Section: Research Student Profiles
Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin
- Name Catherine-Rose Stocks-Rankin
- Organisation
- Social Policy, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh - Address
- 4.16 15a George Square Edinburgh UK EH8 9LD
- +44 (0)131 651 3203
- Research Interests
- Sociology of Knowledge,Policy Processes,knowledge transfer/exchange,Public services,marketisation
- URL
- http://www.socialpolicy.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/stocks-rankin_catherine-rose
PhD Title
Commissiong Care Services for Older People in Scotland
Current Work
At present, I am conducting a series of qualitative interviews with local government employees involved in the planning, purchasing and delivery of care services for older people. I am also conducting a series of interviews with managers in a variety of local care service organisations that provider services to older people in Scotland. I hope to follow this with work with participant observation and/or ethnography of Local Authority planning and procurement processes.
Thesis Overview
My PhD project is concerned with commissioning for care services for older people in Scotland. It focuses on the everyday understanding of social care policies through the perspectives of local actors tasked with their delivery and attempts to highlight the ways in which they adopt, resist and negotiate meaning through their work and practice. I hope to use ethnographic methods to better understand these negotiations and participatory methods so that the participants in my project might also gain from the work.
Supervisors
Richard Freeman, Ingela Naumann, Katherine Smith
Qualifications
2004 BA Honours, English Literature and Classics, University of Toronto
2008 MSc, Health Systems, University of Edinburgh
Awards
2009 University of Edinburgh, College PhD Scholarship (three years)
Publications
(forthcoming) "Complaints in For-Profit, Non-Profit and Public Nursing Homes in Two
Canadian Provinces" Open Medicine
Conference Presentations
September 2009 "A Feminist Perspective on Social Care Statistics in Scotland" Royal Statistical Society Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK
January 2011 "Gendering Social Care Commissioning" Contested Continuities Conference, Cardiff University, UK
March 2011 “Zines as Academic Spaces”, Joint planning, facilitation and deployment of a participatory workshop at A Carnival of Feminist Cultural Activism University of York, Department of Women’s Studies, with; Hilary Cornish; Aoife McKenna; Maddie Breeze; Kathleen Ward; Joanna Wiseman; and Hannah Zagel.
April 2011 “Zines as Emancipatory Teaching Tools: A Workshop on Collective Art, Authorship and Education” Feminism and Teaching Symposium, University of Nottingham, UK. With Aoife McKenna, Maddie Breeze, Kathleen Ward, Joanna Wiseman, Hannah Zagel
May 2011 "Knowledge and Relationships in Commissioning for Care Services for Older People", CRFR Young Researchers Conference, University of Edinburgh, UK
July 2011 "Mapping Relationships: Knowledge and Sensemaking in Commissioning Care Services" Social Policy Association Conference (PG Stream), University of Lincoln, UK
Other Activities
Member of the Feminist and Gender Studies Reading Group (aka FemJoy!) a post-graduate reading, research and peer-supervision group
Member of the organising team for Researching Feminist Futures, a post-graduate symposium on September 2nd and 3rd 2011 http://researchingfeministfutures.wordpress.com/
This page was published on 19 September 2011