Partnership working and improved service delivery: views of staff providing sexual health services (2013)
Journal Article
Pow, J. S., Elliott, L., Raeside, R., Themessl-Huber, M., & Claveirole, A. (2013). Partnership working and improved service delivery: views of staff providing sexual health services. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 18, 132-137. https://doi.org/10.1177/1355819612473584

Objectives Successful partnership working has theoretically been linked to improvements in service delivery and is dependent on the strength of the partnership, trust, communication, professional roles and resource sharing. Empirical evidence to conf... Read More about Partnership working and improved service delivery: views of staff providing sexual health services.

Who cares? Managing obligation and responsibility across the changing landscapes of informal dementia care (2013)
Journal Article
Egdell, V. (2013). Who cares? Managing obligation and responsibility across the changing landscapes of informal dementia care. Ageing and society, 33, 888-907. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X12000311

This paper explores the different ways in which informal carers for people with dementia negotiate their care-giving role across the changing organisational and spatial landscape of care. In-depth qualitative data are used to argue that the decisions... Read More about Who cares? Managing obligation and responsibility across the changing landscapes of informal dementia care.

Polarization in access to work-related training in Britain. (2013)
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., Canduela, J., & Raeside, R. (2013). Polarization in access to work-related training in Britain. Economic and Industrial Democracy, 34, 205-225. https://doi.org/10.1177/0143831X12442576

Policy makers across industrialized nations have sought to increase participation in work-related training as a route to improved competitiveness. However, research conducted in Britain during the 1990s identified significant differences in partic... Read More about Polarization in access to work-related training in Britain..

Extending working lives: age management in SMEs. (2013)
Journal Article
Fuertes, V., Egdell, V., & McQuaid, R. W. (2013). Extending working lives: age management in SMEs. Employee Relations, 35, 272-293. https://doi.org/10.1108/01425451311320477

Structured Abstract: Purpose: This paper presents a study of age management in small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK. Design/methodology/approach: Qualitative data collection and exploratory research with six SMEs comprising of: init... Read More about Extending working lives: age management in SMEs..

Promoting healthy pathways to employability: lessons for the UK's welfare-to-work agenda (2013)
Journal Article
Lindsay, C., & Dutton, M. (2013). Promoting healthy pathways to employability: lessons for the UK's welfare-to-work agenda. Policy and Politics, 41(2), 183-200. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557312x655549

The coalition government has implemented welfare-to-work policies strengthening the UK's Work First model of activating claimants of disability or incapacity benefits (IBs). These reforms abolished the Condition Management Programme (CMP) established... Read More about Promoting healthy pathways to employability: lessons for the UK's welfare-to-work agenda.