Associate Director for Capacity Building

In his present role, Mike Wallace is responsible for coordinating AIM's ongoing programme of activities and events to build management research capacity. On behalf of AIM he has taken lead responsibility for two research training grants within the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative (RDI). The first, 'Building Management Research Capacity: Training Researchers as Trainers', included the regional provision of several workshop series to support the development of UK management academics in their secondary role as teachers, tutors and supervisors of the next generation of researchers.
The second, ‘Strategic Expansion of Management Research Capacity: Managing the Training of Researchers as Trainers’, focuses on managing the development of research capacity in business and management schools. Activities included a conference for research directors on managing research training, and workshops for academics with responsibility for managing postgraduate research training and doctoral supervision.
Mike Wallace is a Professor of Public Management at Cardiff Business School. He researches the management of complex and programmatic public service change in a context of high accountability and ongoing reform. He has conducted a range of ESRC or Leverhulme Trust funded projects on school management and education policy. He also co-directed government funded research on effective professional learning communities in schools. Mike Wallace has written a practical handbook on school management training, a teaching text on critical literature reviewing, and five books reporting his research.
From October 2003 to March 2005, he was awarded an AIM Public Services Senior Fellowship to develop a framework for understanding and planning complex and programmatic change in the public services. Fellowship activities included two international expert seminars, working with North American and UK-based academic experts and with senior practitioners in the UK education and health services. Key outcomes include:

• an edited book, 'Managing Change in the Public Services', published by Blackwell in 2007;

• a book, 'Educational Leadership: Ambiguity, Professionals and Managerialism', co-authored with Professor Eric Hoyle (University of Bristol) and published by Sage in 2005;

• an ESRC research award (2006-09) 'Developing Organisation Leaders as Change Agents in the Public Services', with Professor Rosemary Deem (University of Bristol), Professor Mike Reed and Professor Jonathan Morris (Cardiff Business School).

• In 2009 Mike was appointed as the ESRC’s Strategic Adviser for Researcher Development. This is a part-time post which includes advising on ESRC research training policy and specific responsibility for coordinating the RDI scheme.

AIM Projects

• Managing Complex and Programmatic Change
  

For further information or to download the outcomes of the research conducted then please visit the ESRC website.

AIM Publications

• Managing to Improve Public Services

For additional information relating to Professor Mike Wallace please contact him at wallaceam@cf.ac.uk

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