Section: Student Profiles

Jo Maybin

Name
Jo Maybin
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK
E-Mail
Research Interests
Health policy,Sociology of Knowledge,Policy-making,governance
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/jo_maybin
Jo Maybin

Qualifications

  • BA Hons Social and Political Sciences (King’s College, University of Cambridge), 1998-2001
  • MSc (Research) Political Theory (London School of Economics and Political Science), 2003-2004

Working PhD Title

Knowledge Work in Policy-making: a case study in England’s Department of Health. 

Research Interests

The continual challenges of new health problems require policymakers to engage with multiple types of knowledge, including biology, epidemiology, professional knowledge and the experiences of individual patients. I am interested in understanding the processes by which policymakers seek out and draw together knowledge in the course of their daily work. 

Using interviews and meeting observations in England's Department of Health, I am seeking to understand civil servants' daily work practices in relation to theories of knowledge mobilisation and governance, drawing on insights from across sociology and political science.

I work part-time as a Fellow in Health Policy at The King’s Fund, analysing contemporary NHS reform policies. From January to Autumn 2012 I am on sabbatical to complete my PhD.

Supervisors

Dr Richard Freeman
(Senior Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Graduate School of Social and Political Science)

Professor Christina Boswell
(Professor in Politics and Deputy Dean of Research, College of Humanities and Social Science)

Awards

  • Sir Bernard Crick Fellowship, University of Edinburgh.
    2010-2011

  • Research Student Award, Graduate School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Edinburgh. 2008-2015.

Publications

Freeman R & Maybin J (2011). 'Documents, Practices and Policy.' Evidence and Policy, 7 (2) 155-170

Maybin J, Addicott R, Dixon A, Storey J (2011). Accountability in the NHS: The implications of the government's reform programme. London: The King's Fund

Thorlby R & Maybin J (eds) (2010). A High Performing NHS? A review of progress 1997-2010. London: The King's Fund

A full list of my publications with The King’s Fund is available at: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/about_us/whos_who/jo_maybin.html


Conference Papers and Presentations

'Knowledge Work in Policy-making: a case study in England's Department of Health', paper to the Social Science Forum
Queen Mary, University of London, 22 November 2011

Discussant for session on 'Knowledge in policy: embodied, inscribed, enacted' at Know&Pol Summer School, an EC-funded project
Brussels, Belgium, 21-23 September 2011

'Studying the Knowledge Practices of Policymakers' at Policy as Practice, an ESRC-funded seminar
De Monfort University, 15 January 2010

'Policy-making as Knowledge Work' at Thinking Critically about Governance, a Social Policy Association-funded workshop
University of Bath, 16 April 2009


Research Group Membership

Materials and Practices

 

 

This page was published on 25 January 2012


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