Ellen Stewart
Chancellor's Fellow
- Usher Institute
- College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Usher Institute – University of Edinburgh
Old Medical School
Teviot Place - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9AG
Background
I am a Chancellor’s Fellow in Social Studies of Health & Medicine, working at the intersection of medical sociology, social policy and public administration. I am an Associate Director of SKAPE (Science Knowledge and Policy at Edinburgh), Associate Lead for Beyond Engagement in CBSS, and an elected member of the Social Policy Association's Executive Committee.
Before joining the Usher Institute I worked in the University of Edinburgh’s Global Public Health Unit, and University of St Andrews’ Medical School.
Qualifications
PhD in Politics (University of Edinburgh, 2012)
MSc in Social Policy & Planning (LSE, 2007)
MA (Hons) in Politics (University of Edinburgh, 2005)
Undergraduate teaching
I am course organiser for Foundation of Knowledge, a core course on the intercalated Honours programme Bioethics, Law & Society.
Postgraduate teaching
I am also course organiser for Qualitative Research in Health, an elective on our Masters in Public Health programme.
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I am always happy to hear from students who want to pursue PhD research on my interests as described above.
Current PhD students supervised
- Gabrielle King (Usher Institute) - scientific engagement of people living with MND, and their carers.
- Carol Porteous (Usher Institute) – participants’ experiences of patient and public involvement in health research.
- Katherine Hirono (Social Policy) – community engagement within Health Impact Assessment
- Catherine Carver (Usher Institute) - public and patient involvement in the regulation of new medicines and technologies
Past PhD students supervised
Taina Meriluoto (external supervisor for student in Department of Political Science, University of Jyvaskyla, Finland) – expertise-by-experience in Finnish social welfare organisations
Research summary
I am interested in how health systems accommodate and negotiate different forms of ‘lay’ and ‘expert’ knowledge, including demands for public engagement and for evidence-based policy. I've previously worked on projects exploring everyday practices of public involvement in the local NHS, new governance arrangements for Scottish Health Boards, and how health policymakers use research evidence.
Current research interests
I am currently developing ideas for future research on the contemporary work of NHS Charities in the UK, supported by the Carnegie Trust. I am also a co-Investigator within SIPHER (https://sipher.ac.uk/), a consortium funded by the UK Prevention Research Partnership. My work within the Consortium considers how people's lived experience of policy issues can inform systems science efforts to tackle health inequalities.Affiliated research centres
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Changing health care with, for, or against the public:: An empirical investigation into the place of the public in health service reconfiguration
In:
Journal of Health Services Research and Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1355819620935148
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Legitimating complementary therapies in the NHS: campaigning, care and epistemic labour
In:
Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1363459320931916
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Segmenting communities as public health strategy: A view from the social sciences and humanities
In:
Wellcome Open Research
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15975.1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Letter (Published) -
The Impact Agenda: controversies, consequences and challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/978-1447339878
Research output: › Book (Published) -
Transforming health care: the policy and politics of service reconfiguration in the UK’s four health systems
In:
Health Economics, Policy and Law
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744133119000148
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Opening up evidence-based policy: exploring citizen and service user expertise
In:
Evidence and Policy, vol. 16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1332/174426420X15838217456181
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print) -
Between a rock and a hard place: comparing arms’ length bodies for public involvement in healthcare across the UK.
In:
Health Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.02.004
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
The SIPHER Consortium: Introducing the new UK hub for systems science in public health and health economic research
In:
Wellcome Open Research , vol. 4, pp. 174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.15534.1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Editorial: the importance of sociological approaches to the study of service change in health care
In:
Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 41
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12942
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print) -
Exploring the neglected and hidden dimensions of large-scale healthcare change
In:
Sociology of Health and Illness
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12923
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)