HSMC undertake research, teaching and evaluation issues of the health/ care workforce as they relate to the nature of work, its organisation and its delivery. It is through staff that the triple aims of health care (improving access, enhancing quality and controlling costs) are put into practice.
We develop a close understanding of the lifeworlds of health and care workers. Our research, evaluation and teaching explores the power and social structures affecting the professional lives of healthcare workers, as well as the organisational and professional cultures they are embedded in.
Contact: Mark Exworthy or Nicola Gale
Our research
These are current and recent research projects focusing on the knowledge and practices within the health sector workforce, staff experiences, motivation and impact, the organisation of work, as well as the professions and careers within the sector:
- Evaluation of the RCP Chief Registrar programme (2016-2017)
- Wessex Chief Registrar evaluation
- Healthcare Leadership with Political Astuteness (2017 - )
- Phronesis and the medical community (2015-2018)
- Towards a sociology of Risk Work (2015 - 2016)
- Set to care-enhancing compassionate care in practice: An Action Learning Approach (2014)
- Understanding employee whistleblowing in health care (2015 - 2017)
- Diverse health care providers: Behaviour in response to commissioners, patients (2015-2017)
- The Twenty-first Century Public Servant (2013-2014)