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PROFESSOR IAN KIRKPATRICK
EDUCATION
Ph.D. University of Wales College of Cardiff, 1996: ‘Rules, Negotiations and
Control: The case of a Public Service Agency’.
M.Sc. Industrial Relations and Personnel Management, 1989, London School of
Economics.
BA (Hons) History, University of York.
PROFESSIONAL CAREER
2007 -
Deputy Director Centre for Employment Relations Innovation and
Change, University of Leeds.
2006 -
Professor in Work and Organization – Leeds University Business
School, University of Leeds.
2000–2006
Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behaviour, Leeds University
Business School.
1994-2000
Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Cardiff Business School.
1990–1994
Research Associate, Cardiff Business School.
EXTERNAL POSITIONS
2007
Panel member, National Inquiry into Management and Medicine,
University of Leeds.
2004-2007
Editorial board, Work, Employment and Society (BSA Journal)
2005-
Chief Examiner, Organisational Behaviour (External programme),
London School of Economics.
2002–2003:
Visiting Profesor - Departamento de Economia y Empresa, Universitat
Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona).
2001-
Member of Institutional Economics and Public Regulations Research,
University of Valencia.
Peer review for: Organisation; Organisation Studies; Public Administration; Public
Administration Review; Journal of Management Studies; British Journal of
Management; Work Employment and Society; Employee Relations; International
Journal of Public Sector Management; Management Learning.
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Peer reviewer for: Economic and Social Research Council
Member of: European Group for Organisational Studies; Critical Management Studies
network; European Group for Public Administration.
MAIN FUNDED RESEARCH PROJECTS
- ‘Managing for Change’, knowledge transfer partnership, Leeds University Business
School with Leeds Teaching Hospital (2008-2010), £40,000, ESRC (with Becky
Maltby and Hugo Mascie-Taylor)
- ‘Exploring change in the management of European Health Systems’ (2007-8),
£6000, University of Leeds International fund (with Becky Maltby).
- ‘Agency working & employment change in health and social care: a UK and
Australia comparison’ (2007-8), £95,000, ESRC (RES-000-22-2000) ( with Kim
Hoque, Alex DeRuyter and Chris Lonsdale).
- ‘National Inquiry into Management and Medicine’ (2006-7), £5000, Higher
Education Innovation Fund, KT pump priming grant: £5000, Leeds University
Business School.
- ‘Agency Employment in UK Public Services’ (2004-6), £2000, Leeds University
Business School ‘Seedcorn’ fund.
- ‘External Management of Children’s Homes by Local Authorities’ (1997-1999),
£150,000, Department of Health (with Professor Richard Whipp and Dr Martin
Kitchener).
- ‘Professions in late modernity – seminar series’ (1993), £5000, ESRC (Richard
Whipp).
- ‘Anglo-German research network on public sector reforms’ (1993), £4000, Hans
Bockler Foundation.
UNIVERSITY POSITIONS
2007-
Faculty representative for postgraduate grants and prizes, Leeds
University Business School (LUBS).
2006-
LSSI launch committee
2006-
Executive board member of Leeds Social Science Institute (LSSI),
University of Leeds.
2005-
Departmental representative for postgraduate students.
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1994-1998
Erasmus students cohort tutor
SUPERVISION OF RESEARCH STUDENTS (SUCCESSFUL COMPLETION)
Sarah Mollitt, (2006) ‘Unwanted flexibility: agency working in health and social
care’.
PUBLICATIONS
Books (Monographs)
Kirkpatrick, I., Ackroyd, S. And Walker, R. (2005) The New Managerialism and
Public Service Professions, London: Palgrave.
Whipp, R., Kirkpatrick, I., and Kitchener, M. (2005) Managing Residential Child
Care: A Managed Service?, London: Palgrave.
Journal articles
Kipping, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2013) ‘Alternative pathways of change in
professional services firms: the case of management consulting’, Journal of
Management Studies (Forthcoming).
