Prof Huw Davies

Professor

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462870

Email

hd@st-andrews.ac.uk

Biography

Huw has a first degree in Maths and Management Science from the University of Cambridge, a Masters degree in Operational Research (University of Sussex), a Postgraduate Diploma in Health Economics (Aberdeen) and a PhD in Health Services Research (Dundee). He has worked at the Universities of The South Bank (London), Dundee and St Andrews, as well as holding research management positions in the NHS. In 1998-99 Huw was a Harkness Fellow in International Health Care Policy, when he was based at the Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, and in 2005-06 he was Visiting Professor at the School of Population Health, University of Auckland, New Zealand. During 2003-05 Huw was Deputy Director of the Service Delivery and Organisation (SDO) Research Funding Programme on secondment to the Department of Health (London). Huw sat on the panel that selected collaborations for the first round of NIHR CLAHRC funding in 2008, and chaired the panel for the second wave of NIHR CLAHRC funding in 2013, committing a total of £126 million pounds to NHS infrastructural support for applied health research.

Huw is Director of the (formerly ESRC-funded) Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU) hosted in the School of Management

Huw's research interests are in public service delivery, especially in health care, encompassing evidence-based policy and practice, performance measurement and management, accountability, governance and trust. He also has a particular interest in the role of organisational culture and organisational learning in the delivery of high quality services, and in developing greater understanding of the working relationships between service professionals and service managers. Huw has published widely in each of these areas.

Teaching

• MN5001 Contemporary Global Issues in Management
• MN5499 Dissertation

Research areas

Organisational Effectiveness in the Public Sector, Performance Measurement & Management, Evidence-Based Policy & Practice, Accountability and Governance, Organisational Culture and Trust.

PhD supervision

• Christopher James Makwero

Selected publications

• Healthcare scandals and the failings of doctors: do official inquiries hold the profession to account?

  Mannion, R., Davies, H., Powell, M., Blenkinsopp, J., Millar, R., McHale, J. & Snowden, N., 28 Mar 2019, In : Journal of Health Organization and Management. 33, 2, p. 221-240

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Increasing the capacity of policy agencies to use research findings: a stepped-wedge trial

  Williamson, A., Barker, D., Green, S., D'Este, C., Davies, H. T. O., Jorm, L., Shakeshaft, A., Rudge, S. & Redman, S., 6 Feb 2019, In : Health Research Policy and Systems. 17, 16 p., 14.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Meta regulation meets deliberation: situating the governor within NHS foundation trust hospitals

  Millar, R., Freeman, T., Mannion, R. & Davies, H. T. O., Jul 2019, In : Journal of Social Policy. 48, 3, p. 595-613 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• New development: what works now? Continuity and change in the use of evidence to improve public policy and service delivery

  Nutley, S., Boaz, A., Davies, H. & Fraser, A., 2019, In : Public Money & Management. 39, 4, p. 310-316 8 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Raising and responding to frontline concerns in healthcare

  Mannion, R. & Davies, H., 19 Aug 2019, In : The BMJ. 366, l4944.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Comment/debate

• What works now? Evidence-informed policy and practice

  Boaz, A. (ed.), Davies, H. T. O. (ed.), Fraser, A. (ed.) & Nutley, S. M. (ed.), 27 Mar 2019, Bristol: Policy Press. 418 p.

  Research output: Book/Report ? Book

• Whistleblowing over patient safety and care quality: a review of the literature

  Blenkinsopp, J., Snowden, N., Manion, R., Powell, M., Davies, H. T. O., Millar, R. & McHale, J., 15 Sep 2019, In : Journal of Health Organization and Management. 33, 6, p. 737-756

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Review article

• Board governance for better, safer healthcare

  Mannion, R., Davies, H., Millar, R. & Freeman, T., 15 Aug 2018, Global Patient Safety: Law, Policy and Practice. Taylor and Francis, p. 43-57 15 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

• Facing the challenges of research-informed knowledge mobilization: ?practising what we preach??

  Powell, A., Davies, H. T. O. & Nutley, S. M., 25 Mar 2018, In : Public Administration. 96, 1, p. 36-52 37 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Speaking up or blowing the whistle for better, safer care

  Mannion, R., Davies, H., Blenkinsopp, J., McHale, J. V., Millar, R., Powell, M. & Snowden, N., 15 Aug 2018, Global Patient Safety: Law, Policy and Practice. Taylor and Francis, p. 58-76 19 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter

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