Artur Steiner
Biographic Data
| ID | 4018089 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Artur Steiner |
| GIVEN NAMES | Artur |
| FAMILY NAME | Steiner |
| SIGNATURE | STEINER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Glasgow Caledonian University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7422-8396 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 157 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
What matters for ‘good work’? Shared perspectives from Work Integration Social Enterprises
With the positive effects of ‘good work’, and the adverse effects of poor work becoming increasingly well documented, innovative approaches to providing employment for those who are excluded from work continues to be a salient topic. Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) are organizations that pursue employment creation for those often excluded from the wider labour market. Yet WISEs have faced criticism for prioritizing market-based approa…
The Health and Wellbeing Outcomes of Employment and Vocational-Based Interventions for Veterans: A Scoping Review
Governments worldwide have invested in employment programs for veterans to aid the transition from military to civilian life, yet there is a lack of evidence of their impacts. This study outlines existing evidence of the health and wellbeing impacts of employment and vocational-based interventions. A scoping literature review was conducted between October 2022 and August 2023 to identify peer-reviewed literature that reported data on health and w…
Economic evaluation of participation in Community Led Organisations for individuals living in disadvantaged areas in the UK
This paper presents an economic evaluation of community-led and -owned organisations that deliver activities to support health and wellbeing. Because community-led organisations (CLOs) are a vital part of the social and solidarity economy, they increasingly feature in public health policies targeting disadvantaged populations. However, little is known about the value CLOs generate as few economic evaluations of them exist and those available focu…
A qualitative exploration of online forums to support resilience of rural young people in Australia
Introduction: Prevention and early intervention are crucial strategies for improving young people's mental health and well-being. Building resilience is a key component of these strategies, especially among young individuals in rural areas who face well-documented mental health disparities. This study aimed to investigate how online mental health forums can contribute to enhancing individual resilience in young rural users. Methods: = 1,000) made…
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience
This paper identifies and examines pathways in which online mental health forums assist in building personal resilience and address the mental ill-health of rural residents. We use a resilience theory to develop a Theoretical Resilience Framework and apply it to empirical qualitative data deriving from three of Australia's online mental health forums as well as interviews with forum users. Using thematic analysis and an abductive approach to gene…
Mental health, well-being and resilience in agricultural areas: A research agenda for the Global North
This paper offers an overview of research perspectives, gaps, and priorities within the field of mental health and well-being among farming communities in the Global North. Developed by an international working group of scholars with expertise in the mental health and well-being of agricultural and rural communities, it outlines the importance of developing an international research agenda in this subject area by presenting five propositions. Eac…
Investigating the contribution of community empowerment policies to successful co-production- evidence from Scotland
Although frequently perceived as a ‘woolly’ policy concept and a means to reduce public service delivery costs, co-production can lead to increased quality and efficiency of services. In this paper, we explore the contribution of a community empowerment policy to co-production processes. Analysing empirical findings from a mixed-method, longitudinal study through the lens of Myers et al.’s (2017) Theory of Change, the paper develops a model of a …
Community transformed? Exploring the interaction between online support and rural community life for people with acute mental health conditions
You don’t realise they’re helping you until you realise they’re helping you’: Reconceptualising adultism through community music
Recent work in children’s geographies and geographies of education has presented the argument that when conceptualising the various roles that adults occupy in children’s lives, it is equally important to conceptualise adultism. In this paper we argue that this existing work critiques adultism’s logics but does not adequately conceptualise adultism’s structural and scalar spatialities. We reconceptualise adultism as a structural and scalar phenom…
Participation Requests: A Democratic Innovation to Unlock the Door of Public Services
Democracies are under pressure and public administrations must evolve to accommodate new forms of public participation. Participation processes may reproduce or disrupt existing power inequalities. Through a multi-method empirical study of “Participation Requests,” a new legislative policy tool to open up public services in Scotland, this article addresses an empirical gap on governance-driven democratic innovations (DIs). We use Young’s distinct…
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production
The “woolliness” and “methodological hurdles” of co‐production make it challenging to compare and contrast different co‐production policy initiatives and their outcomes, and distil “what works”, for whom and in what circumstances. Inspired by Nabatchi et al. (2017) 3Ws typology of the Who , When , and What of co‐production, we draw on co‐production theory deriving from a narrative literature review and empirical research of co‐production cases in…
Public perspectives on health improvement within a remote‐rural island community
BACKGROUND: Rural health outcomes are often worse than their urban counterparts. While rural health theory recognizes the importance of the social determinants of health, there is a lack of insight into public perspectives for improving rural health beyond the provision of health-care services. Gaining insight into perceived solutions, that include and go beyond health- care, can help to inform resource allocation decisions to improve rural healt…
