Neil Lunt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 326847 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Neil Lunt |
| PRENOMES | Neil |
| SOBRENOME | Lunt |
| ASSINATURA | LUNT N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4501-1999 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 46 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 191 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 46 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Bilateral health agreements of South Africa
The bilateral agreements signed between South Africa and countries in Southern and Eastern Africa are a rare example of efforts to regulate health-related issues in a world region. As far as we know, there are no comparable bilateral health governance mechanisms in regions elsewhere. Furthermore, the rapidly growing literature on global health governance and governance for global health has to date not addressed the issue of patient mobility and …
Children’s hospitals in the British NHS
Patient mobility is a complex phenomenon, involving both outward and inward flows, and treatments that are more and less complex and where choice may be driven by quality and availability rather than solely cost. Public health systems in high-income and middle-income countries are facing increasing financial pressures given population ageing, a rapid rise in chronic and non-communicable diseases and fiscal restraint. In this context, the intersec…
Sticking plaster support
The Household Support Fund is a creature of crises. Initially conceived as a temporary palliative for struggling UK households in 2021 amid the devastating COVID-19 crisis, the local authority administered support is now in its fourth wave. Accounting for over £2.5 billion of funding since its introduction, it is a flagship component of the UK government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis. Drawing on interviews with 12 local authorities, we …
The contested jurisdiction of Social Policy in UK universities since 1972
Utilising Abbott's work on professions and disciplines we trace the broad development of Social Policy in UK universities over the past 50 years. As with all subjects, Social Policy is enmeshed in continuous boundary protection, and at the same time may seek to extend jurisdiction by laying claim to areas and activities undertaken by others. We draw on a range of sources to inform our analysis including: overviews of contributions to Journal of S…
Strengths, assets and place – The emergence of Local Area Coordination initiatives in England and Wales
Local Area Coordination is an approach that emerged during the 1980s and 1990s to support individuals with learning disabilities in rural and metropolitan Western Australia. Offering direct family support, signposting and networking it aimed to improve access to services and promote social inclusion. It leveraged community resources and sought broader transformation through local collaborations and service redesign, as underpinned by a strengths-…
Place, Strengths and Assets
We report findings of a mixed-method evaluation of Local Area Coordination (LAC) in one English Local Authority—an approach that draws on principles of earlier intervention, and place-, asset- and strengths-based activity. We drew on documentary materials, unstructured observation and qualitative interviews. In total, fifty-five qualitative interviews were conducted with professional stakeholders (including Coordinators, statutory agencies and co…
Transnational medical travel
Transnational medical travel - the temporary movement by patients across national borders in order to address medical concerns abroad that are (considered to be) unable to be sufficiently met within their countries of residence - is an important therapeutic coping strategy used by growing proportions of peoples with a diverse range of mobility profiles and intensities of global moorings. Studying this phenomenon provides useful insight into a rap…
The United Kingdom's Somali populations as medical nomads
Much medical travel scholarship has been driven by a commercial focus whereby private providers pursue a high-value and complex patient market, primarily emanating from the Middle East, North America and Western Europe. This emphasis has led to a framing around ‘medical tourism’, prompting countervailing critiques of the term and the introduction of alternatives including ‘medical pilgrimage’ and ‘medical exile’. Reappraising the dynamics of mobi…
Forms of Practitioner Research
Τhe aim of this paper is to draw on evidence to identify distinctions within those forms of research which are to significant degrees practitioner-engaged. The research review on which this is based took place in the fields of health, social care and social work. We suggest there are different forms of practitioner research, and that using a blanket term for all instances of such inquiry may confuse rather than enlighten. Drawing from the data, w…
The entrepreneurial state
This article analyses an overlooked element of public service marketisation, examining overseas export activity within healthcare and criminal justice. It explores the drivers, strategies, opportunities and risks of such activities, and the differences across policy sector. Focussing on contrasting experiences is an opportunity to understand the complex and differentiated operational and structural environments within which this form of “public e…
Nostalgia narratives? Pejorative attitudes to welfare in historical perspective
Jensen and Tyler (2015) have powerfully argued that 'anti-welfare commonsense', fuelled by negative political and media discourse stressing welfare dependency and deception, has buttressed support for social security reform in recent years. Along with many other academics they point to the hardening of public attitudes towards welfare state provision and how notions of the 'deserving' and 'undeserving poor' have been reintroduced into popular deb…
Good Practice in the Conduct and Reporting of Practitioner Research
This paper examines two distinct forms of practitioner research and makes tentative suggestions around what may constitute good practice in their conduct and reporting, and for the genre of practitioner research as a whole. We also explore their potential benefits and limitations within the wider set of research approaches. Discussion is informed primarily by an earlier review of practitioner research in adult social care and supplemented by know…
Exploring Public Attitudes to Welfare over the Longue Durée
It is commonly argued that public support for the welfare state is in long‐term decline in the UK. Evidence from the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is typically cited to support this claim, but it only stretches back to 1983. Few would disagree that the Thatcher years offered an unusual socio‐political‐economic context, which raises a question over whether the BSA's early 1980s baseline provides a misleading view on support for the welfare…
Developing good practitioner research
We set out how we see the agenda arising from developing good practitioner research. We begin by identifying what we mean by practitioner research. We then review what we know about the nature and practice of practitioner research in the UK. We consider how practitioner research is related to the wider category of practice research. We then identify what the experience of doing practitioner research is like for those involved. The findings are he…
International patients within the NHS
Why do medical tourists travel to where they do? The role of networks in determining medical travel
Analysing Social Policy Concepts and Language
Social policy scholars and practitioners work with concepts such as "welfare state" and "social security" but where do these concepts come from and how has their meaning changed over time? Which are the dominant social policy concepts and how are they contested? What characterises social policy language in specific countries and regions of the world and how do social concepts travel between countries? Addressing such questions in a systematic man…
Market size, market share and market strategy
The aim of this article is to contribute towards greater theoretical and empirical understanding about medical tourism developments globally. This evidence leads us to examine some widelyheld assumptions regarding the size and shape of global medical travel. Our paper examines three central issues: (1) Do published figures and projections ‘add-up’, are figures from multiple sources consistent, and what decisions and interests are involved for tho…
A Framework for Exploring the Policy Implications of UK Medical Tourism and International Patient Flows
It is estimated that over 50,000 individuals from the UK each year elect to fund their own treatment abroad. Such treatments commonly include cosmetic and dental surgery; cardio, orthopaedic and bariatric surgery; IVF treatment; and organ and tissue transplantation. The UK has also experienced inward flows of patients who travel to receive treatment and pay out of pocket, being treated in both private and NHS facilities. The rise of ‘medical tour…
Constructing Practitioner Research
The authors draw on a case study evaluation of two networked cohorts of practitioner-researchers in a children's services national social work agency in one of the home countries of the United Kingdom. The aim of the present study was to understand the meaning of practitioner research for social work professionals through an exploration of how language, ascriptions of meaning, and interpretation provide a social environment through which the natu…
Networking practitioner research
The aim of this paper is to examine what we know about the experience and outcomes of networked initiatives aimed at facilitating practitioner research. We outline the roles and significance of practitioner research within social work; review emerging understanding of practitioner research network initiatives; and draw conclusions from a comparative analysis of three such initiatives in Auckland, New Zealand, Arhus County, Denmark, and across Sco…
Navigating Practitioner Research
Journal Article Navigating Practitioner Research Get access Ian Shaw, Ian Shaw * Dr Ian Shaw is Professor of Social Work at the University of York, England. Dr Neil Lunt is Senior Lecturer in Public Sector Management in York Management School at the University of York. *Correspondence to Ian Shaw, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author …
Practitioner research in social work
This article reports what may be the first systematic mapping and review of practitioner research studies in social work. We reflect on the difficulties of identifying such studies and outline the review and mapping processes adopted in the study. The paper categorises the kinds of research undertaken, drawing on a recently developed framework; it also reports and assesses the research against its contribution to knowledge, its methodological sta…
Practitioner Research, Ethics and Research Governance
There is growing interest in the contribution of practitioner research towards bodies of knowledge and practice change. A practitioner or group of practitioners may carry out inquiry in order to better understand their own practice and client groups and to assess or improve service effectiveness. There is also increased interest in the place of ethical review (typically encapsulated within requirements to submit to a formal ethics committee) and …
Understanding competition states
In a speech given in Chicago in April 1999, Tony Blair stated, on behalf of third-way social democracy, ‘we are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not. We cannot refuse to participate
Why do medical tourists travel to where they do? The role of networks in determining medical travel
Market size, market share and market strategy
The aim of this article is to contribute towards greater theoretical and empirical understanding about medical tourism developments globally. This evidence leads us to examine some widelyheld assumptions regarding the size and shape of global medical travel. Our paper examines three central issues: (1) Do published figures and projections ‘add-up’, are figures from multiple sources consistent, and what decisions and interests are involved for tho…
Transnational medical travel
Transnational medical travel - the temporary movement by patients across national borders in order to address medical concerns abroad that are (considered to be) unable to be sufficiently met within their countries of residence - is an important therapeutic coping strategy used by growing proportions of peoples with a diverse range of mobility profiles and intensities of global moorings. Studying this phenomenon provides useful insight into a rap…
International patients within the NHS
Older people within transnational families
Given that more people ‘permanently’ migrate today than in the past, migration has taken on a heightened profile internationally. Such mobility raises fundamental social policy questions of entitlement and (re)negotiation of caregiving obligations and arrangements. Social policy has traditionally approached problems and developed responses within the confines of the nation‐state and faces difficulties in recognising and addressing issues arising …
Good Practice in the Conduct and Reporting of Practitioner Research
This paper examines two distinct forms of practitioner research and makes tentative suggestions around what may constitute good practice in their conduct and reporting, and for the genre of practitioner research as a whole. We also explore their potential benefits and limitations within the wider set of research approaches. Discussion is informed primarily by an earlier review of practitioner research in adult social care and supplemented by know…
Nostalgia narratives? Pejorative attitudes to welfare in historical perspective
Jensen and Tyler (2015) have powerfully argued that 'anti-welfare commonsense', fuelled by negative political and media discourse stressing welfare dependency and deception, has buttressed support for social security reform in recent years. Along with many other academics they point to the hardening of public attitudes towards welfare state provision and how notions of the 'deserving' and 'undeserving poor' have been reintroduced into popular deb…
The rise of a ‘social development’ agenda in New Zealand
Since 1999 New Zealand has seen the election of a series of Labour‐led governments committed to a social policy framework of social development. This article outlines the background to the emergence of social development, tracing its antecedents in the neo‐liberal administrations of the 1990s. The social development framework consists of commitments around economic development, human capital development, family development and politico‐administra…
Employability and New Zealand welfare restructuring
English The article discusses employability within New Zealand. It outlines a series of initiatives around welfare reform that have targeted disabled people, unemployed groups, lone parents and women reentering jobs, youth, and ethnic groupings. A fourfold critique of employability is suggested around labour market outcomes, social exclusion, human resource development and broader citizenship concerns. Situating New Zealand within the broader wel…
Disability and employment
This article explores the nature of disability employment policy drawing on evidence from fifteen countries. In line with earlier sociological approaches to disability it describes two ways of framing policy in the area. These two paradigms are developed and used to critically evaluate employment policy under the headings: legislative measures, open employment-financial employment support services and sheltered/supported provision. The dilemmas t…
Constructing Practitioner Research
The authors draw on a case study evaluation of two networked cohorts of practitioner-researchers in a children's services national social work agency in one of the home countries of the United Kingdom. The aim of the present study was to understand the meaning of practitioner research for social work professionals through an exploration of how language, ascriptions of meaning, and interpretation provide a social environment through which the natu…
Networking practitioner research
The aim of this paper is to examine what we know about the experience and outcomes of networked initiatives aimed at facilitating practitioner research. We outline the roles and significance of practitioner research within social work; review emerging understanding of practitioner research network initiatives; and draw conclusions from a comparative analysis of three such initiatives in Auckland, New Zealand, Arhus County, Denmark, and across Sco…
Navigating Practitioner Research
Journal Article Navigating Practitioner Research Get access Ian Shaw, Ian Shaw * Dr Ian Shaw is Professor of Social Work at the University of York, England. Dr Neil Lunt is Senior Lecturer in Public Sector Management in York Management School at the University of York. *Correspondence to Ian Shaw, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of York, York, YO10 5DD, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author …
The United Kingdom's Somali populations as medical nomads
Much medical travel scholarship has been driven by a commercial focus whereby private providers pursue a high-value and complex patient market, primarily emanating from the Middle East, North America and Western Europe. This emphasis has led to a framing around ‘medical tourism’, prompting countervailing critiques of the term and the introduction of alternatives including ‘medical pilgrimage’ and ‘medical exile’. Reappraising the dynamics of mobi…
Forms of Practitioner Research
Τhe aim of this paper is to draw on evidence to identify distinctions within those forms of research which are to significant degrees practitioner-engaged. The research review on which this is based took place in the fields of health, social care and social work. We suggest there are different forms of practitioner research, and that using a blanket term for all instances of such inquiry may confuse rather than enlighten. Drawing from the data, w…
The entrepreneurial state
This article analyses an overlooked element of public service marketisation, examining overseas export activity within healthcare and criminal justice. It explores the drivers, strategies, opportunities and risks of such activities, and the differences across policy sector. Focussing on contrasting experiences is an opportunity to understand the complex and differentiated operational and structural environments within which this form of “public e…
Exploring Public Attitudes to Welfare over the Longue Durée
It is commonly argued that public support for the welfare state is in long‐term decline in the UK. Evidence from the British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is typically cited to support this claim, but it only stretches back to 1983. Few would disagree that the Thatcher years offered an unusual socio‐political‐economic context, which raises a question over whether the BSA's early 1980s baseline provides a misleading view on support for the welfare…
Developing good practitioner research
We set out how we see the agenda arising from developing good practitioner research. We begin by identifying what we mean by practitioner research. We then review what we know about the nature and practice of practitioner research in the UK. We consider how practitioner research is related to the wider category of practice research. We then identify what the experience of doing practitioner research is like for those involved. The findings are he…
Winning hearts and minds for the Competition State
An important question concerns the routes by which the Competition State is able to secure ongoing political support, or what is referred to as ‘the battle for hearts and minds’. The tapping of legitimacy vis-à-vis the current Competition State is explored drawing on examples of the UK and New Zealand. Three ‘hyphen concepts’ are outlined: hyphen one focuses on the British or Kiwi-Competition State; hyphen two explores the welfare processes of th…
From Welfare State to Social Development
This paper examines how ‘welfare state’ and ‘welfare’ have been displaced by a ‘social development’ agenda within New Zealand. The discussion outlines a growing attention to language and the place of vocabulary and discourse as a valid research agenda. The paper then traces the end of welfare and the rise of ‘social development’, assessing the impact on citizenship debates. It suggests reasons why ‘social development’ must be handled carefully gi…
A Note on Political Science and the Metaphorical Imagination
This article discusses the role of metaphor in political science, highlighting the centrality of the metaphor historically for understanding human societies. It notes how the contemporary emphasis on global interconnectedness has generated an influx of new metaphors influenced by technological developments, such as networks and the Internet. The article highlights questions that are of enduring interest for political scientists: how to make sense…
Economic Discourse and the Market
The UK government has introduced fundamental reforms into the provision of social care. The‘community care’programme, which was fully implemented in 1993, requires local authorities to assess the needs of potential users, to design an individual package of care that reflects those needs, and to purchase the package from a range of statutory, voluntary and private providers. Thus the new arrangement introduced a‘quasi‐market’in community care, alo…
Variations in practice nursing
Differences between Family Health Services Authorities (FHSAs) in practice nurse activities are described and interpreted, using the results of postal questionnaires to all practice nurses in England and Wales in late 1992. There were an estimated 15000 practice nurses of whom 12589 (85%) returned a completed questionnaire, which asked about 30 tasks, including domiciliary visits, carried out by practice nurses; employment conditions, professiona…
Past and Present
The paper discusses historical and emerging dimensions of citizenship within Aotearoa/New Zealand. Drawing on Turner’s work, it explores the utility of Marshallian distinctions of civil, political and social citizenship. These evolutionary notions are seen as problematic, given the historical treatment of the Chinese community, and the abrogation of the Treaty of Waitangi with respect to European–Maori relationships. Ideas of the “worker citizen”…
Sticking plaster support
The Household Support Fund is a creature of crises. Initially conceived as a temporary palliative for struggling UK households in 2021 amid the devastating COVID-19 crisis, the local authority administered support is now in its fourth wave. Accounting for over £2.5 billion of funding since its introduction, it is a flagship component of the UK government’s response to the cost-of-living crisis. Drawing on interviews with 12 local authorities, we …
Mentoring
Mentoring
Disability and employment
This article explores the nature of disability employment policy drawing on evidence from fifteen countries. In line with earlier sociological approaches to disability it describes two ways of framing policy in the area. These two paradigms are developed and used to critically evaluate employment policy under the headings: legislative measures, open employment-financial employment support services and sheltered/supported provision. The dilemmas t…
"The Right Track"
The importance of education within the New Right philosophy has been well analyzed and documented. The attempt to cut costs, the pursuit of efficiency, and improving standards along with greater parental choice and participation are some of the stated policy directions. This article seeks an analysis of the New Right philosophies that have so influenced the Conservatives' direction within initial teacher training, having a major impact on recent …
Ethnic Origin and Practice Nursing
Much literature assesses the impact of various factors on response rates to postal questionnaires. Little work, however, evaluates the effect of 'controversial' questions on rates of return. Recent debates suggest that one such question concerns ethnic origin and some writers argue that asking this question could affect response rates. This research note explores this issue in more detail, first by examining the effect of an ethnicity question on…
Economic Discourse and the Market
The UK government has introduced fundamental reforms into the provision of social care. The‘community care’programme, which was fully implemented in 1993, requires local authorities to assess the needs of potential users, to design an individual package of care that reflects those needs, and to purchase the package from a range of statutory, voluntary and private providers. Thus the new arrangement introduced a‘quasi‐market’in community care, alo…
Charging ahead in the community
Envisioning the Future Welfare State
Staying single in the 1990s
Journey to the Centre of the (Academic) Universe
As postgraduate students, researchers or junior lecturers, we all aspire to climb the highest peaks of academic life, to bask in our reflected glory and to have the (small disciplinary) world at our feet. Yet how do we assail those peaks? More often than not, they seem like sheer cliff faces or mountain ranges where the noviciate assemble at the bottom and gaze skywards in disbelief. When we look around at academics who have successfully scaled t…
Past and Present
The paper discusses historical and emerging dimensions of citizenship within Aotearoa/New Zealand. Drawing on Turner’s work, it explores the utility of Marshallian distinctions of civil, political and social citizenship. These evolutionary notions are seen as problematic, given the historical treatment of the Chinese community, and the abrogation of the Treaty of Waitangi with respect to European–Maori relationships. Ideas of the “worker citizen”…
A Stagecraft of New Zealand Evaluation
Since the 1960s there has been a growing interest in evaluation shown by most Western countries. Alongside discussion of practical and theoretical issues of evaluation, such as methodological developments, best practice, and cross-cultural practice, there has also been increased interest in mapping the history of evaluation activity. Historical discussions are significant for three reasons; first, in providing a record for future generations of e…
A Note on Political Science and the Metaphorical Imagination
This article discusses the role of metaphor in political science, highlighting the centrality of the metaphor historically for understanding human societies. It notes how the contemporary emphasis on global interconnectedness has generated an influx of new metaphors influenced by technological developments, such as networks and the Internet. The article highlights questions that are of enduring interest for political scientists: how to make sense…
