Reports & resources
Hough, A. (2024). A guide to developing your Practice and Clinical Governance Framework.
(2023). Accountable governance: The Disability Royal Commission recommendations on service provider boards.
Hough, A., Bigby, C., & Brookes, A. (2023). Director pathways project: An investigation of the pathways and experiences of Australian directors with disabilities.
Book, book chapters & articles
Disability practice: Safeguarding quality service delivery, edited by Christine Bigby and Alan Hough, free to download from the publisher
While many of our publications are available free-of-charge, some are behind publisher’s firewalls.
2025
Hough, A., & Bigby, C. (2025). ‘Leading for quality and safety.’. In D. Rosenbaum, E. More, & M. Orr (Eds.), Journeys through the disability and mental health nonprofit sector - The theory and practice of leadership. Palgrave.
2024
Alcorso, C. & Stamet, Y. (2024) The Disability Royal Commission on National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) workforce issues: avoiding the root causes?. Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Hough, A. (2024). The Disability Royal Commission and the regulation of disability service provision. Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Bigby, C. & Hough, A. (Eds.). (2024), Disability practice: Safeguarding quality service delivery. Palgrave.
Hough, A., & McEwen, J. (2024). Building quality and safeguarding into disability service provision. In C. Bigby & A. Hough (Eds.), Disability practice: Safeguarding quality service delivery (pp. 265-285). Palgrave.
Marsh, D., Hough, A. & Bigby, C. Enforcement of work health and safety laws in services for people with disabilities: issues for policymakers and regulators. Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
2023
Hough, A. (2023). Governing for quality and safeguarding: what might disability service provider boards learn from others? Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Hough, A. (2023). Two scandals: the death of Ann Marie Smith in Australia and the Whorlton Hall scandal in Britain. Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Hough, A., Bigby, C., & Marsh, D. (2023). Australian work health and safety enforcement regarding service provision to people with disabilities: Lessons for service providers. Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
Hough, A., & McGregor-Lowndes, M. (2023). Governing for quality and safety: A new province for boards of Australian aged care and disability support providers? Australian Journal of Social Issues.
2021
Hough, A. (2021). Regulating disability services: the case of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme quality and safeguarding system. Research and Practice in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
2018
Hough, A. & Nowland-Foreman, G. (2018) ‘Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand’ in P. Cagney (Ed.) Global Best Practices for CSO, NGO, and Other Nonprofit Boards: Lessons From Around the World. Wiley.
2014
Hough, A., McGregor-Lowndes, M., & Ryan, C. (2014). ‘Board monitoring and the Balanced Scorecard in nonprofits: Challenges in realising potential’, in Performance Management in Nonprofit Organizations: Global Perspectives. Routledge.
2013
Hough, A., McGregor-Lowndes, M., & Ryan, C. (2013). Board monitoring and judgement as processes of sensemaking. In C. Cornforth & W. A. Brown (Eds.), Nonprofit governance: Innovative perspectives and approaches (pp. 142-159). Routledge.