I am Professor of Human Resource Management at Aston University. I was a 2022-23 Harkness Fellow at UC Berkeley with affiliate faculty status at UCSF, and continue collaboration as a Senior Harkness Fellow and Visiting Scholar. I am Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Work, Organisation and Wellbeing, Griffith University, Australia. My research responds to the global healthcare workforce crisis, examining how system-level constraints, organizational practices, and management roles shape workforce retention and wellbeing. I bridge macro and micro perspectives through international comparative research with policy relevance. Findings have been published in leading international journals including Human Resource Management, the International Journal of Human Resource Management, the British Journal of Management, Public Administration and the Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory. I served as lead editor of the Research Handbook on Contemporary Human Resource Management for Healthcare (2025).

I was founding programme director of the MSc/Diploma in Healthcare Planning commissioned by Welsh Government and NHS Wales. Prior to this, I coordinated Cardiff Health Organisation and Policy Studies Group (CHOPS) from 2013-2019. 

• Fellow, Academy of Social Sciences
• Academic Fellow, CIPD
• Harkness Fellowship in Health Care Policy and Practice (2022-23), jointly funded by NIHR, Health Foundation, and Commonwealth Fund
• Teaching Awards: Two awards and five nominations
• Government of Ireland Research Scholar (PhD)
• Gold Medal, BA (mod) Business & Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
• Trinity Scholar (Trinity College Dublin).

• Healthcare workforce retention and reform
• System-level and organizational constraints on HRM effectiveness
• Management roles (line managers, HR function, hybrid roles)
• Work design, job quality, and employee wellbeing
• HRM innovation and change implementation
• International comparative health systems research

Current research

• System-level constraints on healthcare workforce reform (US-UK comparison)
• Peer support worker roles and behavioural health service innovation
• Primary care physician work experiences and retention
• Healthcare worker wellbeing 
• Flexibility i-deals for healthcare staff

Recent competitive funding

• Commonwealth Fund & NIHR (Harkness Fellowship)
• Health Research Board (Ireland)
• Irish Research Council
• National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Wales