Catherine Leyshon
Biographic Data
| ID | 836339 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Catherine Leyshon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Catherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Leyshon |
| SIGNATURE | LEYSHON C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Exeter |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0850-9226 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Challenges Facing VCFSEs in Integrated Care Systems: A Qualitative Case Study of a Unitary Authority in England
Introduction: Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in England seek ever-closer collaborative relationships between health and social care providers, local authorities, and the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector to deliver public services in place. However, ICSs present significant challenges for VCFSEs. Methods: In-depth qualitative case study of VCFSEs in an ICS contiguous with a Unitary Authority in England. Results and …
‘I Really Don't Have Time to Talk and Listen to All Those People’: Care Responsibilities and Privileged Irresponsibility in the Devolution of Social Services in the Netherlands
This paper analyses the micro‐scale geographies of care within newly devolved social services in The Netherlands. Across Europe, welfare reforms have reconfigured the spatial organisation of care, shifting responsibilities to municipalities and expecting closer collaboration between citizens, civil‐society organisations and local governments. We analyse how these spatial and institutional transformations shape the everyday negotiation of care res…
Opening the black box of the municipal government: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Local Public Servants With Citizen Participation and Decentralisation in the Netherlands - Corrigendum
Opening the black box of the municipal government: Exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands
Citizen participation and empowerment are high on the political agenda of Western European welfare states. They are often pursued through processes of decentralisation with an appeal to 'place-based' working. Existing research focuses on citizen experiences or policymaker motivations, neglecting the perspectives of (municipal) public servants as mediators. Using an ethics of care framework, we examine the concept of 'privileged irresponsibility' …
Co-creation of social innovations for healthy ageing in rural Europe – a process evaluation of a volunteer-led guided conversation toolkit using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT)
We critically explored the use of Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) in the evaluation of a co-designed intervention toolkit for Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe (HAIRE). The toolkit was co-designed and implemented in rural communities in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. NPT was applied as a novel analytical framework to shed light on key practices and processes that supported implementation. Further, the …
Indoor environment sensor systems for healthier homes: A feasibility study in social housing
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Where’ is the evidence? A starting point for the development of place‐based research reviews and their implications for wellbeing‐related policymaking
This paper aims to stimulate debate around the development of a place‐based research review methodology. We present place‐based reviews as a potential source of support for wellbeing‐related local policymaking. Our introductory discussions highlight an ever‐growing need for insights about specific localities and a lack in resources—including time—for local policymakers to engage with research. Additionally, increasing demands for local insights h…
We're on the edge: Cultures of care and Universal Credit
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Beyond adherence to social prescriptions: How places, social acquaintances and stories help walking group members to thrive
Determinants of Volunteering Within a Social Housing Community
In general, research demonstrates that deprivation, education, health, and well-being are determinants of volunteering, and that volunteering can play an important role in building stronger communities and provides many benefits for individual health and well-being. This study concentrates on the effects of physical and mental health and well-being as predictors when the aspect of socio-economic impact has been minimised. It utilises a unique dat…
More than sweat equity: Young people as volunteers in conservation work
Special issue of leadership: Leadership and climate change: Authority, legitimacy and the ‘crisis of governance’
Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment
We have seen longstanding research interest in diverse nature–society relations, including contentious debates regarding what nature is, the role of humans within or apart from it, and how varied types of non‐human nature shape different societies and individuals within society. Within this work, relatively little attention has been paid to an important aspect of nature experienced everyday: people's “weather‐worlds.” These encompass the qualitie…
The complex spaces of co‐production, volunteering, ageing and care
The care of older people is being radically reformulated by placing the individual at the centre of care process through the introduction of individual care plans. This marks a significant transition for the care of older people away from acute responsive clinical care towards a greater emphasis on co‐produced preventative health and social care and relations of care “with” older people. Geographies of volunteerism are yet to consider the effect …
The "healthy dose" of nature: A cautionary tale
Growing cross-disciplinary interest in understanding if, how, and why time spent with nature can contribute to human health and well-being has recently prompted efforts to identify an ideal healthy dose of nature; exposure to a specific type of nature at a specified frequency and duration. These efforts build on longstanding attempts to prescribe nature in some way, most recently in the form of so-called "green prescriptions." In this critical di…
Finding the coast: Environmental governance and the characterisation of land and sea
