Kirstein Rummery
Biographic Data
| ID | 263633 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kirstein Rummery |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kirstein |
| FAMILY NAME | Rummery |
| SIGNATURE | RUMMERY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stirling |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4413-7394 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 234 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Ageing and Care Poverty: Theoretical and Empirical Challenges
In this article, the authors articulate care poverty as a new theoretical lens through which we might understand the challenges people face as they age and need help and support in their daily lives. They draw on similar theoretical frameworks such as unmet need in formal service provision, and demonstrate how care poverty is a more powerful epistemological and discursive tool than unmet need to analyse the complexity of needs and support that pe…
Feminism, Disability Rights, Activism and Academia in Scotland: A Personal Reflection on ‘Velvet Triangles’ in Practice
In this article the author critically reflects on her experiences as an academic and feminist/disability rights activist in Scottish civic society. She draws on ideas about a ‘velvet triangle’ – a co-operative constellation of academics, policy makers and activists – that exists in Scottish feminist policy circles. She explores the tensions between co-operative governance with the Scottish Government and the need for civic society to be an indepe…
Dangerous care: Developing theory to safeguard older adults in caring relationships in the UK
Purpose Most abuse affecting older adults in the UK, as across Europe, takes place within caring relationships, where one person is disabled and needs care/support. This paper critically appraises two of the key theoretical explanations. First, feminist theories of “intimate partner abuse” tell us that it is mostly men who perpetrate abuse against women. Second, “carer strain”: the stress caused by caring responsibilities, often with inadequate h…
The right to care? Social citizenship and care poverty in developed welfare states
Purpose There are clear theoretical, policy and practice tensions in conceptualising social or long-term care as a “right”: an enforceable choice. The purpose of this article is to address the following questions: Do disabled and older citizens have the right to long-term care? What do these rights look like under different care regimes? Do citizens have the right or duty to *provide* long-term care? It is already known that both formal and infor…
Partnership and Personalisation in Personal Care: Conflicts and Compromises
Background: Personalisation in social care services has become a feature of the delivery of long-term care for disabled people in many developed welfare states. Aim: Scotland has used the devolution of health and social care powers to develop a personalisation scheme (known as ‘Self-directed Support’). The authors apply a theoretical and empirical framework to understand the experience of contemporary disabled users of personalised services. Meth…
Getting lost with dementia: Encounters with the time-space of not knowing
In this paper we explore the experience and implications of getting lost with dementia. While getting lost has become culturally emblematic of dementia, speaking as it does to a widespread fear of losing our place in the world, it is marked by an overall absence of critical attention. We argue that this critical hesitancy is part of a broader unease with 'dementing' that reveals a paradox in dementia scholarship as growing emphasis on strengths-b…
Beyond the shrinking world: Dementia, localisation and neighbourhood
‘Dementia-friendly communities’ herald a shift toward the neighbourhood as a locus for the care and support of people with dementia, sparking growing interest in the geographies of dementia care and raising questions over the shifting spatial and social experience of the condition. Existing research claims that many people with dementia experience a ‘shrinking world’ whereby the boundaries to their social and physical worlds gradually constrict o…
Taking time: The temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood
Dementia is a global health challenge and currently the focus of a coordinated international response articulated through the notion of 'dementia-friendly communities and initiatives' (DFCIs). Yet, while increasing research attention has been paid to the social and spatial dimensions to life with dementia in a neighbourhood setting, the temporalities of dementia have been largely overlooked. This article sets out different aspects of the lived ex…
It's our pleasure, we count cars here’: An exploration of the ‘neighbourhood-based connections’ for people living alone with dementia
The extent of social isolation experienced by people living with dementia who reside in the community has been well acknowledged, yet little is known about how people living alone with dementia maintain neighbourhood-based connections. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of people with dementia who live alone, focusing upon how they establish social networks and relationships in a neighbourhood context, and how they are suppor…
Gender equality and the governance of long-term care policy: New Comparative Models and Paradigms
