Professor Martin Powell

 

Professor of Health and Social Policy

Health Services Management Centre

Professor Martin Powell

Contact details

Telephone +44(0)121 414 4462

Email m.powell@bham.ac.uk

School of Social Policy, HSMC
Park House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2RT

About

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.

Qualifications

His main qualifications are:

  • PhD ('Access to Primary Health Care in London'), University of London (1987)
  • BA (Hons) Human Geography, University of Reading (1983)

Biography

Martin has worked at the Universities of Glamorgan, Hertfordshire, Portsmouth, Bath and Stirling.  He is the Editor of 'Social Policy and Administration'. He lectures on the PhD programme at Institute of Governance, University of Maastricht. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board for 'Policy Press' and he has given keynote speeches at events in Italy and South Africa.

Previous projects:

  • Martin is currently leading a CH funded project on the impact of the health reforms in England.
  • His previous funded work includes health inequalities (ESRC), citizenship and consumerism (ESRC), municipal medicine before the NHS (Wellcome), decentralisation in health care systems (NHSSDO) and the relationships between voluntary and municipal hospitals before the NHS (Leverhulme).

Publications

Powell, M (2013)‘Horizontal Subsidiarity in Lombardy and UK. Decentralisation, Partnership, and Governance of Welfare’ in A. Brugnoli and A. Colombo (eds) Government, Governance And Welfare Reform. Structural Changes and Subsidiarity in Italy and Britain, Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, 2013.

Millar, R, Powell, M and Dixon, A (2012), What was the programme theory of New Labour's Health System Reforms? Journal of Health Service Research Policy, Vol 17(1), Jan 2012.

Powell, M, Millar, R, Mulla, A, Brown, H and Fewtrell, C (HSMC), McLeod, H (Health Economics Unit, University of Birmingham), Goodwin, N, Dixon, A and Naylor, C (The King's Fund) (2010), Comparative case studies of health reform in England (Report submitted to the Department of Health Policy Research Programme (PRP).

Powell M, Greener, I, Szmigin, I, Doheny, S and Mills, N (2010 Broadening the focus of public service consumerism, Public Management Review, 12(3), 323-339., 12(3), 323-339.

Powell M (2007) Understanding the Mixed Economy of Welfare (ed) Policy Press (ed) Policy Press

Powell M, Simmons R, Birchall J, Doheny S (2007) ‘Citizen Governance’, Policy and Politics, 35(3): 457-78, 35(3): 457-78

Powell M, Taylor B, Stewart J (2007) Central and local government and the provision of municipal medicine, 1919-1939, English Historical Review, 122: 397-426, 122: 397-426

Powell M, Levene A, Stewart J (2006) The development of Municipal General hospitals in English County Boroughs in the 1930s, Medical History, 50: 3-28, 50: 3-28

Powell M (2006) Social Policy and Administration: journal and discipline, Social Policy and Administration, 40(3): 233-49

Powell M (2005) Coasts and coalfields: the geographical distribution of doctors in England and Wales in the 1930s’, Social History of Medicine, 18(2): 245-263, 18(2): 245-263

Powell M, Glendinning C, Dowling B (2005) Partnerships between health and social acre under ‘New labour’: smoke without fire? A review of policy and evidence, Evidence and Policy, 1(3): 365-381, 1(3): 365-381

Powell M, Peckham S, Exworthy M, Greener I (2005) Decentralising health services, Public Money and Management, 25(4): 221-8t, 25(4): 221-8.

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