Dr John G. Richmond
PhD, MBA
School of Medicine and Population Health
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Healthcare Management and Leadership
Director, Management and Leadership MPH Programme
+44 114 222 4296
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School of Medicine and Population Health
Room 2037, 2nd floor
Regent Court (DCS)
211 Portobello
Sheffield
S1 4DP
- Profile
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John G. Richmond is the Programme Director for the Master of Public Health in Management and Leadership at the University of Sheffield. Prior to moving into academia, John worked for 10 years in healthcare management in public and private healthcare in Canada and the USA.
John achieved his PhD in Management at Warwick Business School (WBS) in 2018 supported by a National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Doctoral Fellowship where he investigated healthcare improvement, including how organisations learn and enhance patient safety. John’s post-doctoral fellowship at WBS was funded by The Health Foundation to evaluate a large-scale transformative quality improvement partnership between five English NHS hospital trusts and not-for-profit healthcare consultancy based in the USA.
John is committed to conducting research with impact. In 2023 he was appointed to the Ottawa-based Policy Insights Forum, as an Honorary Policy Fellow in Societal Resilience and Climate Change to facilitate public policy discussions in this area. John also founded an international network of researchers to explore Health System Resilience for Extreme Weather Emergencies.
- Research interests
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John’s research is based in the field of organization studies. He focuses on organizational resilience, learning, effective communication, and crisis management. John uses mixed-methods research designs including interviews, observations, surveys, systematic reviews, and archival data analysis. The majority of his research is conducted within healthcare organisations.
Specifically, he explores the resilience of healthcare organizations in response to extreme events. This includes events such as pandemics and extreme weather caused by climate change, as well as those resulting from professional misconduct and human error. He also completed studies examining employee voice and whistleblowing when patient safety is at risk. In addition, John’s research has explored the emotions of healthcare professionals involved in major incidents, and how they reflect and learn in the aftermath.
His work has been published in highly ranked peer-reviewed journals including those on the Financial Times 50 Journal list: Journal of Business Ethics; Work, Employment and Society; Journal of Health Organization and Management; British Medical Journal; British Medical Journal Leader; International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction; and Public Health.
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Featured publications
Journal articles
- Health system adaptation to extreme weather events in Australia: A scoping review. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 22. View this article in WRRO
- Building and maintaining trust “even when things aren't going well”: meta‐regulation through an explicit psychological contract. Public Administration Review. View this article in WRRO
- Applying a Lens of Temporality to Better Understand Voice About Unethical Behaviour. Journal of Business Ethics.
- Rethinking local resilience for extreme heat events. Public Health, 218, 146-148.
- Prosocial voice in the hierarchy of healthcare professionals: the role of emotions after harmful patient safety incidents. Journal of Health Organization and Management.
- Healthcare system leadership and climate change: five lessons for improving health systems resiliency. BMJ Leader.
- Preparing for the next COVID-19 wave in Canada : managing the crisis facing emergency management leaders in healthcare organisations. BMJ Leader.
- Canadian health emergency management professionals’ perspectives on the prevalence and effectiveness of disaster preparedness activities in response to COVID-19. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 60.
- Improving together : collaboration needs to start with regulators. BMJ, 2019(367).
- Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology. Work, Employment and Society, 33(1), 149-161.
Chapters
- Unlearning and patient safety In McDermott AM, Kitchener M & Exworthy M (Ed.), Managing Improvement in Healthcare : Attaining, Sustaining and Spreading Quality (pp. 117-134). Palgrave Macmillan View this article in WRRO
All publications
Journal articles
- Health system adaptation to extreme weather events in Australia: A scoping review. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 22. View this article in WRRO
- Building and maintaining trust “even when things aren't going well”: meta‐regulation through an explicit psychological contract. Public Administration Review. View this article in WRRO
- Inclusive Change and Voice in Organizations. Academy of Management Proceedings, 2024(1).
- Health system adaptations for extreme heat: protocol for an international scoping review of reviews. PLOS ONE, 19(7). View this article in WRRO
- Exploring community level multi-agency communication and collaboration during the emergency response to the covid-19 pandemic. Public Health in Practice. View this article in WRRO
- More managers would ensure justifiable staff concerns are heard quickly. Health Service Journal. View this article in WRRO
- Applying a Lens of Temporality to Better Understand Voice About Unethical Behaviour. Journal of Business Ethics.
- Rethinking local resilience for extreme heat events. Public Health, 218, 146-148.
- Prosocial voice in the hierarchy of healthcare professionals: the role of emotions after harmful patient safety incidents. Journal of Health Organization and Management.
- Healthcare system leadership and climate change: five lessons for improving health systems resiliency. BMJ Leader.
- The health care emergency management experience during COVID-19: Lessons from a Pan-Canadian study. HazNet, 16(2), 58-62. View this article in WRRO
- Preparing for the next COVID-19 wave in Canada : managing the crisis facing emergency management leaders in healthcare organisations. BMJ Leader.
- Canadian health emergency management professionals’ perspectives on the prevalence and effectiveness of disaster preparedness activities in response to COVID-19. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 60.
- Integrated healthcare and the dilemma of public health emergencies. Sustainability, 13(8). View this article in WRRO
- Improving together : collaboration needs to start with regulators. BMJ, 2019(367).
- Professional Misconduct in Healthcare: Setting Out a Research Agenda for Work Sociology. Work, Employment and Society, 33(1), 149-161.
Chapters
- Unlearning and patient safety In McDermott AM, Kitchener M & Exworthy M (Ed.), Managing Improvement in Healthcare : Attaining, Sustaining and Spreading Quality (pp. 117-134). Palgrave Macmillan View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- Psychological contracting making obligations explicit to support a transformative change partnership. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2020(1). Virtual conference, 7 August 2020 - 11 August 2020.
- Health system adaptation to extreme weather events in Australia: A scoping review. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 22. View this article in WRRO
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PhD Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD Students in areas such as:
- Healthcare Quality Improvement and Safety
- Risk and Emergency Management in Healthcare
- Professional Organisation in Healthcare
- Stress and Emotions in Healthcare
PhD students:
- Teaching interests
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At ScHARR I draw on my academic and professional background to teach and lead modules in Health Management and Leadership.
I am Director of the MPH Programme in Management and Leadership at ScHARR.