Veronesi, G., Kirkpatrick, I. and Vallascas, F. (2013) ‘Does clinical management
improve efficiency? Evidence from the English NHS’, Public Money and
Management (Forthcoming).
Veronesi, G., Kirkpatrick, I. and Vallascas, F. (2012) ‘Clinicians on the Board: What
Difference does it make?’, Social Science and Medicine (Forthcoming).
Kirkpatrick, I., Bullinger, B., Dent, M. & Lega, F. (2012) ‘The development of
medical-manager roles in European hospital systems: a framework for comparison’.
International Journal of Clinical Practice, 66(2): 121–124.
Grugulis, I. Stuart, M., Forde, C., Kirkpatrick, I. Mackenzie, R. and Tomlison, J.
(2012) ‘Writing articles for Work, Employment and Society: different voices, same
language’, Work, Employment and Society. 26(1): 5-9.
Kirkpatrick, I., De Ruyter, A., Hoque, K., and Lonsdale, C. (2011) ‘Practicing what
they preach? The disconnect between the state as regulator and user of employment
agencies’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Issue 18, 37113726.
Muzio, D., Kirkpatrick, I. and Kipping, M. (2011) ‘Professions, Organizations and the
State: Applying the Sociology of the Professions to the Case of Management
Consultancy’, Current Sociology, 59 (6) 805-824.
Hoque, K., Kirkpatrick, I., Lonsdale, C. and DeRuyter, A. (2011) ‘Outsourcing the
procurement of agency workers: assessing the impact of vendor managed services in
English social care’, Work Employment and Society, 25 (3), 522-539.
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Stuart, M., Gurgulis, I., Forde, C., Kirkpatrick, I., MacKenzie, R. and Tomlinson, J.
(2011) ‘The more things change…towards 25 years of Work, Employment and
Society’, Work Employment and Society, 25 (2) 197-201.
Kirkpatrick, I. and McCabe, C. (2011) ‘A full blooded market system: at what cost to
the NHS?’, British Medical Journal, 343: doi: 10.1136, 13 July.
Muzio, D. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2011) ‘Introduction: professions and organisations – a
conceptual framework’, Current Sociology, 59, 4, 389-405.
Kirkpatrick, I., Kragh-Jespersen, P., and Dent, M. (2011) ‘The contested terrain of
hospital management: professional projects and healthcare reform in Denmark’
Current Sociology, 59, 4, 489-506.
Londsdale, C., Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K. and De Ruyter, A. (2010) ‘Supplier
Behaviour and Public Contracting in the English Agency Nursing Market’, Public
Administration, 88, 3: 800-818.
Kirkpatrick, I., Kragh Jespersen, P., Dent, M. and Neogy, I. (2009) ‘Medicine and
management in a comparative perspective: the cases of England and Denmark’,
Sociology of Health and Illness, 31 (5), 642-658.
Shelly, M.S. and Kirkpatrick, I (2008) ‘Medical engagement redefined: managing
productive relationships between doctors and managers’, Clinical Leader, 1, 2:69-78.
Kirkpatrick, I. Shelly, M., S., Dent, M. and Neogy, I. (2008) ‘Towards a “productive”
relationship between medicine and management: reporting from a national inquiry’,
International Journal of Clinical Leadership, 16, 1:27-35.
Hoque, K., Kirkpatrick, I., De Ruyter, A. and Lonsdale, C. (2008) ‘New contractual
relationships in the agency worker market: the case of the UK NHS’, British Journal
of Industrial Relations, 46, 3: 389-412.
Hoque, K. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2008) ‘Making the core contingent: agency work and
its consequences for UK public services’, Public Administration, 86, 2: 331-344.
De Ruyter, A., Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K., Lonsdale, C. and Malan, J. (2008) ‘Agency
working and the degradation of public service employment: the case of nurses and
social workers’ International Journal of Human Resource Management, 19, 3: 43245.
Kirkpatrick, I. (2008) ‘Engaging doctors in management: some lessons from the UK
NHS’, Interface Health Magazine – forthcoming.
