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Academic inventions outside the university: investigating patent ownership in the UK (2013)
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This paper investigates the ownership of academic patents for a sample of UK academics and challenges the existing definition of the university invention ownership model. The first descriptive results show that 50% of patents are owned by industry, h... Read More about Academic inventions outside the university: investigating patent ownership in the UK.

Lessons from first generation biofuels and implications for the sustainability appraisal of second generation biofuels (2013)
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The emergence of second generation (2G) biofuels is widely seen as a sustainable response to the increasing controversy surrounding the first generation (1G). Yet, sustainability credentials of 2G biofuels are also being questioned. Drawing on work... Read More about Lessons from first generation biofuels and implications for the sustainability appraisal of second generation biofuels.

Academic patenting: the importance of industry support (2012)
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This paper provides evidence that university-industry collaboration is important for turning commercial opportunities into patents. The results suggest that researchers who receive a large share of research grants from industry have a higher propensi... Read More about Academic patenting: the importance of industry support.

Representing the public in public engagement: the case of the 2008 UK Stem Cell Dialogue (2012)
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Mapping the role of official bioethics advice in the governance of biotechnologies in the EU: The European Group on Ethics’ opinion on commercial cord blood banking (2012)
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In the early 1990s, the EU's proposed bioeconomic agenda provoked ethical concerns among its citizenry. In response to the political impasse between economic and ethical imperatives, as well as the perceived lack of democratic legitimacy, the EU esta... Read More about Mapping the role of official bioethics advice in the governance of biotechnologies in the EU: The European Group on Ethics’ opinion on commercial cord blood banking.

Hygiene and biosecurity: the language and politics of risk in an era of emerging infectious diseases (2009)
Journal Article

Infectious diseases, such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and avian influenza, have recently been high on the agenda of policy makers and the public. Although hygiene and biosecurity are preferred options for disease management, policy... Read More about Hygiene and biosecurity: the language and politics of risk in an era of emerging infectious diseases.

Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce (2009)
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Efforts to ‘modernize’ the clinical workforce of the English National Health Service have sought to reconfigure the responsibilities of professional groups in pursuit of more effective, joined-up service provision. Such efforts have met resistance f... Read More about Reconfiguring or reproducing intra-professional boundaries? Specialist expertise, generalist knowledge and the ‘modernization’ of the medical workforce.

Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice (2009)
Journal Article

Social-scientific analysis of public-participation initiatives has proliferated in recent years. This review article discusses some key aspects of recent work. Firstly, it analyses some of the justifications put forward for public participation, dr... Read More about Public and user participation in public service delivery: tensions in policy and practice.

Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements (2009)
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Recent health policy in England has demanded greater involvement of patients and the public in the commissioning of health and social care services. Public involvement is seen as a means of driving up service quality, reducing health inequalities a... Read More about Whose health, whose care, whose say? Some comments on public involvement in new NHS commissioning arrangements.

Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management (2008)
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Public participation in health-service management is an increasingly prominent policy internationally. Frequently, though, academic studies have found it marginalized by health professionals who, keen to retain control over decision-making, undermin... Read More about Representativeness, legitimacy and power in public involvement in health-care management.

National evaluation of NHS genetics service investments: emerging issues from the cancer genetics pilots (2007)
Journal Article

In seeking to fulfil the ambition of the 2003 genetics white paper, Our Inheritance, Our Future, to ‘mainstream’ genetic knowledge and practices, the Department of Health provided start-up funding for pilot services in various clinical areas, includi... Read More about National evaluation of NHS genetics service investments: emerging issues from the cancer genetics pilots.

Media, metaphors and modeling: how the UK newspapers reported the epidemiological modelling controversy during the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak (2007)
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The relation between theoretical models and metaphors has been studied since at least the 1950s. The relation between metaphors and mathematical modelling is less well researched. This article takes the media coverage of the foot and mouth modelling... Read More about Media, metaphors and modeling: how the UK newspapers reported the epidemiological modelling controversy during the 2001 foot and mouth outbreak.

The organization, form and function of intermediate care services and systems in England: results from a national survey (2007)
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This paper reports the results of a postal survey of intermediate care co-ordinators (ICCs) on the organization and delivery of intermediate care services for older people in England, conducted between November 2003 and May 2004. Questionnaires, whi... Read More about The organization, form and function of intermediate care services and systems in England: results from a national survey.

Use of the deficit model in a shared culture of argumentation: the case of foot and mouth science (2006)
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The "deficit model" as an explanation of the public understanding of science has attracted sustained criticism. While acknowledging the limitations of the deficit model, we argue that researchers should not abandon all interest in exploring it. Our r... Read More about Use of the deficit model in a shared culture of argumentation: the case of foot and mouth science.

Place, policy and practitioners: on rehabilitation, independence and the therapeutic landscape in the changing geography of care provision to older people in the United Kingdom (2005)
Journal Article

A growing body of literature in geography and other social sciences considers the role of place in the provision of healthcare. Authors have focused on various aspects of place and care, with particular interests emerging around the role of the psych... Read More about Place, policy and practitioners: on rehabilitation, independence and the therapeutic landscape in the changing geography of care provision to older people in the United Kingdom.

Narratives great and small: neighbourhood change, place and identity in Notting Hill (2005)
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The area of Notting Hill in west London has been subject to much media coverage in recent years, which, along with substantial gentrification, has given rise to an image of the area as the epitome of fashionable London. This study investigates the vi... Read More about Narratives great and small: neighbourhood change, place and identity in Notting Hill.

Human motivation and professional practice: of knights, knaves and social workers (2004)
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Efforts to improve the efficiency and responsiveness of public services by harnessing the self-interest of professionals in state agencies have been widely debated in the recent literature on welfare state reform. In the context of social services, o... Read More about Human motivation and professional practice: of knights, knaves and social workers.

Diversity in intermediate care (2004)
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This paper discusses the evolution of intermediate care and presents some interim observations from a survey of providers in England being conducted as part of a national evaluation of intermediate care. Telephone interviews covering various issues... Read More about Diversity in intermediate care.

Global warming is dead, long live global heating?
Journal Article

We discuss how global heating is used in comparison to global warming, look at its semantic history and examine the communicative problems it may pose and the confusion it may lead to.

Making Science Public as a route to better evidence
Journal Article

It is widely accepted that scientific evidence should play a role in policy decisions, yet the form that this should or could take remains subject to intense debate. Warren Pearce and Sujatha Raman discuss how the Making Science Public project attemp... Read More about Making Science Public as a route to better evidence.