Dr Kerry Allen is a Research Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. Her current projects include a study of third sector prevention activities for older people and research into improving safety at the interface between hospital services and children’s social care. Kerry is a Fellow of the National Institute for Health Research School for Social ...

Hilary Brown is a Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. She joined the department in August 2008 following a ten year career in the NHS and a second career in journalism and PR in the private sector. Hilary is involved in a range of teaching activities including taking a lead role for student welfare and international students within the department. ...

Deborah’s is a Senior Fellow, Organisational Development (OD) and Leadership at the Health Services Management Centre.  Specialising in OD and developmental evaluations in the public sector, Deborah is involved in working alongside a culturally diverse range of individuals, groups, teams, and inter-agency systems to realise citizen and service user outcomes. Deborah leads ...

Helen is a Senior Lecturer in Health Care Policy and Management at HSMC and Director of the Public Service Academy. Helen heads the health and social care partnerships programme at HSMC and is Director of the MSc in Managing Integration for Health and Wellbeing. Helen is also Co-Editor of the Journal of Integrated Care.

As Director of the Public Service Academy (PSA) ...

Tim has been involved in health services evaluations since 1991. Tim’s main areas of interest include the governance of health and social care services; leadership and identity and organisational culture (particularly the governance of ‘safety’).

Tim’s main areas of interest include:

• The governance of health and ...

Nicola Gale, MA, PhD, is a health sociologist, with a track record in both single-discipline sociological research and interdisciplinary health research where she has brought her sociological perspective and skills to projects in fields of health services research, public health and primary care. Dr Gale is committed to theoretically-informed empirical work and to ensuring that findings ...

Jon is a qualified social worker by background and Director of the University of Birmingham’s Health Services Management Centre. Specialising in joint work between health and social care, Jon is involved in regular policy analysis and advice. He is the author of a series of leading textbooks on health and social services, sits on the advisory board of The Policy Press, and is ...

Russell holds the Chair in Health Systems at the University of Birmingham. He also holds the following positions: Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, Visiting Professor in the Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Visiting Fellow, Bocconi University, Milan and is a honorary Senior Lecturer in the ...

Ross is a Lecturer at HSMC. He joined in 2008 after completing his doctoral research studying service improvement tools and techniques at the University of Manchester. Since arriving, his research interests have reflected being involved in a variety of projects analysing the reform of health and social care. These include understanding the nature and impact of ‘quasi’ ...

As well as being a Senior Fellow at HSMC, he is the Health & Social Care Delivery Lead within the Third Sector Research Centre and a Fellow of the School for Social Care Research. His research interests build on his practical experiences in the field, and centre on commissioning and management of integrated services, the role and impact of the Third Sector, and personalisation. He is ...

Catherine Needham is a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Public Management. She is part based at the Health Services Management Centre, developing research around social care and policy innovation. She is also part based in the Public Services Academy, leading development on graduate public management programmes across the College of Social Sciences.

Martin joined HSMC in February 2007. He specialises in health policy, especially New Labour; choice and consumerism; decentralization; partnership; history of health care before the NHS and social policy, especially historical and geographical dimensions, citizenship, equity, theories of welfare state development.

Yvonne Sawbridge Joined HSMC after a varied career in NHS, latterly as a Director in a PCT. She is also Co- Vice Chair of the NHS Alliance- a national organisation linking primary care clinicians, managers and organisations together. She is a founding member of their “Nurses in Commissioning” network. A Registered General Nurse & Health Visitor by profession, Yvonne has ...

Iain specialises in teaching, consultancy and research around management and leadership development in the NHS; service evaluation and improvement; clinical engagement in management and regulation of health care.

Iestyn has, until recently, been Director of Academic Programmes at HSMC. This role involves overseeing HSMC's postgraduate programmes and the office which administers these programmes. He is currently Associate Editor for two International, refereed journals and secretary of the International Society on Priorities in Health Care.

Iestyn specialises in: