Warwick ECR Summer School 2025
The Centre for Organising Health and Care Research at Warwick Business School is excited to host the inaugural Summer School in partnership with King’s College London, Alliance Manchester Business School and Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare, offering a platform to explore this year’s theme of ‘new ways of working in health and care’.
Warwick ECR Summer School
When: Tuesday, 17th June and Wednesday, 18th June 2025
Where: In-person at Scarman, Warwick Conferences, University of Warwick, Scarman, Scarman Rd, Coventry CV4 7SH
Who Should Attend: The Summer School is aimed at ECRs and PhD students who are interested in pursuing a career at a business school and are interested in health and care research or in using health and care as a context for their work.
Cost: Please note that attendance at the Summer School is free of charge. We kindly request participants to cover their own travel and accommodation costs.
Applications
In your applications, please include a personal statement detailing your research and your motivation for attending the Summer School [300 words]. Additionally, please also submit a short paper if you would like to partake in the Research Clinic [3000 words].
Application Deadline: 17 April 2025
The Summer School will focus on the theme from an academic perspective and will include an editors’ panel and a research clinic to help with paper development and research ideas [1 Day]. It will also focus on conducting impactful research and looking at how academic research can make a positive difference in real-world problems [1 Day].
Theme: New Ways of Working in Health and Care
Change in work within health and care can be categorised into three main themes; new trends in the delivery of health and care, evolving intersections of work and health and care, and structural shifts in health and care. To elaborate, there are new work arrangements such as remote working (Sims et al., 2022), the rapid adoption of telehealth since COVID-19 (Andrews et al., 2020), increased delivery of service within communities (Kopelovich et al., 2021) also potentially leading to the emergence of new professions and roles (Bauer & Bodenheimer, 2017). Moreover, there are also shifts in governance and regulatory structures impacting funding (Appelbaum & Batt, 2020; Berwick & Hackbarth, 2012; Bruch et al., 2021) coupled with challenges and opportunities by the planning and implementation of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence within health and care (Jiang et al., 2017; Topol, 2019; Ventola, 2014; Yang et al., 2017).
All of these changes carry significant implications for professionals, organisations, and the overall delivery of health and care. These implications might bring challenges such as resistance from established professionals and regulatory bodies (Dower et al., 2013), potential job displacements for professionals (Davenport & Kalakota, 2019), ethical concerns in relation to artificial intelligence (Obermeyer & Emanuel, 2016), need for re-training professionals with new technologies (Paranjape et al., 2019), difficulties in managing remote teams (Sims et al., 2022), and managing quality of service delivery in virtual settings (Shigekawa et al., 2018). However, at the same time, these also generate opportunities such as increased interdisciplinary collaborations and more community-based services (Frenk et al., 2010), increased access to care via remote consultations and cost savings for organisations (Haleem et al., 2021; Smith & Gray, 2009; Whitten & Love, 2005), enhanced diagnostic accuracies and potentially reduced administrative burden (Alowais et al., 2023; Reddy et al., 2019; Topol, 2019).
Keynote Speakers
Professor Amit Nigam, Head of Faculty of Management, Bayes Business School, City University of London
Dr Navina Evans CBE, Chief Workforce, Training and Education Officer, NHS England
Practice-Focused Research – Table Talks
On Day 2, we will be joined by some leading practitioners from the health and care sector. There will be opportunities to discuss real-word problems and research proposal with practice leaders. This will be facilitated by Helen Bevan from Warwick Business School.
Research Clinic
As part of the Summer School, we are thrilled to offer a Research Clinic, providing participants with the opportunity to receive personalised feedback on their work from leading experts in the field. To take part, participants are invited to submit a short paper that they are currently working on. This session is designed to foster constructive discussions, refine research approaches, and help participants strengthen their contributions to the sector. Whether you are an early-career researcher or a seasoned professional, the Research Clinic is a valuable chance to gain insights, collaborate with peers, and enhance the impact of your work. There will be an opportunity to receive feedback from the experts in the field including:
- Jacky Swan, Warwick Business School
- Davide Nicolini, Warwick Business School
- Amit Nigam, City University of London
- Graeme Currie, Warwick Business School
- Gerry McGivern, King’s College London
Attending the Summer School
The Summer School will be an in-person event at Scarman Conferences, University of Warwick. Please note that attendance at the Summer School is free of charge. If you are visiting from outside Coventry, we would greatly appreciate it if you could arrange your own accommodation. Please find below links to book on-campus accommodation through Warwick Conferences:
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Alternatively, Coventry, Kenilworth, and Leamington Spa are all conveniently located within a short driving distance for those who may prefer staying off campus.
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