Introduction and background
The Centre for Health Futures aims to be a hub for excellence in research, innovation and professional development for health and care organisations. Working in partnership, we apply both academic and practice perspectives to innovate for better patient care and a healthier population.
The Centre for Health Futures focuses on business and management perspectives, contributing to Lancaster University’s wider expertise and aims through the Health Innovation Campus and collaboration with colleagues in other Faculties.
We should like to thank the Integrated Care System, Healthier Lancashire and South Cumbria and the Innovation Agency North West for their financial support. We are working collaboratively with them to develop some strategic priorities. We are also working with other agencies locally as part of the Innovation Agency North West SEED Health alliance.
Our region’s distinctive geography, with small cities, medium-sized towns and a great rural expanse, provides a novel focus for our work. There are specific challenges in delivering health and care in an area with post-industrial economic and social problems. We have the opportunity to share our expertise nationally and globally where similar issues arise.
The challenges we face include:
- Delivering high-quality, sustainable services in sparsely populated areas;
- Health inequalities and poor health outcomes with wider impacts on productivity and the economy;
- Difficulties in staff recruitment and retention.
Research and innovation
Business and management perspectives offered within the Centre provide a key component in finding solutions to health and care problems. Lancaster University Management School has a range of cutting-edge interdisciplinary expertise built up over many years.
Our organisational studies researchers explore broader themes of leadership, management organisational development and behaviour, including human resource management, information and technology and society, all of which are key components of health and care, while The Work Foundation is a core part of our School, with a focus on ‘good work’ and themes around health, wellbeing and productivity.
Economists in LUMS are working with a specialist Health Economics group in Lancaster’s Faculty of Health and Medicine. In Operations Management and Operational Research, we provide insights around the delivery of healthcare services, including forecasting demand and scheduling services, and in investigating innovation in SME suppliers to the NHS.
Our Entrepreneurship and Strategy expertise supports innovation and changes through entrepreneurial thinking and strategy development with implications across the sector. Our Marketing experts examine factors related to the consumption of healthcare services, and consumer behaviour specialists focus on health and wellbeing, including alcohol and food consumption and our Accounting and Finance specialists can support the NHS to balance financial efficiency with care excellence.
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Professional and organisational development
Lancaster University Management School has a recognised track record in delivering high-quality professional development programmes for medical and clinical staff. We provide career development opportunities that support staff recruitment and retention. Our strong tradition of innovative approaches to management learning complements and enhances NHS leadership development programmes.
Our existing programmes for healthcare professionals are work-based, allowing for high levels of co-design with organisations and participants, and for customised programmes to be delivered. We ensure that learning results in changes to practice for patient benefit, and our flexible digital delivery allows participants to study from work or from home.
Student and graduate talent
LUMS students take the cutting-edge knowledge and insight gained from our high-quality teaching and apply it directly through supervised consultancy projects, placements and internships as part of their degrees. These collaborations can make a significant contribution to innovation and change in healthcare. Students have previously researched the experiences and job satisfaction of international doctors, developed development programmes for non-clinical staff in GP practices, and worked in partnership with businesses on a smart drinking cup to the monitor fluid intake of patients.
Access to business partnerships
Lancaster University Management School has a proud history of working with businesses large and small. For 20 years, we have delivered innovation programmes for small medium-sized business (SMEs), with a particular focus on Cumbria and Lancashire.
