Siobhan O'Sullivan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4534784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Siobhan O'Sullivan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Siobhan |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Sullivan |
| SIGNATURE | SULLIVAN S O |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Social Sciences University of New South Wales Sydney New South Wales Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 71 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption
This article examines the welfare standards that govern the lives of chickens raised for meat in Australia and the United Kingdom. While ‘meat chickens’ are subject to a wide range of welfare interventions, we focus on the development and implications of the ‘private’ standards which are the most significant determinants of meat chicken welfare in these jurisdictions: the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme in Australia and the Red Tractor Chicken Assu…
Heart Rate Variability Indices as Possible Biomarkers for the Severity of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Following Pregnancy Loss
Background: Psychological distress, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is commonly evaluated using subjective questionnaires, a method prone to self-report bias. The study's working hypothesis was that levels of autonomic dysfunction determined by heart rate variability (HRV) measures are associated with the severity of PTSD in women following pregnancy loss. Methods: This was an observational prospective cohort study with 53 patients …
The Policymaker's Dilemma: The Risks and Benefits of a ‘Black Box’ Approach to Commissioning Active Labour Market Programmes
In September 2009, the British Government launched a new employment assistance model called Flexible New Deal. It was soon replaced by Work Programme in 2011. Both prioritized what is often called a ‘black box’ approach to public employment assistance, whereby the government purchaser focuses predominantly on outcomes and does not seek to direct agency operations. Using a study of the orientations and strategies of frontline employment services s…
Contracting‐out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance
Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices. International contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subject. Contributors are all experts in their field, who also draw on…
Getting Welfare to Work: Street-Level Governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands
Contracting-Out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance
The Promises and Pitfalls of Prime Provider Models in Service Delivery: The Next Phase of Reform in Australia
At a time of fiscal restraint and reductions in the size of the public sector, governments in Australia are exploring new approaches to delivering public services. One model receiving attention is the prime provider approach. This is an approach where government contracts a lead or prime provider who in turn organizes and manages a group of sub‐contractors. In prime provider approaches, non‐government organizations take on a quasi‐government role…
Introduction: Markets and the New Welfare – Buying and Selling the Poor
With welfare reformers in almost every country experimenting with forms of privatization and what its advocates have called ‘supervisory approaches to poverty’ or ‘a new behaviouralism’, it is timely to present this special edition of Social Policy & Administration. Dedicating a volume to the governance of quasi-markets in welfare services attests to the momentous nature of the radical re-design the welfare state has undergone over the past two d…
Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not‐for‐profit Organizations – An A ustralian Study
This article investigates strategic changes in the governance of not‐for‐profit ( NFP ) boards in response to A ustralia's fully contracted employment services system. Of interest are changes in board demography, behaviour, procedures and dynamics, with special attention to the impact of those changes on boards' identity as a representation of community interests. As Australia is in the vanguard of social service contracting, the Australian exper…
Political Legitimacy in Ireland During Economic Crisis: Insights from the European Social Survey
Since the 2008 economic crisis, there has been upheaval across Europe. In Ireland, the collapse of the banking, construction and property sectors, and the 2010 EU/International Monetary Fund loan and attached austerity conditions resulted in a dramatic election in 2011 that saw the removal of the dominant political party from power. Ireland provides an important case study to examine political legitimacy given the perceived culpability of politic…
New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia: Comparing the reform agendas of the ALP and the Coalition
Since the 1990s, the adoption of new public management (NPM) as a management philosophy has translated into multiple waves of reform in the employment services sector in Australia, namely Working Nation (1994–96), Job Network (JN: 1996–2009) and Job Services Australia (JSA: 2009–present). Each wave has sought to improve the preceding policy. In this article, we examine changes implemented during the Rudd/Gillard Labor governments. Using governmen…
Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics and Diplomacy
Whaling in Japan: power, politics and diplomacy, by Jun Morikawa, London, Hurst & Company, 2009, xii + 160 pp., index, £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781850659846, £45.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781850659839
The animal rights debate: Abolition or Regulation
Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia
In 1998, we were witnessing major changes in frontline social service delivery across the OECD and this was theorised as the emergence of a post-Fordist welfare state. Changes in public management thinking, known as New Public Management (NPM), informed this shift, as did public choice theory. A 1998 study of Australia's then partially privatised employment assistance sector provided an ideal place to test the impact of such changes upon actual s…
