Prof Rob Wilson

Professor

Department: Newcastle Business School

Key areas of expertise:

• Information Systems

• Complexity and Public Management

• Public Service Innovation

• Social Innovation (including co-creation and co-production)

• Digital Government, Governance and Management

• Digital Citizens, Citizenship and Economy

• Digital Health and Social Care

• Work and Technology

• Inter-Organisational Relationships: Partnership and Collaborative Working
I have over two decades of experience working on and leading public service information systems/digital government research and development projects for a range of international and national research agencies (inc UKRI and EU). This work is based in three overlapping contexts - the integration and information aspects of public services (in particular contexts of health and social care - including children, older people and families); the challenges of technology adoption, data, information and measurement in local governance (the NHS, VCS/Third sector and local authorities) and the role of information and information systems in education in particular HEIs.

I have lectured widely on collaboration, information sharing and information systems in public service contexts and have taught on a range of UG and PG management programmes including Research Methods, Information Systems, Digital Economy, Public Services Management and Partnership/Collaborative working.

Campus Address

City Campus East (CCE)
Northumbria University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

Email Rob

@wilsorob

Key Publications

Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
Harnessing Complexity for better outcomes in Public and Non-profit Services, French, M., Hesselgreaves, H., Wilson, R., Hawkins, M., Lowe, T. 23 Feb 2023
Local government and democratic innovations: reflections on the case of citizen assemblies on climate change, King, M., Wilson, R. 2 Jan 2023, In: Public Money & Management
Social Impact Bonds and public service reform: back to the future of New Public Management?, French, M., Kimmitt, J., Wilson, R., Jamieson, D., Lowe, T. 4 May 2023, In: International Public Management Journal
The Digitalization of Health Care: Electronic Records and the Disruption of Moral Orders, McLoughlin, I., Garetty, K., Wilson, R. 2 Feb 2017
Digital Government @ Work: A Social Informatics Perspective, McLoughlin, I., Wilson, R., Martin, M. 2013
Social Innovation in public services: Innovating ‘co-creative’ relationships between services, citizens and communities?, Baines, S., Wilson, R., Narbutaite Aflaki, I., Wiktorska-Święcka, A., Bassi, A., Jalonen, H. 4 Jul 2022, In: Public Money & Management
The Institutional Work of creating and implementing Social Impact Bonds, Lowe, T., Kimmitt, J., Wilson, R., Martin, M., Gibbon, J. 1 Apr 2019, In: Policy and Politics
Playing the Game of Outcomes-based Performance Management. Is Gamesmanship Inevitable?: Evidence from Theory and Practice, Lowe, T., Wilson, R. 1 Dec 2017, In: Social Policy and Administration
Is the GaaP wider than we think?: Applying a sociotechnical lens to Government-As-A-Platform, Jamieson, D., Wilson, R., Martin, M. 23 Sep 2020, Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, New York, ACM
New development: Responding to complexity in public services—the human learning systems approach, Lowe, T., French, M., Hawkins, M., Hesselgreaves, H., Wilson, R. 3 Oct 2021, In: Public Money and Management

PGR Supervision

Julie Wooton An Investigation On Whether The Pandemic Has Expedited Digital Transformation In The UK, A Critical ANT Study Using Normalisation Theory Start Date: 05/04/2024

Qualifications

Management PhD June 01 2012
Teaching and Learning PGCert May 01 2009
Social Research MSc August 01 1997
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy FHEA 2009

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