Evidence for policy systems emerging around the world combine the fields of research synthesis, evidence-informed policy and public engagement with research. We conducted this retrospective ...collective autoethnography to understand the role of academics in developing such systems. We constructed a timeline of EPPI Centre work and associated events since 1990. We employed: Transition Theory to reveal emerging and influential innovations; and Transformative Social Innovation theory to track their increasing depth, reach and embeddedness in research and policy organisations. The EPPI Centre, alongside other small research units, collaborated with national and international organisations at the research-policy interface to incubate, spread and embed new ways of working with evidence and policy. Sustainable change arising from research-policy interactions was less about uptake and embedding of innovations, but more about co-developing and tailoring innovations with organisations to suit their missions and structures for creating new knowledge or using knowledge for decisions. Both spreading and embedding innovation relied on mutual learning that both accommodated and challenged established assumptions and values of collaborating organisations as they adapted to closer ways of working. The incubation, spread and embedding of innovations have been iterative, with new ways of working inspiring further innovation as they spread and embedded. Institutionalising evidence for policy required change in both institutions generating evidence and institutions developing policy. Key mechanisms for academic contributions to advancing evidence for policy were: contract research focusing attention at the research-policy interface; a willingness to work in unfamiliar fields; inclusive ways of working to move from conflict to consensus; and incentives and opportunities for reflection and consolidating learning.
Father and Daughter provides a unique 'insider perspective' on two key figures in twentieth-century British social science, combining biography of Richard Titmuss and autobiography by his daughter ...Ann Oakley.
In 1998 Ann Oakley published an article in Sociology entitled 'Gender, Methodology and People's Ways of Knowing: Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science'. Within this ...piece she suggests that the main methodological concern of feminist sociologists is whether qualitative or quantitative methods are the best way to find out about people's lives. My reading of the feminist literature leads me to disagree and to suggest that the relationship between the process and product, between doing and knowing, i.e. how what we do affects what we get, while using both qualitative and quantitative methods, is the main concern of contemporary feminists. In this piece I present my own review of the feminist literature in order to demonstrate the centrality of the process and product/doing and knowing debate. I draw on a range of work, including other work of Oakley, and I also refer to my own experiences of research and show how issues of process and product/doing and knowing are relevant for me.
Richard Titmuss and Social Policy MISHRA, RAMESH
Journal of Social Policy,
10/2002, Letnik:
31, Številka:
4
Journal Article, Book Review
Recenzirano
David Reisman, Richard Titmuss: Welfare and Society (2nd edn), Basingstoke:
Palgrave, 2001, vii+307 pp., £50.00. Peter Alcock, Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley & Adrian Sinfield (eds.),
Welfare and ...Well-Being: Richard Titmuss's Contribution to Social Policy,
Bristol: Policy, 2001, vi+249 pp., £16.99 pbk.
Explores how second-wave feminism delineates the housewife as a mythical figure & how feminism has attacked the housewife. A review of second-wave feminist literature that defines & critiques the ...housewife is presented; specific attention is directed toward Betty Friedan's (1983) critique of the feminine mystique. Rather than interpret Friedan's text as representing the voice of repressed women, it is asserted that Friedan essentially constructed a narrative that allowed women to overcome the contradiction between traditional femininity & personal achievement. An analysis of second-wave feminist literature is performed to bolster the assertion that Friedan created a "conduct book" for future generations of women. It is subsequently asserted that the representation of feminists as women who abandoned domesticity is indicative of the process of their attempt to reconstruct themselves as autonomous individuals. In addition, it is claimed that the current generation of feminist scholars has failed to overcome the divide between the autonomous woman & the housewife. J. W. Parker