Men’s sheds as an alternative healthcare route? A qualitative study of the impact of Men’s sheds on user’s health improvement behaviours
Where male friendly health provision has been lacking, this study suggests how Men's Shed activities can provide positive male health outcomes, often in unexpected and non-obvious ways. In particular, the proposed visual pathways are important to inform policymakers and practitioners of the ways in that Sheds may contribute to engaging men in health improvement practices and increase their health knowledge. This study also provides a structure fr…
The impact of community Men’s Sheds on the physical health of their users
With men more susceptible than women to illness and mortality, and less likely to access primary healthcare services, there have been calls for more male friendly spaces within communities to engage 'hard to reach' men in physical health improvement. Research has shown that Men's Shed (Shed) activity can provide localised support for the mental health and social wellbeing of men within communities, yet less is known about Sheds' impacts on physic…
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities
Although increasingly prominent in research, policy and practice, little is known about social innovation in a rural context. To address this knowledge gap, our paper explores how rurality might affect the social innovation process . Drawing on 68 interviews carried out with beneficiaries, service providers and external stakeholders of a rural social enterprise initiative in Scotland, the paper adopts a realist evaluation theory (Pawson and Tille…
Men's Sheds: A conceptual exploration of the causal pathways for health and well‐being
Although men have a lower life expectancy than women, and are more susceptible to illness, they have been found to be less likely to engage in health-seeking behaviour. Men's Sheds, as a gendered intervention, has been identified as an effective way to engage men in meaningful activity and gain social support from others. However, links between sheds and health and well-being are not well-documented, and evidence is lacking of the potential causa…
The impact of a community‐based music intervention on the health and well‐being of young people: A realist evaluation
In recent years, music-based interventions have been utilised as a tool for improving public health, reducing inequalities and promoting well-being of young people. Although some researchers have begun to draw links between music-related interventions and positive health outcomes, there is little understanding as to how such effects are produced. Realist evaluations-understanding what works, for whom and under what circumstances-are a particularl…
Challenges of community engagement in a rural area: The impact of flood protection and policy
Agreement on rural responses to flooding is complex and contested. • Policy can undermine community resilience through paternalist approaches. • Authorities can undermine resilience by ignoring findings from public consultations. • Risk management policy can add to polarisation amongst at-risk rural communities. • Collaborative approaches can empower resilient communities and avoid polarisation
Rural social enterprise – Evidence to date, and a research agenda
Filling a void? The role of social enterprise in addressing social isolation and loneliness in rural communities
Social isolation and loneliness has been classed as a major public health concern due to its negative physical and mental health implications, and living in a remote or rural area is a prominent contributing risk factor. Community-led social enterprise models are recognised in government policy as a potential preventative measure for social isolation and loneliness, yet there is a lack of understanding of their application in rural contexts. The …
Can community interventions change resilience? Fostering perceptions of individual and community resilience in rural places
Governments move away from their roles as providers and take on roles as facilitators and enablers. Such transformations provide opportunities for individuals to play an active role in improving the resilience of their communities. However, the effects of such transformations may not be experienced by all communities equally. In the light of the emerging enabling state, which entails a more proactive type of community, this article examines wheth…
Do community empowerment and enabling state policies work in practice? Insights from a community development intervention in rural Scotland
Engage, participate, empower: Modelling power transfer in disadvantaged rural communities
This article explores a process meant to empower disadvantaged communities that have not previously engaged in government-instigated civic projects. Drawing on a large exploratory study of an empowerment project in seven Scottish rural communities, findings include that empowering communities should harness community development techniques that use both external actors and sources of support (i.e. exogenous practices), and those that utilise asse…
Unlocking the potential of rural social enterprise
In this paper, we argue that social enterprise could represent a means of tackling rural challenges of providing sustainable economic development, addressing the withdrawal of public services and promoting community cohesion. The paper draws upon a review of existing academic as well as policy literature and develops a conceptual framework that helps to understand how to unlock the potential contribution of social enterprises to rural development…
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Capacity Building Intervention in Empowering Hard-to-Reach Communities
This article focuses on hard-to-reach communities with weak histories of engagement and it explores whether facilitated community interventions can empower and develop community resilience. Drawing on data from 6 communities, the article indicates a need for tailored and context-specific support that matches local needs. Implementation of community projects is not linear and the delivery of interventions in hard-to-reach communities is associated…
