Randall Smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Randall Smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | Randall |
| FAMILY NAME | Smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7997-5104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
There isn't anybody else like me around here”
The intersections between aging, social minority status and housing needs in later life is a neglected area of sociological exploration, even more so for older people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT). Recent sociological findings indicate that older LGBT people in housing schemes stress the importance of bonding social capital and look to other people in their social networks who reflect their identities and experiences as …
The impact of Covid-19 lockdown measures on older residents' social connections and everyday wellbeing within housing schemes that provide care and support in England and Wales
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures imposed as a result affected the lives of people in all parts of society across the world. In 2020, during the first UK national lockdown, older adults (aged 70 years and over) were told to 'shield' within their homes, as they were regarded as being at higher risk of serious COVID-19 infection compared to other age groups. This paper explores older adults' experiences of COVID-19 lockdown measures w…
Extra hands’ or the ‘icing on the cake’? The boundaries of the volunteer role in formal care settings in England
The adult social care sector in England has been encouraged to increase the role of volunteers in service delivery. To understand the volunteer role in care delivery and its impact upon paid care work, we undertook 94 qualitative interviews in seven care settings for older people in England. While the boundaries between care worker and volunteer were clearly established in some organisations, they were more indistinguishable in others. We discuss…
Policy & Politics
For 50 years Policy & Politics, under the stewardship of some 19 editors, has engaged with key issues at the interface between public policy, social policy and politics. The journal has published scholarship that has shaped a broad range of debates across disciplines and has built a valued and vibrant community of authors and readers who are integral to what the journal is today. This brief editorial provides a perspective on the journal’s evolut…
Supporting Older Co-Resident Carers of Older People – The Impact of Care Act Implementation in Four Local Authorities in England
The Care Act 2014 provides for ‘parity of esteem’ between people with social care needs and carers. This is achieved by extending the principles of prevention and wellbeing to carers; reinforcing carers’ right to an assessment; and setting national eligibility criteria for access to carer support services. This article reports on research that examined the impact of these changes on older co-resident carers of older people in four English local a…
Ageing in extra-care housing
Extra-care housing (ECH) has been hailed as a potential solution to some of the problems associated with traditional forms of social care, since it allows older people to live independently, while also having access to care and support if required. However, little longitudinal research has focused on the experiences of residents living in ECH, particularly in recent years. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of four ECH schemes in the Unit…
The challenges of integrating housing and care for older people
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
You have got to stick to your times’
Extra care housing (ECH) has been lauded as an innovative model of housing with care for older people that promotes and supports independent living. The study used a qualitative design to explore how care is delivered in four extra care settings in England over 20 months during 2016-2017. This paper reports findings from semi-structured interviews with 20 care workers and seven managers. The article argues that, despite being heralded as a new mo…
Outcomes-based commissioning for social care in extra care housing
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the process of commissioning adult social care services in England. It reflects the literature on commissioning at the strategic level followed by a section on operational or micro-commissioning. The rest of the paper focusses on the emergence of ideas about outcomes-based commissioning (OBC) in the field of adult social care and ends with critical consideration of the effectiveness o…
Older people’s perspectives on dignity
This article discusses findings from a qualitative longitudinal study of dignity in later life, which focused on the perspectives of older people at a time when their need for help and support was increasing as a result of long-term illness. It reflects critically on the methodology for its ability to generate knowledge about this eventful and unstable period of the life-course. It is argued that a longitudinal qualitative approach provides the o…
Integrating housing and care for older people
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Longitudinal studies and housing with care in England
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the recent literature on housing with care in England where a longitudinal approach has been adopted and to identify possible new research projects that focus on gaps in the existing literature. Design/methodology/approach – The review of the relevant research literature draws in part on an earlier overview of the broader literature on housing with care, part of an NIHR School for Social Care Resea…
Creating the asset base – a review of literature and policy on housing with care
Purpose – Appropriate housing for the growing population of older adults is becoming an international concern. The purpose of this paper is to report on a review of UK and international literature carried out as part of a project exploring the commissioning and delivery of social care in housing with care settings. The paper also considers housing with care in the context of UK policy and practice. Design/methodology/approach – The peer literatur…
Identity in the fourth age
The fourth age remains a poorly understood phenomenon and there is a lack of understanding of the perceptions of those who might be considered to be living in it. This article draws on findings from a study of dignity in later life which examined the day-to-day experiences of participants who were in need of support and care because of failing health. It discusses their accounts of the changes to their sense of self and their identity that came a…
Participatory Governance in Multi-Level Context
Participatory Governance, Personalisation and Eldercare
Hubert Heinelt and I first met at a research symposium in Hanover in May 1991. It marked the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the City of Hanover, to which the City of Bristol is twinned. The theme of the seminar was The Future of the City and participants included both Bristol and Hanover university staff and leading public figures from the two cities.
