Professor Ellen Stewart

  • Professor of Public Policy and Health (Urban Studies & Social Policy)
  • Associate (School of Health & Wellbeing)

Biography

Ellen Stewart is a social scientist working at the intersection of medical sociology and health policy. She joined the University of Glasgow as Professor of Public Policy & Health in 2024, having previously been co-Director of the Centre for Health Policy at the University of Strathclyde (2021-2024), Chancellor's Fellow in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self & Society at the University of Edinburgh (2016-2021), Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Edinburgh Medical School, and a Research Assistant in the University of St Andrews Medical School. 

She is Editor of the journal Sociology of Health & Illness, an active member of the Social Policy Association, and a member of the Wellcome Trust's Advisory Group for Early Career Awards.

Research interests

Ellen's 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 her latest book How Britain Loves the NHS: practices of care and contestation was published by Policy Press.

Current research

  • Co-leading a workstream on digital solutions for healthcare in Scottish prisons, within the Health-Justice Nexus, funded by the Chief Scientist Office 
  • Co-leading a workstream on Community Insights for the Policy Modelling for Health consortium, funded by UKRI 
  • Leading the contemporary work package of a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Award on charity in the NHS since 1948
  • Collaborating with Strathclyde's Centre for Health Policy to run a series of witness seminars capturing key reforms in deveolved Scottish health policy 

Research groups

Publications

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Number of items: 28.

2025

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Mazanderani, Fadhila and Vaghi, Francesca (2025) Between dissatisfaction and support: justificatory repertoires in public feedback on emergency care in the United Kingdom National Health Service. Journal of European Public Policy, (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2025.2462750) (Early Online Publication)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2025) The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities. By Daniel Skinner, Jonathan R. Wynn and Berkeley Franz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp 218. $unknown (cloth); $unknown (paper). American Journal of Sociology, [Book Review] (Accepted for Publication)

2024

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Kelly, Iona (2024) Witness Seminar marking 25 Years of Devolved Health Policy in Scotland: the abolition of the NHS internal market. Project Report. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (doi: 10.17868/strath.00091573).

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Cresswell, Rosemary and Möller, Christian (2024) National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–2023. Social Policy and Administration, 58(6), pp. 960-972. (doi: 10.1111/spol.13049)

Garnham, Lisa, Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Smith, Katherine E. (2024) SIPHER Layered Systems Map: Experiences and Evidence of Housing and Health. Methodological Appendix. Project Report. SIPHER Consortium. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.342104).

Smith, Katherine E. and Stewart, Ellen A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2024) Under attack? Public accounts of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Scotland. Journal of Critical Public Health, 1(2), (doi: 10.55016/ojs/jcph.v1i2.77753)

Exley, J. et al. (2024) Governing integrated health and social care: an analysis of experiences in three European countries. International Journal of Integrated Care, 24, 9. (doi: 10.5334/ijic.7610) (PMID:38344427) (PMCID:PMC10854466)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, SIPHER Greater Manchester Community Panel, SIPHER Scotland Community Panel, SIPHER Sheffield Community Panel and Such, Elizabeth (2024) Evaluating participant experiences of Community Panels to scrutinise policy modelling for health inequalities: the SIPHER Consortium. Research Involvement and Engagement, 10, 4. (doi: 10.1186/s40900-023-00521-7) (PMID:38191500) (PMCID:PMC10775539)

2023

Fraser, Alec, Jones, Lorelei, Lorne, Colin and Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2023) "Attending to collaboration" in major system change in healthcare in England: a response; comment on "'Attending to history' in major system change in healthcare in England: specialist cancer surgery service reconfiguration". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12, 7661. (doi: 10.34172/IJHPM.2022.7661) (PMID:37579460) (PMCID:PMC10125045)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Desai, Amit and Zoccatelli, Giulia (2023) Our NHS? The changing involvement of patients and the public in England’s health and care system. In: Exworthy, Mark, Mannion, Russell and Powell, Martin (eds.) The NHS at 75: The State of UK Health Policy. Policy Press, pp. 232-252. ISBN 9781447368601

