HSMC academic staff

Dr Rachel Adams

Research Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Rachel Adams is a qualitative researcher, currently working for Professor Nicola Gale on her portfolio of research. This includes qualitative sub-studies running alongside respiratory trials and public health ethnographic research in the area of public health – aimed at reducing diarrhoea and malnutrition in young children.

She is passionate about enabling people’s voices to be ...

Email
r.l.adams@bham.ac.uk

Dr Chloe Alexander

Dr Chloe Alexander

Research Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Chloe Alexander is an expert on young carers. Her research examines inequalities, family life and the impact of public policies.

Her theoretical work develops the use of affect theory and explores the politics of care.

She specialises in qualitative research, including ethnography, visual research and creative methods.

She is part of the ESRC Centre for Care, undertaking research on lifecourse ...

Email
c.j.l.alexander.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Kerry Allen

Dr Kerry Allen

Associate Professor
Head of Education, School of Social Policy

Health Services Management Centre

Dr Kerry Allen is an Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. With a disciplinary background in medical sociology, she is interested in applied research that improves health and care services, especially for people with complex needs or long term conditions. 

Her core research areas are: 

  • How people experience long-term conditions, ...

Email
k.allen@bham.ac.uk

Emily Burn

Emily Burn

Research Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Emily Burn is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Care, an ESRC Research Centre addressing pressures and inequities in how people experience social care. Currently, she is working on a study exploring the conceptualisation of social care as an ecosystem. Prior to this role, Emily was part of a National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) funded project at the University of Birmingham exploring ...

Telephone
e.burn@bham.ac.uk

Kelly Daniel (née Singh)

Kelly Daniel (née Singh)

Evaluation Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Kelly is an Evaluation Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre and a member of the BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre. Kelly has over ten years’ experience of undertaking and managing applied health services research and evaluation projects across the charitable and public sectors. Kelly has considerable knowledge of healthcare systems and her main interests are around ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 3205
Email
k.e.singh@bham.ac.uk

Dr Jo Ellins

Dr Jo Ellins

Senior Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Dr Jo Ellins is a Senior Fellow at the Health Services Management Centre and Deputy Director of the BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre. She has over 15 years’ experience of leading applied health services research and evaluation for organisations across the public and charitable sectors. Jo’s main interests are around patients’ experiences and person-centred care, alongside which she ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 8981
Email
j.l.ellins@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sarah-Jane Hannah Fenton

Dr Sarah-Jane Hannah Fenton

Lecturer in Mental Health Policy

Health Services Management Centre

Dr Sarah-Jane Fenton is a Lecturer in Mental Health Policy based in the Health Services Management Centre and the Institute for Mental Health (IMH).

The Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) at the University of Birmingham is one of the UK's foremost centres for research, evaluation, teaching and professional development for health and social care organisations. The Institute for Mental ...

Email
s.h.fenton@bham.ac.uk

Professor Nicola Gale

Professor Nicola Gale

Head of the School of Social Policy
Professor of Health Policy and Sociology, Health Services Management Centre

Health Services Management Centre

Nicola Gale, MA, PhD, is a health sociologist and interdisciplinary health researcher, working in the fields of health services research, public health, primary care, community-led and complementary health care. She specialises in qualitative and mixed methods research.

Professor Gale is committed to theoretically-informed empirical work that involves, aids better understanding of, and meets the ...

Telephone
+44 (0)121 414 9089
Email
n.gale@bham.ac.uk

Steve Gulati

Steve Gulati

Associate Professor
Director of Healthcare Leadership

Health Services Management Centre

Steve joined HSMC in September 2019 as a Senior Fellow, having been an Associate since 2010. Prior to joining HSMC, Steve worked in the NHS, ran a consultancy, and started his academic career part-time in 2008, combining work in the NHS and private sector with teaching, lecturing, and service evaluation.

Telephone
07970 460843
Email
s.gulati@bham.ac.uk

Alys Harwood

Senior Lecturer

Health Services Management Centre

Alys is a Cohort Director on the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Programme MSc in Healthcare Leadership and a Senior HSMC Associate. Current work includes a (now-virtual) systems leadership programme in collaboration with Cornwall Council, team development in acute clinical teams in Devon, and a series of educational webinars for doctors across the UK. 

 

Email
a.harwood@bham.ac.uk

Dr Steph Haydon

Dr Steph Haydon

Research Fellow

Department of Social Policy, Sociology and Criminology

Steph Haydon is a Research Fellow in charity and philanthropy. She specialises in qualitative research, including interviews and archival research.