Employability and New Zealand welfare restructuring
English The article discusses employability within New Zealand. It outlines a series of initiatives around welfare reform that have targeted disabled people, unemployed groups, lone parents and women reentering jobs, youth, and ethnic groupings. A fourfold critique of employability is suggested around labour market outcomes, social exclusion, human resource development and broader citizenship concerns. Situating New Zealand within the broader wel…
Variations in practice nursing
Differences between Family Health Services Authorities (FHSAs) in practice nurse activities are described and interpreted, using the results of postal questionnaires to all practice nurses in England and Wales in late 1992. There were an estimated 15000 practice nurses of whom 12589 (85%) returned a completed questionnaire, which asked about 30 tasks, including domiciliary visits, carried out by practice nurses; employment conditions, professiona…
Boats, planes and trains
This paper discusses the paucity of scholarship on contemporary British international migration experience, and highlights why British nations are viewed as beyond detailed international migration and transnational scholarship. Resisting this closure, discussion invokes a transnational lens to explore three flows: post-war migration of British citizens to traditional destinations; British retirement migration to the Mediterranean; and British pro…
From Welfare State to Social Development
This paper examines how ‘welfare state’ and ‘welfare’ have been displaced by a ‘social development’ agenda within New Zealand. The discussion outlines a growing attention to language and the place of vocabulary and discourse as a valid research agenda. The paper then traces the end of welfare and the rise of ‘social development’, assessing the impact on citizenship debates. It suggests reasons why ‘social development’ must be handled carefully gi…
Older people within transnational families
Given that more people ‘permanently’ migrate today than in the past, migration has taken on a heightened profile internationally. Such mobility raises fundamental social policy questions of entitlement and (re)negotiation of caregiving obligations and arrangements. Social policy has traditionally approached problems and developed responses within the confines of the nation‐state and faces difficulties in recognising and addressing issues arising …
The rise of a ‘social development’ agenda in New Zealand
Since 1999 New Zealand has seen the election of a series of Labour‐led governments committed to a social policy framework of social development. This article outlines the background to the emergence of social development, tracing its antecedents in the neo‐liberal administrations of the 1990s. The social development framework consists of commitments around economic development, human capital development, family development and politico‐administra…
Practitioner research in social work
This article reports what may be the first systematic mapping and review of practitioner research studies in social work. We reflect on the difficulties of identifying such studies and outline the review and mapping processes adopted in the study. The paper categorises the kinds of research undertaken, drawing on a recently developed framework; it also reports and assesses the research against its contribution to knowledge, its methodological sta…
Practitioner Research, Ethics and Research Governance
There is growing interest in the contribution of practitioner research towards bodies of knowledge and practice change. A practitioner or group of practitioners may carry out inquiry in order to better understand their own practice and client groups and to assess or improve service effectiveness. There is also increased interest in the place of ethical review (typically encapsulated within requirements to submit to a formal ethics committee) and …
Understanding competition states
In a speech given in Chicago in April 1999, Tony Blair stated, on behalf of third-way social democracy, ‘we are all internationalists now, whether we like it or not. We cannot refuse to participate
How the West was won
Winning hearts and minds for the Competition State
An important question concerns the routes by which the Competition State is able to secure ongoing political support, or what is referred to as ‘the battle for hearts and minds’. The tapping of legitimacy vis-à-vis the current Competition State is explored drawing on examples of the UK and New Zealand. Three ‘hyphen concepts’ are outlined: hyphen one focuses on the British or Kiwi-Competition State; hyphen two explores the welfare processes of th…
Networking practitioner research
The aim of this paper is to examine what we know about the experience and outcomes of networked initiatives aimed at facilitating practitioner research. We outline the roles and significance of practitioner research within social work; review emerging understanding of practitioner research network initiatives; and draw conclusions from a comparative analysis of three such initiatives in Auckland, New Zealand, Arhus County, Denmark, and across Sco…
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