Biography
Ian Kessler is Professor of Public Policy and Management at King's Business School. He joined King’s College London in September 2012, after almost twenty-five years at the University of Oxford.
He has been involved in various research projects, funded by such bodies as the ESRC, the National Institute of Health Research and the European Union. These projects have explored employee voice, dimensions of pay and reward, and different aspects of employment relations in the British public services.
Over the last decade he has been researching nurse support roles in a variety of health care settings, and the general re-structuring of the nursing workforce. He has co-authored two books: one on healthcare support roles, the other on employment relations in the public sector under New Labour.
In 2005, he was a commissioner on the Local Government Pay Commission. In 2014 he acted as special adviser to the House of Commons Local Government and Communities Select Committee inquiry of senior management pay. In 2018 he was a member of the Health Education England scrutiny committee on the nursing associate role.
He has also advised the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Midwives, the Staff Side of the NHS Staff Council, the Police Federation, the Audit Commission and the National Audit Office. He is a deputy director of the Department of Health and Social Care Policy Research Unit on the Health and Social Care workforce, commencing work at the beginning of 2019.
Ian's Research Excellence Framework 2021 impact case study was called Improving Care Quality and the Development of the Healthcare Support Worker Role in NHS England. Read the impact feature on this case study here.
Research Profile
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Currently accepting new PhD students.
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Warner, M., Kessler, I., Manthorpe, J. & Stoye, G., 14 Feb 2023, London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London. Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-112
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Kessler, I., 27 Jan 2023, London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London. Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-109
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Krachler, N. & Kessler, I., 16 Jul 2022, In: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT JOURNAL. http://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12464. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.1111/1748-8583.12464
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Kessler, I., Manthorpe, J., Harris, J., Moriarty, J. & Steils, N., 20 Apr 2022, London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London. Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review
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Kessler, I., Steils, N., Esser, A. & Grant, D., 11 Jan 2022, In: British Journal of Healthcare Assistants. 16, 1, 16. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.12968/bjha.2022.16.1.6
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Kessler, I., Steils, N., Esser, A. & Grant, D., 13 Dec 2021, In: British Journal of Healthcare Assistants. 15, 11, p. 526 531 p. Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Kessler, I., Steils, N., Harris, J., Manthorpe, J. & Moriarty, J., 10 Nov 2021, London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London. 58 p. Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-065
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Kessler, I., Harris, J., Manthorpe, J., Moriarty, J. & Steils, N., 27 Sep 2021, London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London. 31 p. Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-059
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Kessler, I., Manthorpe, J., Samsi, K., Steils, N. & Woolham, J., 12 Jul 2021, London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London. 53 p. Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report › peer-review. DOIs: https://doi.org/10.18742/pub01-056
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Kessler, I., Steils, N., Harris, J., Manthorpe, J. & Moriarty, J., 28 Feb 2021, London: NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King's College London. 19 p. Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report