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Trosolwyg
Mae Leighton Andrews yn Athro Ymarfer mewn Arweinyddiaeth ac Arloesi Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus yn Ysgol Busnes Caerdydd. Mae'n addysgu, ymchwilio ac ysgrifennu ym meysydd llywodraeth, arweinyddiaeth gyhoeddus ac arloesi, rheoleiddio a llywodraethu cyfryngau, cyfryngau cymdeithasol a digidol. Ei lyfr diweddaraf yw Ministerial Leadership: Practice, Performance and Power (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024). Mae ei lyfrau eraill yn cynnwys Facebook, y Media and Democracy, (Routledge, 2019); Gweinidogaeth i Addysg (Parthian, 2014) a Wales Says Yes (Seren, 1999).
Cyn Weinidog Addysg a Sgiliau a Gweinidog Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus yn Llywodraethau Llafur Cymru o 2009-16, ac yn Ddirprwy Weinidog o 2007-9. Bu'n Aelod Cynulliad dros y Rhondda rhwng 2003-16.
Cyn ei ethol i'r Cynulliad Cenedlaethol yn 2003, roedd Leighton wedi cael gyrfa lwyddiannus yn y sectorau preifat, cyhoeddus a gwirfoddol. Ef oedd Pennaeth Materion Cyhoeddus y BBC yn Llundain rhwng 1993-1996 yn ystod ei ymgyrch Adnewyddu Siarter. Roedd yn rhedeg nifer o fusnesau yn Llundain ym maes cysylltiadau cyhoeddus a sefydlodd ei fusnes ei hun ar ôl gadael y BBC.
Cadeiriodd y Tasglu Newyddion Digidol ar gyfer Llywydd y Cynulliad Cenedlaethol a adroddodd ym mis Mehefin 2017. Yn 2022 daeth yn aelod o Grŵp Llywio Comisiynydd Cenhedlaeth y Dyfodol ar sut mae Llywodraeth Cymru yn gweithredu'r Ddeddf Dod â Chenedlaethau'r Dyfodol. Mae'n aelod o Fwrdd Golygyddol y Journal of Public Affairs.Roedd yn gadeirydd Sefydliad Cymunedol Clwb Pêl-droed Dinas Caerdydd rhwng 2017-2025.
Cyhoeddiad
2025
- Andrews, L. and Gilmore, S. 2025. The evolving practice of UK Government Ministers. Public Administration Review 85(3), pp. 628-640. (10.1111/puar.13902)
2024
- Andrews, L. 2024. Rethinking the politics of blame avoidance under populism: the UK, Covid-19, strategic lying, bullshit, boosterism and scapegoating. In: Rhodes, R. A. W. et al. eds. The Politics and Governance of Blame. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 680-703., (10.1093/oso/9780198896388.003.0028)
2022
- Andrews, L. 2022. Performing Welsh Government 1999-2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices. Contemporary British History 36(1), pp. 124-156. (10.1080/13619462.2021.1996235)
2021
- Andrews, L. 2021. Mortality, blame avoidance and the state: constructing Boris Johnson’s exit strategy. In: Price, S. and Harbisher, B. eds. Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 220-234., (10.4324/9781003147299-16)
- Andrews, L. 2021. The forward march of devolution halted and the limits of progressive unionism. Political Quarterly 92(3), pp. 512-521. (10.1111/1467-923X.13044)
- Andrews, L. 2021. ‘Like any wartime government’: Covid-19, Churchillian imaginaries, English exceptionalism and the battle of Britishness.. In: Pettit, J. ed. Covid-19, the Second World War and the Idea of Britishness. British Identities Since 1707 Vol. 4. Peter Lang, pp. 89-118.
- Andrews, L. 2021. The forward march of devolution halted. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2021, Virtual, 29-31 March 2021.
- Andrews, L. 2021. COVID-19 and the narrative capacity of governments: the case of the UK. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2021, Virtual, 29-31 March 2021.
2020
- Andrews, L. 2020. The role of Ministerial leadership - some reflections from Wales. In: Harris, A. and Jones, M. eds. Leading and Transforming Education Systems: Evidence, Insights, Critique and Reflections. Springer, pp. 91-104.
- Andrews, L. 2020. The BBC - Britishness, broadcasting, and the culture wars. In: Mair, J. ed. The BBC - A Winter of Discontent. Bite-Sized Books, pp. 47-53.
- Andrews, L. 2020. Facebook regulation: a process not a text. UK Copyright Centre and Creative Economy Centre (CREATe). Available at: https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/08/new-working-paper-facebook-regulation-a-process-not-a-text/
- Andrews, L. and Iosifidis, P. 2020. Regulating the Internet intermediaries in a post-truth world: Beyond media policy?. International Communication Gazette 82(3), pp. 211-230. (10.1177/1748048519828595)
- Andrews, L. 2020. Brexit, Cabinet norms and the ministerial code: are we living in a post-Nolan era?. Political Quarterly 91(1), pp. 125-133., article number: Volume91, Issue1 January–March 2020 Pages 125-133. (10.1111/1467-923X.12778)
- Andrews, L. 2020. Facebook regulation: a process not a text. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2020: Re-imagining Politics, Edinburgh, Scotland, 06-08 April, 2020.
- Andrews, L. 2020. Political leadership, discursive capacity and governance readiness in the age of Big Data.. Presented at: 5th PUPOL Conference 2020, The Hague, Netherlands, 15-16 October 2020.
2019
- Andrews, L. 2019. Algorithms, regulation and governance readiness. In: Lodge, M. and Yeung, K. eds. Algorithmic Regulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 203-223.
- Andrews, L. 2019. Facebook, the media and democracy: Big tech, small state?. Disruptions. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429466410)
- Andrews, L. 2019. Public administration, public leadership and the construction of public value in the age of the algorithm and ‘big data’. Public Administration 97(2), pp. 296-310. (10.1111/padm.12534)
2018
- Andrews, L. 2018. Telling governance stories: from Lecturer, to Minister, and Back!. PS: Political Science & Politics 51(1) (10.1017/S1049096517001871)
- Andrews, L. 2018. Governing Wales – hidden wiring and emerging cultural practice. Presented at: Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, 26-28 March 2018.
2017
- Andrews, L. 2017. How can we demonstrate the public value of evidence-based policy making when government ministers declare that the people ‘have had enough of experts’?. Palgrave Communications 3, article number: 11 (2017). (10.1057/s41599-017-0013-4)
- Andrews, L. et al. 2017. Algorithms, governance and regulation: beyond "the necessary hashtags". Project Report. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Andrews, L. 2017. The role of the Minister in driving innovation: some post-Ministerial perspectives on creating public value. Presented at: Public Service Innovation Conference (PUBSIC 2017), Lillehammer, Norway, 15-17 November 2017.
Articles
- Andrews, L. and Gilmore, S. 2025. The evolving practice of UK Government Ministers. Public Administration Review 85(3), pp. 628-640. (10.1111/puar.13902)
- Andrews, L. 2022. Performing Welsh Government 1999-2016: how insider narratives illuminate the hidden wiring and emergent cultural practices. Contemporary British History 36(1), pp. 124-156. (10.1080/13619462.2021.1996235)
- Andrews, L. 2021. The forward march of devolution halted and the limits of progressive unionism. Political Quarterly 92(3), pp. 512-521. (10.1111/1467-923X.13044)
- Andrews, L. and Iosifidis, P. 2020. Regulating the Internet intermediaries in a post-truth world: Beyond media policy?. International Communication Gazette 82(3), pp. 211-230. (10.1177/1748048519828595)
- Andrews, L. 2020. Brexit, Cabinet norms and the ministerial code: are we living in a post-Nolan era?. Political Quarterly 91(1), pp. 125-133., article number: Volume91, Issue1 January–March 2020 Pages 125-133. (10.1111/1467-923X.12778)
- Andrews, L. 2019. Public administration, public leadership and the construction of public value in the age of the algorithm and ‘big data’. Public Administration 97(2), pp. 296-310. (10.1111/padm.12534)
- Andrews, L. 2018. Telling governance stories: from Lecturer, to Minister, and Back!. PS: Political Science & Politics 51(1) (10.1017/S1049096517001871)
- Andrews, L. 2017. How can we demonstrate the public value of evidence-based policy making when government ministers declare that the people ‘have had enough of experts’?. Palgrave Communications 3, article number: 11 (2017). (10.1057/s41599-017-0013-4)
Book sections
- Andrews, L. 2024. Rethinking the politics of blame avoidance under populism: the UK, Covid-19, strategic lying, bullshit, boosterism and scapegoating. In: Rhodes, R. A. W. et al. eds. The Politics and Governance of Blame. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 680-703., (10.1093/oso/9780198896388.003.0028)
- Andrews, L. 2021. Mortality, blame avoidance and the state: constructing Boris Johnson’s exit strategy. In: Price, S. and Harbisher, B. eds. Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: Framing Public Discourse. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 220-234., (10.4324/9781003147299-16)
- Andrews, L. 2021. ‘Like any wartime government’: Covid-19, Churchillian imaginaries, English exceptionalism and the battle of Britishness.. In: Pettit, J. ed. Covid-19, the Second World War and the Idea of Britishness. British Identities Since 1707 Vol. 4. Peter Lang, pp. 89-118.
- Andrews, L. 2020. The role of Ministerial leadership - some reflections from Wales. In: Harris, A. and Jones, M. eds. Leading and Transforming Education Systems: Evidence, Insights, Critique and Reflections. Springer, pp. 91-104.
- Andrews, L. 2020. The BBC - Britishness, broadcasting, and the culture wars. In: Mair, J. ed. The BBC - A Winter of Discontent. Bite-Sized Books, pp. 47-53.
- Andrews, L. 2019. Algorithms, regulation and governance readiness. In: Lodge, M. and Yeung, K. eds. Algorithmic Regulation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 203-223.
Books
- Andrews, L. 2019. Facebook, the media and democracy: Big tech, small state?. Disruptions. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. (10.4324/9780429466410)
Conferences
- Andrews, L. 2021. The forward march of devolution halted. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2021, Virtual, 29-31 March 2021.
- Andrews, L. 2021. COVID-19 and the narrative capacity of governments: the case of the UK. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2021, Virtual, 29-31 March 2021.
- Andrews, L. 2020. Facebook regulation: a process not a text. Presented at: PSA Annual International Conference 2020: Re-imagining Politics, Edinburgh, Scotland, 06-08 April, 2020.
- Andrews, L. 2020. Political leadership, discursive capacity and governance readiness in the age of Big Data.. Presented at: 5th PUPOL Conference 2020, The Hague, Netherlands, 15-16 October 2020.
- Andrews, L. 2018. Governing Wales – hidden wiring and emerging cultural practice. Presented at: Political Studies Association Annual Conference, Cardiff, UK, 26-28 March 2018.
- Andrews, L. 2017. The role of the Minister in driving innovation: some post-Ministerial perspectives on creating public value. Presented at: Public Service Innovation Conference (PUBSIC 2017), Lillehammer, Norway, 15-17 November 2017.
Monographs
- Andrews, L. 2020. Facebook regulation: a process not a text. UK Copyright Centre and Creative Economy Centre (CREATe). Available at: https://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2020/07/08/new-working-paper-facebook-regulation-a-process-not-a-text/
- Andrews, L. et al. 2017. Algorithms, governance and regulation: beyond "the necessary hashtags". Project Report. London: London School of Economics and Political Science.
