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Publication date: 1 January 2012

Julie White

The work of academics has intensified, but the focus for most remains on teaching, research and contribution to service. Institutional imperatives and positioning within…

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The work of academics has intensified, but the focus for most remains on teaching, research and contribution to service. Institutional imperatives and positioning within universities impact significantly on how individual academics fashion themselves to fit with expectations and demands. There is, of course, no simple version of scholarly identity and Barnett (2000) called attention to the ‘super complexity’ of academic work some time ago. ‘Scholarly’ has been deliberately used in the title of this chapter, even though ‘academic’ is also used throughout. The purpose here is to draw attention to – and avoid – the binary that Stuart Hall notes: Academic work is inherently conservative in as much as it seeks, first, to fulfill the relatively narrow and policed goals and interests of a given discipline or profession and, second, to fulfill the increasingly corporatized mission of higher education; intellectual work, in contrast is relentlessly critical, self-critical, and potentially revolutionary for it aims to critique, change, and even destroy institutions, disciplines and professions that rationalize exploitation, inequality and injustice. (reported in Olsen & Worsham, 2003, p. 13)

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Hard Labour? Academic Work and the Changing Landscape of Higher Education
Type: Book
ISBN: 978-1-78052-501-3

Article
Publication date: 1 December 2005

Jill Manthorpe, Bridget Penhale, Neil Perkins, Lisa Pinkney and Paul Kingston

This article presents an analysis of modernisation as it affects adult protection in England. One of the key policy goals of modernisation has been to improve protection of service

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This article presents an analysis of modernisation as it affects adult protection in England. One of the key policy goals of modernisation has been to improve protection of service users. The article outlines some areas of good practice that are emerging and draws attention to some of the latent conflicts that are apparent.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 13 no. 6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 10 February 2015

Mike Reed and Mike Wallace

This paper focuses on the strategic role of elites in managing institutional and organizational change within English public services, framed by the wider ideological and…

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This paper focuses on the strategic role of elites in managing institutional and organizational change within English public services, framed by the wider ideological and political context of neo-liberalism and its pervasive impact on the social and economic order over recent decades. It also highlights the unintended consequences of this elite-driven programme of institutional reform as realized in the emergence of hybridized regimes of ‘polyarchic governance’ and the innovative discursive and organizational technologies on which they depend. Within the latter, ‘leaderism’ is identified as a hegemonic ‘discursive imaginary’ that has the potential to connect selected marketization and market control elements of new public management (NPM), network governance, and visionary and shared leadership practices that ‘make the hybrid happen’ in public services reform.

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Elites on Trial
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ISBN: 978-1-78441-680-5

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Publication date: 1 February 2000

David Plank

National policy's inadequate evidential base potentially undermines the modernising social services agenda. Energy may be diverted from the production of welfare and real…

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National policy's inadequate evidential base potentially undermines the modernising social services agenda. Energy may be diverted from the production of welfare and real performance for the people by ‘tick box’ preoccupation with targets that are not outcome‐driven and through ‘death by a thousand inspections’.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 1 September 2002

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International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, vol. 15 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0952-6862

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Publication date: 1 February 2000

Andy Alaszewski

This article takes a fresh look at the concept of risk in the light of the Government's plans to modernise health and social care.

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This article takes a fresh look at the concept of risk in the light of the Government's plans to modernise health and social care.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 8 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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Publication date: 1 October 2006

Norbert Lossau

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Library Hi Tech, vol. 24 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0737-8831

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Publication date: 1 August 2003

Anthea Tinker

The term assistive technology (AT) is relatively new but its origins go back a long way. Some of the elements of assistive technology, such as aids and adaptations, have been a…

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The term assistive technology (AT) is relatively new but its origins go back a long way. Some of the elements of assistive technology, such as aids and adaptations, have been a feature of policies for many years. Before the late 1990s it was more usual to focus on the most common types ‐ telephones, alarms, aids and adaptations. More recently telemedicine and smart houses have come to the fore in policies and research. What is confusing now is that a variety of other terms are being used. In this paper the development of these terms in recent policies and the changing terminology are traced. It is suggested that a narrow interpretation can play down the important role of AT in enabling older people to maintain their independence but that it must be seen in conjunction with other services, especially housing.

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Quality in Ageing and Older Adults, vol. 4 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1471-7794

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Publication date: 1 September 2000

John W. Raine

The UK Government’s’ “modernisation” programme has impacted and will continue to impact on the Law courts and judiciary procedures. Explores these impacts in seven areas: judicial…

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The UK Government’s’ “modernisation” programme has impacted and will continue to impact on the Law courts and judiciary procedures. Explores these impacts in seven areas: judicial independence; quality of service; cost‐effectiveness; democracy; efficiency; speed; and government as the driver.

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International Journal of Public Sector Management, vol. 13 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0951-3558

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Article
Publication date: 1 June 2006

Sally Jacobs, Jane Hughes, David Challis, Karen Stewart and Kate Weiner

Care management has developed in a variety of forms. This diary study explores differences in the approach taken to care management in three distinct social service settings…

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Care management has developed in a variety of forms. This diary study explores differences in the approach taken to care management in three distinct social service settings: community‐based older people's teams, hospital social work teams also for older people and community‐based teams for adults with mental health problems. Conclusions are drawn both for social care and for health services developing case management for people with long‐term conditions.

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Journal of Integrated Care, vol. 14 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 1476-9018

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