In environmental governance for land and sea, the cultural is increasingly imbricated with the natural in the language of ecosystem services and the promise of integrated management. We are witnessing accelerated efforts to bring cultural and natural landscape character assessments into dialogue with other sorts of planning and governance mechanisms for coastal and marine environments. As land, sea, nature and culture are brought into closer corr…
Landscape narratives in practice: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
Research on the societal dynamics of climate change adaptation has advanced during recent years from merely focusing on technical and economic factors to taking into consideration people's individual perspectives and personal values. Within this context a growing literature on the relationship between people's place attachment and climate change adaptation has emerged. This literature seeks to explain how individuals' relationships with the place…
Critical issues in social science climate change research
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities for social scientists working on climate change research. Much work is required to expose and destabilise taken-for-granted assumptions about: (i) the nature of climate change, its complex ontology and knowledge-making practices; and (ii) how academic knowledge is made at the expense of other ways of knowing, doing and being in the world. I examine the relationship between the natural and socia…
Shifting Shores: Managing Challenge and Change on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK
In this paper, we look at how landscape and climate change are simultaneously apprehended through institutional strategies and then negotiated through local knowledge and social relations on the ground. We argue that by examining landscapes that are practised, embodied and lived, it is possible to gain an understanding of people's actions, beliefs and values in relation to climate and climate change. This attention to cultural landscapes also ena…
Cultural Ecosystem Services and the Challenge for Cultural Geography
Cultural ecosystem services are one of four services identified by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as critical to the support of human life on earth and therefore in need of proper valuation and protection. Cultural services seem to embody the objects of enquiry for cultural geographers interested in landscape, identity and place. However, potentially insurmountable epistemological challenges face the participation of cultural geographers in …
Anticipatory objects and uncertain imminence: Cattle grids, landscape and the presencing of climate change on the Lizard Peninsula, UK
In this paper we show how a seemingly unremarkable object – a cattle grid – has come to presence climate change in partial and contingent ways on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK. We identify the cattle grid as an ‘anticipatory object’ through which conservation organisations seek to manage the future and adapt to climate change, but which at the same time presences that unthought‐of future for others in the landscape. We explore the ways in wh…
The "healthy dose" of nature: A cautionary tale
Growing cross-disciplinary interest in understanding if, how, and why time spent with nature can contribute to human health and well-being has recently prompted efforts to identify an ideal healthy dose of nature; exposure to a specific type of nature at a specified frequency and duration. These efforts build on longstanding attempts to prescribe nature in some way, most recently in the form of so-called "green prescriptions." In this critical di…
Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment
We have seen longstanding research interest in diverse nature–society relations, including contentious debates regarding what nature is, the role of humans within or apart from it, and how varied types of non‐human nature shape different societies and individuals within society. Within this work, relatively little attention has been paid to an important aspect of nature experienced everyday: people's “weather‐worlds.” These encompass the qualitie…
Landscape narratives in practice: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
Research on the societal dynamics of climate change adaptation has advanced during recent years from merely focusing on technical and economic factors to taking into consideration people's individual perspectives and personal values. Within this context a growing literature on the relationship between people's place attachment and climate change adaptation has emerged. This literature seeks to explain how individuals' relationships with the place…
Finding the coast: Environmental governance and the characterisation of land and sea
In environmental governance for land and sea, the cultural is increasingly imbricated with the natural in the language of ecosystem services and the promise of integrated management. We are witnessing accelerated efforts to bring cultural and natural landscape character assessments into dialogue with other sorts of planning and governance mechanisms for coastal and marine environments. As land, sea, nature and culture are brought into closer corr…
Anticipatory objects and uncertain imminence: Cattle grids, landscape and the presencing of climate change on the Lizard Peninsula, UK
In this paper we show how a seemingly unremarkable object – a cattle grid – has come to presence climate change in partial and contingent ways on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK. We identify the cattle grid as an ‘anticipatory object’ through which conservation organisations seek to manage the future and adapt to climate change, but which at the same time presences that unthought‐of future for others in the landscape. We explore the ways in wh…
The complex spaces of co‐production, volunteering, ageing and care
The care of older people is being radically reformulated by placing the individual at the centre of care process through the introduction of individual care plans. This marks a significant transition for the care of older people away from acute responsive clinical care towards a greater emphasis on co‐produced preventative health and social care and relations of care “with” older people. Geographies of volunteerism are yet to consider the effect …
