Graeme Currie
- Professor of Public Services Management, Head of International Governance and Public Management
Biography
Graeme's work has been recently published in leading international journals, such as Organization Studies, Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory, Leadership Quarterly, Human Relations, Journal of Management Studies, Social Science and Medicine. Current research grants, in which Graeme plays a major role, are: knowledge brokering role of middle level managers for patient safety within elderly care (funded by NIHR SDO), sustaining innovation (funded by NIHR SDO), Research Utilisation and knowledge mobilisation in NHS organisations (funded by NIHR SDO), national evaluation of CLAHRCs (funded by NIHR SDO). He works closely with senior levels of a number of public services organisations (NHS, Police, local authority), third sector (Ear Foundation), and private sector (Alliance Boots), all of whom have provided research funding beyond that identified above. His work is interdisciplinary, involving colleagues from other divisions, such as enterprise (focusing upon leadership and innovation), within WBS, and working relationships at a strategic level, with colleagues in the Medical School.
Research interests
leadership, knowledge mobilisation, innovation, strategic change, management learning, with a focus public services organisation and management (health and social care, education, police, local government).
Selected research projects
- The Knowledge Brokering Role of Middle Level Manager (MLMS) in Service Innovation: Managing The Translation Gap in Patient Safety for Elderly Care: NHS Service Delivery and Organisation, January 2011 - March 2013.
- Research utilisation and knowledge mobilisation in NHS organisations: synthesising evidence and theory using perspectives of organisational form, resource based view of the firm and critical theory: National Institute for Health Research (DoH), January 2011 - March 2012.
Only selected externally-funded projects are listed here.
Publications
Journal articles
- Eclipsing adaptation: The translation of the US MBA model in China. Management Learning (2012).
- Research into practice: Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care. Implementation Science (2012).
- Inter-professional barriers and knowledge brokering in an organizational context: The case of healthcare. Organization Studies (2012).
- Institutional work to maintain professional power: Re-creating the model of medical professionalism. Organization Studies (2012).
- Distributing leadership in health and social care : concertive, conjoint or collective? International Journal of Management Reviews 13 (2011): 286-300.