Dr Britt Regal

Britt Regal is a Research Associate at the Productivity Institute.

Dr Regal's research focuses on dimensions of coordination and collaboration. This includes how organizations work collectively and with service users as well as how cultural expectations and governance traditions affect organizational and network participatory processes. This research aims to better comprehend how organizations can collaboratively deliver public value with service users and communities.

Currently, she is collaborating with Professors Damian Grimshaw, Marcela Miozzo, and Jonatan Pinkse on a UKRI research-funded project. This project investigates the transition to net zero transport and unveils a complex landscape where private firms engage with local governments, navigating the delicate balance between profit-making, accountability pressures, and public interests.

Dr Regal is an Associate Fellow of Advance HE. She has contributed as a graduate tutorial assistant on a range of courses at both the undergraduate and master's levels. These courses include Social Science and Modern Business, Organization and Management of the Public Services (MSc), Organizational Research Methods, Qualitative Research Methods I and II, Quantitative Research Methods I and II, Leadership: Theory and Practice, and Organizational Change. She has also delivered guest lectures on collaborative innovations in public management and collective leadership at King’s Business School.

Dr Regal has also worked as a research assistant on COGOV, an EU Horizon 2020 project (grant number 770591). Within COGOV, she coordinated the delivery of a pan-European work package and wrote several reports alongside COGOV colleagues.

Her work has been published in leading journals, including Policy and Politics, Public Policy and Administration, and Public Management Review.

Britt joined the Productivity Institute in 2022 after receiving her PhD in Public Administration and Organization Studies. Prior to her PhD, she worked as a secondary teacher and for Teach First in both school relationships and as a coach for second-year teachers.