Professor Jeremy Dawson
PhD
Management School
Chair in Health Management


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- Profile
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Jeremy Dawson is Professor of Health Management, working jointly between the Institute of Work Psychology (within the Management School) and the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR).
He is a statistician by background, but has worked in the fields of work psychology, management and healthcare since 1998.
Jeremy’s research focusses mainly on staff experience in the NHS (particularly in the areas of team working, human resource management, climate and culture in the NHS and equality, diversity and inclusion) and its links with outcomes, with current funded projects including an examination of factors affecting turnover of mental health staff, and topics such as measurement of general practice productivity, evaluation of interventions to improve staff well-being, and diversity and discrimination in the workplace. He provides advice to the NHS at a national level, as a member of both the NHS Staff Survey Advisory Group, and the NHS Race and Health Observatory Academic Reference Group.
He has also worked extensively on other topics, particularly team working processes, and work group diversity, work engagement and safety. He has a particular interest in areas of statistical methodology, including the testing and .
He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at Aston Business School, Aston University, where he was also director of the Institute for Health Services Effectiveness (IHSE), leading several large-scale projects including running the NHS national staff survey for its first eight years between 2003 and 2010.
He gained his PhD from Aston University in 2011.
- Research interests
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Jeremy's research falls broadly into three areas, with plenty of crossover between them – management of health care organisations, team working, and statistics.
Recent projects in health care include:
- a of the effects of NHS staff engagement and experience on patient outcomes
- a longitudinal of Schwartz Center Rounds in the NHS
- the development and implementation of of general practices.
Current work includes a study on the Retention of Mental Health Staff (), an evaluation of specialist clinics for people suffering from multiple, medically unexplained symptoms (MSS3), and the Behaviour in Teams (BiT) study examining the benefit on giving teams feedback on their behaviour in meetings.
As a statistician he has also undertaken a wide range of methodological research, particularly regarding interpretation of interaction effects, measurement of work group diversity, and questionnaire development.
He has published over 70 papers in refereed academic journals in the fields of psychology, management, health care and research methods, as well as numerous project reports and articles in practitioner publications. He is an editorial board member of six journals, and an Associate Editor of both Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Business and Psychology.
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Reports
Working papers
Datasets
Preprints
- Research group
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The Institute of Work Psychology (IWP)
Jeremy's work contributes strongly to both the Work and Wellbeing theme, and the Leadership and Teamworking theme. Since 2017 he has led the Behaviour in Teams research group.
- Teaching interests
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Jeremy is a statistician by background, and teaches a wide variety of subjects in the fields of statistics and research methods. Within the Management School he contributes to modules on research methods for management and psychology students, as well as supervising postgraduate students.
Within ScHARR Jeremy leads the HAR6045 Further Statistics for Health Science Researchers module, and a corresponding online learning module (HAR6061), which is also available to PhD students and for continuous professional development (CPD). He also contributes to two other statistical modules for medical or health students, and currently supervises two PhD students.
Some of this teaching has the aim of preparing students for using statistics in the wider world (e.g. statistics for work psychologists; critical numbers for medical students), whilst other areas are focussed on enabling students (particularly postgraduates) to do quantitative research.
He also provides additional statistical workshops for staff and PhD students within the Management School. These include everything from basic principles of research through to detailed workshops about topics such as questionnaire design and psychometrics, multilevel analysis and structural equation modelling.
He has also supervised students at all levels, including undergraduates, MSc, MBA, and PhD.
- PhD Supervision
Jeremy currently supervises the following PhD students:
He has previously supervised:
Name Thesis title Year of completion Ignacio Perez Sepulveda Team Communication Actions: Beyond the Dichotomy of Face-to-Face versus Virtual Interactions in Teams 2024 Are you interested in applying for a PhD?