Advocating for animals equally from within a liberal paradigm
Orthodox liberal thought rejects the notion that (some) non-human animals should be allocated justice on the same basis as humans. Extending human protection to animals would break down the human/animal divide. It would also have the effect of rendering many current animal uses morally illegitimate. However, the application of one set of standards to humans and another to animals is not the only way in which current animal protection trends harm …
Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia
In 1998, we were witnessing major changes in frontline social service delivery across the OECD and this was theorised as the emergence of a post-Fordist welfare state. Changes in public management thinking, known as New Public Management (NPM), informed this shift, as did public choice theory. A 1998 study of Australia's then partially privatised employment assistance sector provided an ideal place to test the impact of such changes upon actual s…
New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia: Comparing the reform agendas of the ALP and the Coalition
Since the 1990s, the adoption of new public management (NPM) as a management philosophy has translated into multiple waves of reform in the employment services sector in Australia, namely Working Nation (1994–96), Job Network (JN: 1996–2009) and Job Services Australia (JSA: 2009–present). Each wave has sought to improve the preceding policy. In this article, we examine changes implemented during the Rudd/Gillard Labor governments. Using governmen…
The Policymaker's Dilemma: The Risks and Benefits of a ‘Black Box’ Approach to Commissioning Active Labour Market Programmes
In September 2009, the British Government launched a new employment assistance model called Flexible New Deal. It was soon replaced by Work Programme in 2011. Both prioritized what is often called a ‘black box’ approach to public employment assistance, whereby the government purchaser focuses predominantly on outcomes and does not seek to direct agency operations. Using a study of the orientations and strategies of frontline employment services s…
Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption
This article examines the welfare standards that govern the lives of chickens raised for meat in Australia and the United Kingdom. While ‘meat chickens’ are subject to a wide range of welfare interventions, we focus on the development and implications of the ‘private’ standards which are the most significant determinants of meat chicken welfare in these jurisdictions: the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme in Australia and the Red Tractor Chicken Assu…
Introduction: Markets and the New Welfare – Buying and Selling the Poor
With welfare reformers in almost every country experimenting with forms of privatization and what its advocates have called ‘supervisory approaches to poverty’ or ‘a new behaviouralism’, it is timely to present this special edition of Social Policy & Administration. Dedicating a volume to the governance of quasi-markets in welfare services attests to the momentous nature of the radical re-design the welfare state has undergone over the past two d…
Political Legitimacy in Ireland During Economic Crisis: Insights from the European Social Survey
Since the 2008 economic crisis, there has been upheaval across Europe. In Ireland, the collapse of the banking, construction and property sectors, and the 2010 EU/International Monetary Fund loan and attached austerity conditions resulted in a dramatic election in 2011 that saw the removal of the dominant political party from power. Ireland provides an important case study to examine political legitimacy given the perceived culpability of politic…
Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not‐for‐profit Organizations – An A ustralian Study
This article investigates strategic changes in the governance of not‐for‐profit ( NFP ) boards in response to A ustralia's fully contracted employment services system. Of interest are changes in board demography, behaviour, procedures and dynamics, with special attention to the impact of those changes on boards' identity as a representation of community interests. As Australia is in the vanguard of social service contracting, the Australian exper…
The Promises and Pitfalls of Prime Provider Models in Service Delivery: The Next Phase of Reform in Australia
At a time of fiscal restraint and reductions in the size of the public sector, governments in Australia are exploring new approaches to delivering public services. One model receiving attention is the prime provider approach. This is an approach where government contracts a lead or prime provider who in turn organizes and manages a group of sub‐contractors. In prime provider approaches, non‐government organizations take on a quasi‐government role…
Advocating for animals equally from within a liberal paradigm
Orthodox liberal thought rejects the notion that (some) non-human animals should be allocated justice on the same basis as humans. Extending human protection to animals would break down the human/animal divide. It would also have the effect of rendering many current animal uses morally illegitimate. However, the application of one set of standards to humans and another to animals is not the only way in which current animal protection trends harm …
Advocating for animals equally from within a liberal paradigm
Orthodox liberal thought rejects the notion that (some) non-human animals should be allocated justice on the same basis as humans. Extending human protection to animals would break down the human/animal divide. It would also have the effect of rendering many current animal uses morally illegitimate. However, the application of one set of standards to humans and another to animals is not the only way in which current animal protection trends harm …
Quasi-Markets and Service Delivery Flexibility Following a Decade of Employment Assistance Reform in Australia
