Dr Ellen Stewart
Chancellor'S Fellow And Senior Lecturer
Social Work and Social Policy (Subject)
Personal statement
I am a social scientist working at the intersection of medical sociology, health policy and public administration. My research explores how health systems accommodate and negotiate different forms of ‘lay’ and ‘expert’ knowledge, including demands for public engagement and for evidence-based policy. In 2023 my latest book How Britain Loves the NHS: practices of care and contestation was published by Policy Press.
I am one of four grantholders on a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award exploring charity and voluntarism in the UK NHS. I lead a work package focusing on the contemporary role of NHS Charities in fundraising and supplementing statutory spend on healthcare.
I am currently a co-Investigator on the UKPRP Consortium SIPHER, which aims to coproduce useful modelling tools with policymakers in Sheffield City Council, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, and the Scottish Government. I lead public engagement for the consortium, working in partnership with local third sector organisations to deliver three Community Panels.
In past projects I've explored everyday practices of public involvement in the local NHS, new governance arrangements for Scottish Health Boards, how health policymakers use research evidence, and hospital closures as an example of contentious healthcare transformation. My research has been funded by the ESRC, MRC, Wellcome Trust, Chief Scientist Office Scotland and the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland.
I am an elected member of the Social Policy Association's Executive Committee (2018-2024) and serve on the Wellcome Trust's Early Career Advisory Group for Medical Humanities (2021-2024).
From 2023 I am Co-Director of Strathclyde's Centre for Health Policy.
Prize And Awards
- Cambridge University Prize for Excellence in Social Policy Scholarship
- Recipient
- 1/7/2018
Publications
- Fugitive coproduction : conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals
- Stewart Ellen
- Social Policy and Administration Vol 55, pp. 1310-1324 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12727
- How Britain Loves the NHS : Practices of Care and Contestation
- Stewart Ellen A
- (2023)
- Doing 'our bit' : solidarity, inequality, and COVID-19 crowdfunding for the UK National Health Service
- Stewart Ellen, Nonhebel Anna, Möller Christian, Bassett Kath
- Social Science and Medicine Vol 308 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115214
- Our NHS? The changing involvement of patients and the public in England's health and care system
- Stewart Ellen, Desai Amit, Zoccatelli Giulia
- The NHS at 75 The State of UK Health Policy (2023) (2023)
- Understanding primary care transformation and implications for ageing populations and health inequalities : a systematic scoping review of new models of primary health care in OECD countries and China
- Henderson D A G, Donaghy E, Dozier M, Guthrie B, Huang H, Pickersgill M, Stewart E, Thompson A, Wang H H X, Mercer S W
- BMC Medicine Vol 21 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12916-023-03033-z
- Integrating evidence and public engagement in policy work : an empirical examination of three UK policy organisations
- Hill O’Connor Clementine, Smith Katherine, Stewart Ellen
- Policy and Politics Vol 51, pp. 271-294 (2023)
- https://doi.org/10.1332/030557321x16698031794569
Teaching
I lead two modules: L5419 Health Policy in an International Context (4th year undergraduate) and L8924 Health Policy from an International Perspective (postgraduate). I also lead a Placement-based Dissertation for our new MSc Health and Social Policy.
Current PhD supervision:
- Lindsay Bradley (University of Strathclyde/NHS Western Isles): Patients’ use of health evidence for self-management in remote and rural Scotland.
- Carol Porteous (University of Edinburgh): The impact of patient and public involvement in health research.
Completed PhD students:
- Dr Katie Hirono (University of Edinburgh): Comparing community engagement in Health Impact Assessments and Citizens' Juries in the UK and Australia.
- Dr Gabrielle King (University of Edinburgh): Exploring how people with Motor Neurone Disease engage with biomedical research.
- Dr Taina Meriluoto (University of Jyväskylä): Expertise-by-experience in the Finnish social welfare sector.
Professional Activities
- Social Policy Association Annual Conference
- Participant
- 3/7/2024
- Contributor to BBC Radio Scotland Good Morning Scotland show
- Recipient
- 5/7/2023
- Panellist at Festival of Politics event on Citizens' Assemblies
- Member
- 11/10/2019
Projects
- Border Crossings: Charity and voluntarism in Britain's mixed economy of health care since 1948
- Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2024
- Border Crossings: Charity and voluntarism in Britain's mixed economy of health care since 1948
- Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Harris, Bernard (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2020 - 30-Jan-2024
- System-science Informed Public Health and Economic Research for Non-communicable Disease Prevention (the SIPHER Consortium)
- Smith, Kat (Principal Investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator)
- 16-Jan-2019 - 15-Jan-2024
- Trends in Socio-Economic Determinants of Health Inequalities in Scotland
- Eiser, David (Principal Investigator) Congreve, Emma (Co-investigator) Smith, Kat (Co-investigator) Spowage, Mairi (Co-investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator)
- 10-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Transforming Primary Care in Scotland and China to meet the needs of an ageing population - are health inequalities being tackled?
- Mercer, Stewart (Principal Investigator) Guthrie, Bruce (Co-investigator) Stewart, Ellen (Co-investigator) Pickersgill, Martyn (Co-investigator)
- 12-Jan-2020 - 11-Jan-2023
- Critical approaches to Public and Patient Involvement in Health Research
- Stewart, Ellen (Principal Investigator) Smith-Merry, Jennifer (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2019
Contact
Dr
Ellen
Stewart
Chancellor'S Fellow And Senior Lecturer
Social Work and Social Policy (Subject)
Email: ellen.stewart@strath.ac.uk
Tel: Unlisted