Professor Ewan Ferlie
Ewan Ferlie studied for a BA in Modern History (first class) and MSc in Social Research and Social Policy at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He then obtained a PhD in Social Policy at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has held research jobs at the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Kent and then at the Centre for Corporate Strategy and Change at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He was a Professor of Public Services Management at Imperial College Management School (1997-2003) where he was also founding director of the Centre for Public Services Organisations and School Director of Research. Between 2003 and 2008, he was Professor of Public Services Management and Head of the School of Management at Royal Holloway, University of London. He joined King’s College London in October 2008 as Professor of Public Services Management and Head of the Department of Management. In 2008, he was elected as an Academician of the Learned Societies in the Social Sciences (AcSS).
Professor Ferlie has been appointed to the national commissioning board of the national Institute of Health Research (Service Delivery and Organisation) for a period of four years. The SDO programme aims to generate and promote the use of research evidence about improving services to increase the quality of care, ensure better patient outcomes for patients and contribute to population health, With an annual budget of £12m a year, the SDO progamme is major stream of health management research. His appointment further attests to the reputation of health management research conducted more broadly at KCL.
Teaching
MN323 Year 3 Undergraduate Strategic Management course
MN401 MSc Public Sector Management and Policy course on the political economy of the public services
MN405 MSc Public Sector Management and Policy: session on the research methods course on evaluation
Contact details
Professor Ewan Ferlie
Email ewan.ferlie@kcl.ac.uk
Tel + 44 (0)20 7848 4466