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Martin Kitchener

Professor Martin Kitchener

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Overview

Martin Kitchener FCIPD FLSW FAcSS is professor of management at Cardiff Business School, and Co-Director of Cardiff University's Public Management Research Group (PUMAR). He also serves as the Chair of Welsh Triathlon, and as a non-executive director of British Triathlon.

For more than thirty years, Martin has conducted externally-funded research on public service governance, change, and performance. He is currently studying the development of purpose-driven organisations, public value, and the co-production of public services in collaboration with citizens. This work extends research that Martin conducted on a major EU Horizon 20/20 study of European public service innovations that are based on ideas of co-production and public value (COGOV). The outputs of his research are published widely (see research tab) and have had considerable impact on practice and policy. 

In 2018-19, Martin was Visiting Fellow at Said Business School and Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford. Between 2012 and 2018, he served as Dean of Cardiff Business School and designed its distinctive Public Value Strategy. From 1999 to 2007, Martin worked at the University of California (Berkeley and San Francisco) where he studied processes of institutional change in social care, academic health centres, and dentistry. 

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Research

For more than thirty years, Martin has conducted externally-funded research on public service governance, change, and performance. He is currently studying the development of purpose-driven organisations, public value, and the co-production of public services in collaboration with citizens. This work extends research that Martin conducted on a major EU Horizon 20/20 study of European public service innovations that are based on ideas of co-production and public value (COGOV).

The outputs of his research are published widely (see research tab) and have had considerable impact on practice and policy. 

Teaching

Teaching commitments

  • MBA - Leading Change, Transforming Futures
  • SSRM Core Research Skills

Biography

2019-               Cardiff Business School                               Professor of Management

2018-19           Said Business School, Oxford                      Visiting Fellow

2012-18           Cardiff Business School                                Dean and Head of School

2007-12           Cardiff Business School                                Professor of Management & Associate Dean (External Relations)

2006-07           University of California, San Francisco         Professor of Health Organization & Policy

2004-06           University of California, San Francisco         Associate Professor

2000-04           University of California, San Francisco         Assistant Professor

1999-00           University of California, Berkeley                  Harkness Fellow in Health Policy

1997-01           Cardiff Business School, UK                         Lecturer (tenured)

1994-97           Cardiff Business School, UK                         Lecturer (non-tenured)

1993-94           Cardiff Business School, UK                        Research Associate

1990-93           Cardiff Business School, UK                        ESRC Management Teaching Fellow

1989-90           National Health Service, UK                         Management trainee

Honours and awards

2019   Visting Fellow, Said Business School and Harris Manchester College, University of Oxford

2018    Leading Wales Awards – Annual Honorary Award

2018    FLSW, Fellow of Learned Society of Wales

2017    FAcSS, Fellow of Academy of Social Sciences

2015    Honorary Fellow, KU Leuven

2013    National Institute of Health and Social Care Research, Faculty Lead Researcher

2013    British Academy of Management Annual Meeting, best paper award, Public Sector Track

2012    FCIPD, Fellow of Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development

2003    Services Employees International Union (SEIU), Research Recognition Award

1999    Commonwealth Fund, Harkness Research Fellowship in Health Policy

1990    Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC), Management Teaching Fellowship

 

Academic positions

2018-               Cardiff Business School                                Professor of Management

2012-18           Cardiff Business School                                Dean and Head of School

2007-12           Cardiff Business School                                Professor of Management, Associate Dean

2006-07           University of California, San Francisco         Professor of Health Organization & Policy

2004-06           University of California, San Francisco         Associate Professor

2000-04           University of California, San Francisco         Assistant Professor

1999-00           University of California, Berkeley                  Harkness Fellow in Health Policy

1997-01           Cardiff Business School, UK                         Lecturer (tenured)

1994-97           Cardiff Business School, UK                         Lecturer (non-tenured)

1993-94           Cardiff Business School, UK                         Research Associate

1990-93           Cardiff Business School, UK                         ESRC Management Teaching Fellow

1989-90           National Health Service, UK                          Management services offier 

Speaking engagements

Kitchener, M. 2025. “The Craft of Co-Production.” Keynote presentation to Co-Production Network for Wales, Annual Conference, University of South Wales, 21st  May.

Kitchener, M., D DeWit, and R. Bayliss. 2025. “Auditing Public Value Strategy: Lessons From Wales.” International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Conference, Bologna, 8th April.

Kitchener, M. 2025. “Strategizing Public Value.” International Research Society for Public Management (IRSPM) Conference, Bologna, 7th April.

Kitchener, M. 2025. “Re-Purposing Business Schools: Potential, Progress and Precarity.” University of Liverpool Management School Seminar, 12 March.

Kitchener, M. 2025. “Higher Education and Economic Growth”. University of Bristol Higher Education Seminar, Discussant, 26 February.

Kitchener, M., and C. Netana. 2024. “Crafting Co-Productive Policing”. Security, Crime, Innovation Institute Annual Conference, Cardiff University, 5th December.

Kitchener, M., and L. Andrews. 2024. “Great Policy is Fiction Unless it Becomes Reality on the Ground: Co-Production under New Public Governance in Wales.” Co-Production Research Conference, Kings College London, 28thOctober. 

Kitchener, M., and P. Georgiou. 2024. “The Craft of Co-Production: Lessons From the Ely Community Plan”. Creative and Innovative Research Methods Workshop, Cardiff University, 24th September.

Kitchener, M., and P. Georgiou. 2024. “The Craft of Co-Production: Lessons From the Ely Community Plan”. Co-Production in and with Cardiff University Workshop, Cardiff University, 24th July.

Kitchener, M. 2024. “Leading Public Value.” Public Value Festival, ISCTE Lisbon, 25th June.

Kitchener, M., and C. Netana. 2024. “Crafting Co-Production”. MEO Research Conference, Cardiff University, 17thJune.

Kitchener, M., and P. Georgiou. 2024. “Co-Production: Lessons from the Ely Development Plan”. MEO Research Conference, Cardiff University, 17th June.

Kitchener, M., and R. Ashworth 2024. “Strategizing Public Value.” Public Value Festival, ISEG, Lisbon, 28th May.       

Kitchener, M. 2024. “Purpose-Driven Business Schools”. Journal of Management Studies publishing workshop. University of Amsterdam, 6th February.

Kitchener, M. 2023. “Crafting Co-Production”. Invitational specialist healthcare management symposium, University College London, 10th March.

    

Supervisions

Current supervision

Tracey Rosell

Tracey Rosell

Post-doctoral Research Associate

Contact Details

Email KitchenerMJ@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 76951
Campuses Aberconway Building, Room Room F24, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Research themes

Specialisms

  • Public sector organisation and management