People
Centre Director
Professor Maria Piacentini
ProfessorCentre for Health Futures, Health Equity Network, Management and Society
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Centre Administrator
Teresa Aldren
Research Enhancement and Centres AdministratorCentre for Consumption Insights, Centre for Family Business, Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy, Centre for Health Futures, Centre for Marketing Analytics & Forecasting, Centre for Productivity & Efficiency, Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education, Centre for Technological Futures , Centre for Transport & Logistics (CENTRAL)
Centre Members
Professor Maria Piacentini
ProfessorCentre for Health Futures, Health Equity Network, Management and Society
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Teresa Aldren
Research Enhancement and Centres AdministratorCentre for Consumption Insights, Centre for Family Business, Centre for Financial Econometrics, Asset Markets and Macroeconomic Policy, Centre for Health Futures, Centre for Marketing Analytics & Forecasting, Centre for Productivity & Efficiency, Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education, Centre for Technological Futures , Centre for Transport & Logistics (CENTRAL)
Dr Lisa Ashmore
Associate Dean (Engagement) / Senior Lecturer in Social SciencesCeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research, Centre for Health Futures, Centre for Science Studies, Interdisciplinary network in culture, health, ethics and society
Sunil Banga
Senior Lecturer, PhD studentCentre for Health Futures, Centre for Scholarship and Innovation in Management Education, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK , Supply Chain Management
Professor Michaela Benson
Professor in Public SociologyCentre for Alternatives to Social and Economic Inequalities, Centre for Health Futures
Dr Amjad Fayoumi
Senior Lecturer in Information SystemsCentre for Health Futures, Centre for Technological Futures , Health Systems, Information Systems, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Advanced Manufacturing, LIRA - Smart Cities and Mobility, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Systems Security), Simulation and Stochastic Modelling
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Management School
Simon Hallam
Partnership Development ManagerCentre for Health Futures
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Dr Mahsa Honary
Lecturer in Information SystemsCentre for Health Futures, Information Systems, Security Lancaster (Sociology)
Dr Peter Jacko
Senior LecturerCentre for Health Futures, DSI - Foundations, Health Systems, Optimisation, Simulation and Stochastic Modelling, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
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Dr Ahmed Kheiri
Senior Lecturer in Management Science (Operations Research)Centre for Health Futures, Centre for Transport & Logistics (CENTRAL), DSI - Foundations, DSI - Health, Health Systems, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Fundamentals, Optimisation, Security Lancaster, Security Lancaster (Systems Security), STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
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Dr Rebecca Liu
Senior LecturerCentre for Consumption Insights, Centre for Health Futures, Centre for Technological Futures , DSI - Society, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Environmental Modelling, LIRA - Fundamentals, LIRA - Society and Human Behaviour, Pentland Centre
Professor Guglielmo Lulli
Professor in Network AnalyticsCentre for Health Futures, Centre for Transport & Logistics (CENTRAL), Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport in the UK , DSI - Foundations, Optimisation
Professor Katy Mason
Professor of Markets, Marketing and ManagementCeMoRe - Centre for Mobilities Research, Centre for Health Futures, Networks, Knowledge and Strategy, Pentland Centre
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Professor Jane O'Brien
Professor EmeritusCentre for Health Futures, Health Equity Network
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Dr Luke Rhodes-Leader
Lecturer in Management ScienceCentre for Health Futures, Centre for Transport & Logistics (CENTRAL), Simulation and Stochastic Modelling, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
Dr Anna-Lena Sachs
Senior Lecturer in Predictive AnalyticsCentre for Health Futures, Centre for Marketing Analytics & Forecasting, DSI - Foundations, Optimisation, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
Dr Ivan Svetunkov
LecturerCentre for Health Futures, Centre for Marketing Analytics & Forecasting, DSI - Foundations, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Fundamentals, LIRA - Society and Human Behaviour, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
Dr Richard Williams FRSA CEng FBCS
Senior LecturerCentre for Health Futures, Centre for Technological Futures , DSI - Health, Health Systems, Lancaster Intelligent, Robotic and Autonomous Systems Centre, LIRA - Society and Human Behaviour, Simulation and Stochastic Modelling, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training, Technology, Systems and Organisation
Dr David Worthington
Senior LecturerCentre for Health Futures, DSI - Health, Health Systems, Simulation and Stochastic Modelling, STOR-i Centre for Doctoral Training
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Contact us
For more information about the Centre for Health Futures, please contact Simon Hallam, Partnerships Development Manager.
- Tel: +44 (0)1524 594411
- Email: s.hallam1@lancaster.ac.uk