Professor Louise Fitzgerald
Louise currently holds an appointment as Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School, and Emeritus Professor, De Montfort University. Her previous career spans management posts in the private sector and academic posts at Salford, Warwick, City and De Montfort Universities. Her main research focus is the implementation of organizational change in complex organizations. Previous recent projects focussed on the management of networks in health care; E.B.H.C. and innovation diffusion among clinicians and knowledge utilization by clinical managers in leading service changes.
Chris Bennett
Chris Bennett is a research psychologist and was previously employed by the Medical Research Council and as a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change, University of Warwick. Chris now works as an independent research consultant. Most of her research has involved looking at different aspects of change within the NHS and other public sector bodies. As well as the work for this project, her current research includes work on the effect of perceptions of risk on decision making in relation to patient safety and the development and implementation of a new cumulative fluid balance bar chart, which is being introduced in a local NHS Trust.
Professor Ewan Ferlie
Ewan Ferlie is Professor of Public Services Management at Kings College London. He has published widely on the organization and management of health services, including from New Public Management and post NPM perspectives. He is currently working on network based approaches to health care organizing, knowledge mobilization in health care and associated management knowledges. He is a member of the NIHR Service Delivery and Organisation ‘R and D’ Programme National Commissioning Board and currently Chair of Society for the Study of Health Care Organising (SHOC), a Learned Society affiliated to the Academy of Social Sciences. He has been a non executive member of a Health Authority.
Dr Gerry McGivern
Gerry McGivern is a Lecturer in the Department of Management, King's College London, an Associate Fellow at the Said Business School, University of Oxford, and the Organisations and Systems Editor for The London Journal of Primary Care. He received a PhD in organisational behaviour from Imperial College Business School. Gerry's research, which has been published in leading journals including Organization Studies, Human Relations, Social Science and Medicine, and the British Journal of Management, focuses on professionals, understanding the nature of their knowledge and practice, and how they are affected by systems of regulation and organisation within public services.
Jean Ledger
Jean Ledger gained an MPhil from the University of Cambridge. Her MPhil research focused on the implementation of patient choice policy in the National Health Service. Jean was subsequently employed at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health before joining Opinion Leader, an independent research consultancy specialising in qualitative and deliberative research methodologies. Over two years Jean worked on research projects for government departments and private sector organisations including the Department of Health, British Airways, and Olympics Delivery Authority. Jean is currently completing a PhD at King’s College London, in the Department of Management, examining the uptake and utilization of management knowledge and research in primary health care.
Professor Sue Dopson
Sue Dopson is Rhodes Trust Professor of Organisational Behaviour and Faculty Dean at Oxford Saïd Business School. She is also a Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford, and Visiting Professor at the University of Alberta, Canada. She is a noted specialist on the personal and organisational dimensions of leadership and transformational change, especially in the public and healthcare sectors. Sue's research involvements lie principally in the area of innovation, change and healthcare studies and she has led a number of research projects in the health service sector. These include the evaluation of work aimed at improving clinical effectiveness, exploring evidence-based medicine, looking at how developments in genetic science will influence clinical practice and healthcare policy and most recently the impact of support workers on clinical practice.
Dr Michael Fischer
Michael Fischer is Management Research Fellow at King’s College London and Associate Fellow of Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is an experienced clinician, organisational consultant and senior manager, and he is Honorary Consultant Psychotherapist at St Thomas’ Hospital, South London & Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Michael holds a PhD in organisational behaviour from Imperial College Business School, and he has clinical trainings in psychoanalytic psychotherapy, group analysis and psychiatry. Before his academic career, Michael specialised in health policy reforms, and he has held senior clinical, advisory and consulting positions with government and regulatory agencies. His research interests are in organisational studies, (especially critical management studies, group dynamics, and inter-organisational relations); organisational change and development; management knowledge and learning; and the organisation and management of healthcare and health-related sectors.
Janette McCulloch
Janette worked as a senior manager in the health service and the not-for-profit sector for fifteen years before becoming an independent consultant in 1995. She has a Masters in Organisational Behaviour from City University and finds this useful in understanding the territory between organisational issues and individual motivation and performance. Her work as an organisational consultant and coach are informed by an interest in sport and sports psychology; and more recently in Mindfulness meditation – and how to bring this into the workplace. Janette has been employed part-time on several academic research projects over the last ten years; and her research interests include managing change in primary care and how clinicians operate in positions of leadership. 7 years ago Janette trained as a mediator with the London School of Psychotherapy, and since then the majority of her freelance practice has been in the field of conflict resolution at work and bringing mediation to young people caught up in gang-related conflict.