Uncovering History
In conducting his research for The Last Refuge (1962), Peter Townsend visited 173 public, voluntary and private residential care homes for older people in England and Wales. Drawing on his data, now archived at the University of Essex, we traced the subsequent history of these homes and revisited a sample that were still functioning as care homes in 2006. In this article, we focus on the 42 private homes he visited, some of which remain open and …
Using photography to understand change and continuity in the history of residential care for older people
The Last Refuge by Peter Townsend is a seminal study of residential care for older people. The fieldwork was carried out in the late 1950s and the data are now deposited in the National Social Policy and Social Change Archive at the University of Essex. We have undertaken research, funded by the ESRC, which has revisited Townsend's work and some of the homes he studied in order to conduct an overtime comparison. In this paper we focus on Townsend…
Lung Cancer Risk and Workplace Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Objectives. We sought to quantitatively evaluate the association between work-place environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung cancer. Methods. We performed a meta-analysis in 2003 of data from 22 studies from multiple locations worldwide of workplace environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung cancer risk. Estimates of relative risk from these studies were analyzed by fitting the data to fixed and mixed effects models. Analyses of highly ex…
Participatory Governance in Multi-Level Context
Administering education in Namibia
Co-ordination, collaboration and health promotion
This article draws upon the evaluation of an alcohol education programme in South West England to develop a discussion about how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in health promotion between different professionals. The importance of collaboration is frequently recognized but research evidence suggests that it is very hard to achieve. Three main issues are addressed. First, the article considers how the national funders of regional progr…
Implementing a Pluralistic Approach to Evaluation in Health Education
This article reflects upon why a pluralistic evaluation approach was adopted by the research team concerned with the evaluation of a regional alcohol education programme. The article describes why such an approach was adopted and then discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages that have been encountered. It is argued that such an approach enables an evaluation team to map and contextualise the differential accounts about progress and bloc…
Components of Welfare
From Public Assistance Institutions to ‘Sunshine Hotels’
This article traces the development of residential care for elderly people in the period 1939 to 1948. It begins by looking at the nature of such institutions in the period just prior to the Second World War and then discusses the complex impact of war upon such provision. Particular attention is paid to how evacuation hostels, run by local authorities and voluntary organisations, changed notions about the role of the state in the care of elderly…
Identity in the fourth age
The fourth age remains a poorly understood phenomenon and there is a lack of understanding of the perceptions of those who might be considered to be living in it. This article draws on findings from a study of dignity in later life which examined the day-to-day experiences of participants who were in need of support and care because of failing health. It discusses their accounts of the changes to their sense of self and their identity that came a…
Outcomes-based commissioning for social care in extra care housing
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the process of commissioning adult social care services in England. It reflects the literature on commissioning at the strategic level followed by a section on operational or micro-commissioning. The rest of the paper focusses on the emergence of ideas about outcomes-based commissioning (OBC) in the field of adult social care and ends with critical consideration of the effectiveness o…
Using photography to understand change and continuity in the history of residential care for older people
The Last Refuge by Peter Townsend is a seminal study of residential care for older people. The fieldwork was carried out in the late 1950s and the data are now deposited in the National Social Policy and Social Change Archive at the University of Essex. We have undertaken research, funded by the ESRC, which has revisited Townsend's work and some of the homes he studied in order to conduct an overtime comparison. In this paper we focus on Townsend…
The impact of Covid-19 lockdown measures on older residents' social connections and everyday wellbeing within housing schemes that provide care and support in England and Wales
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdown measures imposed as a result affected the lives of people in all parts of society across the world. In 2020, during the first UK national lockdown, older adults (aged 70 years and over) were told to 'shield' within their homes, as they were regarded as being at higher risk of serious COVID-19 infection compared to other age groups. This paper explores older adults' experiences of COVID-19 lockdown measures w…
Supporting Older Co-Resident Carers of Older People – The Impact of Care Act Implementation in Four Local Authorities in England
The Care Act 2014 provides for ‘parity of esteem’ between people with social care needs and carers. This is achieved by extending the principles of prevention and wellbeing to carers; reinforcing carers’ right to an assessment; and setting national eligibility criteria for access to carer support services. This article reports on research that examined the impact of these changes on older co-resident carers of older people in four English local a…
Older people’s perspectives on dignity
This article discusses findings from a qualitative longitudinal study of dignity in later life, which focused on the perspectives of older people at a time when their need for help and support was increasing as a result of long-term illness. It reflects critically on the methodology for its ability to generate knowledge about this eventful and unstable period of the life-course. It is argued that a longitudinal qualitative approach provides the o…
A further look at the role of the psychologist in community health care
