IAN KIRKPATRICK

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Ian Kirkpatrick is a Senior Lecturer in Organisation Behaviour at Leeds University Business School. He received his Ph.D. in Organisational Theory from the University of Wales in 1996 and his M.Sc. in Industrial Relations from the London School of Economics. After a short period working as a Personnel Manager for Shell UK Oil he moved to Cardiff University first as a Research Associate and later as Lecturer in human resource management. Ian joined Leeds University Business School in Janurary 2000. Recently he spent one year as a Visiting Professor at the Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

His research interests are mainly in the areas of management change in professional organisations, flexible employment practices and comparative developments in human resource management. He has published widely in a range of leading academic journals including Public Administration, Organization, Sociological Review and Work Employment and Society. Recent work includes a co-authored volume entitled The Management of Children’s Residential Care: Towards a Managed Service with Palgrave Macmillan. He has also contributed a chapter on public services management to the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Work and Organisation.

He has been involved in a number of large research projects including a two-year national study of management change in social services funded by the Department of Health. The main results of this project were circulated in Caring for Children Away From Home: Messages from Research, Department of Health, John Wiley. Ian has also organised numerous academic conferences and seminars. These include: an Economic and Social Research Council Seminar Series on Professional change (1994-96); an Anglo-German research network on organisational change in the public sector (funded by the Hans Bockler Foundation), an Employment Research Unit conference on public management (1994) and two Public Services Research Unit conferences (1997 and 1998) at Cardiff University. He is an active member of various international research networks such as the European Group of Organisation Studies and the Critical Management Studies group.