Shifting Shores: Managing Challenge and Change on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK
In this paper, we look at how landscape and climate change are simultaneously apprehended through institutional strategies and then negotiated through local knowledge and social relations on the ground. We argue that by examining landscapes that are practised, embodied and lived, it is possible to gain an understanding of people's actions, beliefs and values in relation to climate and climate change. This attention to cultural landscapes also ena…
Special issue of leadership: Leadership and climate change: Authority, legitimacy and the ‘crisis of governance’
We're on the edge: Cultures of care and Universal Credit
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Determinants of Volunteering Within a Social Housing Community
In general, research demonstrates that deprivation, education, health, and well-being are determinants of volunteering, and that volunteering can play an important role in building stronger communities and provides many benefits for individual health and well-being. This study concentrates on the effects of physical and mental health and well-being as predictors when the aspect of socio-economic impact has been minimised. It utilises a unique dat…
Critical issues in social science climate change research
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities for social scientists working on climate change research. Much work is required to expose and destabilise taken-for-granted assumptions about: (i) the nature of climate change, its complex ontology and knowledge-making practices; and (ii) how academic knowledge is made at the expense of other ways of knowing, doing and being in the world. I examine the relationship between the natural and socia…
Cultural Ecosystem Services and the Challenge for Cultural Geography
Cultural ecosystem services are one of four services identified by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as critical to the support of human life on earth and therefore in need of proper valuation and protection. Cultural services seem to embody the objects of enquiry for cultural geographers interested in landscape, identity and place. However, potentially insurmountable epistemological challenges face the participation of cultural geographers in …
Opening the black box of the municipal government: Exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands
Citizen participation and empowerment are high on the political agenda of Western European welfare states. They are often pursued through processes of decentralisation with an appeal to 'place-based' working. Existing research focuses on citizen experiences or policymaker motivations, neglecting the perspectives of (municipal) public servants as mediators. Using an ethics of care framework, we examine the concept of 'privileged irresponsibility' …
Indoor environment sensor systems for healthier homes: A feasibility study in social housing
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Anticipatory objects and uncertain imminence: Cattle grids, landscape and the presencing of climate change on the Lizard Peninsula, UK
In this paper we show how a seemingly unremarkable object – a cattle grid – has come to presence climate change in partial and contingent ways on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK. We identify the cattle grid as an ‘anticipatory object’ through which conservation organisations seek to manage the future and adapt to climate change, but which at the same time presences that unthought‐of future for others in the landscape. We explore the ways in wh…
Critical issues in social science climate change research
This paper examines the challenges and opportunities for social scientists working on climate change research. Much work is required to expose and destabilise taken-for-granted assumptions about: (i) the nature of climate change, its complex ontology and knowledge-making practices; and (ii) how academic knowledge is made at the expense of other ways of knowing, doing and being in the world. I examine the relationship between the natural and socia…
Shifting Shores: Managing Challenge and Change on the Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, UK
In this paper, we look at how landscape and climate change are simultaneously apprehended through institutional strategies and then negotiated through local knowledge and social relations on the ground. We argue that by examining landscapes that are practised, embodied and lived, it is possible to gain an understanding of people's actions, beliefs and values in relation to climate and climate change. This attention to cultural landscapes also ena…
Cultural Ecosystem Services and the Challenge for Cultural Geography
Cultural ecosystem services are one of four services identified by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment as critical to the support of human life on earth and therefore in need of proper valuation and protection. Cultural services seem to embody the objects of enquiry for cultural geographers interested in landscape, identity and place. However, potentially insurmountable epistemological challenges face the participation of cultural geographers in …
Landscape narratives in practice: Implications for Climate Change Adaptation
Research on the societal dynamics of climate change adaptation has advanced during recent years from merely focusing on technical and economic factors to taking into consideration people's individual perspectives and personal values. Within this context a growing literature on the relationship between people's place attachment and climate change adaptation has emerged. This literature seeks to explain how individuals' relationships with the place…
Finding the coast: Environmental governance and the characterisation of land and sea
In environmental governance for land and sea, the cultural is increasingly imbricated with the natural in the language of ecosystem services and the promise of integrated management. We are witnessing accelerated efforts to bring cultural and natural landscape character assessments into dialogue with other sorts of planning and governance mechanisms for coastal and marine environments. As land, sea, nature and culture are brought into closer corr…
