Our teaching staff
We see public services as part of a continuum of state, market, and other forms of activity, and increasingly in a European and wider international context. As our work deepens in these areas, it informs our input into our study programmes. And, as ever, we shall look to our participants for new ideas in new fields.
We already have close working links with European, national, regional and local government, regulated industries, the health service, the police, and the criminal justice system. We are planning new work in relation to the voluntary sector, in public policy analysis, and in studying the institutional environment of business.
Study with us and you will be taught by academics who are high level policy advisers to government in the UK and internationally. UK Government ministers, senior civil servants, and public managers regularly visit WBS to contribute to our seminars and to give lectures. See theory put into practice with the Warwick MPLM.
The teachers
- Barbara Allen
- Barbara has particular interest and expertise in public services reform, management and delivery at local, national, and international levels of government.
- Emeritus Professor Colin Crouch
- Colin is an internationally acclaimed economic sociologist, with a special interest in governance of the market, state, and civil society, who was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy in 2005.
- Professor Graeme Currie
- Graeme's research interests are leadership and strategic change, the role of middle managers, and of the personnel function in the NHS, new organisational forms in healthcare, teamworking in public services, the impact of MIS/IT upon role of middle managers, and knowledge management in health care & related industries.
- Jonathan Davies
- Jonathan's main research interest is urban politics and he has worked on a variety of projects concerned with urban regeneration and social inclusion, including the UK Government commissioned national evaluations of New Deal for Communities and Local Strategic Partnerships.
- Alberto Franco
- Alberto's research focuses on the use of facilitated modelling approaches to support strategy practices, the evaluation of strategic options and multi-party collaboration.
- Professor Keith Grint
- Keith is a renowned expert in leadership.
- Professor Jean Hartley
- Jean has led and contributed to many large scale research programmes on innovation and improvement in public services, including the Best Value and Beacons programmes in local government.
- Tina Kiefer
- Tina is an organisational psychologist, whose interests are in daily experience of ongoing change, positive and negative emotional processes at work, cultural implicit leadership theories, leadership behaviours in change, and toxic and harmful work experiences.
- Paul Walley
- Paul is an expert in operations management, involved in redesign of emergency treatment processes and other aspects of hospital activity. His interests include management of service technology, operations strategy, and operations management in healthcare.
- Professor Jonathan Tritter
- Jonathan is Special Advisor to the NHS National Centre for Involvement in Health whose main research interests relate to public participation and lay experience in health and policy making particularly in relation to cancer, mental health and environmental policy.
- Penelope Tuck
- Penelope's research interests are in the public management of tax administrations; the changing relationship between HM Revenue & Customs and large corporates, and the role of qualified accountants in HM Revenue & Customs.