Damian Hodgson

Damian is Professor of Organisation Studies, having joined the Management School in March 2020 from the Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester where he was Director of the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation. He was awarded a PhD from the University of Leeds in 1999, and has worked at the University of Birmingham and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). He has spent time as visiting faculty at the University of Sydney, the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden. He was visiting research fellow at CRISES Research Centre in Quebec, Canada, in 2009 and is currently honorary professor in Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care within the School of Health Sciences at the University of Manchester.

Research interests

Damian's research focuses on the transformation of health and care and he has led a suite of research projects over the last 12 years examining skill-mix and workforce transformation, primary care and mental health reorganisation, access to care and continuity of care, the role of policy piloting, and the integration of health and care, in collaboration with a range of colleagues, as well as NIHR-funded research projects in healthcare, the growth of GP federations, digital capture of patient experience data, and leadership in healthcare.

He has a longstanding interest in work which seeks to open up project management and project-based organisation to critical examination, given the ongoing 'projectification' of society in recent decades. He co-founded the “Making Projects Critical” workshop series, organising 9 international workshops over 15 years and leading to the publication of several books, special issues and articles. In 2017 Damian and colleagues received the 2017 Project Management Institute Research Achievement Award for this work. Damian has also written extensively on projectification and the emergence of project management as a 'corporate profession'.