ABOUT THE RESEARCH

This Special Interest Group for Being Human (SiG for BH) has been inspired form an understanding of the Human Condition from multiple perspectives and particularly the disciplines of human biology, anthropology, psychology and sociology. Although the research focus is on healthcare practice and gaining an understanding and appreciation of Health, Social Care and Wellbeing Services, this SiG for BH is motivated by Carl Rogers, who aims to put the person at the centre of care:

"Experience is, for me, the highest authority. The touchstone of validity is my own experience. No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience. It is to experience that I must return again and again to discover a closer approximation to truth as it is in the process of becoming in me." -Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person

This Special Interest Group for Being Human (SiG for BH) aims to:

Enable the development of cutting-edge research by our academic and clinical healthcare leaders, educators and researchers.
Seeks to support the development of up-to-date and relevant Teaching and Learning materials for our academic and clinical healthcare leaders, educators and researchers.
Improve the evidence base for adult and child Health, Social Care and Wellbeing in England, UK and broader audiences.

This SiG for BH focuses on applied, interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary research that addresses local, national and international issues relating to Health, Social Care and Wellbeing practice, policy and education. The group prioritises a high level of engagement with a multiplicity of stakeholders (charities, employees, managers, policy makers, healthcare professionals, government and the NHS), and encourages research that is inter-sectoral but aims to make a difference to local communities that OLC serve.

Projects

The major work of this special interest research group for Being Human focuses on the identification of human resource requirements for healthcare and well-being support in and around the OLC campuses surrounding neighbourhoods.

Through strong links with charities, employees, managers, policymakers, healthcare professionals, the government and the NHS, we are able to support studies by identifying opportunities to place our undergraduate students into healthcare work, either voluntary or paid. The student placements provide case study material, real-world experience and build confidence towards providing outputs for their course assessments. Many students in OLC Healthcare programmes (HND or BA Honours) have found that supported by members of the SiG for BH, they can use their placement experience, observations, interventions or interactions with stakeholders for the tenet of their research dissertations.

Publications

Adnan Deara; Mohamed Deara; Christopher Bamber; Enis Elezi, A comparative analysis of lean implementations in NHS England hospitals, International Journal of Lean Enterprise Research (IJLER), Vol. 2, No. 3, 2018
Castka, P., Bamber, C. & Sharp, J.M. "Assessing best practice in teamworking", 2003, Journal of Measuring Business Excellence, Vol 7, No 4, pp 29-36.
Castka, P. and Sharp, J.M. "Beyond ISO 14001:1996 – toward affinities between organisational climate, environmental attitudes and behaviours", 2004, Proceedings of the 9th Int. Conf. on ISO9000 and TQM, Bangkok, Thailand, April 2004, Edited by Ho, S.
Balzarova, M., Bamber, D., Castka, P. and Sharp, J.M. "Beyond ISO 14001:1996 – toward affinities between organisational climate, environmental attitudes and behaviours", 2004, Proceedings of the 9th Int. Conf. on ISO9000 and TQM, Bangkok, Thailand, April 2004, Edited by Ho, S.
Castka, P., Bamber, C.J. and Sharp, J.M."Assessing the best practice in Teamworking – A view on assessment of intangible assets in organisations)", 2003, Proceedings of 1st Int. Conf. Performance Measures, Benchmarking and Best Practices in the New Economy, Guimareas, Portugal, June 2003, Edited by Putnik, G.D. and Gunasekaran, A., pp31-36. 53.
Pavel Castka, Chris J. Bamber, & John M. Sharp, A systems approach to the development of High Performance Teams (HPTs), Int. Conf. on Systems Thinking in Management, University of Salford, UK, April 2002.
Bamber, C.J. and Sharp, J.M."A Systems Approach to development of high Performance Teams (HPTs)", 2002, Int. Conf. on Systems Thinking in Management, University of Salford, UK, April 2002.
Bamber, C.J. & Sharp, J.M. "Continuous Organisational Learning through the Development of high Performance Teams", 2000, Int. Conf. on Systems Thinking in Management, Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia, Nov 2000.,
J.M.Sharp, C.J.Bamber and M.T.Hides (2000), A Futuristic Evaluation of the Maintenance Function in the Organisation, COrE Research Group, University of Salford, UK, paper presented at ‘World Trends in Maintenance Engineering’ conf. at University of Pretoria, South Africa, August 2000.