Email
s.haywood@bham.ac.uk

Dr Amarpreet Kaur

Dr Amarpreet Kaur

Lecturer in Health Technology and Governance

Health Services Management Centre

Amarpreet joined the HSMC in September 2021 as a new Lecturer. She will be contributing the Centre’s expanding interests in health technologies and genomics through her research and teaching. Amarpreet is passionate about Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion activity, and Widening Participation in Higher Education.

Prior to her appointment, Amarpreet was a member of the Sociology of ...

Telephone
07890 423615
Email
a.kaur.11@bham.ac.uk

Essie Kaur

Essie Kaur

Research Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Essie’s research focuses on novel organisational behaviour, culture and leadership theories in healthcare services, systems and workforces. Her research activities and aims include developing novel psychological- and behaviour-based interventions for improving employee mental health, communication and performance. Essie has applied her research to inform ...

Email
s.kaur.16@bham.ac.uk

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Dr Sophie King-Hill

Associate Professor

Health Services Management Centre

Sophie is an Associate Professor in the Health Services Management Centre. She specialises in sexual behaviours and assessment in children and young people, sexual health, sibling sexual abuse, misogyny, relationships & sex education and the importance of youth voice. Much of her work is cross-sector, cross-disciplinary and centred around participatory and co-design approaches with young ...

Email
s.kinghill@bham.ac.uk

Mrs Kay Logan

Tutor on the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Programme

Health Services Management Centre

Kay has developed a professional and academic interest in leadership over her career and is currently studying for a PhD in leadership ethics with voluntary sector leaders. 

She has been a tutor on the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Programme since 2015 and enjoys working with NHS participants on their learning and development journeys. Kay has a clinical background (orthopaedic nursing) and ...

Email
k.s.logan@bham.ac.uk

Professor Russell Mannion

Professor Russell Mannion

Professor of Health Systems
Co-director, MSc Health Policy and Management

Health Services Management Centre

 Russell has held the Chair in Health Systems at the University of Birmingham since 2010.  He is an Honorary Professor at the Australian Institute of Health Innovation, Macquarie University, Sydney. He was previously Director of the Centre for Health Services Management at the University of York (2005-2009) and served as a Board Director of the York Health Economics ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 3404
Email
r.mannion@bham.ac.uk

Dr Gemma McKenna

Dr Gemma McKenna

Assistant Professor

Health Services Management Centre

Dr Gemma McKenna is an Assistant Professor at the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) working with the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funded BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre. Gemma’s areas of research include, children and young people’s mental health, the evaluation and development of new models of integrated care in the UK, and the role of learning networks and ...

Email
g.r.mckenna@bham.ac.uk

Matthew McKenna

Matthew McKenna

Research Associate

Health Services Management Centre

Matthew is an ESRC funded doctoral candidate researching the relationship between policy failure and policy learning in the context of central-local government relations. To do so, he is conducting a comparative case study design focusing upon two cases of central government intervention into English local government. These interventions range from centrally mandated Best Value Inspections, ...

Email
m.mckenna@bham.ac.uk

Dr Ross Millar

Dr Ross Millar

Director and Reader in Health Organisation

Health Services Management Centre

Ross is the Director of HSMC and a Reader in Health Organisation.

 He is a passionate about better understanding the experience of health and care organisations with the view to supporting their development. Ross has a research and education background in the study of quality and safety and the forging of partnerships and collaboration.

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 8980
Email
r.millar@bham.ac.uk

Annette Neath

Annette Neath

Senior Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Annette is a Senior Fellow at HSMC and University of Birmingham Director of The Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme, MSc Healthcare Leadership.  Annette joined HSMC in 2014 after 12 years with the NHS and two years as an independent consultant.  Annette is an occupational psychologist and her expertise is in leadership development, OD, executive coaching, organisational change and NHS ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 3174
Email
a.p.neath@bham.ac.uk

Professor Catherine Needham

Professor Catherine Needham

Professor of Public Policy and Public Management

Health Services Management Centre

Catherine Needham is Professor of Public Policy and Public Management. She is based at the Health Services Management Centre, developing research around social care and new approaches to public service workforce development.

Catherine’s areas of special interest include:

  • Personalisation and coproduction within public services
  • Social care reform
  • Workforce change in public services
  • Inte ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 3011 (Park House)
Email
c.needham.1@bham.ac.uk

Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer

Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer

Associate Professor

Health Services Management Centre

Dr Siobhan O’Dwyer is Associate Professor of Social Care. She specialises in research on the needs and experiences of unpaid carers (also known as family carers or caregivers), with a particular focus on suicide and homicide. She also collaborates on research on other aspects of care, as well as ageing, dementia, and social media.

