Dr Stephen Jeffares

Roberts Research Fellow
Director of Postgraduate Research, INLOGOV

Institute of Local Government Studies

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 1075

Email s.r.jeffares@bham.ac.uk

Twitter @srjeffares

Institute of Local Government Studies
School of Government and Society
Muirhead Tower
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston, Birmingham,
B15 2TT, United Kingdom

About

Stephen is a Roberts Fellow in the College of Social Sciences based in INLOGOV, Institute for Local Government Studies.  His fellowship focuses on the role of ideas in the policy process and implications for methods.  He is a specialist in Q methodology and other innovative methods to inform policy analysis.

Qualifications

PhD (Bham) Title: Why public policy ideas catch on: empty signifiers and flourishing neighbourhoods 2008. http://etheses.bham.ac.uk/193/

BSc (Hons, First class) (Birmingham) Public Policy, Government and Management

Teaching

  • Co-Convener Public Policy Research Methods, INLOGOV PG programme, 2011-
  • Convener of Advanced Training Course  MA Social Research Programme,  Q methodology, 2009-
  • Occasional lecturer on School of Social Science postgraduate programmes in areas of Q methodology, community governance, partnership and network governance 2006-

Postgraduate supervision

  • PhD supervision – Maureen O’Connor  (2008- PT) and Tom Barrance (2011- PT) George Despotidis (2013- FT).
  • Masters dissertation supervision  Henrietta Brealey (2013-) 

Research

  • Shape of Ideas to Come - Harvesting and Analysing Online Discussio about Public Policy, SG112101, 2012-2013.
  • Role of big ideas in public policy, programme of work supported by Roberts Fellowship, September 2008-2013
  • Health and social care commissioning: an exploration of processes, services and outcomes, SDO, NHS National Institute for Health Research, October 2009-March 2012
  • LAA/LSP national evaluation: Collaboration, innovation and value for money, Department for Communities and Local Government, February – July 2010.
  • Evaluation of Birmingham City Council’s involvement in the Total Place pilots, Birmingham City Council, November 2009-February 2010.

Other activities

Postgraduate Research (PGR) Lead, INLOGOV.

Host of the 27th Annual Q methodology Conference September 7-9 2011

Coproducer of software for online Q sorting POETQ

Academic related website http://jeffar.es

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Publications

Recent Articles

Dickinson, H. Jeffares, S. Nicholds, A. & Glasby, J. (2013) Beyond the Berlin Wall?  Investigating joint commissioning and its various meanings using a Q methodology approach. Public Management Review, (Taylor & Francis). First online January 17.   DOI: 10.1080/14719037.2012.757353

 

Willis M. and Jeffares S. (2012) Four Viewpoints of Whole Area Partnerships in Local Government Studies 38, No. 5, 539-556,  DOI:10.1080/03003930.2011.615836

 

Jeffares, S. and Skelcher, C. (2011), Democratic Subjectivities in Network Governance: A Q methodology study of English and Dutch public managers, Public Administration (Wiley-Blackwell), 89 (4), (1253-1273). doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01888.x

 

Sullivan, H. Williams, P. and Jeffares, S. (2011) Leadership for Collaboration: Situated Agency in Practice  in  Public Management Review 14:1, 41-66. (Taylor & Francis). 10.1080/14719037.2011.589617

Book

Skelcher, C. Sullivan, H and Jeffares, S. (2013) Hybrid Governance in European Cities: Neighbourhood, Migration and Democracy (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).. 

Chapters in edited books

Jeffares, S. Sullivan, H and Bovaird, T. (2012) Beyond the Contract: The Challenge of Evaluating the Performance(s) of Public-Private Partnerships, in  Greve, C. And Hodge, G. (eds.) (2012) Rethinking Public-Private Partnerships: Strategies for Turbulent Times (London: Routledge).  http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415539593/

 

Atkinson, Rob. Held, Gerd. and Jeffares, Stephen. (2011) Theories of Discourse and Narrative: what do they mean for governance and policy?, in Atkinson, R. Terizakis, Georgios. And Zimmermann, Karsten. (eds.) (2011) Sustainability in European Environmental Policy: Challenges of Governance and Knowledge (London: Routledge) ISBN 978-0-415-56289-8

 

Farrelly, M., Jeffares, S., and Skelcher, C. (2010) Rethinking Network Governance: New Forms of Analysis and the Implications for Inter-Governmental Relations/Multi-Level Governance.  Chapter in Ongaro, E. Et al (eds.) (2010) Governance and Intergovernmental Relations in the European Union and the United States (Cheltenham: Edward Elgar) ISBN 978-1-848-44319-8.

 

Edited work

Jeffares, S. and Baker, R. (2013, forthcoming) Public Policy and Q methodology, special issue. Operant Subjectivity 32(2), January. 

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