Henderson, D.A.G., Donaghy, E., Dozier, M., Guthrie, B., Huang, H., Pickersgill, M., Stewart, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Thompson, A., Wang, H.H.X. and Mercer, S.W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 (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. BMC Medicine, 21, 319. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-03033-z) (PMID:37620865) (PMCID:PMC10463288)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2023) How Britain Loves the NHS: Practices of Care and Contestation. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447368878

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Dodworth, Kathy (2023) ‘The biggest charity you’ve never heard of’: Institutional logics of charity and the state in public fundraising in Scotland’s NHS. Journal of Social Policy, 52(2), pp. 215-236. (doi: 10.1017/S0047279421000520)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2023) Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Camilla Devit, and Tamara Popic, eds. Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 1048 pp. $165.00 cloth. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 48(1), pp. 125-130. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-10171146)[Book Review]

2022

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Nonhebel, Anna, Möller, Christian and Bassett, Kath (2022) Doing ‘our bit’: Solidarity, inequality, and COVID-19 crowdfunding for the UK National Health Service. Social Science and Medicine, 308, 115214. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115214) (PMID:35849964) (PMCID:PMC9272578)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Dodworth, Kathy and Ercia, Angelo (2022) The everyday work of hospital campaigns: Public knowledge and activism in the UK's National Health Services. In: Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions: Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain. Manchester University Press: United Kingdom, pp. 103-123. ISBN 9781526163462

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Donaghy, Eddie, Guthrie, Bruce, Henderson, David, Huang, Huayi, Pickersgill, Martyn, Wang, Harry and Mercer, Stewart ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 (2022) Transforming primary care in Scotland: A critical policy analysis. British Journal of General Practice, 72(719), pp. 292-294. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp22X719765) (PMID:35618463) (PMCID:PMC9172236)

Dodworth, Kathy and Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2022) Legitimating complementary therapies in the NHS: Campaigning, care and epistemic labour. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 26(2), pp. 244-262. (doi: 10.1177/1363459320931916) (PMID:32508138) (PMCID:PMC8928231)

Erikainen, Sonja, Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Marques Filipe, Angela, Chan, Sarah, Cunningham-Burley, Sarah, Ilson, Sophie, King, Gabrielle, Porteous, Carol, Sinclair, Stephanie and Webb, Jamie (2022) Towards a feminist philosophy of engagements in health-related research. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 58. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16535.2) (PMID:35211657) (PMCID:PMC8837807)

2021

Dayan, Mark, McCarey, Martha, Hervey, Tamara, Fahy, Nick, Greer, Scott L., Jarman, Holly, Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Bristow, Dan (2021) Going it Alone: Health and Brexit in the UK. Documentation. Nuffield Trust, London.

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2021) Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals. Social Policy and Administration, 55(7), pp. 1310-1324. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12727)

Mercer, Stewart W., Henderson, David, Huang, Huayi, Donaghy, Eddie, Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Guthrie, Bruce and Wang, Harry (2021) Integration of health and social care: Necessary but challenging for all. British Journal of General Practice, 71(711), pp. 442-443. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp21X717101) (PMID:34593390) (PMCID:PMC8463168)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2021) Crowdfunding Healthcare in Shetland: Maakin the NHS. [Website]

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2021) Falleti, Tulia G., and Cunial, Santiago L.Participation in Social Policy: Public Health in Comparative Perspective (Elements in the Politics of Development). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 88 pp. $18.00 paper. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 46(3), pp. 527-532. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-8893599)[Book Review]

Erikainen, Sonja, Boydell, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, Sethi, Nayha and Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2021) Participatory Public Engagement in Digital Health and Care. Documentation. Nesta.

