All Outputs (50)

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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)
Journal Article

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.

A new policy-making instrument? The first Australian consensus conference (2003)
Thesis

Consensus conferences evolved as a response to the public's increasing dissatisfaction with technocratic decision-making processes that are judged to have repeatedly failed to serve its interests. The staging of the first Australian consensus confere... Read More about A new policy-making instrument? The first Australian consensus conference.

Critical perspectives on making science public
Book

Selected papers given at the Science in Public conference, July 22-23 2013 at the University of Nottingham

Making energy research more responsive: public dialogue as experiment
Digital Artefact

The UK Civil Service Reform Plan includes a commitment to embedding systems that are open to a broad range of inputs, including those of the public. Public responsiveness is therefore recognized as a key characteristic of good governance including in... Read More about Making energy research more responsive: public dialogue as experiment.

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.

"Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare
Journal Article

Public involvement in healthcare is a prominent policy in countries across the economically developed world. A growing body of academic literature has focused on public participation, often presenting dichotomies between good and bad practice: betwe... Read More about "Ordinary people only": knowledge, representativeness and the publics of public participation in healthcare.