SDO Management Fellowships
The Management Fellowship Scheme was established in 2009 and gives SDO-funded project teams the opportunity to apply for additional resources to allow them to second a health services manager to work with their team. The management fellows are typically practising managers working in healthcare organisations that are local to the SDO-funded research projects.
The SDO programme anticipates that the fellowships will encompass three key objectives:
- to improve the quality and relevance of the respective funded research projects through greater managerial involvement
- to develop capacity in the managerial community for accessing, appraising and using research evidence
- to encourage greater engagement, linkage and exchange between the local research producers (usually universities) and potential local research users within the NHS.
An example of the latter objective would be the management fellow providing direct day-to-day service expertise to the research team as the project is operationalised. While working alongside the team they will also develop their research knowledge and skills.
Most fellowships run for an equivalent of approximately 12 months full time over the total period of the research project. The post holders are directly engaged in conducting research and contribute to all stages, from design through fieldwork, data analysis and reporting, whilst remaining supernumerary to the original proposed and funded research team. They are supported throughout with appropriate guidance and training by the research team.
There are currently 14 Management Fellows attached to SDO-funded research projects, details below.
The NIHR SDO programme is not currently accepting new applications for management fellowships.
The NIHR SDO programme has commissioned an early formative evaluation of the scheme which will feed back into future scheme developments, led by Professor Alison Bullock, Cardiff University. For further details please click here.
Current Management Fellowships
Click on the project link for the lay and scientific summary for each of the projects. Fellow biographic details where available can be viewed by clicking on the name of the fellow.
| Chief Investigator | Project | Fellow and employing organisation |
| Prof Roland Petchey, City University, London | 08/1808/237 | Jo Partington, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust (ICHT) |
| Prof David Buchanan, Cranfield University | 08/1808/238 How do they manage? A study of the realities of middle and front line management work in healthcare | Susan Lawrence, Deputy Operations Manager, Surgical Services, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Dr Paula Hyde, University of Manchester | 08/1808/241 Roles & behaviours of middle & junior managers: managing new organizational forms of health care | Charlotte Haynes, Research & Projects Lead, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust |
| Prof Sue Dopson, University of Oxford | 08/1808/242 | Janette McCulloch, Organisational consultant, Camden PCT, provider side |
| Prof Christine Edwards, University of Kingston | 08/1808/243 Explaining health managers' information seeking behaviour and use | Chris Smith, Locality Manager, South West London & St George's Mental Health NHS Trust |
| Prof Jacky Swan, University of Warwick | 08/1808/244 | Claudia Roginski, Head of Information, Coventry PCT |
| Prof David Hunter, Durham University | 08/1809/255 An evaluation of transformational change in NHS North East | Allison Welsh, Service Transformation lead, North East Strategic Health Authority |
| Dr Fliss Murtagh, King's College London | 08/1813/257 | Penny Hansford, Director of Nursing, St Christopher's Hospice |
Prof Scott Murray, University of Edinburgh | 08/1813/258 | Anne Donaldson, Clinical Nurse Manager, Western General Hospital in Edinburgh |
| Prof Julia Addington-Hall, Southampton University | 08/1813/259 The impact of variations in out of hours end of life care provision on patient experience, staff and health systems | Mrs Helen England, Brisdoc Healthcare Services, Bristol |
Dr Stephen Peckham, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine | 08/1806/261 Commissioning for Long Term Conditions: Hearing the voice of and engaging users Click here for project details
| Joanne Reay, Service Development Manager, Long Term Conditions team, West Essex Primary Care Trust |
| Dr Geraint Lewis, Nuffield Trust for Research and Policy Studies in Health Services | 09/1816/1021 Analysis of virtual wards: a multidisciplinary form of case management that integrates social and health care | Mrs Lorraine Wright, East Midlands Strategic Health Authority |
| Dr Karen Spilsbury, University of York | 09/1801/1026 Support matters: use of assistant staff in the delivery of primary and community nursing services in England | Ms Sue Pender, NHS Hull City Health Care Partnership |
| Professor Vari Drennan, Kingston University & St George's, University of London | 09/1801/1066 Investigating the contribution of Physician Assistants to primary care in England | Mr Wilfred Carneiro, St. George's Healthcare NHS Trust |