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Email
s.t.odwyer@bham.ac.uk

Professor Martin Powell

Professor Martin Powell

Professor of Health and Social Policy

Health Services Management Centre

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

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 4462
Email
m.powell@bham.ac.uk

Dr Bridget Roe

Dr Bridget Roe

Research Fellow

Dr Bridget Roe is a Research Fellow based at the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) working within the BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre. She is also a Senior Lecturer on the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Programme. Originating from a nursing and midwifery background, Bridget completed her bachelor’s degree (BA HRM) at the University of Derby, her master’s degree at the University of ...

Email
b.j.roe@bham.ac.uk

Dr Manbinder Sidhu

Dr Manbinder Sidhu

Associate Professor

Health Services Management Centre

Dr Manbinder Sidhu is an Associate Professor at the Health Services Management Centre (HSMC) working with the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) funded BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre. 

 Manbinder completed his bachelor’s degree (BA Sociology) at the University of Birmingham (UoB) and immediately went on to complete his PhD at the Institute of Applied Health Research ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 416 6030
Email
m.s.sidhu@bham.ac.uk

Professor Judith Smith

Professor Judith Smith

Professor of Health Policy and Management

Health Services Management Centre

Judith Smith is Professor of Health Policy and Management. She is Director of the BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centrefunded by the National Institute for Health Research for five years (2018-2023) and involving the University of Birmingham, University of Cambridge, RAND Europe, and National Voices. From 2015 until January 2022, Judith was Director of the Health Services Management ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 7068
Email
j.a.smith.20@bham.ac.uk

Iain Snelling

Iain Snelling

Senior Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Iain specialises in teaching, consultancy and research in management and leadership development in the NHS, service evaluation and improvement, clinical engagement in management and leadership. From 2011 – 2013 he was co-Director of the educational element of the NHS Graduate Management Training Scheme and the NHS Clinical Leadership Fellows programme, and from 2012-2015 he was ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 3212
Email
i.n.snelling@bham.ac.uk

Dr Willem J Stander

Dr Willem J Stander

Research Fellow

Health Services Management Centre

Willem is a postdoctoral research fellow specialising in research on the health and wellbeing of LGBTQ+ and youth populations as well as enhancing professionals’ practice with these groups. He is skilled in a broad range of qualitative and quantitative research methods, PRISMA-compliant reviews, and evaluative designs including randomised controlled trials. Much of Willem’s work is ...

Email
w.stander@bham.ac.uk

Professor Justin Waring

Professor of Medical Sociology & Healthcare Organisation

Health Services Management Centre

Justin Waring is Professor of Medical Sociology and Healthcare Organisation at the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham. His research deals with the changing organisation and management of healthcare systems, and public services more broadly.

His primary interest is to understand how new organisational forms and processes interact with institutionalised professional ...

Telephone
0121 414 6022
Email
j.waring@bham.ac.uk

Catherine Weir

Catherine Weir

Deputy Programme Director and Senior Lecturer, EGA Programme

Health Services Management Centre

Catherine is a Senior Lecturer supporting health and care leaders undertaking the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson MSc Programme. She has a background in NHS leadership both in primary care delivery and in acute and primary care commissioning and she is an experienced facilitator with Third Sector Boards and action learning sets. 

Catherine also runs her own consultancy company, Alpha ...

Telephone
+44 (0) 7983 135662
Email
c.s.weir@bham.ac.uk

Professor Iestyn Williams

Professor Iestyn Williams

Professor of Health Policy and Management
Director of Research in HSMC

Health Services Management Centre

Iestyn is a Professor of Health Policy and Management and Director of Research for the School of Social Policy. He is involved in a range of research, teaching and knowledge transfer work and has a broad methodological experience and expertise. He specialises in social science approaches to Health Services Research, employing mixed methods study designs. He has specific expertise in: ...

Telephone
+44(0)121 414 7063
Email
i.p.williams@bham.ac.uk

Dr Shazia Zafar

Dr Shazia Zafar

Research Fellow

Department of Social Work and Social Care

Dr Shazia Zafar is a scientist in applied health research and social science who conducts research using quantitative and qualitative methods. 

She is currently exploring the impact which results from care home closure. As little evidence currently exists on the impact of care home closure, the results will provide key lessons to local governments nationally.

Her projects are both UK based ...

Email
s.zafar@bham.ac.uk