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Overview

Tony Bovaird is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily engages with topics related to health professions and social sciences, focusing notably on mental health and patient involvement, geriatric care and nursing homes, health systems including economic evaluations and quality of life, healthcare innovation and challenges, as well as public policy and administration research.

Their publication record includes recent papers that reflect these interests. Notable works include:

  • New development: Managing the Covid-19 pandemic-from a hospital-centred model of care to a community co-production approach (2020, Public Money & Management)
  • International survey evidence on user and community co-delivery of prevention activities relevant to public services and outcomes (2021, Public Management Review)
  • Breaking the glass in the 'Overton Window': the role of adversarial co-production (2024, Evidence & Policy)

Bovaird has collaborated frequently with several co-authors across their publications. Most frequent collaborators include:

  • Elke Loeffler
  • Denita Cepiku
  • Filippo Giordano
  • Sophie Yates
  • Gregg G. Van Ryzin

Their work has appeared multiple times in key academic venues such as Public Money & Management, Public Management Review, and Evidence & Policy. These journals align with their research topics around public service delivery, governance, and health-related social science issues.

In terms of academic fields and subfields, Bovaird's contributions cover general health professions, economics and econometrics, education, and public administration. Their interdisciplinary approach integrates aspects of healthcare systems with policy research, emphasizing community involvement and co-production in health and public services.

Best Publications

  • Beyond Engagement and Participation: User and Community Coproduction of Public Services

    Tony Bovaird

  • Public–Private Partnerships: from Contested Concepts to Prevalent Practice:

    Tony Bovaird

  • From Engagement to Co-production: The Contribution of Users and Communities to Outcomes and Public Value

    Tony Bovaird;Elke Loeffler

  • Evaluating the quality of public governance: indicators, models and methodologies

    Tony Bovaird;Elke Löffler

  • Public governance: balancing stakeholder power in a network society:

    Tony Bovaird

  • Developing New Forms of Partnership With the `Market¿ in the Procurement of Public Services

    Tony Bovaird

  • Activating Citizens to Participate in Collective Co-Production of Public Services

    T. Bovaird;G.G. Van Ryzin;E. Loeffler;S. Parrado

  • Correlates of Co-production: Evidence From a Five-Nation Survey of Citizens

    Salvador Parrado;Gregg G. Van Ryzin;Tony Bovaird;Elke Löffler

  • Moving from excellence models of local service delivery to benchmarking 'good local governance'

    Tony Bovaird;Elke Löffler

  • From Engagement to Co-Production: How Users and Communities Contribute to Public Services

    Tony Bovaird;Elke Löffler

  • Activating collective co-production of public services: influencing citizens to participate in complex governance mechanisms in the UK

    Tony Bovaird;Gerry Stoker;Tricia Jones;Elke Loeffler

  • Understanding public management and governance

    Tony Bovaird;Elke Loeffler

  • User and Community Co-Production of Public Services: What Does the Evidence Tell Us?

    Elke Loeffler;Tony Bovaird

  • Enhancing Public Innovation by Transforming Public Governance

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  • Emergent Strategic Management and Planning Mechanisms in Complex Adaptive Systems

    Tony Bovaird

  • Performance management and accountability in complex public programmes

    Stephen P. Osborne;Tony Bovaird;Steve Martin;Mike Tricker

  • Developing local governance networks in Europe

    Tony Bovaird;Elke Löffler;Salvador Parrado-Díez

  • Service quality in NHS hospitals.

    Fayek Youssef;Deon Nel;Tony Bovaird

  • Process reengineering in the public sector: learning some private sector lessons

    Arie Halachmi;Arie Halachmi;Tony Bovaird

  • Attributing Outcomes to Social Policy Interventions – ‘Gold Standard’ or ‘Fool's Gold’ in Public Policy and Management?

    Tony Bovaird

  • Assessing the Quality of Local Governance: A Case Study of Public Services

    Tony Bovaird;Elke Loeffler

  • CIVIL SERVICE REFORM IN THE UK, 1999–2005: REVOLUTIONARY FAILURE OR EVOLUTIONARY SUCCESS?

    Tony Bovaird;Ken Russell

  • The Palgrave Handbook of Co-Production of Public Services and Outcomes

    Elke Loeffler;Tony Bovaird

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen P. Osborne
Stephen P. Osborne University of Edinburgh
Richard Cowell
Richard Cowell Cardiff University
Gerry Stoker
Gerry Stoker University of Southampton
Jacob Torfing
Jacob Torfing Roskilde University
Helen Sullivan
Helen Sullivan Australian National University

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