2020

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Greer, Scott L., Ercia, Angelo and Donnelly, Peter D. (2020) Transforming health care: the policy and politics of service reconfiguration in the UK's four health systems. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 15(3), pp. 289-307. (doi: 10.1017/S1744133119000148)

Smith, Katherine E., Bandola-Gill, Justyna, Meer, Nasar, Stewart, Ellen A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Watermeyer, Richard (2020) The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447339878

2016

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2016) Publics and Their Health Systems: Rethinking Participation. Series: Palgrave studies in science, knowledge and policy. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137467164 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1)

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Number of items: 28.

Articles

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Mazanderani, Fadhila and Vaghi, Francesca (2025) Between dissatisfaction and support: justificatory repertoires in public feedback on emergency care in the United Kingdom National Health Service. Journal of European Public Policy, (doi: 10.1080/13501763.2025.2462750) (Early Online Publication)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Cresswell, Rosemary and Möller, Christian (2024) National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–2023. Social Policy and Administration, 58(6), pp. 960-972. (doi: 10.1111/spol.13049)

Smith, Katherine E. and Stewart, Ellen A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2024) Under attack? Public accounts of health inequalities and the social determinants of health in Scotland. Journal of Critical Public Health, 1(2), (doi: 10.55016/ojs/jcph.v1i2.77753)

Exley, J. et al. (2024) Governing integrated health and social care: an analysis of experiences in three European countries. International Journal of Integrated Care, 24, 9. (doi: 10.5334/ijic.7610) (PMID:38344427) (PMCID:PMC10854466)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, SIPHER Greater Manchester Community Panel, SIPHER Scotland Community Panel, SIPHER Sheffield Community Panel and Such, Elizabeth (2024) Evaluating participant experiences of Community Panels to scrutinise policy modelling for health inequalities: the SIPHER Consortium. Research Involvement and Engagement, 10, 4. (doi: 10.1186/s40900-023-00521-7) (PMID:38191500) (PMCID:PMC10775539)

Fraser, Alec, Jones, Lorelei, Lorne, Colin and Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2023) "Attending to collaboration" in major system change in healthcare in England: a response; comment on "'Attending to history' in major system change in healthcare in England: specialist cancer surgery service reconfiguration". International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 12, 7661. (doi: 10.34172/IJHPM.2022.7661) (PMID:37579460) (PMCID:PMC10125045)

Henderson, D.A.G., Donaghy, E., Dozier, M., Guthrie, B., Huang, H., Pickersgill, M., Stewart, E. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Thompson, A., Wang, H.H.X. and Mercer, S.W. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 (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. BMC Medicine, 21, 319. (doi: 10.1186/s12916-023-03033-z) (PMID:37620865) (PMCID:PMC10463288)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Dodworth, Kathy (2023) ‘The biggest charity you’ve never heard of’: Institutional logics of charity and the state in public fundraising in Scotland’s NHS. Journal of Social Policy, 52(2), pp. 215-236. (doi: 10.1017/S0047279421000520)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Nonhebel, Anna, Möller, Christian and Bassett, Kath (2022) Doing ‘our bit’: Solidarity, inequality, and COVID-19 crowdfunding for the UK National Health Service. Social Science and Medicine, 308, 115214. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115214) (PMID:35849964) (PMCID:PMC9272578)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Donaghy, Eddie, Guthrie, Bruce, Henderson, David, Huang, Huayi, Pickersgill, Martyn, Wang, Harry and Mercer, Stewart ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1703-3664 (2022) Transforming primary care in Scotland: A critical policy analysis. British Journal of General Practice, 72(719), pp. 292-294. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp22X719765) (PMID:35618463) (PMCID:PMC9172236)

Dodworth, Kathy and Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2022) Legitimating complementary therapies in the NHS: Campaigning, care and epistemic labour. Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine, 26(2), pp. 244-262. (doi: 10.1177/1363459320931916) (PMID:32508138) (PMCID:PMC8928231)

