Search Results - "Escobar, Oliver"

The impact of participatory budgeting on health and wellbeing: a scoping review of evaluations by Campbell, Mhairi, Escobar, Oliver, Fenton, Candida, Craig, Peter

“…Participatory budgeting (PB), citizens deliberating among themselves and with officials to decide how to allocate funds for public goods, has been increasingly…”
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Community Control in the Housing Commons: A Conceptual Typology by DUROSE, CATHERINE, RICHARDSON, LIZ, ROZENBURG, MAX, RYAN, MATT, ESCOBAR, OLIVER

“…We advance theorizing on the governance of the commons through a configurative comparative analysis (CCA) of community control in the housing commons. We focus…”
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Deliberative Quality and Expertise: Uses of Evidence in Citizens’ Juries on Wind Farms by Drury, Sara A. Mehltretter, Elstub, Stephen, Escobar, Oliver, Roberts, Jennifer

“…When addressing socio-scientific wicked problems, there is a need to negotiate across and through multiple modes of evidence, particularly technical expertise…”
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Mediating punishment?: Prisoners' songs as relational 'problem-solving' devices by Phil Crockett Thomas, Jo Collinson Scott, Fergus McNeill, Oliver Escobar, Lucy Cathcart Froden, Alison Urie

“…In this article we share some findings from the Distant Voices - Coming Home project. It is a partnership between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and…”
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"Can it read my mind?" - What do the public and experts think of the current (mis)uses of neuroimaging? by Wardlaw, Joanna M, O'Connell, Garret, Shuler, Kirsten, DeWilde, Janet, Haley, Jane, Escobar, Oliver, Murray, Shaun, Rae, Robert, Jarvie, Donald, Sandercock, Peter, Schafer, Burkhard

“…Emerging applications of neuroimaging outside medicine and science have received intense public exposure through the media. Media misrepresentations can create…”
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Why the Public Need a Say in How Patient Data are Used for Covid-19 Responses by Aitken, M, Cunningham-Burley, S, Darlington, A, Elstub, S, Escobar, O, Jones, K H, Sethi, N, Thompson, R

“…The global coronavirus pandemic has clearly demonstrated the great urgency to collect and use patient data effectively to understand, track and manage the…”
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Reintegration, Hospitality and Hostility: Song-writing and Song-sharing in Criminal Justice by Urie, Alison, McNeill, Fergus, Frödén, Lucy Cathcart, Collinson-Scott, Jo, Thomas, Phil Crockett, Escobar, Oliver, Macleod, Sandy, McKerracher, Graeme

“…Distant Voices is an ongoing, interdisciplinary collaborative action research project, drawing on criminology, community development, politics, practice-led…”
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Between radical aspirations and pragmatic challenges: Institutionalizing participatory governance in Scotland by Escobar, Oliver

“…Participatory forms of governance are increasingly institutionalised in democracies around the world. Yet, we know little about how public officials work to…”
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Mediating punishment?: Prisoners' songs as relational 'problem-solving' devices by Crockett Thomas, Phil, Collinson Scott, Jo, McNeill, Fergus, Escobar, Oliver, Cathcart Frödén, Lucy, Urie, Alison

“…In this article we share some findings from the 'Distant Voices - Coming Home' project. It is a partnership between the Universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and…”
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Scripting Deliberative Policy-Making: Dramaturgic Policy Analysis and Engagement Know-How by Escobar, Oliver

“…Public engagers are officials tasked with facilitating collaborative performances in the theatres of deliberation that increasingly populate local governance…”
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Health inequalities, fundamental causes and power: towards the practice of good theory by McCartney, Gerry, Dickie, Elinor, Escobar, Oliver, Collins, Chik

“…Reducing health inequalities remains a challenge for policy makers across the world. Beginning from Lewin’s famous dictum that “there is nothing as practical…”
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Commentary: Public Engagers and the Political Craft of Participatory Policy Making by Escobar, Oliver

“…Public authorities have become permeable to the rhetoric and (sometimes) the practice of collaborative governance and public engagement. Accordingly, public…”
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Public Engagers and the Political Craft of Participatory Policy Making by Escobar, Oliver

“…Public authorities have become permeable to the rhetoric and (sometimes) the practice of collaborative governance and public engagement. Accordingly, public…”
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Participatory-deliberative processes and public policy agendas: lessons for policy and practice by Bua, Adrian, Escobar, Oliver

“…Participatory and deliberative processes have proliferated over recent decades in public administration. These seek to increase the effectiveness and…”
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Facilitators as culture change workers: advancing public participation and deliberation in local governance by Bynner, Claire, Escobar, Oliver, Weakley, Sarah

“…Practitioners who facilitate public participation in governance operate at the interface of three policy agendas: public service reform, social justice and…”
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Public value governance meets social commons: community anchor organisations as catalysts for public service reform and social change? by Henderson, James, Escobar, Oliver, Revell, Philip

“…Scottish public service reform is one example of an emerging international vision for state-convened public value governance. Scottish Government focus on…”
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Upstream public engagement, downstream policy-making? The Brain Imaging Dialogue as a community of inquiry by Escobar, Oliver

“…UK science and policy networks increasingly advocate ‘upstream public engagement’, that is, early public deliberation around potentially controversial science…”
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Working the urban assemblage: A transnational study of transforming practices by Durose, Catherine, van Ostaijen, Mark, van Hulst, Merlijn, Escobar, Oliver, Agger, Annika

“…This article places those working for change in urban neighbourhoods at the centre of debates on urban transformation, directing attention to the importance of…”
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Participatory budgeting and health and wellbeing: a systematic scoping review of evaluations and outcomes by Campbell, Mhairi, Craig, Peter, Escobar, Oliver

“…Participatory budgeting enables communities to decide how public funds are spent, with citizens deliberating among themselves and sometimes with government…”
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Book Symposium: The Politics of Becoming: Anonymity and Democracy in the Digital Age by Meriluoto, Taina, Kavada, Anastasia, Cornwall, Andrea, Escobar, Oliver, Asenbaum, Hans

“…Hans Asenbaum's open-access book The Politics of Becoming: Anonymity and Democracy in the Digital Age takes on some of the biggest questions in feminist and…”
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