This strand of the centre’s work is devoted to researching and understanding the changing character of the public service and welfare state project in Britain. Social work, health care, education – indeed the whole panoply of traditional ‘welfare’ professions and their associated institutions - are now the subject of a process of continual and radical social transformation. This process has important effects upon professional identity, on the nature of the implicit and explicit ‘contract’ between services, professionals, and service users, and therefore upon the project of training, managing, and leading welfare services and professionals. However these, processes are poorly researched, conceptualised and understood. The talk is of stress, change fatigue, inspection and audit fatigue, loss of secure identity, the threats arising from ‘integration’ – all of which accurately reflect dimensions of professional and service user experience but with little understanding of the political and socio-economic context for these transformations of experience.
For further information on this work, contact Prof. Andrew Cooper
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