Further building our evidence and understanding on which public services, delivered at which level of government, deliver greatest public value and what we can learn from different policy approaches taken across the UK.
The lead contacts are: Lesley Smith, Senior Principal Research Officer, Analysis, Research and Co-ordination Unit, Analysis and Data Directorate: Lesley.Smith@levellingup.gov.uk and David Hughes, Head of the Chief Scientific Adviser’s office: psChiefScientificAdviser@levellingup.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
This project will examine the Scottish and UK public sector's approach to community empowerment and its impact on fostering citizen-state relationships in a time of austerity. Launching its 'Big Society Agenda', the UK C...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Durham University
The project examines the approach to community empowerment by the public sector in Scotland and England, which is directly related to citizen engagement in the performance and accountability of local authorities.
This project will be a collaboration with community partners to co-design and evaluate new approaches to consultation. Consultation, the engagement of communities in public service decision making becoming an increasingl...
Funded by: AHRC
Lead research organisation: Lancaster University
The project focuses on co-designing and evaluating new approaches to consultation, which is relevant to improving citizen engagement in the performance and accountability of local authorities.
This research is exploring practical ways in which citizens in low income countries can hold their local leaders to account for their performance in delivering basic services and in reducing poverty. In recent years the...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Mzumbe University
The project explores practical ways for citizens to hold their local leaders accountable for delivering basic services, which is relevant to improving citizen engagement in the performance and accountability of local authorities.