Exploring the contribution of rural enterprises to local resilience
Do community empowerment and enabling state policies work in practice? Insights from a community development intervention in rural Scotland
Unlocking the potential of rural social enterprise
In this paper, we argue that social enterprise could represent a means of tackling rural challenges of providing sustainable economic development, addressing the withdrawal of public services and promoting community cohesion. The paper draws upon a review of existing academic as well as policy literature and develops a conceptual framework that helps to understand how to unlock the potential contribution of social enterprises to rural development…
Can community interventions change resilience? Fostering perceptions of individual and community resilience in rural places
Governments move away from their roles as providers and take on roles as facilitators and enablers. Such transformations provide opportunities for individuals to play an active role in improving the resilience of their communities. However, the effects of such transformations may not be experienced by all communities equally. In the light of the emerging enabling state, which entails a more proactive type of community, this article examines wheth…
Filling a void? The role of social enterprise in addressing social isolation and loneliness in rural communities
Social isolation and loneliness has been classed as a major public health concern due to its negative physical and mental health implications, and living in a remote or rural area is a prominent contributing risk factor. Community-led social enterprise models are recognised in government policy as a potential preventative measure for social isolation and loneliness, yet there is a lack of understanding of their application in rural contexts. The …
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities
Although increasingly prominent in research, policy and practice, little is known about social innovation in a rural context. To address this knowledge gap, our paper explores how rurality might affect the social innovation process . Drawing on 68 interviews carried out with beneficiaries, service providers and external stakeholders of a rural social enterprise initiative in Scotland, the paper adopts a realist evaluation theory (Pawson and Tille…
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production
The “woolliness” and “methodological hurdles” of co‐production make it challenging to compare and contrast different co‐production policy initiatives and their outcomes, and distil “what works”, for whom and in what circumstances. Inspired by Nabatchi et al. (2017) 3Ws typology of the Who , When , and What of co‐production, we draw on co‐production theory deriving from a narrative literature review and empirical research of co‐production cases in…
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Capacity Building Intervention in Empowering Hard-to-Reach Communities
This article focuses on hard-to-reach communities with weak histories of engagement and it explores whether facilitated community interventions can empower and develop community resilience. Drawing on data from 6 communities, the article indicates a need for tailored and context-specific support that matches local needs. Implementation of community projects is not linear and the delivery of interventions in hard-to-reach communities is associated…
Mental health, well-being and resilience in agricultural areas: A research agenda for the Global North
This paper offers an overview of research perspectives, gaps, and priorities within the field of mental health and well-being among farming communities in the Global North. Developed by an international working group of scholars with expertise in the mental health and well-being of agricultural and rural communities, it outlines the importance of developing an international research agenda in this subject area by presenting five propositions. Eac…
Rural social enterprise – Evidence to date, and a research agenda
Participation Requests: A Democratic Innovation to Unlock the Door of Public Services
Democracies are under pressure and public administrations must evolve to accommodate new forms of public participation. Participation processes may reproduce or disrupt existing power inequalities. Through a multi-method empirical study of “Participation Requests,” a new legislative policy tool to open up public services in Scotland, this article addresses an empirical gap on governance-driven democratic innovations (DIs). We use Young’s distinct…
Engage, participate, empower: Modelling power transfer in disadvantaged rural communities
This article explores a process meant to empower disadvantaged communities that have not previously engaged in government-instigated civic projects. Drawing on a large exploratory study of an empowerment project in seven Scottish rural communities, findings include that empowering communities should harness community development techniques that use both external actors and sources of support (i.e. exogenous practices), and those that utilise asse…
Supporting older people in establishing social enterprises in rural Scotland through action research: Reflections on challenges and opportunities
social innovation' might develop and who is responsible for its implementation. Drawing on experiences from the Older People for Older People (O4O) action research project, this article explores how co-production of services with and for older people and their families might happen and what the role of an action research in facilitating social changes is. As the project aimed to support the development of rural social enterprises, the article foc…
The impact of a community‐based music intervention on the health and well‐being of young people: A realist evaluation
In recent years, music-based interventions have been utilised as a tool for improving public health, reducing inequalities and promoting well-being of young people. Although some researchers have begun to draw links between music-related interventions and positive health outcomes, there is little understanding as to how such effects are produced. Realist evaluations-understanding what works, for whom and under what circumstances-are a particularl…
Challenges of community engagement in a rural area: The impact of flood protection and policy
Agreement on rural responses to flooding is complex and contested. • Policy can undermine community resilience through paternalist approaches. • Authorities can undermine resilience by ignoring findings from public consultations. • Risk management policy can add to polarisation amongst at-risk rural communities. • Collaborative approaches can empower resilient communities and avoid polarisation
Community transformed? Exploring the interaction between online support and rural community life for people with acute mental health conditions
Supporting older people in establishing social enterprises in rural Scotland through action research: Reflections on challenges and opportunities
social innovation' might develop and who is responsible for its implementation. Drawing on experiences from the Older People for Older People (O4O) action research project, this article explores how co-production of services with and for older people and their families might happen and what the role of an action research in facilitating social changes is. As the project aimed to support the development of rural social enterprises, the article foc…
Exploring the contribution of rural enterprises to local resilience
Assessing the Effectiveness of a Capacity Building Intervention in Empowering Hard-to-Reach Communities
This article focuses on hard-to-reach communities with weak histories of engagement and it explores whether facilitated community interventions can empower and develop community resilience. Drawing on data from 6 communities, the article indicates a need for tailored and context-specific support that matches local needs. Implementation of community projects is not linear and the delivery of interventions in hard-to-reach communities is associated…
Engage, participate, empower: Modelling power transfer in disadvantaged rural communities
This article explores a process meant to empower disadvantaged communities that have not previously engaged in government-instigated civic projects. Drawing on a large exploratory study of an empowerment project in seven Scottish rural communities, findings include that empowering communities should harness community development techniques that use both external actors and sources of support (i.e. exogenous practices), and those that utilise asse…
Unlocking the potential of rural social enterprise
In this paper, we argue that social enterprise could represent a means of tackling rural challenges of providing sustainable economic development, addressing the withdrawal of public services and promoting community cohesion. The paper draws upon a review of existing academic as well as policy literature and develops a conceptual framework that helps to understand how to unlock the potential contribution of social enterprises to rural development…
Do community empowerment and enabling state policies work in practice? Insights from a community development intervention in rural Scotland
Men's Sheds: A conceptual exploration of the causal pathways for health and well‐being
Although men have a lower life expectancy than women, and are more susceptible to illness, they have been found to be less likely to engage in health-seeking behaviour. Men's Sheds, as a gendered intervention, has been identified as an effective way to engage men in meaningful activity and gain social support from others. However, links between sheds and health and well-being are not well-documented, and evidence is lacking of the potential causa…
The impact of a community‐based music intervention on the health and well‐being of young people: A realist evaluation
In recent years, music-based interventions have been utilised as a tool for improving public health, reducing inequalities and promoting well-being of young people. Although some researchers have begun to draw links between music-related interventions and positive health outcomes, there is little understanding as to how such effects are produced. Realist evaluations-understanding what works, for whom and under what circumstances-are a particularl…
Challenges of community engagement in a rural area: The impact of flood protection and policy
Agreement on rural responses to flooding is complex and contested. • Policy can undermine community resilience through paternalist approaches. • Authorities can undermine resilience by ignoring findings from public consultations. • Risk management policy can add to polarisation amongst at-risk rural communities. • Collaborative approaches can empower resilient communities and avoid polarisation
Rural social enterprise – Evidence to date, and a research agenda
Filling a void? The role of social enterprise in addressing social isolation and loneliness in rural communities
Social isolation and loneliness has been classed as a major public health concern due to its negative physical and mental health implications, and living in a remote or rural area is a prominent contributing risk factor. Community-led social enterprise models are recognised in government policy as a potential preventative measure for social isolation and loneliness, yet there is a lack of understanding of their application in rural contexts. The …
Can community interventions change resilience? Fostering perceptions of individual and community resilience in rural places
Governments move away from their roles as providers and take on roles as facilitators and enablers. Such transformations provide opportunities for individuals to play an active role in improving the resilience of their communities. However, the effects of such transformations may not be experienced by all communities equally. In the light of the emerging enabling state, which entails a more proactive type of community, this article examines wheth…
Public perspectives on health improvement within a remote‐rural island community
BACKGROUND: Rural health outcomes are often worse than their urban counterparts. While rural health theory recognizes the importance of the social determinants of health, there is a lack of insight into public perspectives for improving rural health beyond the provision of health-care services. Gaining insight into perceived solutions, that include and go beyond health- care, can help to inform resource allocation decisions to improve rural healt…
Men’s sheds as an alternative healthcare route? A qualitative study of the impact of Men’s sheds on user’s health improvement behaviours
