Dr Kerry Allen is a Research Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. Her current research projects include an EU project on health systems and long-term care across 14 European countries and several UK-based projects and evaluations around services for older people. Kerry specialises in research around experience and management of chronic conditions; long term ...

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.  An experienced Programme and Project Manager, her areas of special interest include policy and reform evaluation; patient and service user experience; ...

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 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.

As Director of the Public Service Academy (PSA)Helen has a key role in co-ordinating academic activities around the ...

Jo’s main areas of interest include users' experience of health services;  public involvement in the NHS; self management of long term conditions;  patient information and choice and participative governance and localism in the NHS.

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’).

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, and also sits on the editorial/advisory boards of the In ...

Russell is currently a Visiting Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Oslo, a Visiting Professor in the Centre for Clinical Governance Research, Faculty of Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, a Visiting Fellow, Bocconi University, Milan and a Visiting Senior Lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York. He provides policy and economic advice ...

Shirley McIver joined the Health Services Management Centre at the University of Birmingham in 1993 and has been involved in health services research and development for over 20 years, having previously worked as a lecturer in sociology, and as a journalist. Shirley’s main research interests are concerned with quality and service improvement in healthcare, particularly from the user ...

Ross is a Research Fellow at HSMC. His areas of interest are the methods of quality and service improvement in health care; organisational development; knowledge transfer/utilisation and health care reform.

Robin is an experienced practitioner, manager and commissioner of health and social care services who joined the University of Birmingham in 2010 to begin a new career in academia. 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 ...

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.

Suzanne is a Lecturer in Health Economics and Health care policy. Suzanne’s research interests span the range of health economics and health services management.  Special interests include evaluating the priority setting processes in commissioning of public services; methodological issues around approaches to valuing quality of life; service improvement in health care and facilitation ...

Yvonne is an experienced Director in the NHS with over 30 years experience in a variety of roles and settings.  She is also Co-Vice Chair of the NHS Alliance- a national organisation linking primary care clinicians, managers and organisations together. A Registered General Nurse by profession, Yvonne has spent much of her career focusing on improving services for patients. She ...

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.

As joint head of the commissioning workstream at the Health Services Management Centre Iestyn leads a programme of research and development that has a national and international profile. This programme involves academic research, consultancy/knowledge transfer and bespoke postgraduate education. Iestyn also leads the department's work on priority setting and health technology coverage ...