Social Innovation
Group leaders
Hannah Timpson, Public Health Institute
Kerry Wilson, Institute of Cultural Capital
About the Group
The group brings together researchers from across the university with an interest in creativity and innovation in health and social care, with an emphasis on community-led, preventive agendas and interventions that support our individual and collective wellbeing. This began with a conversation on emerging, shared research interests in social prescribing between group members, and now includes other related key themes including the value and practice of creativity, arts and culture; supporting asset-based community development; and the measurement and promotion of social value.
Shared research interests:
Culture and Creativity
- Considering the cultural conditions and environmental factors that enable social innovation to flourish
- Understanding the creative process in social innovation
- Supporting the co-creation of social innovation through cross-sector collaboration
Asset based Community Development
- Using social innovation to enable communities to thrive
- Working with and developing existing community assets and resources
- Creating models of community-led social innovation
The Social Value of Social Innovation
- Exploring the impact of social innovation on community health and wellbeing
- Supporting preventive, healthy community agendas including social prescribing
- Evidencing the social value and return on investment of social innovation to health and social care commissioners
key objectives:
- Via internal training and development activities (e.g. research method workshops).
- Continuing professional development support for LJMU's Social Innovation researchers
- Knowledge exchange and external promotion of LJMU's Social Innovation research and expertise
- Via external activities and events (e'g. dedicated webpages; research seminars).
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Prof Lynne Boddy
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Dr Gabriela Czanner
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Prof Valerie Fleming
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Prof Claire Hannibal
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Beccy Harrison
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Dr Elizabeth Heyworth-Thomas
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Prof Vivian Hope
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Dr Teri Howson-Griffiths
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Prof John Hyatt
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Dr Ian Jarman
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Ceri Anwen Jones
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Lisa Jones
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Prof Zoe Knowles
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Sarah Maclennan
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Clare Maxwell
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Dr Alice McCloskey
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Elaine McNeill
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Dr Rafaela Neiva
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Dr Avril Rowley
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Carol Ryder
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Dr Pooja Saini
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Dr Grahame Smith
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Dr Sylvia Terbeck
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Philomene Uwamaliya
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