Policy Press

Imagining Regulation Differently

Co-creating for Engagement

Edited by Morag McDermont, Tim Cole, Janet Newman and Angela Piccini

Published

Jan 29, 2020

Page count

268 pages

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Connected Communities

ISBN

978-1447348023

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jan 29, 2020

Page count

268 pages

Browse the series

Connected Communities

ISBN

978-1447348016

Dimensions

234 x 156 mm

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jan 29, 2020

Page count

268 pages

Browse the series

Connected Communities

ISBN

978-1447348047

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press

Published

Jan 29, 2020

Page count

268 pages

Browse the series

Connected Communities

ISBN

978-1447348047

Dimensions

Imprint

Policy Press
Imagining Regulation Differently

There is an urgent need to rethink relationships between systems of government and those who are ‘governed’. This book explores ways of rethinking those relationships by bringing communities normally excluded from decision-making to centre stage to experiment with new methods of regulating for engagement.

Using original, co-produced research, it innovatively shows how we can better use a ‘bottom-up’ approach to design regulatory regimes that recognise the capabilities of communities at the margins and powerfully support the knowledge, passions and creativity of citizens. The authors provide essential guidance for all those working on co-produced research to make impactful change.

“An excellent book, which deserves to be widely read by all those involved in public policy and regulation.” Helen Sullivan, Australian National University

Morag McDermont is a Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of Bristol.

Tim Cole is a Professor of Social History and Director of the Brigstow Institute at the University of Bristol.

Janet Newman is an Emeritus Professor at The Open University.

Angela Piccini is a Reader in Screen Media at the University of Bristol.

1. Introduction: From the regulation of engagement to regulating for engagement - Marilyn Howard, Morag McDermont and Martin Innes

2. Co-production as experimentation: the research forum as method - Sue Cohen, Tim Cole, Morag McDermont and Angela Piccini

Box Feature Community researchers and community researcher training - Helen Thomas-Hughes

3. Beyond Prevent: Muslim engagement in city governance - Therese O’ Toole

4. Regulating for care-ful knowledge production: researching older people, isolation and loneliness - Helen Manchester, Jenny Barke and the Productive Margins Collective

5. Who gets to decide what's in my fridge?: principles for transforming the 'invisible rules' shaping the regulation of food habits in urban spaces - Naomi Millner, Sue Cohen, Tim Cole, Kitty Webster, Heidi Andrews, Makala Cheung, Penny Evans, Annie Oliver and the Food Working Group, as part of the Productive Margins programme

6. ‘Life Chances’: thinking with art to generate new understandings of low-income situations - Debbie Watson, Sue Cohen, Nathan Evans, Marilyn Howard, Moestak Hussein, Sophie Mellor, Angela Piccini and Simon Poulter

7. The 4Ms project: young people, research and arts-activisms in a post-industrial place - Emma Renold, Gabrielle Ivinson, Gareth Thomas

and Eva Elliott

8. Regulating Engagement Through Dissent - Greg Leo Bond, Daniel Balla, Ari Cantwell and Brendan Tate Wistreich

9. The role of community anchor organisations in regulating for engagement in a devolved government setting - Eva Elliott, Sue Cohen and David Frayne

10. Conclusion: Towards an Organic Model of Regulating for Engagement - Bronwen Morgan, Morag McDermont and Martin Innes

Postscript : Engaging the University? - Janet Newman