- Andrews, L. 2018. Telling governance stories: from Lecturer, to Minister, and Back!. PS: Political Science & Politics 51(1) (10.1017/S1049096517001871)
Ymchwil
Diddordebau ymchwil
- Arweinyddiaeth ac Arloesedd Gwasanaeth Cyhoeddus, gan gynnwys Arweinyddiaeth y Gweinidog
- Strategaeth Gwasanaeth Cyhoeddus, Cynllunio, Cyflawni a Gweithredu
- Bywyd a Bywydau Gweinidogol
- Naratifau Llywodraethu a Gallu Disgyrsiol
- Llywodraethu datganoli
- Llunio polisïau cyhoeddus
- Rheoleiddio a Llywodraethu Cyfryngau a Chyfryngau Cymdeithasol
Mae erthyglau a phenodau cyfnodolion diweddar yn cynnwys:
Erthygl ar y cyd â'r Athro Sarah Gilmore: Arfer esblygol gweinidogion Llywodraeth y DU. Adolygiad o Weinyddiaeth Gyhoeddus, 85(3), tt.628-640.
Marwolaeth, osgoi bai a'r wladwriaeth Brydeinig: adeiladu strategaeth ymadael Boris Johnson, pennod yn Stuart Price a Ben Harbisher (gol): Power, Media, and the Covid-19 Pandemic: fframio disgwrs cyhoeddus;
'Like any wartime government': Covid-19, Churchillian imaginaries, and the limits of English exceptionalism, in Jo Pettit (gol), Covid-19, the Second World War, and the idea of Britishness;
Perfformio Llywodraeth Cymru 1999–2016: sut mae naratifau mewnol yn goleuo'r gwifrau cudd a'r arferion diwylliannol sy'n dod i'r amlwg, yn Contemporary British History https://doi.org/10.1080/13619462.2021.1996235;
The forward march of devolution stoped – and the limits of progressive unionism. Yn Political Quarterly https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-923X.13044;
Rôl arweinyddiaeth y Gweinidogion - rhai myfyrdodau o Gymru. Yn: Harris, Alma a Jones, Michelle (gol) 2020 Arwain a Thrawsnewid Systemau Addysg, Springer;
Ewropeaid amharod: llunio polisïau'r BBC a'r cyfryngau Ewropeaidd 1992-1997 yn y International Journal of Cultural Policy;
Brexit, Normau'r Cabinet a'r Cod Gweinidogol: ydyn ni'n byw mewn cyfnod ôl-Nolan? yn Political Quarterly;
Algorithmau, Rheoleiddio a Parodrwydd Llywodraethu mewn Rheoleiddio Algorithmig, a olygwyd gan Karen Yeung a Martin Lodge. Rhydychen: OUP;
Rheoleiddio cyfryngwyr y rhyngrwyd mewn byd ôl-wirionedd: Y tu hwnt i bolisi cyfryngau? (cyd-ysgrifennwyd gyda'r Athro Petros Iosifidis) yn International Communications Gazette, https://doi.org/10.1177/1748048519828595 ;
Mae'r foment reoleiddiol ar ein pennau ni yn Mair, J, Clark, T, Fowler, N, Snoddy, R, Tait R (gol.) Cyfryngau Gwrthgymdeithasol? Yr effaith ar newyddiaduraeth a chymdeithas, Bury St. Edmunds: Abramis Academic Publishing, 2018;
Gweinyddiaeth gyhoeddus, arweinyddiaeth gyhoeddus ac adeiladu gwerth cyhoeddus yn oes yr algorithm a 'data mawr' mewn Gweinyddiaeth Gyhoeddus;
Adrodd Straeon Llywodraethu yn PS: Gwyddoniaeth Wleidyddol;
Sut allwn ni ddangos gwerth cyhoeddus llunio polisïau sy'n seiliedig ar dystiolaeth pan fydd gweinidogion y llywodraeth yn datgan bod y bobl 'wedi cael digon o arbenigwyr'? yn Palgrave Communications.
Llyfrau gan Leighton:
Wales Says Yes (Seren, 1999)
Gweinidogaeth i Addysg (Parthian, 2014).
Facebook, y Cyfryngau a Democratiaeth, (Routledge, 2019).