Erikainen, Sonja, Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Marques Filipe, Angela, Chan, Sarah, Cunningham-Burley, Sarah, Ilson, Sophie, King, Gabrielle, Porteous, Carol, Sinclair, Stephanie and Webb, Jamie (2022) Towards a feminist philosophy of engagements in health-related research. Wellcome Open Research, 6, 58. (doi: 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16535.2) (PMID:35211657) (PMCID:PMC8837807)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2021) Fugitive coproduction: Conceptualising informal community practices in Scotland's hospitals. Social Policy and Administration, 55(7), pp. 1310-1324. (doi: 10.1111/spol.12727)

Mercer, Stewart W., Henderson, David, Huang, Huayi, Donaghy, Eddie, Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Guthrie, Bruce and Wang, Harry (2021) Integration of health and social care: Necessary but challenging for all. British Journal of General Practice, 71(711), pp. 442-443. (doi: 10.3399/bjgp21X717101) (PMID:34593390) (PMCID:PMC8463168)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Greer, Scott L., Ercia, Angelo and Donnelly, Peter D. (2020) Transforming health care: the policy and politics of service reconfiguration in the UK's four health systems. Health Economics, Policy and Law, 15(3), pp. 289-307. (doi: 10.1017/S1744133119000148)

Books

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2023) How Britain Loves the NHS: Practices of Care and Contestation. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447368878

Smith, Katherine E., Bandola-Gill, Justyna, Meer, Nasar, Stewart, Ellen A. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Watermeyer, Richard (2020) The Impact Agenda: Controversies, Consequences and Challenges. Policy Press. ISBN 9781447339878

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2016) Publics and Their Health Systems: Rethinking Participation. Series: Palgrave studies in science, knowledge and policy. Palgrave Macmillan: London. ISBN 9781137467164 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1)

Book Sections

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Desai, Amit and Zoccatelli, Giulia (2023) Our NHS? The changing involvement of patients and the public in England’s health and care system. In: Exworthy, Mark, Mannion, Russell and Powell, Martin (eds.) The NHS at 75: The State of UK Health Policy. Policy Press, pp. 232-252. ISBN 9781447368601

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477, Dodworth, Kathy and Ercia, Angelo (2022) The everyday work of hospital campaigns: Public knowledge and activism in the UK's National Health Services. In: Posters, Protests, and Prescriptions: Cultural Histories of the National Health Service in Britain. Manchester University Press: United Kingdom, pp. 103-123. ISBN 9781526163462

Book Reviews

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2025) The City and the Hospital: The Paradox of Medically Overserved Communities. By Daniel Skinner, Jonathan R. Wynn and Berkeley Franz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Pp 218. $unknown (cloth); $unknown (paper). American Journal of Sociology, [Book Review] (Accepted for Publication)

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2023) Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Camilla Devit, and Tamara Popic, eds. Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. 1048 pp. $165.00 cloth. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 48(1), pp. 125-130. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-10171146)[Book Review]

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2021) Falleti, Tulia G., and Cunial, Santiago L.Participation in Social Policy: Public Health in Comparative Perspective (Elements in the Politics of Development). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. 88 pp. $18.00 paper. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, 46(3), pp. 527-532. (doi: 10.1215/03616878-8893599)[Book Review]

Research Reports or Papers

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Kelly, Iona (2024) Witness Seminar marking 25 Years of Devolved Health Policy in Scotland: the abolition of the NHS internal market. Project Report. University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. (doi: 10.17868/strath.00091573).

Garnham, Lisa, Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Smith, Katherine E. (2024) SIPHER Layered Systems Map: Experiences and Evidence of Housing and Health. Methodological Appendix. Project Report. SIPHER Consortium. (doi: 10.36399/gla.pubs.342104).

Dayan, Mark, McCarey, Martha, Hervey, Tamara, Fahy, Nick, Greer, Scott L., Jarman, Holly, Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 and Bristow, Dan (2021) Going it Alone: Health and Brexit in the UK. Documentation. Nuffield Trust, London.

Erikainen, Sonja, Boydell, Nicola ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2260-8020, Sethi, Nayha and Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2021) Participatory Public Engagement in Digital Health and Care. Documentation. Nesta.

