All Outputs (43)

Are we all in it together? Constructions of responsible leadership through speechmaking at COP26 (2025)
Journal Article

The need for an alternative understanding of leadership that can address grand societal challenges, like the climate crisis, has inspired a rich research field under the umbrella of responsible leadership (RL). This paper explores how alternative mea... Read More about Are we all in it together? Constructions of responsible leadership through speechmaking at COP26.

"Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers (2025)
Book Chapter

The notion of vulnerability characterises the separated nature of cultural contexts, uniting women through the pernicious need for coping mechanisms. Confronting the ‘double jeopardy’ of race and gender (Beal, 2008), female minorities are at highest... Read More about "Before we open our mouths, society has labelled us": Double jeopardy and the identity of Black, female trailblazers.

Examining the feasibility of advanced practice radiation therapy roles within the Singaporean healthcare arena: A joint UK-Singapore study (2024)
Journal Article

Advanced clinical practice in UK healthcare has matured over recent years. The field now promotes multi-professional working and flexibility in patient care, which are significant factors of the modern healthcare workforce, due to the ongoing shortag... Read More about Examining the feasibility of advanced practice radiation therapy roles within the Singaporean healthcare arena: A joint UK-Singapore study.

From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England (2024)
Book Chapter

Accounts of wellbeing are traditionally understood as ‘rooted in social, caring relationships and traditional virtues of compassion, altruism and duty’ (Cieslik, Not smiling but frowning’: Sociology and the ‘problem of happiness’. Sociology, 49(3), 4... Read More about From magical thinking to being ‘pragmagic’: Narratives of wellbeing in health and care in England.

'You’re not a REAL doctor': Exploring subjective wellbeing among clinical academics in the NIHR mentoring scheme (2024)
Journal Article

Background

The International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO) highlighted the importance of employee wellbeing in the NHS, for its impact on patient care and as a role-model for other employers (IPPO, 2022). However, few studies have investigated... Read More about 'You’re not a REAL doctor': Exploring subjective wellbeing among clinical academics in the NIHR mentoring scheme.

Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts (2024)
Book

Leaderly acts and practices from unexpected places are often overlooked and yet have remarkable power. These spontaneous acts are in sharp contrast to those of formal leaders in governments and leading corporations. Global events like the Covid-19 pa... Read More about Unleadership: The Remarkable Power of Unremarkable Acts.

RBWM World Cafe Final Evaluation Report (2023)
Report

Challenges to wellbeing amongst clinical academic health professionals (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Background:
The Covid-19 pandemic exacerbated the toll on the NHS of a decade of austerity and increasing demand from an aging population with talk of giving attention to staff wellbeing. In the literature, employee wellbeing is clearly recognized... Read More about Challenges to wellbeing amongst clinical academic health professionals.

Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system (2023)
Journal Article

In this paper, we draw on systems leadership, complexity and paradox theory to elucidate the tensions that organisational actors experience when practising multi-level leadership. We explore these issues through a study of the perceptions and experie... Read More about Paradoxes of multi-level leadership: Insights from an integrated care system.

Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset (2022)
Book Chapter

This Handbook brings together the latest research on graduate employability into one authoritative volume. Dedicated parts guide readers through topics, key issues and debates relating to delivering, facilitating, achieving and evaluating graduate em... Read More about Learning through uncertainty: Team learning and the development of entrepreneurial mindset.

It’s a kind of magic: Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the Philosopher John Austin (1962) pointed out, saying and doing are indissociable, although not always expressed in the same way with the same understanding and intention. For Cieslik (2016), accounts of wellbeing are “rooted in social, caring re... Read More about It’s a kind of magic: Narratives of wellbeing in health and social care in England.

Narratives of wellbeing (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

As the Philosopher John Austin (1962) pointed out, saying and doing are indissociable, although not always expressed in the same way with the same understanding and intention. For Cieslik (2016), accounts of wellbeing are “rooted in social, caring re... Read More about Narratives of wellbeing.

Climate for innovation: A critical lever in the leadership of innovation (2022)
Book Chapter

Innovation involves an uncertain journey and, although leadership cannot ensure innovation success, it can certainly influence its odds. In this chapter we will explore the concept of organisational climate, an arena where leadership can have a signi... Read More about Climate for innovation: A critical lever in the leadership of innovation.

‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26 (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper identifies ways in which leaders, affected nations and activists construct their leadership practices in different ways to address the climate crisis. Whether they advocate for leadership or against it, there remains an opportunity to lear... Read More about ‘Humanity will not be saved by promises’: Using an unleadership lens to restory the ‘blah blah bah’ of leadership at COP26.

Unleading during a pandemic: Scrutinising leadership and its impact in a state of exception (2022)
Journal Article

Characterising COVID-19 pandemic as a ‘state of exception’, we might expect great hero models of leadership to come to the fore. Instead, drawing on a thematic analysis of 246 news articles, this paper illustrates something different: communities, co... Read More about Unleading during a pandemic: Scrutinising leadership and its impact in a state of exception.

Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset (2021)
Book Chapter

The changing nature of work attaches greater significance, by organisations, entrepreneurs and students alike, to the development of entrepreneurial capacities, with growing interest in entrepreneurial mindset and psychological capital (self-efficacy... Read More about Is it all in the mindset? Team coaching, psychological capital and the collaborative development of an entrepreneurial mindset.

Narratives of entrepreneurship: A video-game rhetorical epic? (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In this paper we explore stories mobilised by budding entrepreneurs in the creation and maintenance of an entrepreneurial identity. We explore how budding entrepreneurs, studying on an undergraduate, project-based, practice-led entrepreneurship degre... Read More about Narratives of entrepreneurship: A video-game rhetorical epic?.

Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System OD Collaborative: Review of evidence & literature (2021)
Report

This document presents outcomes of a review of theory, research, policy and practice (nationally and internationally) completed as part of scoping work for the Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System (ICS) Organisation Development (OD)... Read More about Nottingham & Nottinghamshire Integrated Care System OD Collaborative: Review of evidence & literature.

Developing inclusive leadership: Insights from our work with the NHS leadership academy (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

With a workforce of 1.5 million, the National Health Service (NHS) is the fifth largest organisation in the world. Despite its commitment to provide “a comprehensive service, available to all irrespective of gender, race, disability, age, sexual orie... Read More about Developing inclusive leadership: Insights from our work with the NHS leadership academy.

How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study (2021)
Journal Article

Objectives: Systems leadership is widely acknowledged to be needed to address the many ‘wicked issues’ challenging public health systems. However, there is a lack of evidence on how to develop public health professionals into effective systems leader... Read More about How do you develop systems leadership in public health? Insights from a scoping study.