Professor Justin Waring

Health Services Management Centre
Professor of Medical Sociology & Healthcare Organisation

Contact details

Address: School of Social Policy, HSMC
Park House
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2RT, United Kingdom

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 practices, cultures and identitites; and how such institutional influences can both stimulate or stymie reform. He is interested in the application of social theory to different social, cultural and organisational contexts, as a means of both explaining social phenomena and extending theoretical rigour. The conceptual and theoretical foundations of hiswork involves making connections between medical and organisational sociology, sociology of the professions and public services management. He specialises in the use of ethnographic and mixed method research techniques.

Qualifications

PhD, University of Nottingham
MSc
BA, University of Liverpool

Publications

Recent publications

Chapter in book

Cruickshank, J. 2020. In press. ‘Epistemology’ [3000 words; peer reviewed], in S. Delamont, P. Atkinson, A. Cernat, R. A. Williams, and Sakshaug, J. (eds), SAGE Research Methods Foundations. London: Sage.

Article

Waring, J & Bishop, S 2019, 'Health states of exception: unsafe non-care and the (inadvertent) production of bare life in complex care transitions' Sociology of Health and Illness.

Bishop, S & Waring, J 2019, 'From boundary object to boundary subject; the role of the patient in coordination across complex systems of care during hospital discharge' Social Science & Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112370

Heavey, E, Waring, J, De Brún, A, Dawson, P & Scott, J 2019, 'Patients’ conceptualizations of responsibility for healthcare: a typology for understanding differing attributions in the context of patient safety' Journal of Health and Social Behavior, vol. 60, no. 2, pp. 188-203. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022146519849027

Waring, J & Crompton, A 2019, 'The struggles for (and of) network management: an ethnographic study of non-dominant policy actors in the English healthcare system' Public Management Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/14719037.2019.1588360

Clarke, J, Waring, J & Timmons, S 2019, 'The challenge of inclusive coproduction: the importance of situated rituals and emotional inclusivity in the coproduction of health research projects' Social Policy and Administration, vol. 53, no. 2, pp. 233-248. https://doi.org/10.1111/spol.12459

Waring, J, Bishop, S, Clarke, J, Exworthy, M, Fulop, NJ, Hartley, J & Ramsay, AIG 2018, 'Healthcare leadership with political astuteness (HeLPA): a qualitative study of how service leaders understand and mediate the informal ‘power and politics’ of major health system change' BMC Health Services Research, vol. 18, 918. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-3728-z

Crowther, A, Taylor, A, Toney, R, Meddings, S, Whale, T, Jennings, H, Pollock, K, Bates, P, Henderson, C, Waring, J & Slade, M 2018, 'The impact of Recovery Colleges on mental health staff, services and society' Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1017/S204579601800063X

Waring, J & Bishop, S 2018, 'Transforming professional and service user identities in the heterotopian 'hybrid spaces' of public-private partnerships' Policy and politics, vol. 46, no. 4, pp. 663-679. https://doi.org/10.1332/030557318X15333033267699

Toney, R, Elton, D, Munday, E, Hamill, K, Crowther, A, Meddings, S, Taylor, A, Henderson, C, Jennings, H, Waring, J, Pollock, K, Bates, P & Slade, M 2018, 'Mechanisms of action and outcomes for students in recovery colleges' Psychiatric Services, vol. 69, no. 12, pp. 1222-1229. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.201800283

Petrakaki, D, Hilberg, E & Waring, J 2018, 'Between empowerment and self-discipline: governing patients' conduct through technological self-care' Social Science & Medicine, vol. 213, pp. 146-153. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2018.07.043

Clarke, JM & Waring, J 2018, 'The transformative role of interaction rituals within therapeutic communities' Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1277-1293. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12773

O'Hara, JK, Aase, K & Waring, J 2018, 'Scaffolding our systems? Patients and families € reaching in' as a source of healthcare resilience.' BMJ Quality and Safety , vol. 28, pp. 3-6. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjqs-2018-008216

Latif, A, Waring, J, Watmough, D, Boyd, MJ & Elliott, RA 2018, '‘I expected just to walk in, get my tablets and then walk out’: on framing new community pharmacy services in the English healthcare system' Sociology of Health and Illness, vol. 40, no. 6, pp. 1019-1036. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.12739

Martin, GP & Waring, J 2018, 'Realising governmentality: Pastoral power, governmental discourse and the (re) constitution of subjectivities' Sociological Review, vol. 66, no. 6, pp. 1292-1308. https://doi.org/10.1177/0038026118755616