The Report—“The Role of the Psychologist in Community Health Care” prepared by a working party of the Australian Psychological Society (Viney, Ed: 1974) is largely devoted to a consideration of new roles that psychologists might be expected to play in expanding community health programmes. The more traditional roles and likely extensions of these, are not examined except insofar as specialist roles are defined and are included in the overall manp…
A Reader in Social Administration
Lung Cancer Risk and Workplace Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Objectives. We sought to quantitatively evaluate the association between work-place environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung cancer. Methods. We performed a meta-analysis in 2003 of data from 22 studies from multiple locations worldwide of workplace environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung cancer risk. Estimates of relative risk from these studies were analyzed by fitting the data to fixed and mixed effects models. Analyses of highly ex…
Implementing a Pluralistic Approach to Evaluation in Health Education
This article reflects upon why a pluralistic evaluation approach was adopted by the research team concerned with the evaluation of a regional alcohol education programme. The article describes why such an approach was adopted and then discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages that have been encountered. It is argued that such an approach enables an evaluation team to map and contextualise the differential accounts about progress and bloc…
There isn't anybody else like me around here”
The intersections between aging, social minority status and housing needs in later life is a neglected area of sociological exploration, even more so for older people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT). Recent sociological findings indicate that older LGBT people in housing schemes stress the importance of bonding social capital and look to other people in their social networks who reflect their identities and experiences as …
Policy & Politics
For 50 years Policy & Politics, under the stewardship of some 19 editors, has engaged with key issues at the interface between public policy, social policy and politics. The journal has published scholarship that has shaped a broad range of debates across disciplines and has built a valued and vibrant community of authors and readers who are integral to what the journal is today. This brief editorial provides a perspective on the journal’s evolut…
Ageing in extra-care housing
Extra-care housing (ECH) has been hailed as a potential solution to some of the problems associated with traditional forms of social care, since it allows older people to live independently, while also having access to care and support if required. However, little longitudinal research has focused on the experiences of residents living in ECH, particularly in recent years. This paper reports on a longitudinal study of four ECH schemes in the Unit…
You have got to stick to your times’
Extra care housing (ECH) has been lauded as an innovative model of housing with care for older people that promotes and supports independent living. The study used a qualitative design to explore how care is delivered in four extra care settings in England over 20 months during 2016-2017. This paper reports findings from semi-structured interviews with 20 care workers and seven managers. The article argues that, despite being heralded as a new mo…
Uncovering History
In conducting his research for The Last Refuge (1962), Peter Townsend visited 173 public, voluntary and private residential care homes for older people in England and Wales. Drawing on his data, now archived at the University of Essex, we traced the subsequent history of these homes and revisited a sample that were still functioning as care homes in 2006. In this article, we focus on the 42 private homes he visited, some of which remain open and …
From Public Assistance Institutions to ‘Sunshine Hotels’
This article traces the development of residential care for elderly people in the period 1939 to 1948. It begins by looking at the nature of such institutions in the period just prior to the Second World War and then discusses the complex impact of war upon such provision. Particular attention is paid to how evacuation hostels, run by local authorities and voluntary organisations, changed notions about the role of the state in the care of elderly…
Overspill in Winsford–A Social and Economic Survey of the Progress of the Winsford Town Expansion Scheme
Socio-Economic Patterns of England and Wales
This article examines the geographical distribution of socio-economic groups in England and Wales based on data from the 1961 Census of Population. Each Local Authority is classified into one of six categories, depending on the socio-economic class composition of the male population. The six socio-economic categories shown on the map are defined by reference to the socio-economic composition of the total population for England and Wales
Social Services in British Industry
A Reader in Social Administration
A further look at the role of the psychologist in community health care
The Report—“The Role of the Psychologist in Community Health Care” prepared by a working party of the Australian Psychological Society (Viney, Ed: 1974) is largely devoted to a consideration of new roles that psychologists might be expected to play in expanding community health programmes. The more traditional roles and likely extensions of these, are not examined except insofar as specialist roles are defined and are included in the overall manp…
From Public Assistance Institutions to ‘Sunshine Hotels’
This article traces the development of residential care for elderly people in the period 1939 to 1948. It begins by looking at the nature of such institutions in the period just prior to the Second World War and then discusses the complex impact of war upon such provision. Particular attention is paid to how evacuation hostels, run by local authorities and voluntary organisations, changed notions about the role of the state in the care of elderly…
Components of Welfare
Implementing a Pluralistic Approach to Evaluation in Health Education
This article reflects upon why a pluralistic evaluation approach was adopted by the research team concerned with the evaluation of a regional alcohol education programme. The article describes why such an approach was adopted and then discusses some of the advantages and disadvantages that have been encountered. It is argued that such an approach enables an evaluation team to map and contextualise the differential accounts about progress and bloc…
Co-ordination, collaboration and health promotion