Special issue of leadership: Leadership and climate change: Authority, legitimacy and the ‘crisis of governance’
Negotiating nature's weather worlds in the context of life with sight impairment
We have seen longstanding research interest in diverse nature–society relations, including contentious debates regarding what nature is, the role of humans within or apart from it, and how varied types of non‐human nature shape different societies and individuals within society. Within this work, relatively little attention has been paid to an important aspect of nature experienced everyday: people's “weather‐worlds.” These encompass the qualitie…
The complex spaces of co‐production, volunteering, ageing and care
The care of older people is being radically reformulated by placing the individual at the centre of care process through the introduction of individual care plans. This marks a significant transition for the care of older people away from acute responsive clinical care towards a greater emphasis on co‐produced preventative health and social care and relations of care “with” older people. Geographies of volunteerism are yet to consider the effect …
The "healthy dose" of nature: A cautionary tale
Growing cross-disciplinary interest in understanding if, how, and why time spent with nature can contribute to human health and well-being has recently prompted efforts to identify an ideal healthy dose of nature; exposure to a specific type of nature at a specified frequency and duration. These efforts build on longstanding attempts to prescribe nature in some way, most recently in the form of so-called "green prescriptions." In this critical di…
Beyond adherence to social prescriptions: How places, social acquaintances and stories help walking group members to thrive
Determinants of Volunteering Within a Social Housing Community
In general, research demonstrates that deprivation, education, health, and well-being are determinants of volunteering, and that volunteering can play an important role in building stronger communities and provides many benefits for individual health and well-being. This study concentrates on the effects of physical and mental health and well-being as predictors when the aspect of socio-economic impact has been minimised. It utilises a unique dat…
More than sweat equity: Young people as volunteers in conservation work
We're on the edge: Cultures of care and Universal Credit
This is the author accepted manuscript. The final version is available from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Co-creation of social innovations for healthy ageing in rural Europe – a process evaluation of a volunteer-led guided conversation toolkit using Normalisation Process Theory (NPT)
We critically explored the use of Normalisation Process Theory (NPT) in the evaluation of a co-designed intervention toolkit for Healthy Ageing through Innovation in Rural Europe (HAIRE). The toolkit was co-designed and implemented in rural communities in Belgium, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom. NPT was applied as a novel analytical framework to shed light on key practices and processes that supported implementation. Further, the …
Indoor environment sensor systems for healthier homes: A feasibility study in social housing
This is the final version. Available on open access from Routledge via the DOI in this record
Where’ is the evidence? A starting point for the development of place‐based research reviews and their implications for wellbeing‐related policymaking
This paper aims to stimulate debate around the development of a place‐based research review methodology. We present place‐based reviews as a potential source of support for wellbeing‐related local policymaking. Our introductory discussions highlight an ever‐growing need for insights about specific localities and a lack in resources—including time—for local policymakers to engage with research. Additionally, increasing demands for local insights h…
Opening the black box of the municipal government: Exploring the Lived Experiences of Local Public Servants With Citizen Participation and Decentralisation in the Netherlands - Corrigendum
Opening the black box of the municipal government: Exploring the lived experiences of local public servants with citizen participation and decentralisation in The Netherlands
Citizen participation and empowerment are high on the political agenda of Western European welfare states. They are often pursued through processes of decentralisation with an appeal to 'place-based' working. Existing research focuses on citizen experiences or policymaker motivations, neglecting the perspectives of (municipal) public servants as mediators. Using an ethics of care framework, we examine the concept of 'privileged irresponsibility' …
The Challenges Facing VCFSEs in Integrated Care Systems: A Qualitative Case Study of a Unitary Authority in England
Introduction: Integrated Care Systems (ICSs) in England seek ever-closer collaborative relationships between health and social care providers, local authorities, and the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector to deliver public services in place. However, ICSs present significant challenges for VCFSEs. Methods: In-depth qualitative case study of VCFSEs in an ICS contiguous with a Unitary Authority in England. Results and …
‘I Really Don't Have Time to Talk and Listen to All Those People’: Care Responsibilities and Privileged Irresponsibility in the Devolution of Social Services in the Netherlands
This paper analyses the micro‐scale geographies of care within newly devolved social services in The Netherlands. Across Europe, welfare reforms have reconfigured the spatial organisation of care, shifting responsibilities to municipalities and expecting closer collaboration between citizens, civil‐society organisations and local governments. We analyse how these spatial and institutional transformations shape the everyday negotiation of care res…
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (11 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Environmental ethics (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Ecology (5 works) · Economics (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (5 works)