In 1998, we were witnessing major changes in frontline social service delivery across the OECD and this was theorised as the emergence of a post-Fordist welfare state. Changes in public management thinking, known as New Public Management (NPM), informed this shift, as did public choice theory. A 1998 study of Australia's then partially privatised employment assistance sector provided an ideal place to test the impact of such changes upon actual s…
Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics and Diplomacy
Whaling in Japan: power, politics and diplomacy, by Jun Morikawa, London, Hurst & Company, 2009, xii + 160 pp., index, £15.99 (paperback), ISBN 9781850659846, £45.00 (hardback), ISBN 9781850659839
The animal rights debate: Abolition or Regulation
Introduction: Markets and the New Welfare – Buying and Selling the Poor
With welfare reformers in almost every country experimenting with forms of privatization and what its advocates have called ‘supervisory approaches to poverty’ or ‘a new behaviouralism’, it is timely to present this special edition of Social Policy & Administration. Dedicating a volume to the governance of quasi-markets in welfare services attests to the momentous nature of the radical re-design the welfare state has undergone over the past two d…
Governance, Boards of Directors and the Impact of Contracting on Not‐for‐profit Organizations – An A ustralian Study
This article investigates strategic changes in the governance of not‐for‐profit ( NFP ) boards in response to A ustralia's fully contracted employment services system. Of interest are changes in board demography, behaviour, procedures and dynamics, with special attention to the impact of those changes on boards' identity as a representation of community interests. As Australia is in the vanguard of social service contracting, the Australian exper…
Political Legitimacy in Ireland During Economic Crisis: Insights from the European Social Survey
Since the 2008 economic crisis, there has been upheaval across Europe. In Ireland, the collapse of the banking, construction and property sectors, and the 2010 EU/International Monetary Fund loan and attached austerity conditions resulted in a dramatic election in 2011 that saw the removal of the dominant political party from power. Ireland provides an important case study to examine political legitimacy given the perceived culpability of politic…
New public management and welfare-to-work in Australia: Comparing the reform agendas of the ALP and the Coalition
Since the 1990s, the adoption of new public management (NPM) as a management philosophy has translated into multiple waves of reform in the employment services sector in Australia, namely Working Nation (1994–96), Job Network (JN: 1996–2009) and Job Services Australia (JSA: 2009–present). Each wave has sought to improve the preceding policy. In this article, we examine changes implemented during the Rudd/Gillard Labor governments. Using governmen…
Contracting‐out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance
Contracting-out Welfare Services focuses on the design and overhaul of welfare-to-work systems around the world in the light of the radical re-design of the welfare system; internationally based authors utilise a national/program case study, considering employment services policy and activation practices. International contributors bring a global comparative perspective to the subject. Contributors are all experts in their field, who also draw on…
Getting Welfare to Work: Street-Level Governance in Australia, the UK, and the Netherlands
Contracting-Out Welfare Services: Comparing National Policy Designs for Unemployment Assistance
The Promises and Pitfalls of Prime Provider Models in Service Delivery: The Next Phase of Reform in Australia
At a time of fiscal restraint and reductions in the size of the public sector, governments in Australia are exploring new approaches to delivering public services. One model receiving attention is the prime provider approach. This is an approach where government contracts a lead or prime provider who in turn organizes and manages a group of sub‐contractors. In prime provider approaches, non‐government organizations take on a quasi‐government role…
The Policymaker's Dilemma: The Risks and Benefits of a ‘Black Box’ Approach to Commissioning Active Labour Market Programmes
In September 2009, the British Government launched a new employment assistance model called Flexible New Deal. It was soon replaced by Work Programme in 2011. Both prioritized what is often called a ‘black box’ approach to public employment assistance, whereby the government purchaser focuses predominantly on outcomes and does not seek to direct agency operations. Using a study of the orientations and strategies of frontline employment services s…
Heart Rate Variability Indices as Possible Biomarkers for the Severity of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder Following Pregnancy Loss
Background: Psychological distress, such as posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is commonly evaluated using subjective questionnaires, a method prone to self-report bias. The study's working hypothesis was that levels of autonomic dysfunction determined by heart rate variability (HRV) measures are associated with the severity of PTSD in women following pregnancy loss. Methods: This was an observational prospective cohort study with 53 patients …
Hybrid governance and welfare standards for broiler chickens raised for human consumption
This article examines the welfare standards that govern the lives of chickens raised for meat in Australia and the United Kingdom. While ‘meat chickens’ are subject to a wide range of welfare interventions, we focus on the development and implications of the ‘private’ standards which are the most significant determinants of meat chicken welfare in these jurisdictions: the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme in Australia and the Red Tractor Chicken Assu…
Political science (10 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Welfare (5 works) · Marketing (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Public relations (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)