Management School seminars

'Regulating ‘moral grey zones’: Medical & nursing regulation in Kenya & Uganda' seminar

Join our upcoming 'Regulating ‘moral grey zones’: Medical & nursing regulation in Kenya & Uganda' seminar with Professor Gerry McGivern.

Speaker: Professor Gerry McGivern (King's Business School)

Hosted by: University of Liverpool Management School's Work, Organisation and Management

Open to: all University of Liverpool staff and students, with no sign up needed

Date: Wednesday 22 November 2023

Time: 13:30 - 15:00 

Place: Management School - Seminar Room 1 (first floor)


Abstract

The presentation will discuss the findings of a large UKRI funded research project (2019-21) examining professional regulation for doctors and nurses in Kenya and Uganda, drawing on Anteby’s (2008) concept of ‘moral gray zones’ to explain these data.

 

Speaker

Gerry McGivern is Professor in Public Services Management & Organisation at King's Business School. His research focuses on understanding how professional knowledge, practices, identities and leadership are affected by regulation, management and organisation, primarily in health care systems in the UK and East Africa.

Gerry has published research in leading management and social science journals, including Human Relations, the Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, Journal of Management Studies, Organization Studies, Public Administration, and Social Science & Medicine, and two books with Oxford University Press: 'Making Wicked Problems Governable: The Case of Managed Networks in Health Care' (2013) and 'The Politics of Management Knowledge in Times of Austerity' (2018).

He is on the Editorial Boards of Organization Studies, Human Relations and the Journal of Professions and Organization.

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