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Call for papers - Transforming Care
Conference - Stream
6: Achieving sustainable innovation
in care: identifying effective pathways for scaling up
Deadline: 25th
March, 2017
Social innovation,
defined broadly as
“new ideas that simultaneously meet social needs more
effectively than
alternatives and create new social relationships or
collaborations” (European
Commission, 2011), has become a buzzword within the social
policy discourse,
despite confusion and lack of consensus about what ‘social
innovation’
actually means in the context of care. There has been
considerable research
conducted into the mapping of innovative practices (e.g. from
new types of care
services for specific target groups to new care arrangements
and partnerships
and new policy instruments), but much of the evidence on what
works and what
doesn’t has been confined to pilot studies and evaluations of
interventions
that are limited in their scope and reach. Evidence concerning
innovations in
care models and processes that have been successfully
transferred, scaled up
and/or mainstreamed into regional or national practice is
scarce.
This thematic panel
seeks papers that
contribute to the evidence base on national strategies and
structural
conditions implemented in different countries to ensure the
sustainability of
innovation in care. Innovation in care can refer either to new
products/solutions or to new care processes and partnerships
in the childcare
and long-term care sectors. We welcome papers analyzing
specific policies,
papers that present case studies of innovations that have
successfully been
scaled up, or papers that are theoretical in nature. Papers
are encouraged that
critically reflect on the concept of social innovation itself,
namely that
address issues of definition, evaluation, or transferability,
or the
implications of social innovation in care on the relationship
between the
public, private and non-profit sectors.
Stream convenors:
Katharine Schulmann,
European Centre
for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria
Gudrun Bauer,
European Centre for
Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria
Abstracts should be
about 500 words
and should contain the following information:
- Title
- Main issue
analyzed in the paper
and its relevance
- Type of
methodology and sources of
data/information used for the analysis
- Main findings
Full conference
details can be found
at: http://www.transforming-care.net/
More information on
submission of
abstracts can be found at: Transforming Care Conference - http://www.transforming-care.net/195-2/
We look forward to
receiving your
contributions and ask that you distribute this call to
interested colleagues
within your networks.
With best regards,
Katharine Schulmann
and Gudrun Bauer