Professor Jeremy Dawson

PhD

Management School

Chair in Health Management

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j.f.dawson@sheffield.ac.uk
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Professor Jeremy Dawson
Management School
B023
Sheffield University Management School
Conduit Road
Sheffield
S10 1FL
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Jeremy Dawson is Professor of Health Management, working jointly between the Institute of Work Psychology (within the Management School) and the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR).

He is a statistician by background, but has worked in the fields of work psychology, management and healthcare since 1998.

Jeremy’s research focusses mainly on staff experience in the NHS (particularly in the areas of team working, human resource management, climate and culture in the NHS and equality, diversity and inclusion) and its links with outcomes, with current funded projects including an examination of factors affecting turnover of mental health staff, and topics such as measurement of general practice productivity, evaluation of interventions to improve staff well-being, and diversity and discrimination in the workplace. He provides advice to the NHS at a national level, as a member of both the NHS Staff Survey Advisory Group, and the NHS Race and Health Observatory Academic Reference Group.

He has also worked extensively on other topics, particularly team working processes, and work group diversity, work engagement and safety. He has a particular interest in areas of statistical methodology, including the testing and interpretation of interaction effects.

He was previously a Senior Research Fellow at Aston Business School, Aston University, where he was also director of the Institute for Health Services Effectiveness (IHSE), leading several large-scale projects including running the NHS national staff survey for its first eight years between 2003 and 2010.

He gained his PhD from Aston University in 2011.

Research interests

Jeremy's research falls broadly into three areas, with plenty of crossover between them – management of health care organisations, team working, and statistics.

Recent projects in health care include:

  • a study of the effects of NHS staff engagement and experience on patient outcomes
  • a longitudinal evaluation of Schwartz Center Rounds in the NHS
  • the development and implementation of a tool to measure effectiveness of general practices.

Current work includes a study on the Retention of Mental Health Staff (RoMHS), an evaluation of specialist clinics for people suffering from multiple, medically unexplained symptoms (MSS3), and the Behaviour in Teams (BiT) study examining the benefit on giving teams feedback on their behaviour in meetings.

As a statistician he has also undertaken a wide range of methodological research, particularly regarding interpretation of interaction effects, measurement of work group diversity, and questionnaire development.

He has published over 70 papers in refereed academic journals in the fields of psychology, management, health care and research methods, as well as numerous project reports and articles in practitioner publications. He is an editorial board member of six journals, and an Associate Editor of both Organizational Research Methods, and the Journal of Business and Psychology.

Publications

Books

  • Dawson J (2016) Analysing Quantitative Survey Data for Business and Management Students. SAGE Publications. RIS download Bibtex download

Journal articles

Chapters

  • Farley S, Evison R, Rackham N, Nicolson R & Dawson J (2018) The Behavior Analysis Coding System An Applied, Real-time Approach for Measuring and Improving Interactive Skills, CAMBRIDGE HANDBOOK OF GROUP INTERACTION ANALYSIS (pp. 584-593). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Schneider B, Barbera KM, West MA, Topakas A & Dawson JF (2014) Climate and Culture for Health Care Performance, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Climate and Culture Oxford University Press RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dawson JF () Levels of Analysis (pp. 1-2). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd RIS download Bibtex download

