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Dr Janet Harvey PhD, MA, BA (Hons)
Assistant Director
Direct Line: +44 (0)1509 223389
Office: +44 (0)1509 223372
Fax: +44 (0)1509 213409
Email: J.Harvey@lboro.ac.uk
Background
PhD in Sociology, University of Warwick
MA in Industrial Relations, University of Warwick
BA (Hons) Social Theory & Institutions, UCNW, University of Wales
Janet joined CRSP in May 2006 after nearly five years at the Leicester Nuffield Research Unit (University of Leicester, Medical School), where she was Deputy Director. Her research at the LNRU included studies on: continuing care; social support workers in primary care; access to health care for disadvantaged groups and issues around service configuration and integration between health and social care. Prior to working at the LNRU, she worked for eight years in the Business School at the University of Warwick, firstly in the Local Government Centre and then in the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change. At Warwick her research was predominantly concerned with the public sector: firstly with European trans-national local authority networking but primarily with the organisation and management of the NHS. Earlier work at the University of Aston, Birmingham, involved studying work organisation in health care in a cross-national context.
Research Interests
Research interests include: the determinants of performance and effectiveness in the health care sector; the organisation and management of research groups; clinical governance; maternity care; work organisation and skill-mix issues; organisational strategy; network organisations; service configuration and the interface between primary and secondary health care/and health and social care.
External Appointments and Activities
Member of the Organisational Form and Function commissioning group of the National Health Service (NHS) Service Delivery & Organisation (SDO) R & D Programme.
Member of the University of Leicester (UHL) Service Delivery & Organisation R & D Board.
External Advisor & Panel Member (Social Advisory Panel and Social & Medical Advisory Panel) for the Big Lottery Fund.
(Previously served as a Non-Executive Director on an NHS acute hospital Trust Board).
Current and Recent Projects
Mobilizing Identities: The Shape and Reality of Middle and Junior Managers’ Working Lives
The aim of the research is to chart the work of middle and junior healthcare managers; including identity work and to produce an ethnography of the lived experience of middle and junior management within the distinctive organisational context of the NHS. It will explore the identities (goals, values, motivations, beliefs and interactions styles) of middle and junior healthcare managers to see how these are constructed and how they shape the performance of roles. The project also investigate how such managers leverage their identities to create success, establish trust and broker alliances to exert influence in different and various spheres of their working lives and to see in what ways they use their identities to take forward organisational, group and personal goals. Lastly, it will determine the influence of managerial identities on organisational processes and outcomes; including what constitutes an effective manager.
Sponsor: Department of Health (SDO)
Evaluation of the Older Workers Face-to-Face Guidance Pilot
The Government’s Green Paper: A New Deal for Welfare: Empowering people to work includes a commitment to increasing employment among people aged 50 and over. As part of the process, the DWP is funding a pilot study whereby independent advisors offer guidance to people of older working age about a range of issues related to work and retirement. CRSP has been contracted to evaluate this pilot. The study aims to establish what information older working people need, and how they an access it, in order to make an informed decision about work and retirement in later life. The evaluation started in December 2007 and has a completion date of March 2010.
Sponsor: Department for Work and Pensions
Understanding the Experience of Ethnic Minorities at Loughborough University
Loughborough University commissioned CRSP to undertake a research project into the performance and experiences of ethnic minority students at Loughborough. The University sought to understand whether existing data demonstrated anything about the experience of its applicants and students, and whether ethnic minority students were having less positive experiences at Loughborough than white students. The research approach was both quantitative and qualitative - it drew on existing data available through the University systems and developed a range of focus groups and one-to-one interviews with a wide-range of participants.
Sponsor: Loughborough University
Evaluation of the Local Housing Allowance Pathfinders
CRSP and the Universities of Birmingham and York and the National Centre for Social Research are evaluating a replacement for Housing Benefit for the private rented sector in nine pathfinder areas. CRSP has responsibility for research on claimants.
Sponsor: Department for Work and Pensions
Related Publications:
Hill, K., Harvey, J., Phung, V-H., Sandu, A. and Roberts, S. (2007), Local Housing Allowance Final Evaluation: the qualitative evidence of claimants' experience in the nine Pathfinder areas. Local Housing Allowance Evaluation Report 13, Department for Work and Pensions, Corporate Document Services, Leeds.
Further information and publications on LHA.
School Sports Co-ordinator Partnership – impact study
CRSP is part of a consortium, led by the Institute of Youth Sport, which is evaluating the effectiveness of the School Sports Partnership Programme in delivering its policy objectives.
The School Sports Partnership Programme is a joint initiative of the Department for Education and Skills and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and involving Sport England and the Youth Sport Trust, launched in September 2000.
Sponsor
Department for Education and Skills
Evaluation of the New Opportunities Fund for PE and Sport
CRSP is part of a consortium, led by the Institute of Youth Sport, which is conducting a six year evaluation of the New Opportunities for PE and Sport initiative.
Sponsor
New Opportunities Fund
Integrated Services for Older People
An investigation of integrated working between health and social care to provide services for older people, including the use of partnership working and the use of the Health Act Flexibilities in this area.
Funded by the Department of Health under their Modernisation Programme
(based at LNRU, University of Leicester).
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