I am a sociologist interested in the political economy of health care with a focus on the English NHS. In particular, I am interested in the allocation of resources including funding, purchasing and provider payment mechanisms, sociolegal aspects such as governance, regulation, and accountability, and social legitimacy of public services as reflected in the public attitudes. I am a member of the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Systems and Commissioning.
As part of NIHR PRU in Health and Social Care Systems and Commissioning, I have been involved in several research projects exploring various organisational aspects of the English NHS such as an interplay between provider competition and cooperation in planning local health services and implementation of the new architecture of system management established by the Health and Care Act 2022. Currently, I am involved in a project exploring the development of provider collaboratives in the English NHS.
Affiliations
Centres
Teaching
I co-organise and teach Health Services (1107) module (with Dr Mirza Lalani). I have been a personal tutor, project supervisor and marker on the MSc in Public Health. Previously, I've also contributed as a seminar leader to the Health Policy, Process and Power and Health Systems modules.
Research
I am interested in the organisation of health care services and interorganisational relations in the English NHS, the interface between health care services and long term care, and the issues of social legitimacy and public attitudes towards public service provision including the conceptualisations of welfare deservingness and the normative underpinnings of public services.