Website

Stewart, Ellen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3013-1477 (2021) Crowdfunding Healthcare in Shetland: Maakin the NHS. [Website]

This list was generated on Sat Jun 14 12:28:13 2025 BST.

Prior publications

Other

Ellen Stewart, Rosemary Cresswell (2023) All the trimmings BMJ University of Strathclyde. (doi: 10.1136/bmj-2023-077982)

Ellen Stewart, Jennifer Smith-Merry, Justyna Bandola-Gill, Marc Geddes (2020) Opening up evidence-based policy Evidence and Policy University of Strathclyde. (doi: 10.1332/174426420X15838217456181)

Ellen Stewart (2016) Administering the System: Citizen Participation as Committee Work Publics and Their Health Systems Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781349570201 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1_3)

Ellen Stewart (2016) Electing the System: Citizen Participation as Representative Democracy Publics and Their Health Systems Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781349570201 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1_5)

Ellen Stewart (2016) Extending the System: Citizen Participation as Outreach Work Publics and Their Health Systems Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781349570201 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1_4)

Ellen Stewart (2016) Fighting the System: Citizen Participation as Protest Publics and Their Health Systems Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781349570201 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1_6)

Ellen Stewart (2016) Introducing Citizen Participation in Health Systems Publics and Their Health Systems Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781349570201 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1_1)

Ellen Stewart (2016) Playing the System: Citizen Participation as Subversive Service Use Publics and Their Health Systems Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781349570201 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1_7)

Ellen Stewart (2016) Rethinking Citizen Participation in Health Systems Publics and Their Health Systems Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781349570201 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1_8)

Ellen Stewart (2016) Scotland’s NHS: Citizen Participation and Mutuality in Scottish Health Policy Publics and Their Health Systems Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781349570201 (doi: 10.1007/978-1-137-46717-1_2)

Katherine Smith, Ellen Stewart, Peter Donnelly, Ben McKendrick (2015) Influencing policy with research—public health advocacy and health inequalities Health Inequalities Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9780198703358 (doi: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198703358.003.0019)

Book Section

Ellen Stewart, Amit Desai, Giulia Zoccatelli (2023) Our NHS? The changing involvement of patients and the public in England's health and care system The NHS at 75 University of Strathclyde. ISBN 9781447368601

Ellen Stewart (2019) (De)politicising hospital closures in Scottish health policy 2000-2010 Decentring Health Policy University of Strathclyde. ISBN 9781138232990

Article

Scott L Greer, Ellen Stewart, Angelo Ercia, Peter Donnelly (2021) Changing health care with, for, or against the public: an empirical investigation into the place of the public in health service reconfiguration Journal of Health Services Research & Policy Crossref. (doi: 10.1177/1355819620935148)

Sonja Erikainen, Ellen Stewart (2020) Credibility contests Frontiers in Sociology University of Strathclyde. (doi: 10.3389/fsoc.2020.592666)

(2020) Between a rock and a hard place: Comparing arms’ length bodies for public involvement in healthcare across the UK Health Policy Ellen Stewart. ISSN 0168-8510 (doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2020.02.004)

Ellen Stewart (2019) A sociology of public responses to hospital change and closure Sociology of Health & Illness Crossref. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12896)

Lorelei Jones, Alec Fraser, Ellen Stewart (2019) Exploring the neglected and hidden dimensions of large‐scale healthcare change Sociology of Health & Illness Crossref. (doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12923)

Alice Spann, Ellen Stewart (2018) Barriers and facilitators of older people's mHealth usage Human Technology University of Strathclyde. (doi: 10.17011/ht/urn.201811224834)

K.E. Smith, E.A. Stewart (2017) Academic advocacy in public health: Disciplinary ‘duty’ or political ‘propaganda’? Social Science & Medicine Crossref. (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.07.014)

