Dr. Mike Walsh
Chair, Institute for People-Centred Healthcare Management
Background
I am Chair of the Institute for People-Centred Healthcare Management, Director of Postgraduate Research and lecturer in Management Science.
I am also an Honorary Research & Management Consultant for Humber Mental Health Teaching NHS TRust, East Yorkshire, a member of the Operational Research Society and is an Associate of the Institute of Business Consulting, London.
I have been variously: charge nurse at Lodgemoor Sheffield, specialising in the care of older people to postgraduate level; postgraduate researcher in the Department of Management Systems, University of Hull, investigating the process and conditions for level playing field dialogue between older blind people and NHS professionals on quality of health services from a critical systems perspective; research assistant in the Institute of Health Studies on an ESRC funded investigation of risk management by health and social care organisations; co-ordinator of the human ageing programmes in the School of Health at the University of Hull; acting director of the Community Operational Research Unit at the University of Lincoln; freelance research and management consultant; co-ordinator of the User Centred Research Programme (RWA, RV9) at Humber Mental Health / Sheffield Medical School, on behalf of seven NHS Trusts and 3 Universities before finally coming to Stirling in November 2006 to take up a lectureship in management science.
I am a keen armchair astronomer, a keen Ochil gazer, go to a Methodist church with my family and I am strongly motivated by issues of justice and a desire to help people – but the nature of both justice and help are complicated, not simple, contentious not uniformly agreed.
Research Interests
My recent research and consultancy includes:
Employment and Mental Health – NHS Lothian Knowledge Transfer Partnership: This is a collaborative project proposal with Queen Margaret University to assist NHS Lothian with redevelopment of vocational support from 2008 – 2011 for people with mental health difficulties.
Patient and Public Involvement National Quality Evaluation: I am leading a project team with the NHS National Centre for Involvement, the Scottish Executive and patient and public involvement managers from five local NHS Trusts in England.
Let’s Talk (Humber Mental Health public “listening exercise”): working with the Head of Patient Experience I facilitated the design of a public involvement process using Soft Systems Methodology (reported July 06).
Evaluation of the Community Links Worker Project (West Hull PCT): I have undertaken an evaluation using Viable System diagnosis of a PCT funded project based in a Hull General Practice. Reported March 2006
Tower Hamlets London MBC, evaluation of Third Sector Capacity Building Project, March 2004
HM Prison Service, January 1st 2002 – November 30th 2002, literature review on health needs and change management in prisons, with Hostick (Hull & East Yorks. NHS Trust) and Watson (University of Hull).
Health Action Zone Evaluation Needs (HAZE) (joint project between Dr. Gerald Midgley, Dr. Mike Walsh and co-researchers, University of Hull and Dr. Carolyn Kagan, Manchester Metropolitan University, to elicit needs for and provide “learning events” on evaluation for community groups in the Health Action Zone). Commissioned by Salford, Trafford and Manchester Health Action Zone (2000-2001)
Selected Publications
Walsh, M. Grant, G. and Coleman, Z. (forthcoming) Action Research – a necessary complement to traditional health science? Healthcare Analysis accepted 12th March, 2007
Shields, G and Walsh MP (2006) Establishing the Rationale for, and Practice of, User Research at the Humber Mental Health Teaching Trust Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice Volume 3 Number 2 October 2006
Boyd, A. Geerling, T. Gregory, W. Kagan, C. Midgley, G. Murray P. and Walsh, MP (2006) Systemic evaluation: a participative, multi-method approach Journal of the Operational Research Society, advance online publication, Sept 2006 (doi 10.1057/palgrave/jors.2602281)
Grant, G. Courtney, D. King, S. Lovell, J. Shields, G. Walsh M. (2006) Accounting for Research, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Research and Practice, April, Volume 3, No. 1, pp. 5 – 21.
Walsh M.P. and Hostick T. (2005) Improving healthcare through Community OR, Journal of the Operational Research Society, February, Volume 56, pp. 193 - 201 (special health edition).
M Walsh (2004) Improving healthcare for community OR: a case study, OR for Developing Countries Newsletter (IFORS), 12(4) 7-9, 2004
Midgley, G., Boyd, A., Geerling, T., Gregory, W., Murray, P., Walsh, P. and Kagan, C. (2003) Systemic Evaluation: Three flexible and Inclusive Approaches Gerencia u Políticas de Salud 1 (2) 6-16 (Bogotá).
R Watson, A Stimson, T Hostick and M Walsh (2002) Health Care and Change Management in the context of Prisons: Rapid reviews of the literature in two parts. University of Hull. http://www.hda-online.org.uk/documents/litreview.doc
Teaching
Modules I currently contribute teaching to include:
MAN9SA: Management Information Systems: Analysis and Design