Arweinyddiaeth y Gweinidog: Ymarfer, Perfformiad a Phŵer (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)
Mae Leighton wedi cyflwyno papurau i ystod o gynadleddau academaidd mewn gwleidyddiaeth, arweinyddiaeth gyhoeddus a'r cyfryngau, gan gynnwys i'r Gymdeithas Astudiaethau Gwleidyddol, PUBSIC, a'r Gynhadledd Arweinyddiaeth Astudio Ryngwladol. Roedd yn brif siaradwr yng nghynhadledd Cymdeithas Astudiaethau Gwleidyddol 2018 yng Nghaerdydd yn 2018.
Addysgu
Mae Leighton wedi dysgu ystod eang o fodiwlau ar arweinyddiaeth mewn busnes, bywyd cyhoeddus a gwleidyddiaeth.
Datblygodd ac addysgodd fodiwl gwleidyddiaeth ôl-raddedig Government from the Inside: from the Minister's Viewpoint ar gyfer cyrsiau Meistr mewn Gwleidyddiaeth. O 2024 ymlaen, mae wedi dysgu modiwl newydd ond cysylltiedig : Gweinidogion yn y Gwaith.
Mae Leighton hefyd yn dysgu ar raglenni MBA llawn amser a rhan-amser yr Ysgol Fusnes, gan arwain y Modiwl ar Heriau Byd-eang a Gwneud Penderfyniadau Strategol. Mae'n dysgu'r modiwl Arweinyddiaeth a Datblygiad Personol ar yr MSc Strategaeth Busnes a Menter.
Yn flaenorol, cyd-ddatblygodd Leighton yr MSc Gweithredol mewn Arweinyddiaeth Gyhoeddus a dysgodd y modiwl Arwain Polisi i Gyflawni. Datblygodd a chyflwynodd ar y cyd y modiwl ar Gynllunio Strategol ac Arloesi ar y Diploma mewn Cynllunio GIG.
Yn 2019 datblygodd ar y cyd a chyflwynodd fodiwl ar Arweinyddiaeth, Arloesi a Change ar gyfer rhaglen Graddedigion Cymru gyfan Academi Cymru a gyflwynwyd drwy Brifysgol De Cymru.
Yn 2018 a 2020 bu'n dysgu ar y cwrs arweinyddiaeth weithredol ar gyfer Academi Gyllid GIG Cymru.
Rhwng 2018-2020 bu'n dysgu modiwl yr Amgylchedd Busnes Rhyngwladol ar yr MSc mewn Rheolaeth Ryngwladol yn Ysgol Busnes Caerdydd.
Mae hefyd yn cyfrannu darlithoedd gwadd i amrywiaeth o raglenni eraill ar draws y Celfyddydau, y Dyniaethau a'r Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol.
Bywgraffiad
Qualifications
- BA Hons, English and History, University of Wales, 1978
- MA History, University of Sussex, 1980
Media contributions
Leighton has written for an extensive range of publications in both print and digital format, including the Guardian, the Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Higher Education Supplement, the Western Mail, The New European, Golwg, Agenda, ClickonWales, and many others. He has broadcast regularly for a wide range of media outlets on both television and radio. Recent examples are listed on his personal website www.leightonandrews.com
Aelodaethau proffesiynol
- FRSA
- NUJ
- PSA
Safleoedd academaidd blaenorol
- 2004-2016, Honorary Professor, JOMEC, Cardiff University
- 2002-2003, Lecturer in Cardiff University School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC)
- 1997 Visiting Professor, University of Westminster
Meysydd goruchwyliaeth
Mae gen i ddiddordeb mewn goruchwylio yn y meysydd canlynol:
- Arweinyddiaeth ac Arloesi Gwasanaethau Cyhoeddus
- bywyd gweinidogol y llywodraeth ar lefel y DU a Chymru
- Naratifau'r sector cyhoeddus
- esblygiad Llywodraeth Cymru
- Cyfrifon Facebook a Google.
Contact Details
+44 29208 76564
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Themâu ymchwil
Arbenigeddau
- Llywodraeth gymharol a gwleidyddiaeth
- Polisi cyfathrebu a'r cyfryngau
- Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol
- Arweinyddiaeth