Professor Mike Wallace

Image of Mike WallaceAssociate 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. He and Andy Neely have been awarded a research training grant through the ESRC Researcher Development Initiative: 'Building Management Research Capacity: Training Researchers as Trainers'. It includes 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.

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 ESRC or Leverhulme Trust-funded projects on managing multiple innovations in schools, primary and secondary school senior management teams, planning for change in multiracial primary schools, the contribution of the mass media to education policymaking, and LEA-wide reorganisation of school provision. He recently co-directed research on effective professional learning communities in schools, funded by the DFES, NCSL and GTCE. Mike Wallace has written a practical handbook on school management training 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 are:

- an edited book, 'Managing Change in the Public Services', published by Blackwell in December 2006;
- 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 that started in May 2006, '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).

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


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