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Mike Wallace  MA (Cantab), PhD (East Anglia)

Professor Mike Wallace

(he/him)

MA (Cantab), PhD (East Anglia)

Professor of Public Management

Cardiff Business School

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Available for postgraduate supervision

Overview

Mike Wallace is a Professor of Public Management, in the Management, Employment and Organisations Section. He researches the management of public service change, teaches on the doctoral training programme, and facilitates the Early Career Researchers Network

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Research

Research interests

  • The complexity of public service change and coping capacity
  • National and regional leadership development interventions in public and government civil services
  • Managing multiple pressures on national park services
  • Implications of multiple public constituencies, value pluralism, and contested public spaces for the notion of 'Public Value'
  • An ironic perspective on organizational life and change
  • Public policy implementation and mediation
  • Development of social science research expertise
  • Building Capacity for Business Engagement with Impact (ESRC), 2011-2013. A research training project developing UK capacity for 'engaged' forms of business research with high practical impact potential
  • Enhancing Expert Thinking and Problem-solving: the Development of Insight and Perspective in Theory and Practice (ESRC), 2010-2014. A research-based training project developing provision for accelerating the development of social scientists' research expertise
  • Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development (ESRC), 2009-2012. An advisory appointment, supporting enhancement of the ESRC’s researcher development strategy
  • Developing Organization Leaders as Change Agents in the Public Services (ESRC), 2006-2009. A research project investigating the establishment of formal leadership development provision for school education, healthcare, and higher education in England.

A list of research funds received in the past fifteen years

  • Building Capacity for Business Engagement with Impact (ESRC), 2011-2013. £100,000
  • Enhancing Expert Thinking and Problem-solving: the Development of Insight and Perspective in Theory and Practice (ESRC), 2010-2014. £100,000
  • Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development (ESRC), 2009-2012. £417,000
  • Coordination of Management Research Capacity-Building, Advanced Institute of Management Research, Associate Directorship (ESRC), 2008-2011. £73,000
  • Strategic Expansion of Management Research Capacity: Managing the Training of Researchers as Trainers (ESRC), 2008-2010. £104,000
  • Developing Organization Leaders as Change Agents in the Public Services (ESRC), 2006-2009. £318,000 (pre fEC)
  • Building Management Research Capacity: Training Researchers as Trainers (ESRC), 2006-2009. £114,000.

PhD supervision research interests

  • Ambiguity and irony in organizational life and change
  • Management of complex change in the public services

Teaching

Teaching commitments

  • 'Developing Core Research Skills', core module, MSc in Social Science Research Methods
  • 'Qualitative Research Methods, core module for Cardiff Business School students, MSc in Social Science Research Methods
  • 'Advanced Issues in Management, Employment and Organizational Research', specialist pathway module, MSc in Social Science Research Methods

Biography

Qualifications

  • PhD, Centre for Applied Research in Education, University of East Anglia
  • Advanced Diploma in Education, Cambridge Institute of Education
  • MA, Cambridge University
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Education, Keswick Hall College of Education, Norwich
  • BA, Cambridge University, Social and Political Sciences

Supervisions

national park management

leadership development in public and government civil services

Current supervision

Mehreen Ashraf

Mehreen Ashraf

Research student

Contact Details

Email WallaceAM@cardiff.ac.uk
Telephone +44 29208 75848
Campuses Aberconway Building, Room S38, Colum Road, Cathays, Cardiff, CF10 3EU

Research themes

Specialisms

  • public service change