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This article takes a fresh look at the concept of risk in the light of the Government's plans to modernise health and social care.

This paper provides an overview of the Choice Initiative at the Foundation for People with Learning Disabilities. It describes the work of the Initiative, the projects represented and the overall findings and conclusions. It is followed by a report on one of the projects included in the Initiative.

Respite care or ‘short breaks’ are currently heavily promoted as services to support older people and their carers. However, uptake of such services can be limited and there is a need to design models which are more flexible and responsive, and also reflect the ethos of personcentred care, which is currently one of the main drivers of health and social care policy in the UK. This paper describes the rationale for, and the philosophy behind, a new service for people with dementia and their carers recently established in Sheffield which provides respite care in the person's own home. The importance of user and carer involvement is highlighted and the need for new approaches to evaluation stressed.

The purpose of this paper is to review emerging approaches to field studies of organizing that aim to avoid the problems of traditional methods and techniques.

The paper is based in pragmatist philosophy and constructionist perspective. Within this frame, the paper starts with a brief history of fieldwork methods in organization study, continues by diagnosing their shortcomings in the light of contemporary developments, and ends by reviewing promising approaches to studying contemporary organizations.

Young researchers are warned about possible risks and gains from experimenting with new methods.

The potential value of the paper is in its function of a guide for organization scholars looking for innovative approaches to their study object.