There is a long-established link between care policies and gender equality outcomes, and much modelling of welfare state typologies look at care provision as a distinguishing feature. However, to date, little research has been done which has systematically and critically examined those links by examining the policies and the way they operate, how and why they affect gender equality, and the governance of care policies in a comparative way. This p…
Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia
An increase in the number of people living independently with dementia across the developed world has focused attention on the relevance of neighbourhood spaces for enabling or facilitating good social health and wellbeing. Taking the lived experiences and daily realities of people living with dementia as a starting point, this paper contributes new understanding about the relevance of local places for supporting those living with the condition. …
Participatory social network map making with family carers of people living with dementia
This article focuses on the use of a participatory social network mapping method with family carers. This is one of a suite of methods developed in a 5-year qualitative multi-centre project exploring how neighbourhoods support, enable or disable people with dementia and their families to live well in their communities. The article considers how mapping provides insights into family support networks, revealing the fluidity of support and care with…
Campaigning for the Female Vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum: Comparing Women For Independence and Women Together
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign saw a surge of campaigning activity from groups on both sides of the debate. The mainstream elements of the campaign were criticised for not bringing enough attention to women's issues, and so Women For Independence (WFI) and Women Together (WT) were created in order to try and alleviate these concerns. This paper aims to compare the two organisations to ascertain whether or not they can be class…
Feminising Politics to Close the Evidence‐Policy Gap: The Case of Social Policy in Scotland
Policy studies suggest that scientists should adopt two strategies to close the ‘evidence‐policy gap’. First, engage in political debates to help define policy problems and solutions rather than expect the evidence to speak for itself. Second, learn where the action is, form long‐term coalitions, and exploit the ‘rules of the game’ to maximise your influence in complex policy‐making systems. Both lessons can prompt major dilemmas, for many actors…
Towards a theory of welfare partnerships
The Theory and Practice of Welfare Partnerships: The Case of the Cultural Sector
Partnership working in the welfare state has moved from the margins to the mainstream in terms of achieving policy objectives. Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical developments in the field, this article presents a framework for analyzing welfare partnerships that give precedence to the issues of trust and interdependence. This article presents findings from a study of local authority museum services in Scotland, England and Wal…
The Future of Social Policy in Scotland: Will Further Devolved Powers Lead to Better Social Policies for Disabled People
Scotland has laid claim to being ‘different’ from the rest of the UK with regards to disability policy. This article examines the evidence for that with regard to long‐term and social care, and discusses the possibilities opened up by the devolution of disability benefits. It asks whether Scotland will demonstrate policy divergence from the rest of the UK , and whether that is likely to be beneficial for disabled people. It argues that Scotland h…
Care: A Critical Review of Theory, Policy and Practice
‘Care’ is a source of critical tension in current social theory, and the policy and practice implications of that tension are evidenced in its current prominence on the political agenda of developed welfare states. This article critically appraises current developments in the theory, policy and practice of care, drawing on interdisciplinary developments in political theory, sociology and social policy. Developing feminist and disability‐rights th…
Choice, consumerism and devolution: Growing old in the welfare state(s) of Scotland, Wales and England
The introduction of choice and consumer mechanisms in public services has been identified as a fundamental shift in welfare service provision internationally. Within the United Kingdom (UK), such mechanisms developed and integrated into English services have not been replicated in their entirety in Scotland and Wales. For the first time since the inception of the UK welfare state, there are now formal differences in entitlement for older people a…
Introduction: UK Devolution
A Comparative Analysis of Personalisation: Balancing an Ethic of Care with User Empowerment
Developments in the provision of care and support services for disabled and older people across developed welfare states have led to the expansion of personalisation (sometimes called cash-for-care, direct payments, care payments, etc.) schemes, whereby cash is paid in substitute for care services and support. Although these schemes vary considerably in their scope and operation (sometimes paying carers directly, sometimes enabling disabled and o…
Engendering politics and policy: The legacy of New Labour
This article analyses the capacity of a single political party – New Labour in the UK – to engender politics and policy. It draws on Kingdon’s (1984) policy streams approach to demonstrate how with the election of New Labour in 1997 a window of opportunity emerged for gender changes in political representation, governance and policy terms. It argues that the commitment to engendering politics was an important step towards engendering policy, but …
Social Policy Review 21: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009
Social Policy Review 21Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009
Social Policy Review 21: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy 2009
Needs Assessment, Street‐level Bureaucracy and the New Community Care
In the wake of the Seebohm reforms of the personal social services, a number of studies were carried out in the 1970s to explore the role of frontline professionals in identifying and meeting social need. A common finding was that social workers behaved like “street‐level bureaucrats”, using their discretionary authority defensively to manage an otherwise overwhelming workload. In the 1990s, top‐down assessment and care management systems were pu…
Neighbourhoods as relational places for people living with dementia
An increase in the number of people living independently with dementia across the developed world has focused attention on the relevance of neighbourhood spaces for enabling or facilitating good social health and wellbeing. Taking the lived experiences and daily realities of people living with dementia as a starting point, this paper contributes new understanding about the relevance of local places for supporting those living with the condition. …
Primary health and social care services in the UK: Progress Towards Partnership
Choice, consumerism and devolution: Growing old in the welfare state(s) of Scotland, Wales and England
The introduction of choice and consumer mechanisms in public services has been identified as a fundamental shift in welfare service provision internationally. Within the United Kingdom (UK), such mechanisms developed and integrated into English services have not been replicated in their entirety in Scotland and Wales. For the first time since the inception of the UK welfare state, there are now formal differences in entitlement for older people a…
Disabled citizens and social exclusion: The Role of Direct Payments
English This article develops a framework of citizenship, in the light of current developments in social theory, policy and practice, to analyse the social rights and duties of disabled citizens in the UK. It looks at the complex interplay between disabled people's roles as carers, cared-for, workers and employers, by moving the debate on from seeing disabled people as the passive recipients of care to seeing them as active citizens. It asks whet…
A Comparative Discussion of the Gendered Implications of Cash‐for‐Care Schemes: Markets, Independence and Social Citizenship in Crisis
There are moves across many countries away from state‐led provision of services for disabled people towards cash‐based systems, which have been welcomed by disabled people as increasing choice and control over services and support, and increasing independence and social participation. However, feminist scholars have long warned about the implications of commodifying care for women, and the possible consequences of substituting cash for services f…
Engendering politics and policy: The legacy of New Labour
This article analyses the capacity of a single political party – New Labour in the UK – to engender politics and policy. It draws on Kingdon’s (1984) policy streams approach to demonstrate how with the election of New Labour in 1997 a window of opportunity emerged for gender changes in political representation, governance and policy terms. It argues that the commitment to engendering politics was an important step towards engendering policy, but …
A Comparative Analysis of Personalisation: Balancing an Ethic of Care with User Empowerment
Developments in the provision of care and support services for disabled and older people across developed welfare states have led to the expansion of personalisation (sometimes called cash-for-care, direct payments, care payments, etc.) schemes, whereby cash is paid in substitute for care services and support. Although these schemes vary considerably in their scope and operation (sometimes paying carers directly, sometimes enabling disabled and o…
Taking time: The temporal politics of dementia, care and support in the neighbourhood
Dementia is a global health challenge and currently the focus of a coordinated international response articulated through the notion of 'dementia-friendly communities and initiatives' (DFCIs). Yet, while increasing research attention has been paid to the social and spatial dimensions to life with dementia in a neighbourhood setting, the temporalities of dementia have been largely overlooked. This article sets out different aspects of the lived ex…
Disability, Citizenship and Community Care: A Case for Welfare Rights
Participatory social network map making with family carers of people living with dementia
This article focuses on the use of a participatory social network mapping method with family carers. This is one of a suite of methods developed in a 5-year qualitative multi-centre project exploring how neighbourhoods support, enable or disable people with dementia and their families to live well in their communities. The article considers how mapping provides insights into family support networks, revealing the fluidity of support and care with…
Partnerships and Collaborative Governance in Welfare: The Citizenship Challenge
