Staff Members

Dr Sharyn Maxwell, PhD, MHA, PGCE (LTHE), B Comm (Hons)

(email at s.a.maxwell@durham.ac.uk)

Biography

Sharyn has a multidisciplinary background with training in economics, counselling, public relations and consumer advocacy, health services management and higher education. She has worked in various fields of endeavour moving between the public service, Christian ministries, community care and academia. The primary theme throughout her career has been improving health services for people with developmental disabilities and/or mental illness (and their families). Sharyn’s interests focus on whole systems approaches to the delivery and evaluation of quality health care services. More specifically they include theoretical and policy considerations of health systems, the practical needs of healthcare professionals in their day to day work, and patients' experience of healthcare. She graduated with a PhD from Durham University in 2008 entitled “The Contextualization of the Coordination of Care within NHS Trusts: An Organisational Perspective”.

In her spare time, Sharyn enjoys socialising, gardening, walking and genealogy.

Grant Applications

Teaching

2008 Development of an MSc in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy. Higher Education Funding Council for England - North East Higher Level Skills Pathfinder. £13,250.

2008 Increasing Diagnostic and Treatment Skills for Long Term Conditions in Primary Care. Higher Education Funding Council for England - North East Higher Level Skills Pathfinder. £47,920.

2007 Building Bridges: Mapping post-graduate and short-course provision within Durham University onto local health sector requirements. Durham University Partnership Venture Fund. £10,000.

Research

2004 A Joint Proposal to Harness Strategic Asset Planning and Management (SAPM) and Extend the Involvement of Professional Executive Committees in Support of Service Improvement - A Collaborative Research and Development Project. Collaborators: Centre for Clinical Management Development, University of Durham; NHS Estates; and National Primary Care Development Team, NHS Modernisation Agency. £800,000. Successful.

2003 Modernizing learning and professional development through integrated professional education – shaping the future. Collaborators: Prof John Carpenter (Centre for Applied Social Science, University of Durham); Prof Pieter Degeling and Ms Sharyn Maxwell (Centre for Clinical Management Development, University of Durham). £200,000. Shortlisted in second place.

Publications

• Degeling, P, Winters, M, Maxwell, S, Kennedy, J & Coyle, B (2006). Modernisation in York Hospitals: Report of a Research Based Development Project with the York Health Economy.
• Degeling, P, Winters, M, Maxwell, S, Coyle, B & Hoyle, P (2006). Project to Map the Cultural and Psycho-social Predispositions of Staff in RNSH and to Assess the Implications for Reform.
• S. Maxwell, P. Degeling, J. Kennedy & B. Coyle (2005). Improving Clinical Management: The Role of ICP-Based Clinical Management Systems.
• P. Degeling, F. Macbeth, J. Kennedy, S. Maxwell, B. Coyle & B. Telfer (2002). Professional Subcultures and Clinical Governance Implementation in NHS Wales: A Report to the National Assembly for Wales.
• Degeling, P, Sorensen, R, Maxwell, S, Aisbett, C, Zhang, K & Coyle, B (2000). The Organisation of Hospital Care and its Effects.

Books: sections

• Maxwell, S, Degeling, P, Sorensen, R, Zhang, K & Coyle, B (2008). Searching for Systematisation and its Effects. In Changing Clinical Care. Gray, A, Degeling, P & Colebatch, H Oxford, New York: Radcliffe Publishing. 73-83.
• Coyle, B, Kennedy, P, Maxwell, S & Degeling, P (2008). Using Data to Inform Systematised Approaches to Care Delivery. In Changing Clinical Care. Gray, A, Degeling, P & Colebatch, H Oxford, New York: Radcliffe Publishing. 55-69.
• Degeling, P., Kennedy, J., Macbeth, F., Telfer, B., Maxwell, S. & Coyle, B. (2004). Practitioner Perspectives on Objectives and Outcomes of Clinical Governance: Some Evidence from Wales. In Governing Medicine, Theory and Practice. Gray, Andrew & Harrison, Stephen Maidenhead: Open University Press. 60-78.
• P. Degeling, S. Maxwell & R. Iedema (2004). Restructuring clinical Governance to Maximize its Developmental Potential. In Governing Medicine. Andrew Gray & Stephen Harrison Open University Press. 163-179.
• P. Degeling, R. Iedema, M. Winters, S. Maxwell, B. Coyle, J. Kennedy & D.J. Hunter (2003). Leadership in the Context of Health Reform: An Australian Case Study. In Leading Health Care Organizations. Sue Dopson & A. L Mark Palgrave Macmillan. 113-133.

Journal papers: academic

• Degeling, P.J., Maxwell, S., Iedema, R. & Hunter, D.J. (2004). Making clinical governance work. British Medical Journal 329(7467): 679-681.
• P. Degeling & S. Maxwell (2004). The negotiated order of health care. Journal of Health Services Research & Policy 9(2): 119-121.
• Degeling, P., Maxwell, S., Kennedy, J. & Coyle, B. (2003). Medicine, management, and modernisation: a 'danse macabre'?. British Medical Journal 326(7390): 649-652.
• P. Degeling, S. Maxwell, F. Macbeth, J. Kennedy & B. Coyle (2003). The Impact of CHI: Some Evidence from Wales. Quality in Primary Care 11(3): 147-157.
• Degeling, P & Maxwell, S (2002). The Structural Pre-Requisites for Clinical Leadership. Journal for Clinical Excellence 4(3): 289-293.
• P. Degeling, M. Hill, J. Kennedy, B. Coyle & S. Maxwell (2000). A cross-national study of differences in the identities of nursing in England and Australia and how this has affected nurses' capacity to respond to hospital reform. Nursing Inquiry 7(2): 120-135.

Research Interests

• Organisational theory, clinical management, role of service users, intellectual disability, systems approaches

Teaching Areas

• Evidence based Clinical Management
• Issues in Designing and Delivering Care
• Management of Health Organisations

Supervises

• Ms, Anita Winkler
• Dr Manizha Hadi