Latest Outputs
Public Service Motivation? Rethinking What Motivates Public Actors
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
30 June 2022
Chris O’Leary looks afresh at the reasons for prosocial work choices in the first substantive critique of Public Service Motivation (PSM).
Can a focus on co-created, strengths-based services facilitate early-stage innovation within social impact bonds?
6 June 2022
Co-creation and strength-based working as characteristics of social innovation bonds.
Theme: Social Innovation in Public Services – Innovating ‘Co-Creative’ Relationships Between Services, Citizens and Communities?
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
10 May 2022
The authors report and analyse innovative co-creative initiatives involving marginalized and stigmatized groups (prisoners, urban racialized minorities, rural poor populations including Roma).
Book Review: Local Social Innovation to Combat Poverty and Exclusion: A Critical Appraisal
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
7 May 2022
This book review by Sue Baines provides an insight into the value that Oosterlynck, Novy and Kazepov's book brings to the field of social innovation.
New book on Contemporary Inequalities and the Life Course
Education, Childhood & Youth,Economic Analysis & Modelling
30 March 2022
This book draws upon perspectives from across the globe, employing an interdisciplinary life course approach.
Social Innovation and Co-creation in Smallscale Renewable Energy: an Asset-based Approach
Social Innovation,Economic Analysis & Modelling
30 December 2021
This paper makes a novel contribution by turning an ‘asset’ lens onto social and technical innovation in the context of the small-scale generation of renewable energy.