Kirkpatrick, I. Shelly, M., S., Dent, M. Neogy, I. (2008) ‘Towards a “productive”
relationship between medicine and management: reporting from a national inquiry’,
Clinician in Management - forthcoming
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De Ruyter, A., Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K., Lonsdale, C. and Malan, J. (2008) ‘Agency
working and the degradation of public service employment: the case of nurses and
social workers’, International Journal of Human Resource Management –
forthcoming.
Hoque, K. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2008) ‘Making the core contingent: agency work and
its consequences for UK public services’, Public Administration, 86, 1.
Ackroyd, S., Kirkpatrick, I. And Walker, R. (2007) ‘Public management reform and
its consequences for professional organisation: a comparative analysis’. Public
Administration. 85, 1.
Kirkpatrick, I. and Hoque, K. (2006) ‘A retreat from permanent employment?
Accounting for the rise of professional agency work in UK public services’, Work,
Employment and Society, 20, 4.
Kirkpatrick, I. (2006) ‘Between markets and networks: the reform of social care
provision in the UK’, Revista de Analisis Economico, Vol 21, 2, Sept-Dec.
Kirkpatrick, I. (2005) ‘Taking stock of the new managerialism in English social
services’, Social Work and Society [online journal] 3, 3, December.
Kirkpatrick, I. (2005) ‘Los mercados de la asistencia social en la practica: La
experiencia del reino unido’. Revista Asturiana Economia, num. 32, Enero-Abril.
Kirkpatrick, I. and Hoque, K. (2005) ‘The decentralisation of employment relations in
the British public sector’, Industrial Relations Journal, 36, 2, pp
Kirkpatrick, I. and Ackroyd, S. (2003) ‘Archetype theory and the changing
professional organization: a critique and alternative’, Organization, 10, 4, pp 739-758.
Hoque, K. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2003) ‘Non-standard employment in the management
and professional workforce: training, consultation and gender implications’, Work
Employment and Society, 17, 4. pp 667-689.
Kirkpatrick, I. and Ackroyd, S. (2003) ‘Transforming the professional archetype?: the
new managerialism in UK social services’, Public Management Review, 5, 4.
Kirkpatrick, I. (2002) ‘A jungle of competing requirements: management reform in
the organizational field of UK social services’, Social Work and Social Sciences
Review , 10, 3, pp 24-47.
Kirkpatrick, I., Kitchener, M. and Whipp, R. (2001) ‘Out of sight, out of mind?
Assessing the impact of markets for local authority children’s services’, Public
Administration, 79, 1., pp 49-71.
Boyne, G., Kirkpatrick, I. and Kitchener, M.J. (2001) ‘Introduction to the symposium
on new labour and the “modernisation” of public management’, Public
Administration, 79, 1. pp 1-4.
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Kitchener, M., Kirkpatrick, I. and Whipp, R. (2000) ‘Supervising professional work
under new public management: evidence from an “invisible trade”’, British Journal of
Management, 11, 3. pp 213-226.
[Reprinted in: Managing Care: Perspectives and Practice, Atkinson, D and
Henderson, J. (eds) (2003) London: Routledge.]
Kirkpatrick, I. (2000) ‘Workplace assimilation and conflict in professional service
organisations: the case of university libraries’ Public Policy and Administration, 14,
4, pp.71-86.
Kirkpatrick, I. (1999) ‘Managers or colleagues?: the changing nature of intraprofessional relationships in UK public services’, Public Management, 1, 4, pp 489509.
Kirkpatrick, I., Kitchener, M., Owen, D. and Whipp, R. (1999) ‘Un-chartered
territory: experiences of the purchaser/provider split in local authority children’s
services’, British Journal of Social Work, 29, pp 707-726.
Kirkpatrick, I. (1999) ‘The worst of both worlds?: public services without markets or
bureaucracy’, Public Money and Management, 19, 4, pp7-14.