Where male friendly health provision has been lacking, this study suggests how Men's Shed activities can provide positive male health outcomes, often in unexpected and non-obvious ways. In particular, the proposed visual pathways are important to inform policymakers and practitioners of the ways in that Sheds may contribute to engaging men in health improvement practices and increase their health knowledge. This study also provides a structure fr…
The impact of community Men’s Sheds on the physical health of their users
With men more susceptible than women to illness and mortality, and less likely to access primary healthcare services, there have been calls for more male friendly spaces within communities to engage 'hard to reach' men in physical health improvement. Research has shown that Men's Shed (Shed) activity can provide localised support for the mental health and social wellbeing of men within communities, yet less is known about Sheds' impacts on physic…
Rurality and social innovation processes and outcomes: A realist evaluation of rural social enterprise activities
Although increasingly prominent in research, policy and practice, little is known about social innovation in a rural context. To address this knowledge gap, our paper explores how rurality might affect the social innovation process . Drawing on 68 interviews carried out with beneficiaries, service providers and external stakeholders of a rural social enterprise initiative in Scotland, the paper adopts a realist evaluation theory (Pawson and Tille…
You don’t realise they’re helping you until you realise they’re helping you’: Reconceptualising adultism through community music
Recent work in children’s geographies and geographies of education has presented the argument that when conceptualising the various roles that adults occupy in children’s lives, it is equally important to conceptualise adultism. In this paper we argue that this existing work critiques adultism’s logics but does not adequately conceptualise adultism’s structural and scalar spatialities. We reconceptualise adultism as a structural and scalar phenom…
Participation Requests: A Democratic Innovation to Unlock the Door of Public Services
Democracies are under pressure and public administrations must evolve to accommodate new forms of public participation. Participation processes may reproduce or disrupt existing power inequalities. Through a multi-method empirical study of “Participation Requests,” a new legislative policy tool to open up public services in Scotland, this article addresses an empirical gap on governance-driven democratic innovations (DIs). We use Young’s distinct…
How to systematically analyze co‐production to inform future policies? Introducing 5Ws of co‐production
The “woolliness” and “methodological hurdles” of co‐production make it challenging to compare and contrast different co‐production policy initiatives and their outcomes, and distil “what works”, for whom and in what circumstances. Inspired by Nabatchi et al. (2017) 3Ws typology of the Who , When , and What of co‐production, we draw on co‐production theory deriving from a narrative literature review and empirical research of co‐production cases in…
Investigating the contribution of community empowerment policies to successful co-production- evidence from Scotland
Although frequently perceived as a ‘woolly’ policy concept and a means to reduce public service delivery costs, co-production can lead to increased quality and efficiency of services. In this paper, we explore the contribution of a community empowerment policy to co-production processes. Analysing empirical findings from a mixed-method, longitudinal study through the lens of Myers et al.’s (2017) Theory of Change, the paper develops a model of a …
Community transformed? Exploring the interaction between online support and rural community life for people with acute mental health conditions
A qualitative exploration of online forums to support resilience of rural young people in Australia
Introduction: Prevention and early intervention are crucial strategies for improving young people's mental health and well-being. Building resilience is a key component of these strategies, especially among young individuals in rural areas who face well-documented mental health disparities. This study aimed to investigate how online mental health forums can contribute to enhancing individual resilience in young rural users. Methods: = 1,000) made…
Contemporary interventions tackling complex issues: Exploring pathways from online mental health forums to personal resilience
This paper identifies and examines pathways in which online mental health forums assist in building personal resilience and address the mental ill-health of rural residents. We use a resilience theory to develop a Theoretical Resilience Framework and apply it to empirical qualitative data deriving from three of Australia's online mental health forums as well as interviews with forum users. Using thematic analysis and an abductive approach to gene…
Mental health, well-being and resilience in agricultural areas: A research agenda for the Global North
This paper offers an overview of research perspectives, gaps, and priorities within the field of mental health and well-being among farming communities in the Global North. Developed by an international working group of scholars with expertise in the mental health and well-being of agricultural and rural communities, it outlines the importance of developing an international research agenda in this subject area by presenting five propositions. Eac…
What matters for ‘good work’? Shared perspectives from Work Integration Social Enterprises
With the positive effects of ‘good work’, and the adverse effects of poor work becoming increasingly well documented, innovative approaches to providing employment for those who are excluded from work continues to be a salient topic. Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISEs) are organizations that pursue employment creation for those often excluded from the wider labour market. Yet WISEs have faced criticism for prioritizing market-based approa…
Sociology (19 works) · Political science (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Economic growth (14 works) · Public relations (14 works) · Business (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Geography (8 works) · Mental health (7 works)