Section: Student Profiles

Jo Maybin

Name
Jo Maybin
Organisation
Politics and International Relations, School of Social and Political Studies
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK
E-Mail
Research Interests
Policy construction,health policy,sociology of knowledge,documents
URL
http://www.pol.ed.ac.uk/student_profiles/jo_maybin
Jo Maybin

Qualifications

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

Working PhD Title

Policy Making as Knowledge Work: The drafting of a policy document in England’s Department of Health. 

Research Interests

The continual challenges of new health problems require policy makers 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 policy makers pull together, organize and reproduce knowledge to construct policy documents in the course of their daily work. 

Using interviews and document analysis, I plan to analyze these practices in relation to theories of knowledge movement within the fields of policy learning, research utilization and the sociology of knowledge. I am also interested in drawing on developments in social anthropology and science and technology studies to explore how the role of documents in governance might be conceptualized. 

I also work part-time as a senior researcher at The King’s Fund, focusing on contemporary NHS reform policies.  

Supervisors

Dr Richard Freeman 

Awards

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

Publications and/or Conference Papers

My publications with The King’s Fund are listed at: http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/about_us/whos_who/jo_maybin.html   

Research Group Membership

Public Policy Research Group

 

This page was published on 30 January 2009


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