5. Organisational Science

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Summary

The Organisational Science Theme in ARC West Midlands encompasses implementation of integrated care, leadership, strategy, knowledge mobilisation, workforce change, and digital transformation. It is led by Graeme Currie, Professor of Public Management at Warwick Business School. Graeme is supported by Ivo Vlaev (behavioural science expert) and Eivor Oborn (digital transformation expert), also at Warwick Business School, and by Amy Grove, Professor (implementation science expert) at University of Birmingham.

Currently four Senior Research Fellows are employed: Dr Agnieszka Latuzynska, Dr Amy Lynch, Dr Emily Rowe and Dr Sarah Woolley, and two doctoral researchers are encompassed within the theme: Rosie Oswick (studying co-production in service development in social care) and Fritz Winter (studying care co-ordination in paediatrics and end-of-life care).

Since 2014, many doctoral students have successfully completed their PhDs within the theme, in areas such as risk management, clinical leadership, professional identity, strategic change, workforce development, in collaboration with local care providers. Current studies (as of January 2025) include the following collaborations with local health and care providers: evaluation of the implementation of virtual wards; systems level leadership in local integrated care systems; EPR implementation in a hospital; development of women’s health hubs; co-production in an integrated care system; leadership in social care; innovation in social care.

For more information, please contact Graeme.Currie@wbs.ac.uk

Objectives

Early and late aims: We will work closely with the research themes at all stages in the development and evaluation intervention pathway as follows:
  • At the selection stage we can produce the evidence of what it would take to make a success of a proposed intervention to avoid the type of failures that are endemic to underspecified, under-costed attempts to improve services.
  • At the development phase we can integrate knowledge covering the three levels described above along with further skills (such as operations research).
  • At the pilot stage we can provide early warning of the need to adapt services as a result of formative enquiry.
  • We will contribute to qualitative data collection and theory development at the stage of mixed-methods evaluations.

Theme Lead

Professor Graeme Currie

graeme.currie@wbs.ac.uk

Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

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