Whilst there is ample literature on the governance and management of partnerships in welfare, particularly within mixed-economy states, much of it has focused on the governance and organisational capacity issues. This paper draws on that body of literature and evidence from health and social care partnerships, and attempts to develop the theoretical and empirical work in the area to address the issue of citizens' social rights, asking whether col…
Beyond the shrinking world: Dementia, localisation and neighbourhood
‘Dementia-friendly communities’ herald a shift toward the neighbourhood as a locus for the care and support of people with dementia, sparking growing interest in the geographies of dementia care and raising questions over the shifting spatial and social experience of the condition. Existing research claims that many people with dementia experience a ‘shrinking world’ whereby the boundaries to their social and physical worlds gradually constrict o…
Campaigning for the Female Vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum: Comparing Women For Independence and Women Together
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum campaign saw a surge of campaigning activity from groups on both sides of the debate. The mainstream elements of the campaign were criticised for not bringing enough attention to women's issues, and so Women For Independence (WFI) and Women Together (WT) were created in order to try and alleviate these concerns. This paper aims to compare the two organisations to ascertain whether or not they can be class…
Feminising Politics to Close the Evidence‐Policy Gap: The Case of Social Policy in Scotland
Policy studies suggest that scientists should adopt two strategies to close the ‘evidence‐policy gap’. First, engage in political debates to help define policy problems and solutions rather than expect the evidence to speak for itself. Second, learn where the action is, form long‐term coalitions, and exploit the ‘rules of the game’ to maximise your influence in complex policy‐making systems. Both lessons can prompt major dilemmas, for many actors…
Negotiating needs, access and gatekeeping: Developments in health and community care policies in the UK and the rights of disabled and older citizens
This article argues that the cumulative consequences of community care policies in the UK have resulted in a move from universal access to NHS services to discretionary access to residual local authority services. Drawing on an empirical study of the experiences of disabled and older people in obtaining access to community care assessments, the article argues that the traditional ‘gatekeeping’ activities of professionals have been augmented by a …
Progress Towards Partnership? The Development of Relations between Primary Care Organisations and Social Services Concerning Older People's Services in the UK
This paper will present evidence from the interim results of a large scale longitudinal project designed to track the development of partnership working between the new primary care organisations (Primary Care Groups and Trusts) entrusted with the commissioning and in some cases provision of health care, and local authority social services departments, regarding health and social care services for older people in the UK. Drawing on theoretical wo…
Partnerships, performance and primary care: Developing integrated services for older people in England
The development of health services in England is currently shaped by three key factors: the active involvement of front-line health professionals (particularly family doctors – general practitioners) in decisions about resource allocation and service development priorities; the promotion of ‘partnerships’ between health and other organisations in order to deliver ‘joined-up’ services; and the close performance management of organisations and prof…
Access to Services as a Civil and Social Rights Issue: The Role of Welfare Professionals in Regulating Access to and Commissioning Services for Disabled and Older People under New Labour
This paper draws up a theoretical framework of citizenship, based on Marshall’s thesis, that encompasses the idea of access to welfare services (using the example of community care services for disabled and older people) as a civil and social rights issue. The authors critically examine current policy developments in the NHS and local authorities under New Labour that emphasize partnership, particularly the proposals and provisions made in ‘The N…
It's our pleasure, we count cars here’: An exploration of the ‘neighbourhood-based connections’ for people living alone with dementia
The extent of social isolation experienced by people living with dementia who reside in the community has been well acknowledged, yet little is known about how people living alone with dementia maintain neighbourhood-based connections. The purpose of this study is to examine the experiences of people with dementia who live alone, focusing upon how they establish social networks and relationships in a neighbourhood context, and how they are suppor…
Introduction: Themed Section: Partnerships, Governance and Citizenship
The issue of ‘joined up’ governance and partnership working (between statutory partners, between the state and the voluntary sector and between the state and the private sector) is one which currently occupies the attention of policy makers and academics across mixed-liberal welfare states such as the European Union, Nordic, Commonwealth and North American welfare regimes (Geddes and Benington, 2001; Considine and Lewis, 2003; Bradford, 2003; Ovr…
