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The paradox of haemodialysis: the lived experience of the clocked treatment of chronic illness (2024)
Journal Article

Studies exploring the relationship between time and chronic illness have generally focused on measurable aspects of time, also known as linear time. Linear time follows a predictable, sequential order of past, present and future; measured using a clo... Read More about The paradox of haemodialysis: the lived experience of the clocked treatment of chronic illness.

Biographical dialectics: The ongoing and creative problem solving required to negotiate the biographical disruption of chronic illness (2023)
Journal Article

Here we propose the term ‘biographical dialectics’ as a sister term to ‘biographical disruption’ to capture the ongoing problem solving that characterises the lives of many people living with life limiting chronic illnesses. The paper is based on the... Read More about Biographical dialectics: The ongoing and creative problem solving required to negotiate the biographical disruption of chronic illness.

Editorial: Public value for all? Considering the parameters of public value co-creation (2023)
Journal Article

The aim behind this Public Money & Management theme is to explore the parameters of public value co-creation in order to open up a broader discussion of dis/value, public value destruction and co-destruction as a developing theme in the literature. P... Read More about Editorial: Public value for all? Considering the parameters of public value co-creation.

A typology of dis/value in public service delivery (2022)
Journal Article

Dis/value or public value destruction is now increasingly recognized as part of the public value process. Despite this, confusion about the concept remains. This article assesses the use of public value destruction, and synonymous terms, in the publi... Read More about A typology of dis/value in public service delivery.

Talking about learning disability: Discursive acts in managing an ideological dilemma (2022)
Journal Article

Learning disability is a term that can mean different things to different people. It is also a term that has undergone much revision and critique, being linked to stigma and prejudice. Consequently, talking about learning disability can be a delicate... Read More about Talking about learning disability: Discursive acts in managing an ideological dilemma.

Mapping the role of patient and public involvement during the different stages of healthcare innovation: A scoping review (2022)
Journal Article

Background: Patient and public involvement (PPI) has become increasingly important in the development, delivery and improvement of healthcare. PPI is used in healthcare innovation; yet, how it is used has been under-reported. The aim of this scoping... Read More about Mapping the role of patient and public involvement during the different stages of healthcare innovation: A scoping review.

Becoming frail: A more than human exploration (2021)
Journal Article

‘Frailty’ is increasingly used as a clinical term to refer and respond to a particular bodily presentation, with numerous scores and measures to support its clinical determination. While these tools are typically quantitative in nature and based prim... Read More about Becoming frail: A more than human exploration.

Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty (2021)
Journal Article

The clinical identification of frailty is increasingly thought to be important in countries with ageing populations. Understanding how older people labelled as frail make sense of this categorisation is therefore important. A number of recent studies... Read More about Talking about frailty: The relationship between precarity and the fourth age in older peoples' constructions of frailty.

“Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice (2021)
Book Chapter

Buzzwords and acronyms are ubiquitous throughout public service provision worldwide. Additionally, such terms are subject to frequent change, and public servants are expected to use the most up-to-date language in their work in order to reflect curre... Read More about “Considered Language” in Public Service: Changing Discourses and Their Implementation in Practice.

Using Situated Interviews to Engage Frail Older People in the Co-production of Improved Emergency Healthcare (2021)
Journal Article

Including frail older people in the development and improvement of healthcare is a topical issue and co-production represents a common approach. How to practice co-production effectively, however, remains challenging, particularly when including vuln... Read More about Using Situated Interviews to Engage Frail Older People in the Co-production of Improved Emergency Healthcare.

Talking about frailty: health professional perspectives and an ideological dilemma (2020)
Journal Article

Frailty is increasingly used in clinical settings to describe a physiological state resulting from a combination of age-related co-morbidities. Frailty also has a strong 'lay' meaning that conjures a particular way of being. Recent studies have repor... Read More about Talking about frailty: health professional perspectives and an ideological dilemma.

The use of visual images to convey complex messages in health settings: Stakeholder perspectives (2020)
Journal Article

Visual tools are increasingly used in healthcare settings to improve the quality of care provided. While there are a number of tools and frameworks that focus on how to create effective visual tools, there has been little evaluation of their perceive... Read More about The use of visual images to convey complex messages in health settings: Stakeholder perspectives.

New development: Expanding public service value to include dis/value (2020)
Journal Article

This article introduces two new terms to the public value lexicon: ‘public service ethos’ and ‘dis/value’. Both terms serve to progress the conceptualization of public value. ‘Public service ethos’ is used to refer to the prevailing assumption that t... Read More about New development: Expanding public service value to include dis/value.

Rethinking co-creation: the fluid and relational process of value co-creation in public service organizations (2020)
Journal Article

IMPACT: Public services are increasingly thought of in terms of the public value they provide. Co-creation is a popular public service management tool to provide services that benefit public value. Both public value and co-creation have been conceptu... Read More about Rethinking co-creation: the fluid and relational process of value co-creation in public service organizations.

Progressing the Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in Public Service Organizations (2019)
Journal Article

Value and how it is produced/created in public service organizations (PSOs) represents a current and significant issue for those researching and working in public sector management as well as public service users. Recently it has been suggested that... Read More about Progressing the Conceptualization of Value Co-creation in Public Service Organizations.

Theorising disability: a practical and representative ontology of learning disability (2019)
Journal Article

This article contributes to the ongoing development of the theorisation of learning disability, focusing on the value of the ontological turn. We argue that while social theory has influenced understandings of disability within academia, particularly... Read More about Theorising disability: a practical and representative ontology of learning disability.

New horizons in frailty: the contingent, the existential and the clinical (2019)
Journal Article

In the past decade, frailty research has focused on refinement of biomedical tools and operationalisations, potentially introducing a reductionist approach. This article suggests that a new horizon in frailty lies in a more holistic approach to healt... Read More about New horizons in frailty: the contingent, the existential and the clinical.

Becoming-care: reframing care work as flesh work not body work (2019)
Journal Article

This paper highlights the central role of the flesh within care relationships and how this disrupts and progresses existing understandings of care work. It is argued here that care work is a connected and fluid assemblage of diverse and changeable fa... Read More about Becoming-care: reframing care work as flesh work not body work.

A role for independent peer review: reflections on the gateway review process (2018)
Journal Article

Healthcare organisations face constant pressure to change in order to pursue quality and performance improvements. As a result, professionals are often said to be experiencing change fatigue. This can be problematic for policy implementation initiati... Read More about A role for independent peer review: reflections on the gateway review process.

From “Learning disability to intellectual disability”-Perceptions of the increasing use of the term “intellectual disability” in learning disability policy, research and practice (2017)
Journal Article