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Donna Hall

Donna Hall

Donna Hall CBE is chair of the New Local Government Network and Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

Articles by Donna Hall

Building a New Local

By Professor Donna Hall | 21 October 2020

NLGN has changed its name to New Local. Professor Donna Hall says the network will have the same ...

People matter more than places

By Donna Hall | 14 September 2020

Until we stop obsessing about the process of place and begin to reconnect meaningfully with peopl...

Riding the second wave

By Donna Hall | 10 August 2020

Donna Hall says local government has never been so loved as people realise the power of community...

Let's remake the state

By Donna Hall | 02 June 2020

The state is a centralised, broken mess, says Professor Donna Hall. Instead of getting the public...

The power of local systems to save lives

By Donna Hall | 21 May 2020

The money announced for testing, tracking and tracing is welcome, but it will be pretty thinly sp...

Designing our collective future normal

By Donna Hall | 29 April 2020

We have been given a 'precious liminal space' at the moment writes Donna Hall - and we need to '...

A powerful light at the end of the tunnel

By Donna Hall | 25 March 2020

These are the most challenging times most of us have lived through, says Donna Hall – and ‘we can...

The vitally important triangle

By Donna Hall | 19 February 2020

Donna Hall says the main role of the council chief executive is ‘always triangulation, every sin...

More weirdos wanted!

By Donna Hall | 15 January 2020

You don’t have to be brilliant at digital, algorithms or a weirdo to see that naked self-preserva...

Council chief executive or chief anthropologist?

By Donna Hall | 19 November 2019

Professor Donna Hall asks: Why not be a true anthropologist leader in search of the essence of wh...