Changes in primary health care policy: The implications for joint commissioning with social services
Both the primary health care team (PHCT) and social services departments in the UK have undergone substantial changes to their organization and function since 1990. This paper looks at developments in primary health care policy that have affected the relationships between them regarding the commissioning of health and social care services. It focuses on evidence from seven initiatives designed to involve members of the PHCT in commissioning socia…
Gender equality and the governance of long-term care policy: New Comparative Models and Paradigms
There is a long-established link between care policies and gender equality outcomes, and much modelling of welfare state typologies look at care provision as a distinguishing feature. However, to date, little research has been done which has systematically and critically examined those links by examining the policies and the way they operate, how and why they affect gender equality, and the governance of care policies in a comparative way. This p…
The Theory and Practice of Welfare Partnerships: The Case of the Cultural Sector
Partnership working in the welfare state has moved from the margins to the mainstream in terms of achieving policy objectives. Drawing on interdisciplinary theoretical and empirical developments in the field, this article presents a framework for analyzing welfare partnerships that give precedence to the issues of trust and interdependence. This article presents findings from a study of local authority museum services in Scotland, England and Wal…
The Future of Social Policy in Scotland: Will Further Devolved Powers Lead to Better Social Policies for Disabled People
Scotland has laid claim to being ‘different’ from the rest of the UK with regards to disability policy. This article examines the evidence for that with regard to long‐term and social care, and discusses the possibilities opened up by the devolution of disability benefits. It asks whether Scotland will demonstrate policy divergence from the rest of the UK , and whether that is likely to be beneficial for disabled people. It argues that Scotland h…
Changes in primary health care policy: The implications for joint commissioning with social services
Both the primary health care team (PHCT) and social services departments in the UK have undergone substantial changes to their organization and function since 1990. This paper looks at developments in primary health care policy that have affected the relationships between them regarding the commissioning of health and social care services. It focuses on evidence from seven initiatives designed to involve members of the PHCT in commissioning socia…
Negotiating needs, access and gatekeeping: Developments in health and community care policies in the UK and the rights of disabled and older citizens
This article argues that the cumulative consequences of community care policies in the UK have resulted in a move from universal access to NHS services to discretionary access to residual local authority services. Drawing on an empirical study of the experiences of disabled and older people in obtaining access to community care assessments, the article argues that the traditional ‘gatekeeping’ activities of professionals have been augmented by a …
Needs Assessment, Street‐level Bureaucracy and the New Community Care
In the wake of the Seebohm reforms of the personal social services, a number of studies were carried out in the 1970s to explore the role of frontline professionals in identifying and meeting social need. A common finding was that social workers behaved like “street‐level bureaucrats”, using their discretionary authority defensively to manage an otherwise overwhelming workload. In the 1990s, top‐down assessment and care management systems were pu…
Access to Services as a Civil and Social Rights Issue: The Role of Welfare Professionals in Regulating Access to and Commissioning Services for Disabled and Older People under New Labour
This paper draws up a theoretical framework of citizenship, based on Marshall’s thesis, that encompasses the idea of access to welfare services (using the example of community care services for disabled and older people) as a civil and social rights issue. The authors critically examine current policy developments in the NHS and local authorities under New Labour that emphasize partnership, particularly the proposals and provisions made in ‘The N…
Developments and Debates 2001-2002
Partnerships, New Labour and the governance of welfare
Current policy encourages 'partnerships' - between statutory organisations and professionals; public and private sectors; with voluntary organisations and local communities. But is this collaborative discourse really as distinctive as the Labour Government claims? How far do contemporary partnerships exemplify an approach to governing which is based on networks (as distinct from hierarchies and markets)? Partnerships, New Labour and the governanc…
Partnerships, performance and primary care: Developing integrated services for older people in England
The development of health services in England is currently shaped by three key factors: the active involvement of front-line health professionals (particularly family doctors – general practitioners) in decisions about resource allocation and service development priorities; the promotion of ‘partnerships’ between health and other organisations in order to deliver ‘joined-up’ services; and the close performance management of organisations and prof…
