Thesis title:
Sustaining meaningful user involvement in research, local government planning and policy-making: an ethnography of a national user-led initiative to support Disabled people and service users
Abstract:
Explore the utility of adapting and applying Elinor Ostrom’s set of 8 design principles for collaborative group working to the development of a national user-led initiative which aims to facilitate meaningful involvement of Disabled people and service users in research, local government planning and policy-making. Four objectives will address this aim:
(a) to explore how Ostrom’s design principles influence a co-design process led by Disabled people and service users to create two new services as part of a national initiative called ‘The Inclusive Involvement Movement’;
(b) to analyse over a two-year period the adoption, implementation and assimilation of these two new services ;
(c) to use creative methods to develop new, user-friendly resources to facilitate others to use Ostrom’s principles to improve the inclusivity and effectiveness of co-design endeavours in the health and social care sectors; and
(d) to develop the theorisation of service user involvement and participatory methodologies in the public sector by drawing on Ostrom and others work in the fields of political economics and public management.
First supervisor:
Glenn Robert
Pathway:
3-Health, Biopolitics & Social Inequality
Cohort:
2021-22
Publications:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7060-5994
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