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Emotional Engagement in Strategic Partnerships: grassroots organising in a tobacco control partnership in the North East of England

Heckler, S.; Russell, A.

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S. Heckler



Abstract

Multi-agency partnerships are often regarded as crucial for the planning and delivery of public health initiatives. A number of evaluative frameworks stress governance, structure and management as the fundamental factors contributing to partnership success. However, ethnographic research into the multi-agency partnership that sets the strategic direction for tobacco control in the North East of England revealed emotional engagement and positive personal relationships, factors that have largely been overlooked in the relevant literature, to be more important. The partnership coordinators have successfully used a model developed by grassroots organisers in the international tobacco control movement to create an environment where positive affect and mutual liking develop and underpin a dynamic and productive partnership. In some cases, this grassroots model directly contradicts the advice of partnership tools and analyses, but has proved highly effective in engaging with professionals.

Citation

Heckler, S., & Russell, A. (2008). Emotional Engagement in Strategic Partnerships: grassroots organising in a tobacco control partnership in the North East of England. Evidence and Policy, 4(4), 331-354. https://doi.org/10.1332/174426408x366658

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Nov 1, 2008
Deposit Date May 18, 2010
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Journal Evidence and Policy
Print ISSN 1744-2648
Electronic ISSN 1744-2656
Publisher Policy Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 4
Issue 4
Pages 331-354
DOI https://doi.org/10.1332/174426408x366658
Keywords Partnership, Tobacco control, Workplace emotion, Public health, Grassroots organising.

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This is a post-peer-review pre-copy edited version of an article published in Evidence and policy. The definitive publisher-authenticated version Heckler, S. and Russell, A. (2008) 'Emotional engagement in strategic partnerships : grassroots organising in a tobacco control partnership in the North East of England.', Evidence and policy., 4 (4). pp. 331-354 is available online at: http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tpp/ep/2008/00000004/00000004/art00004





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