Profile

Qualifications

PhD
MSc
BSc

Experience

Ian Kirkpatrick, is Professor in Work and Organisation. He joined the School in January 2000 from Cardiff University, where he was awarded his PhD in 1996. His research interests include: management change in professional organisations, restructuring of public services, flexible employment and comparative developments in HRM. He has published widely in a range of leading academic journals including Public Administration, Organization, British Journal of Management and Work Employment and Society. Ian is also co-author of two books: The new Managerialism and Public Service Professions, and The Management of Children’s Residential Care, both published by Palgrave Macmillan. He has been involved in a number of large research projects including studies funded by the Department of Health and most recently, the Economic and Social Research Council and European Science Foundation. Currently Ian acts as Director of Research Degrees for LUBS. He is also Management Committee Chair of European Cost Action ISO9003 (focusing of healthcare management) and a member of the editorial management team of the BSA journal, Work Employment and Society.

Research

Management change in professional organisations, restructuring of public services, flexible employment and comparative developments in HRM.

Teaching

 

Ian Kirkpatrick teaches or acts as module manager for the following courses:

- Strategic Human Resource Management (Year three undergraduate)

- Human Resource Management (Full time MBA core module)

- Human Resource Management (MA HRM core module)

- Management Consulting (Full and Part time MBA elective module) (from 2008-2009)

- Medicine and Management (Postgraduate module linked to the PG Certificate Doctors as Managers)

- Understanding your Discipline Seminar Series (Research Degree Students)

Publications

Refereed Journal Articles

Kirkpatrick, I., Dent, M., Lega, F. and Bullinger, B. (2012) ‘The development of medical manager roles in European Health Systems: A Framework for Comparison’, International Journal of Clinical Practice - Forthcoming

Hoque, K., Kirkpatrick, I., Lonsdale, C. and DeRuyter, A. (2012) ‘Outsourcing the procurement of agency workers: assessing the impact of vendor managed services in English social care’, Work Employment and Society – forthcoming.

Muzio, D., Kirkpatrick, I. and Kipping, M. (2011) ‘Professions, Organizations and the State: Applying the Sociology of the Professions to the Case of Management Consultancy’, Current Sociology - forthcoming

Kirkpatrick, I., De Ruyter, A., Hoque, K., and Lonsdale, C. (2011) ‘Practicing what they preach? The disconnect between the state as regulator and user of employment agencies’, International Journal of Human Resource Management – forthcoming.

Kirkpatrick, I. and Muzio, D. (2011) ‘Introduction: reconnecting professions and organisations – a conceptual framework’, Current Sociology – forthcoming.

Kirkpatrick, I., Kragh-Jespersen, P., and Dent, M. (2011) ‘The contested terrain of hospital management: professional projects and healthcare reform in Denmark’ Current Sociology – forthcoming.

Londsdale, C., Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K. and De Ruyter, A. (2010) ‘Supplier Behaviour and Public Contracting in the English Agency Nursing Market’, Public Administration, 88 (3), 800-818.

Kirkpatrick, I., Kragh Jespersen, P., Dent, M. and Neogy, I. (2009) ‘Medicine and management in a comparative perspective: the cases of England and Denmark’, Sociology of Health and Illness, 31 (5), 642-658.

Shelly, M.S. and Kirkpatrick, I (2008) ‘Medical engagement redefined: managing productive relationships between doctors and managers’, Clinical Leader, 1, 2, 69-78.

Kirkpatrick, I. Shelly, M., S., Dent, M. and Neogy, I. (2008) ‘Towards a “productive” relationship between medicine and management: reporting from a national inquiry’, International Journal of Clinical Leadership, 16, 1, 27-35.

Hoque, K., Kirkpatrick, I., De Ruyter, A. and Lonsdale, C. (2008) ‘New contractual relationships in the agency worker market: the case of the UK NHS’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 46: (3) 389-412.

Hoque, K. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2008) ‘Making the core contingent: agency work and its consequences for UK public services’, Public Administration, 86 (2) 331-344.

De Ruyter, A., Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K., Lonsdale, C. and Malan, J. (2008) ‘Agency working and the degradation of public service employment: the case of nurses and social workers’ International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19 (3): 432-45.

Editorship of Journal Special Issues

Special edition of Current Sociology ‘reconnecting professional organisations and occupations’, 2011 – forthcoming (with Daniel Muzio).

Chapters in Books

Dent, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2011) Medical leadership and Management Reforms in Hospitals in England, Denmark, Netherlands and Kaiser Permanente, in Teelken, C., Dent, M. and Ferlie, E. (eds.)  Leadership, Management, and the Professions in the Public Sector, London: Routledge.

Kirkpatrick, I., Muzio, D. and Ackroyd, S. (2011) ‘The sociology of professions’, in Clark, T. and Kipping, M. (eds) The Oxford handbook of management Consulting, Oxford university press – forthcoming.

Kipping, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2007) ‘From Talyor as product to taylorism as process: Knowledge intensive firms in a historical perspective’, in Muzio, D. Ackroyd, S. and Chalant, F. (eds.) Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour: Law, Medicine and Management Consultancy, London: Palgrave.

Reports

Neogy, I. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2009) 'Medicine and Management: Lessons Across Europe', Centre for Innovation and Health Management, November.

Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K., Lonsdale, C. and De Ruyter, A, (2009) 'Professional Agency Working in Nursing and Social Work:  Implications for Management', Centre for Employment Relations and Change Policy Report No.3, Leeds: CERIC.

Full report available here

Kirkpatrick, I., Malby, R., Dent, M., Neogy, I., Mascie_Taylor, H., Pollard, L. 'National Inquiry Into Management and Medicine: FInal Report', Centre for Innovation and Health Management, University of Leeds, January 2007.

Full report available here