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Dr Jennifer Gosling

MSc PhD SFHEA

Assistant Professor
in Management

Room
133

LSHTM
15-17 Tavistock Place
London
WC1H 9SH
United Kingdom

Tel.
020 7958 8142

I joined the School in December 2007, having spent 16 years as a Manager in general practice, most recently heading the Practice Support Unit in Newham PCT, East London. My PhD research was on New Public Management and the managerialisation of general practice, focussing on the developing role of the Practice Manager.

 

Affiliations

Faculty of Public Health and Policy
Department of Health Services Research and Policy

Teaching

I am one of six Course Directors for the London-based MSc Public Health and the stream advisor for the Health Services Management Stream on the MSc Public Health. I also organise the Term 3 module, Health Services Management.

On the DrPH programme, I organise the module Understanding Leadership, Management & Organizations and have an advisory role in the OPA process.

In 2018 I was elected to the Executive Council of the UK Council for Graduate Education (UKCGE).

In 2021 I became a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA)

Research

I have undertaken a short study for a London PCT on Practice Based Commissioning and been part of a multi-institution team led by the School undertaking a commissioned Evaluation of Polyclinics and Poly-systems within London. I spent a year as a senior research fellow with the Nuffield Trust on a project exploring the role of Clinical Commissioning Groups in primary care development. I have recently completed a project funded by the Department of Health on the leadership role played by Health and Well-being Boards, led by the University of Durham. My most recent project was a mixed methods study of quality improvement in general practice, surveying GPs and practice managers, funded by the Health Foundation.

I have also done a small piece of research on the views of students taking the Doctorate in Public Health (DrPH) at LSHTM

My research interests include - organisation of and current reforms to general practice, primary care and the wider NHS; practice managers; state/public provision of public services; management, governance, neo-liberalism and Labour Process Theory and education research.

Research Area
Health care policy
Health services research
Health systems
Organisational research
Primary care
Quality improvement
Mixed methods
Qualitative methods
Education
Discipline
Political science
Sociology
Education
Management
Country
United Kingdom

Selected Publications

Health and wellbeing boards as theatres of accountability: a dramaturgical analysis
Visram S; Hunter DJ; Perkins N; Adams L; Finn R; Gosling J; Forrest A
2020
LOCAL GOVERNMENT STUDIES
Comparing data quality from personal computers and mobile devices in an online survey among professionals
Erens B; Collins D; Manacorda T; Gosling J; Mays N; Reid D; Taylor W
2019
Social Research Practice
Quality improvement in general practice: what do GPs and practice managers think?
Gosling J; Mays N; Erens R; Reid D; Taylor W; Jones B
2019
Partnership or insanity: why do health partnerships do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result?
Perkins N; Hunter DJ; Visram S; Finn R; Gosling J; Adams L; Forrest A
2019
Journal of Health Services Research and Policy
Improving the quality of general practice services in the UK: Surveying the activities of GPs and practice managers (abstract & commentary).
Gosling J; Mays N; Erens B; Reid D; Taylor W; Griffiths P
2018
International journal of nursing studies
Risk or reward? The Changing Role of CCGs in General Practice
Holder H; Robertson R; Ross S; Bennett L; Gosling J; Curry N
2015
Privatising the NHS
Gosling J
2013
International Socialism Journal
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