building needs of Local Government for partnership working with the Voluntary and Community Sector,ODPM and Home Office
• Rural Proofing in Unitary Authorities, Countryside Agency
• Review of Executive Decision Making Arrangements, Wolverhampton City Council
• Evaluation of the Take Up and Implementation of the Well Being Power, ODPM
• Rural Proofing by Local Authorities: a feasibility study, Countryside Agency
• Improving Access to Rural Services, Derbyshire Dales District Council
• Local Strategic Partnerships, LGA and IDeA
• Validation Study of the Performance Networks Benchmarking Service., Association for Public Service Excellence
• Best Value Review of the Policy Services Unit, Belfast City Council, Belfast City Council
• Community Strategies – Evaluation of Partners’ Plans and Strategies, Chesterfield and North-East Derbyshire Councils

Previous experience

• Secretary and Treasurers of an international network of public service training organisations (SCEPSTA)
• Manager in local government in London

Publications

Rogers S, Spencer K et al (2005) Scoping local government partnership working with the voluntary community sector, report for ODPM

Rogers S, Spencer K (2005) Rural proofing for unitary local authorities in England, Countryside Agency

Rogers S, Sullivan H, Kitchin H, Crawford C, Evans L, Mathur N (2005) Formative Evaluation of the Take-Up and Implementation of the Well Being Power - A Baseline Report, ODPM

Rogers S (2004) Review of Executive Decision Making Arrangements in Wolverhampton City Council, INLOGOV, University of Birmingham

Rogers S, Caffyn A, Dahlstrom M, Spencer K (2003) ' Rural Proofing for Local Authorities', Local Governance 28.4, pp 273-286

Rogers S, Aulakh S (2002) Improving Access to Rural Services, INLOGOV, University of Birmingham

Rogers S (2002) Rural Proofing by Local Authorities: a feasibility study based on the policies and practices of a County Council,  School of Public Policy, University of Birmingham

Rogers S (2001) 'Implementing Community Leadership' in Kitchen H (ed) A Democratic Future, Local Government Information Unit
ISBN 1903731097

Rogers S (2001) Validation Study of the Association of Public Service Excellence’s Performance Networks Service, INLOGOV, University of Birmingham

Rogers S (2001) Consultation and Challenge: Supporting the Best Value Review of the Policy Services Unit, Belfast City Council, INLOGOV, University of Birmingham

Rogers S (2001) Report on the Community Strategy Project for Chesterfield Borough Council and North East Derbyshire District Council, INLOGOV, University of Birmingham