Komporozos-Athanasiou, A;
Paylor, J;
McKevitt, C;
(2021)
Governing researchers through public involvement.
Journal of Social Policy
10.1017/S004727942100012X.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper focuses on recent developments in UK health research policy, which place new pressures on researchers to address issues of accountability and impact through the implementation of patient and public involvement (PPI). We draw on an in-depth interview study with 20 professional researchers, and we analyse their experiences of competing for research funding, focusing on PPI as a process of professional research governance. We unearth dominant professional narratives of scepticism and alternative identifications in their enactment of PPI policy. We argue that such narratives and identifications evidence a resistance to ways in which patient involvement has been institutionalised and to the resulting subject-positions researchers are summoned to take up. We show that the new subjectivities emerging in this landscape of research governance as increasingly disempowered, contradictory and fraught with unresolved tensions over the ethical dimensions of the researchers' own professional identities.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Governing researchers through public involvement |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1017/S004727942100012X |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S004727942100012X |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher's terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | health research, research governance, policy enactment, patient and public involvement, professional subjectivity |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10126197 |




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