Conference proceedings papers

  • Lawrence NR, Bacila I, Tonge J, Dawson J, Collins GS, Lang Z-Q, Bryce J, Alimussina M, Chen M, Ali SR , Adam S et al (2024) Variation in Blood Pressure in Young Adults with 21a-Hydroxylase Deficiency: Longitudinal Multilevel Modelling of Data from the I-CAH Registry. HORMONE RESEARCH IN PAEDIATRICS, Vol. 97 (pp 154-155) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lawrence NR, Bacila I, Tonge J, Dawson J, Collins GS, Lang Z-Q, Bryce J, Alimussina M, Chen M, Ali SR , Adam S et al (2024) Impact of Fludrocortisone on Blood Pressure in Young Children Under 5 with CAH in the I-CAH Registry: Autoregressive Causal Inference Analysis. HORMONE RESEARCH IN PAEDIATRICS, Vol. 97 (pp 153-154) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Biemann T & Dawson JF (2023) Testing Interaction Effects: Overcoming the Limitations of the Product Term. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2023(1) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Perez Sepulveda I, Axtell C & Dawson JF (2023) Teams’ Media Capabilities Repertoires: An Alternative Approach to the Study of Virtuality. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2023(1) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lin S-Y, Hirst G, Wang YL & Dawson JF (2022) Fathers’ Work-Family Conflicts and Children’s Work Earnings: A 17-year Dyadic Lifespan Analysis. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2022(1) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dawson JF (2022) Probing Non-Linear Three-Way Interactions. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2022(1) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Robison JM, Koehler T, Schurer Lambert L, Dawson JF, DeSimone JA, Greckhamer T, Krasikova D, Le JK, Welch CL & Withers MC (2022) How to Write a Methodological Contribution: From the Editors of Organizational Research Methods. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2022(1) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lawrence NR, Bacila I, Dawson J, Ali SR, van den Akker ELT, Sartori Sanchez Bachega TA, Baronio F, Birkebaek NH, Bonfig W, van der Grinten C , Cools M et al (2022) Blood pressure (BP) status in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia (CAH) - longitudinal analysis of real world data from the I-CAH registry. HORMONE RESEARCH IN PAEDIATRICS, Vol. 95(SUPPL 2) (pp 112-113) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lawrence N, Bacila I, Dawson J, Bryce J, van den Akker EL, Sartori Sanchez Bachega TA, Baronio F, Birkebaek NH, Bonfig W, Claahsen H , Costa EC et al (2021) Variation of glucocorticoid dose and biomarkers in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia longitudinal analysis of real world data from the I-CAH registry. HORMONE RESEARCH IN PAEDIATRICS, Vol. 94(SUPPL 1) (pp 26-26) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lawrence N, Bacila I, Dawson J, Bryce J, van den Akker E, Sartori Sanchez Bachega TA, Baronio F, Birkebaek NH, Bonfig W, Claahsen H , Costa EC et al (2021) International practice of therapy monitoring in congenital adrenal hyperplasia - Real World data from the I-CAH registry. HORMONE RESEARCH IN PAEDIATRICS, Vol. 94(SUPPL 1) (pp 67-68) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farley S, Dawson JF, Greenaway T, Meade K & Hernandez-Ibar D (2020) Does National Status Influence Psychological Safety Growth in Newly Formed Multinational Teams?. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2020(1) (pp 10311-10311) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Humphries T, Singh R, Dawson J, Sinha S & Choudhari K (2020) The Effect of Socioeconomic Deprivation on Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) Outcome. JOURNAL OF HEAD TRAUMA REHABILITATION, Vol. 35(2) (pp E233-E234) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Singh R, Choudhari K, Sinha S, Mason S, Lecky F & Dawson J (2020) What Is the Outcome After TBI? The SHEFBIT Cohort Experience. JOURNAL OF HEAD TRAUMA REHABILITATION, Vol. 35(2) (pp E232-E233) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alaybek B, Keeler K, LeBreton JM, Avery DR, Dawson JF, Webster B, Cheung HK, Cortina JM, Johnson LU, Paul JB , Rubino C et al (2019) Current Directions in Climate Level and Climate Strength Research. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2019(1) (pp 11215-11215) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Singh R, Mason S, Lecky F & Dawson J (2019) What is the Global Outcome after TBI? Experience with a Large Prospective Cohort. BRAIN INJURY, Vol. 33 (pp 26-26) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Booker J, Singh R, Sinha S, Choudhari K & Dawson J (2019) Predicting Recovery after Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. BRAIN INJURY, Vol. 33 (pp 91-92) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Singh R, Mason S, Lecky F & Dawson J (2019) Prevalence of Depression after TBI in a Large Prospective Cohort; The SHEFBIT Study. BRAIN INJURY, Vol. 33 (pp 26-26) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Knight C, Patterson M, Dawson JF & Brown J (2017) A Participatory Action Intervention to Increase Work Engagement in Nursing Staff. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2017(1) (pp 10633-10633) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Topakas A, Dawson J & Powell M (2015) High-Performance Work Systems and Performance in the Healthcare Sector: A systematic Review of the Evidence. GIHRM Conference Programme RIS download Bibtex download
  • Dawson J (2015) Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bath Water: Making Use of Counterintuitive Regression Coefficients. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2015(1) (pp 17641-17641) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Giessner SR, Dawson J & West M (2013) Job Satisfaction and Supportive Leadership during Organizational Merger. Academy of Management Proceedings, Vol. 2013(1) (pp 11590-11590) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Farley S, Dawson J, Greenaway T, Meade K, Hernandez-Ibar D & Farley S () Does National Status Influence Psychological Safety Growth in Newly Formed Multinational Teams. Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceeding RIS download Bibtex download

Reports

  • Read J, Ariss S, Nasr N, Franklin M, Dawson J, Scott E, Field R, Lowrie K, Simmonds R & Cook L (2018) Sheffield City Region Test Bed, ‘Perfect Patient Pathway’ Final Evaluation Report View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Chambers D, Preston L, Salway S, De Saille S, Topakas A, Booth A, Dawson J & Wilsdon JR (2017) The Diversity Dividend: does a more diverse and inclusive research community produce better biomedical and health research? View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download

Working papers

  • Chambers D, Preston L, Topakas A, de Saille S, Salway S, Booth A, Dawson J & Wilsdon J (2017) Review of diversity and inclusion literature and an evaluation of methodologies and metrics relating to health research. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download

Datasets

Preprints

Research group

The Institute of Work Psychology (IWP)
 

Jeremy's work contributes strongly to both the Work and Wellbeing theme, and the Leadership and Teamworking theme. Since 2017 he has led the Behaviour in Teams research group.

Teaching interests

Jeremy is a statistician by background, and teaches a wide variety of subjects in the fields of statistics and research methods. Within the Management School he contributes to modules on research methods for management and psychology students, as well as supervising postgraduate students.

Within ScHARR Jeremy leads the HAR6045 Further Statistics for Health Science Researchers module, and a corresponding online learning module (HAR6061), which is also available to PhD students and for continuous professional development (CPD). He also contributes to two other statistical modules for medical or health students, and currently supervises two PhD students.

Some of this teaching has the aim of preparing students for using statistics in the wider world (e.g. statistics for work psychologists; critical numbers for medical students), whilst other areas are focussed on enabling students (particularly postgraduates) to do quantitative research.

He also provides additional statistical workshops for staff and PhD students within the Management School. These include everything from basic principles of research through to detailed workshops about topics such as questionnaire design and psychometrics, multilevel analysis and structural equation modelling.

He has also supervised students at all levels, including undergraduates, MSc, MBA, and PhD.

PhD Supervision

Jeremy currently supervises the following PhD students:

He has previously supervised:

Name Thesis title Year of completion
Ignacio Perez Sepulveda Team Communication Actions: Beyond the Dichotomy of Face-to-Face versus Virtual Interactions in Teams 2024

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