Kitchener, M., Kirkpatrick, I. and Whipp, R. (1999) ‘Decoupling management
control: the case of UK children’s homes’, International Journal of Public Sector
Management, 12, 4, pp 338-350.
Kirkpatrick, I. and Martinez-Lucio, M. (1996) ‘The contract state and the future of
public management: introduction’, Public Administration, 74, 1., pp 1-8.
Davies, A., and Kirkpatrick, I. (1995) ‘Face to face with the sovereign consumer:
service quality and the changing role of professional librarians’, Sociological Review,
43, 4, pp 782-807.
Davies, A., Kirkpatrick, I., and N. Oliver. (1992) 'The organisational culture of an
academic library: implications for library strategy', British Journal of Academic
Librarianship, 7, 2, pp 69-89.
Editorship of journal special issues
Special edition of Current Sociology ‘reconnecting professional organisations and
occupations’, 2011, 59. (with Daniel Muzio).
Special edition of Management Research News, ‘The contract state? The future of
public management?’, 17, 1994 (edited with Miguel Martinez-Lucio and Bob Turner).
Special issue of Public Administration, ‘The Contract State’, 74, 1. 1996 (joint editor
with Miguel Martinez-Lucio).
Symposium in Public Administration, ‘New Labour and the modernisation of public
management’, 79, 1, 2001 (joint editor with George Boyne and Martin Kitchener).
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Edited books
Kirkpatrick, I. and Martinez-Lucio, M. (eds.) (1995) The Politics of Quality:
Management of Change in the U.K. Public Sector, Routledge: London.
Chapters in books
Kirkpatrick, I., Dent, M. and Lega, F. (2013) ‘Hybrid connections between
professional work and organizations’, in Noordegraaf, M. and Waring, J. (eds.) The
Routledge Companion to Public Professionalism, London: Routledge.
Kirkpatrick, I. (2013) The Changing Relationship between Organisations and
Occupations in Professional Services Firms, in Empson, L., Muzio, D., Broschak, J.
and Hinings, B. (Eds.) Oxford Handbook of Professional Service Firms, Oxford:
Oxford University Press
Kirkpatrick, I., Muzio, D. and Ackroyd, S. (2012) ‘The sociology of professions’, in
Clark, T. and Kipping, M. (eds) The Oxford handbook of management Consulting,
Oxford university press – forthcoming.
Kipping, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2011) ‘O Desenvolvimento da Consultoria de Gestão
Empresarial entre Estrutura e Agência’, in Julio Cesar Donadone and Maria A.
Chaves Jardim (eds), As centralidades e as fronteiras das empresas do século 21.
Bauru: Edusc, pp. 249-284.
Dent, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2011) ‘Medical leadership and Management Reforms in
Hospitals in England, Denmark, Netherlands and Kaiser Permanente’, in Teelken, C.,
Dent, M. and Ferlie, E. (eds.) Leadership, Management, and the Professions in the
Public Sector, London: Routledge.
Kipping, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2009) ‘The changing organization of management
consulting firms’, in Clark, T. and Kipping, M. (eds) The Oxford handbook of
management Consulting, Oxford university press – forthcoming.
Ackroyd, S., Kirkpatrick, I. and Muzio, D. (2009) ‘The sociology of professions’, in
Clark, T. and Kipping, M. (eds) The Oxford handbook of management Consulting,
Oxford university press – forthcoming.
Kipping, M. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2007) ‘From Talyor as product to taylorism as
process: Knowledge intensive firms in a historical perspective’, in Muzio, D.
Ackroyd, S. and Chalant, F. (eds.) Redirections in the Study of Expert Labour: Law,
Medicine and Management Consultancy, London: Palgrave.
Kipping, M., Kirkpatrick, I. and Muzio, D. (2006) ‘Overly controlled or out of
control: management consultants and the new corporate professionalism’, in Craig, J.
(ed.) Production Values: Futures for Professionalism, London: Demos.
