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: 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.
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…
Action Research: Existential Phenomenology and Natural Science
This is the next installment of my action research project which examines how people’s lives are represented in bureaucratic paperwork and how the experiences people have can be understood… Read more…
Action Research: The Situation I am In; The View From The Other Side
What follows is the writing up of my lived experience of struggling with the over bureaucratisation of my life. It became a project when several years ago I realised that I was going between several agencies all tasked with supporting me trying to rehabilitate from a life where I had been homeless. I fell into what is categorised as ‘multiple needs’. Read more…
Barriers to Participation in an Economy: Monopoly, Bureaucracy and Opportunity
It is important to distinguish the notion of poverty as capability inadequacy from that of poverty as lowness of income. The two perspectives are related, since income is an important means to capabilities. Enhanced capabilities in leading a life tend, to expand a person’s ability to be more productive and earn a higher income, also improvement of a person’s capabilities lends to greater earning power. Read more…