Dr Stephen Jeffares

 

Roberts Research Fellow

Institute of Local Government Studies

Contact details

Telephone +44 (0)121 415 1075

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

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-) and Tom Barrance (2011-) Julia Mlambo (2011).
  • Masters dissertation supervision  Dave Nunns (2011-) ; Claire Pennell (2011- HSMC); Afsa Mitha (2011-).

Research

  • 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.

Acting Chair of Research Staff Committee, College of Social Sciences

Extensions Officer MA in Social Research

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

Designer of new software for Q sorting online

Follow my research http://birmingham.academia.edu/StephenJeffares

Follow me on Twitter @srjeffares http://twitter.com/#!/srjeffares

Connect on LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/pub/stephen-jeffares/a/94a/78

Publications

Recent publications, forthcoming and under review

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), First online December.

  Sullivan, H. Williams, P. and Jeffares, S. (2011, forthcoming ) Leadership for Collaboration: Situated Agency in Practice  in  Public Management Review (Taylor & Francis). Online Oct 3, 10.1080/14719037.2011.589617

Willis, M. and Jeffares, S. (2011) Four Viewpoints of Whole Area Public Partnerships in Local Government Studies (Taylor & Francis) 37(6), Online October 11, DOI:10.1080/03003930.2011.615836

 Jeffares, S. Sullivan, H. And Bovaird, T. (Under revision) Beyond the Contract: The Challenge of Evaluating the Performance(s) of Public Private Partnerships, Evaluation

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.

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