Nursing Homes in England and their Capacity to Provide Rehabilitation and Intermediate Care Services
The numbers of older people living in residential and nursing home care in the UK have risen exponentially since the early 1980s when the closure of long–stay geriatric wards and changes in social security funding of care home places led to a rapid expansion of the care home industry. While the implementation of the 1990 National Health Service (NHS) and Community Care Act shifted the responsibility for the commissioning and funding of these serv…
Disability, Citizenship and Community Care: A Case for Welfare Rights
Primary health and social care services in the UK: Progress Towards Partnership
Progress Towards Partnership? The Development of Relations between Primary Care Organisations and Social Services Concerning Older People's Services in the UK
This paper will present evidence from the interim results of a large scale longitudinal project designed to track the development of partnership working between the new primary care organisations (Primary Care Groups and Trusts) entrusted with the commissioning and in some cases provision of health care, and local authority social services departments, regarding health and social care services for older people in the UK. Drawing on theoretical wo…
Governance and Collaboration: Review Article
Rod Rhodes (1997) Understanding Governance: Policy Networks, Governance, Reflexivity and Accountability , Open University Press 1997. Gerry Stoker (1998) ‘Governance as theory: five propositions’, International Journal of Social Sciences 50 , 1, 17–28. Helen Sullivan and Chris Skelcher (2002) Working across Boundaries: Collaboration in Public Services , Palgrave. Janet Newman, Marion Barnes, Helen Sullivan, and A. Knops (2004) ‘Public participati…
Introduction: Themed Section: Partnerships, Governance and Citizenship
The issue of ‘joined up’ governance and partnership working (between statutory partners, between the state and the voluntary sector and between the state and the private sector) is one which currently occupies the attention of policy makers and academics across mixed-liberal welfare states such as the European Union, Nordic, Commonwealth and North American welfare regimes (Geddes and Benington, 2001; Considine and Lewis, 2003; Bradford, 2003; Ovr…
Partnerships and Collaborative Governance in Welfare: The Citizenship Challenge
Whilst there is ample literature on the governance and management of partnerships in welfare, particularly within mixed-economy states, much of it has focused on the governance and organisational capacity issues. This paper draws on that body of literature and evidence from health and social care partnerships, and attempts to develop the theoretical and empirical work in the area to address the issue of citizens' social rights, asking whether col…
Disabled citizens and social exclusion: The Role of Direct Payments
English This article develops a framework of citizenship, in the light of current developments in social theory, policy and practice, to analyse the social rights and duties of disabled citizens in the UK. It looks at the complex interplay between disabled people's roles as carers, cared-for, workers and employers, by moving the debate on from seeing disabled people as the passive recipients of care to seeing them as active citizens. It asks whet…
Women and New LabourEngendering politics and policy?: Engendering politics and policy?
Although there is a growing body of international literature on the feminisation of politics and the policy process and, as New Labour's term of office progresses, a rapidly growing series of texts around New Labour's politics and policies, until now no one text has conducted an analysis of New Labour's politics and policies from a gendered perspective, despite the fact that New Labour have set themselves up to specifically address women's issues…
Women and New Labour: Engendering Politics and Policy?
Administering Welfare Reform: International Transformations in Welfare Governance ‐ Edited by Paul Henman and Menno Fenger
Care, Community and Citizenship: Research and Practice in a Changing Policy Context - Edited by Susan Balloch and Michael Hill
Social Policy in the Modern World: A Comparative Text ‐ by Michael Hill
Social Policy Review 21: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009
Social Policy Review 21Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009: Analysis and debate in social policy, 2009
Social Policy Review 21: Analysis and Debate in Social Policy 2009
Healthy partnerships, healthy citizens? An international review of partnerships in health and social care and patient/user outcomes
A Comparative Discussion of the Gendered Implications of Cash‐for‐Care Schemes: Markets, Independence and Social Citizenship in Crisis
There are moves across many countries away from state‐led provision of services for disabled people towards cash‐based systems, which have been welcomed by disabled people as increasing choice and control over services and support, and increasing independence and social participation. However, feminist scholars have long warned about the implications of commodifying care for women, and the possible consequences of substituting cash for services f…
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