Abstract
This thesis aims to understand how organizations collaborate in the contemporary UK social welfare context beyond the restrictions of resources, marketization, financialization, partnership, and efficiencies.The research project took place in 2020 during the first UK COVID lock-down and consists of fifty online interviews with leaders and practitioners from the public and voluntary and community sector, alongside a case study of a group of VCS organizations working in productive collaborative ways.
A reflexive thematic analysis of the data from the interviews and the co-produced work from a case study reveal themes of relationships, vulnerability, and resistance. The resulting discussion leads to an exploration of the themes with a focus on vulnerability and the potential that it generates for a reimagining of collaboration in social welfare contexts. What emerges is a powerful rereading of how the themes from the analysis are entangled in collaborative work, creating collaborations and organizing which is emergent, negotiated, inclusive, and radical in its intent.
| Date of Award | 7 May 2024 |
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| Original language | English |
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| Supervisor | Sheena J Vachhani (Supervisor) & Martin Parker (Supervisor) |