Ellen Stewart, Ingrid Young, Sarah Cunningham-Burley (2017) NHS manifesto: the missing piece of the puzzle The Lancet Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 0140-6736 (doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(17)31446-0)

Jane Farmer, Judy Taylor, Ellen Stewart, Amanda Kenny (2017) Citizen participation in health services co-production: a roadmap for navigating participation types and outcomes Australian Journal of Primary Health Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 1448-7527 (doi: 10.1071/py16133)

KATHERINE E. SMITH, ELLEN STEWART (2016) We Need to Talk about Impact: Why Social Policy Academics need to Engage with the UK's Research Impact Agenda Journal of Social Policy Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 0047-2794 (doi: 10.1017/s0047279416000283)

Ellen Stewart, Katherine E Smith (2015) 'Black magic' and 'gold dust': the epistemic and political uses of evidence tools in public health policy making Evidence & Policy: A Journal of Research, Debate and Practice Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 1744-2648 (doi: 10.1332/174426415x14381786400158)

Ellen A. Stewart (2014) Seeking outsider perspectives in interpretive research: young adults and citizen participation in health policy Critical Policy Studies Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 1946-0171 (doi: 10.1080/19460171.2014.951667)

SCOTT L. GREER, IAIN WILSON, ELLEN STEWART, PETER D. DONNELLY (2014) ‘DEMOCRATIZING’ PUBLIC SERVICES? REPRESENTATION AND ELECTIONS IN THE SCOTTISH NHS Public Administration Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 0033-3298 (doi: 10.1111/padm.12101)

Scott L. Greer, Ellen A. Stewart, Iain Wilson, Peter D. Donnelly (2014) Victory for volunteerism? Scottish health board elections and participation in the welfare state Social Science & Medicine Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 0277-9536 (doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.01.053)

Ellen Stewart (2013) A mutual NHS? The emergence of distinctive public involvement policy in a devolved Scotland Policy & Politics Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 0305-5736 (doi: 10.1332/030557312x655404)

Ellen Stewart (2013) What is the point of citizen participation in health care? Journal of Health Services Research & Policy Crossref Metadata Search. ISSN 1355-8196 (doi: 10.1177/1355819613485670)

Report

Ellen Stewart (2018) Involving the Public in Major Service Change in Scotland University of Strathclyde.

Grants

The Health-Justice Nexus: Crime and Justice as Social Determinants of Health in Scotland. Chief Scientist Office (2024-2028)

Policy Modelling for Health. UKRI (2024-2028)

Border Crossings: Charity and voluntarism in Britain's mixed economy of health care since 1948. Wellcome Trust (2020-2025)

System-science Informed Public Health and Economic Research for Non-communicable Disease Prevention (the SIPHER Consortium). UK Prevention Research Partnership (2019-2024)

Transforming Primary Care in Scotland and China to meet the needs of an ageing population - are health inequalities being tackled? ESRC (2020-2023)

Trends in Socio-Economic Determinants of Health Inequalities in Scotland. Health Foundation (2022-23)

"All the help we can get": contemporary public donations of money to Scotland's NHS. Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland (2018-19)

Critical approaches to Public and Patient Involvement in Health Research. University of Edinburgh- University of Sydney Collaboration Scheme (2018-19)

Hospitals must close? a four system comparison of policy for constructive conversations on controversial service changes. Health Foundation (2016-2018)

Closing hospitals: an evaluation of knowledge use and public involvement in disinvestment proposals. Chief Scientist Office (2014-2018)

 

Supervision

I welcome PhD enquiries related to my research interests as described above. 

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 & recognition

Prizes, awards & distinctions

  • 2018: Cambridge University Press Award for Excellence in Social Policy Scholarship (Social Policy Association)

Grant committees & research advisory boards

  • 2021: Wellcome Trust, Medical Humanities Early Career Advisory Group
  • 2021: Science Foundation Ireland, Pathway Scheme AHSS panel
  • 2024: ESRC, Peer Review College

Professional & learned societies

  • 2018 - 2024: Executive Committee member, Social Policy Association