This article draws upon the evaluation of an alcohol education programme in South West England to develop a discussion about how to improve co-ordination and collaboration in health promotion between different professionals. The importance of collaboration is frequently recognized but research evidence suggests that it is very hard to achieve. Three main issues are addressed. First, the article considers how the national funders of regional progr…
Administering education in Namibia
Participatory Governance in Multi-Level Context
Lung Cancer Risk and Workplace Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
Objectives. We sought to quantitatively evaluate the association between work-place environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung cancer. Methods. We performed a meta-analysis in 2003 of data from 22 studies from multiple locations worldwide of workplace environmental tobacco smoke exposure and lung cancer risk. Estimates of relative risk from these studies were analyzed by fitting the data to fixed and mixed effects models. Analyses of highly ex…
Using photography to understand change and continuity in the history of residential care for older people
The Last Refuge by Peter Townsend is a seminal study of residential care for older people. The fieldwork was carried out in the late 1950s and the data are now deposited in the National Social Policy and Social Change Archive at the University of Essex. We have undertaken research, funded by the ESRC, which has revisited Townsend's work and some of the homes he studied in order to conduct an overtime comparison. In this paper we focus on Townsend…
Uncovering History
In conducting his research for The Last Refuge (1962), Peter Townsend visited 173 public, voluntary and private residential care homes for older people in England and Wales. Drawing on his data, now archived at the University of Essex, we traced the subsequent history of these homes and revisited a sample that were still functioning as care homes in 2006. In this article, we focus on the 42 private homes he visited, some of which remain open and …
Participatory Governance, Personalisation and Eldercare
Hubert Heinelt and I first met at a research symposium in Hanover in May 1991. It marked the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the City of Hanover, to which the City of Bristol is twinned. The theme of the seminar was The Future of the City and participants included both Bristol and Hanover university staff and leading public figures from the two cities.
Participatory Governance in Multi-Level Context
Creating the asset base – a review of literature and policy on housing with care
Purpose – Appropriate housing for the growing population of older adults is becoming an international concern. The purpose of this paper is to report on a review of UK and international literature carried out as part of a project exploring the commissioning and delivery of social care in housing with care settings. The paper also considers housing with care in the context of UK policy and practice. Design/methodology/approach – The peer literatur…
Identity in the fourth age
The fourth age remains a poorly understood phenomenon and there is a lack of understanding of the perceptions of those who might be considered to be living in it. This article draws on findings from a study of dignity in later life which examined the day-to-day experiences of participants who were in need of support and care because of failing health. It discusses their accounts of the changes to their sense of self and their identity that came a…
Longitudinal studies and housing with care in England
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to review the recent literature on housing with care in England where a longitudinal approach has been adopted and to identify possible new research projects that focus on gaps in the existing literature. Design/methodology/approach – The review of the relevant research literature draws in part on an earlier overview of the broader literature on housing with care, part of an NIHR School for Social Care Resea…
Integrating housing and care for older people
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 2.913 (2021 JCR, received in June 2022)The IJIC 20th Anniversary Issue was published in 2021
Outcomes-based commissioning for social care in extra care housing
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the process of commissioning adult social care services in England. It reflects the literature on commissioning at the strategic level followed by a section on operational or micro-commissioning. The rest of the paper focusses on the emergence of ideas about outcomes-based commissioning (OBC) in the field of adult social care and ends with critical consideration of the effectiveness o…
Older people’s perspectives on dignity
This article discusses findings from a qualitative longitudinal study of dignity in later life, which focused on the perspectives of older people at a time when their need for help and support was increasing as a result of long-term illness. It reflects critically on the methodology for its ability to generate knowledge about this eventful and unstable period of the life-course. It is argued that a longitudinal qualitative approach provides the o…
The challenges of integrating housing and care for older people
The International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC) is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes original articles in the field of integrated care on a continuous basis.IJIC has an Impact Factor of 5.120 (2020 JCR, received in June 2021)
You have got to stick to your times’
Extra care housing (ECH) has been lauded as an innovative model of housing with care for older people that promotes and supports independent living. The study used a qualitative design to explore how care is delivered in four extra care settings in England over 20 months during 2016-2017. This paper reports findings from semi-structured interviews with 20 care workers and seven managers. The article argues that, despite being heralded as a new mo…
Supporting Older Co-Resident Carers of Older People – The Impact of Care Act Implementation in Four Local Authorities in England
The Care Act 2014 provides for ‘parity of esteem’ between people with social care needs and carers. This is achieved by extending the principles of prevention and wellbeing to carers; reinforcing carers’ right to an assessment; and setting national eligibility criteria for access to carer support services. This article reports on research that examined the impact of these changes on older co-resident carers of older people in four English local a…
Political science (22 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Medicine (13 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (7 works)