John Owens (john.owens@kcl.ac.uk, website) King’s College London, 2011 Download Abstract This thesis provides a philosophical analysis of proposals to reform the NHS around the concept of personalisation. In part I of the thesis, I track the origins of personalisation and… Read More »Personalising the NHS: A Philosophical Analysis
Niklas Rosenblad (niklas.rosenblad@alumni.helsinki.fi, Bluesky) Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Helsinki , 2023 Download from repository Abstract Relational agency is a knowledge-laden but not knowing-determined concept derived from cultural historical activity theory, characterising social and collaborative activity and work as… Read More »Knowledge and Agency in Vocational Education: An analysis of competency-based training and student counselling utilising a lens of critical realism to cultural historical activity theory
Dave Elder-Vass (Website)Birkbeck College, University of London, 2006 Download from repository Abstract The question of structure and agency has long been regarded as a central problem in sociological theory. In addition to the traditional approaches offered by methodological individualism and… Read More »The theory of emergence, social structure, and human agency
