Locally Identified Solutions and Practices: a critical realist investigation into the processes of social innovation in the context of neighbourhood policing
In 1999, I started working as an Associate Tutor for the Open University, and I taught the Masters Level T860 Environmental Decision-making module which was based around the work of Peter Checkland on Soft Systems Methodology. By 2004, my environmental work has extended out into social systems, human as well as ecological systems, with work at the Sustainable Development Research Centre, and then into the world of 'social enterprise' at the Skoll Centre at Said Business School Oxford.
In 2008, I started teaching social entrepreneurship and social innovation at the University of Northampton, and in 2012 met a police superintendent, Richard James, who wanted to know how to do community engagement better. This sparked a friendship and collaboration that continues today, and a series of projects that gave rise to my PhD. I am currently writing up that research work.
In 2008, I started teaching social entrepreneurship and social innovation at the University of Northampton, and in 2012 met a police superintendent, Richard James, who wanted to know how to do community engagement better. This sparked a friendship and collaboration that continues today, and a series of projects that gave rise to my PhD. I am currently writing up that research work.
Click on the above button to find out more about how I have gone from training Police and Community Support officers in community engagement using the Locally Identified Solutions and Practices (LISP) toolkit, to working with whole police forces on wholistic decision-making for effective community policing
I registered for the PhD in Feb 2016 and passed my transfer seminar in July 2016. I submitted and passed by viva in July 2020 and was given more edits to complete. I resubimitted in June 2021 at which my manuscript was approved.