Professor Mark Exworthy

Professor Mark Exworthy

Health Services Management Centre
Professor of Health Policy and Management
Co-director, MBA Clinical Leadership

Contact details

Address
School of Social Policy and Society, HSMC
Park House
University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2RT, United Kingdom

Mark is a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Health Services Management Centre, University Âé¶¹¾«Ñ¡ and Co-Director of the MBA Clinical Leadership course. 

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Qualifications

  • PhD, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
  • BSc, Loughborough University
  • PG Certificate: Academic Practice in Teaching and Learning
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

Biography

Mark has previously held posts at Southampton University, London School of Economics (LSE), University College London (UCL), Oxford Brookes and Royal Holloway University of London. He was also a Harkness Fellow in health care policy, based at University of California-San Francisco (UCSF) (funded by the Commonwealth Fund of New York).

Teaching

Course director, `Health Management and Leadership’ (HML) inter-calation course for medical students.

Postgraduate supervision

Mark is interested in supervising postgraduate researchers in the following areas:

  • Governance
  • health policy
  • professionalism
  • policy implementation

Research

Mark's research interests fall into 3 : 

  • Governance and implementation relating to policies to tackle health inequalities and other social `problems'.
  • Professionals and managerialism in health care organisations (especially relating to management of clinical performance).
  • Decentralisation in health care organisations.

Mark's research has been funded by the ESRC, NHS (Dept of Health and NIHR), Joseph Rowntree Foundation, NHS Confederation and the Commonwealth Fund of New York. He has been involved as PI or co-PI on research grants totalling £2.5m.

Other activities

Chair, Society for Studies in Organising Health Care (SHOC): and

Publications

Recent publications

Book

Exworthy, M, Mannion, R & Powell, M (eds) 2023, . Bristol University Press. <>

Article

Samarasinghe, BSW, Millar, R & Exworthy, M 2024, '', BMJ Leader.

Lunt, N & Exworthy, M 2024, '', Medical Humanities.

Sheaff, R, Ellis Paine, A, Exworthy, M, Hardwick, R & Smith, C 2024, '', Public Money & Management, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 298-307.

Sheaff, R, Ellis Paine, A, Exworthy, M, Gibson, A, Stuart, J, Jochum, V, Allen, P, Clark, J, Mannion, R & Asthana, S 2024, '', Health and Social Care Delivery Research, vol. 12, no. 39.

Exworthy, M, Lunt, N, Tuck, P & Mistry, R 2024, '', Public Money & Management, vol. 44, no. 4, pp. 308-316.

Ansmann, L, Nöst, S, Körner, M, Auschra, C, Bal, R, Böddeker, M, Bode, I, Braithwaite, J, Breidenbach, C, Coors, M, Demirer, I, Exworthy, M, Harst, L, Heuser, C, Hoffmann, J, Köberlein-Neu, J, Krajic, K, Maniatopoulos, G, Mannion, R, Möhler, R, Pfaff, H, Rind, E, Schnack, MAH, Wagner, MAA, Weigl, M, Wensing, M, Wiig, S, Wild, E, Wilhelm, H, Wirtz, M & Götz, K 2024, '', Das Gesundheitswesen.

Lunt, N & Exworthy, M 2024, '', World Medical & Health Policy.

Sheaff, R, Allen, P, Exworthy, M & Mannion, R 2024, '', Social Science and Medicine, vol. 342, 116505. ,

Mannion, R, Exworthy, M, Wiig, S & Braithwaite, J 2023, '', BMJ, vol. 382, e073331.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Exworthy, M & Hunter, DJ 2024, . in M Powell, D Beland & C Wendt (eds), Research handbook of health care policy. Edward Elgar, pp. 170-190.

Exworthy, M & Nash, D 2024, . in A McDermott, P Hyde, A Avgar & L Fitzgerald (eds), Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Health Care. Edward Elgar, pp. 318-334.

Waring, J, Bishop, S, Clarke, JM, Exworthy, M & Hartley, J 2023, . in N Chambers (ed.), Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare. Edward Elgar, pp. 113-131.

Comment/debate

Murphy, N, Exworthy, M, Gauly, J, Parsons, J & Green, K 2024, '', BMJ, vol. 385, q1032.

Review article

Nöst , S, Miedaner, F, Wagner, A, Beckmann, M, Exworthy, M, Götz , K, Körner , M, Mannion, R, Pfaff, H, Piotrowski, A, Hammer, A & Ansmann, L 2024, '', Das Gesundheitswesen.

Expertise

Health and Social care

Health policy and management including NHS reform