Kirkpatrick, I. (2006) ‘La organizacion y gestion de la asistencia social en el reino
unido y sus consecuencias: jerarquias, mercados y redes’, in Toboso, F. and Arias,
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X.C. (Eds.): Organización de gobiernos y mercados. Análisis de casos desde la Nueva
Economía Institucional. PUV: Valencia.
Kirkpatrick, I. (2006) ‘Post-Fordism and the new regime of organising within the state
administration’ in Alonso, L. and Martinez Lucio, M. (eds.) Change and Conflict in
the ‘New Economy’: Discussing the Development of Post-Fordism, London: Palgrave
– forthcoming.
Hebdon, R. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2005) ‘Changes in the organization of public services
and their consequences for employment relations’, in Ackroyd, S., Batt, R.,
Thompson, P. and Tolbert, P.S. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Work and
Organisation, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Kirkpatrick, I., Whipp, R., and Davies, A. (1996) 'New Public Management and
Professions' in Glover, I and Hughes, M. (eds.) The Professional-Managerial Class:
Contemporary British Management in the Pursuer Mode, Gower.
Davies, A. and Kirkpatrick, I. (1995) 'Performance indicators, bureaucratic control
and the decline of professional autonomy: the case of academic librarians', in
Kirkpatrick and Martinez (eds.) The Politics of Quality, Routledge: London.
Delbridge, R. and Kirkpatrick, I. (1994) 'Theory and Practice of Participant
Observation', In Wass, V. and Wells, P. (eds.) Principles and Practice in Business
and Management Research, Dartmouth Gower: Aldershot
Kirkpatrick, I., Davies, A., & Oliver, N. (1992) 'Decentralisation: friend or foe of
human resource management', in Blyton, P. and Turnbull, P (eds.) Reassessing
Human Resource Management, Sage, London.
Major Reports
Kirkpatrick, I., Maltby, B., Dent, M., Neogy, I., Mascie-Taylor, H., Pollard, L.
National Inquiry into Management and Medicine: Final Report, Centre for Innovation
and Health Management, University of Leeds, January 2007.
[Findings reported inFull report available at:
http://www.cihm.leeds.ac.uk/themes/managers/downloads]
Hoque, K., De Ruyter, A. Kirkpatrick, I., Hoque, K., Lonsdale C. An Assessment of
Regulatory Change on the Health and Social Care Agency Market, Report for the
Recruitment Employers Confederation, March 2007.
Whipp, R., Kirkpatrick, I. and Kitchener, M. The External Management of Children’s
Homes by Local Authorities, Report for the Department of Health, January 1999.
[Major findings circulated to all senior managers in: Caring for Children Away From
Home: Messages from Research, Department of Health, John Wiley, 1999]
Recent conference papers
Hoque, K., Kirkpatrick, I., Lonsdale, C. and De Ruyter, A. ‘New contractual
relationships in the market for agency workers: the case of the UK’s National Health
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Service’, paper presented at the Work, Employment and Society conference,
Aberdeen, September, 2007.
Kirkpatrick, I., Kragh Jespersen, P., Dent, M. and Neogy, I. ‘Medicine and
management in a comparative perspective’, paper presented at Critical Management
Studies conference, July 2007.
Kirkpatrick, I. and Kipping, M. ‘Theorizing the expansion of the Management
Consulting Industry: A Critical Realist Approach’. Paper presented at the Academy of
Management conference, Atlanta, August 2006.
Kipping, M., Muzio, D. and Kirkpatrick, I. (2006) ‘Professionalism without
professions: the case of management consulting’. Paper presented at the 22nd
European group of Organization Studies colloquium, Bergen, July.
[Information on earlier conference papers is available on request]
Other Publications
In addition to the above I have been involved in the development of a number of
reports for organisations such as the Department of Health (see above), Ernst and
Young and the University of Cardiff. I also have a number of papers published in
conference proceedings and shorter articles that have appeared in journals/magazines
with a practitioner focus. Information on these outputs is available on request.