Action Research: The Politics of Bureaucracies

This is the next installment of a long running scrutinisation of how bureaucracies and organisational structures are operating in the lives of people who live under them. The articles published on this website are a series of ethnographic perspectives in the preambles brought together with sections of a more academic thesis which interrogates the imposition of paperworks such as ‘The Outcomes Star’ bureaucracies on the third sector and the ultimately the people who rely on support from the third sector to survive in the highly financialised sociological setting of modern day Britain. Read more…

Action Research: A History of Bureaucracy

This is a section of the research which I have been doing examining the bureaucratic processes, and the people who action them, in the social systems that govern the lives of many people in contemporary Britain. It is a sociological investigation prompted by the harms witnessed by institutional activity on the financially least advantaged populations.

Action Research: Equity in Relation to the Problem

This is a next part of a longitudinal action research project studying the effects of forms of managerialism introduced into the lives of people such as the Outcomes Star, what has become a proprietary instrument used to provision organisational funding often to support vulnerable people. This work problematises this culture. Read more…

Action Research: Collaboration as Reciprocal Relationships

This is the continuation of an action research project which started out as an analysis of the Outcomes Star which was being used to measure developments in the lives of people for support workers to report to funders. The analyses were initiated as the experience produced distress and discomfort at the distortions they produced in the support/need juncture.

Action Research: Abstraction – Reduction to the Simple

This is the next part of an action research project that documents and examines the kind of bureaucratic arrangements in social support structures occurring in United Kingdom roughly between 2014 and to present. It takes as a starting point the use of the Outcomes Star in the lives of people and questioning the suggestion to the individuals that it is a tool of action research.

Action Research: Local Knowledge and Building Dialogue

This is the next installment of my action research project which has been examining the effects of the organisational bureaucracies and administrative systems on the lives of people who have to live in and under support services. Read more…

Outcomes and Measurements Project: Interview with Multiple Disadvantages Senior Support Worker

This is an interview with someone who works as a Multiple Disadvantages Senior Support Worker exploring a series of questions about outcomes and measurements aiming to get nuanced views from people about the bureaucracies they face in their job roles. Read more…