Dr Patrick Marshall

Dr Patrick Marshall

Lecturer in Healthcare Leadership

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Health Sciences
  • School of Paramedical PeriOperative and Advanced Practice

Qualifications

  • BA (Birmingham City University)
  • PGCert (Newman University, Birmingham)
  • MBA (University of Leicester)
  • PGCert
  • EdD (University of Hertfordshire)

Summary

Dr Patrick Marshall Profile

I’m the Programme Director for the MSc in Healthcare Leadership which focuses on global healthcare.

Formerly I was a senior lecturer in leadership in the Centre for Leadership in Health and Social Care, course leader for the MSc programme and the Post Graduate Diploma in Professional Practice in Organisational and Regional Change Leadership at Sheffield Hallam University. I gained practical leadership experience in schools in the Midlands, Yorkshire and Hertfordshire. I was a headteacher for 10 years in a secondary school, during which time I completed my EdD, which explored how headteachers used reflective conversations to support, sustain and improve their leadership practice. I was Assistant Dean for Postgraduate Medical Education (PME) in Kent Surrey and Sussex (HEKSS). I became Academic Head of School of Leadership at KSS. Here I created an MA programme in leadership designed to address the practical reality of being a clinician in the NHS. This programme grew out of his work on a freestanding postgraduate module in leadership in clinical settings that I led. I have also supported senior clinicians to improve and benchmark their teaching, visiting them in their various clinical settings. I still run bespoke leadership workshops for NHS Trusts introducing clinical leadership and service improvement to the full range of health and social care professionals.

At the University of Birmingham I taught in their medical school and on the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson MSc in Healthcare Leadership for the NHS Leadership Academy. Both as a cohort leader and tutor.

My EdD on the reflective professional practice of head teachers in UK secondary schools was published as a book in 2016. My research interest is in the relationship of practice and academic theory in the context of professional reflection relating to performance and well-being. I am also interested in practice-based research, my doctorate was completed whilst I was still a practising head teacher.

I also teach, assess and supervise doctoral students at Hull and previously at Sheffiled Hallam and the University of Hertfordshire I currently teach on postgraduate and undergraduate programmes which focus on leadership, education, advancing practice and professional reflection.

I teach on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes as well as training healthcare professionals in leadership and management.

Recent outputs

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Book

Reflective Conversations with Heads - Exploring School Leadership

Marshall, P. (2016). Reflective Conversations with Heads - Exploring School Leadership. Lambert Academic Publishing

Journal Article

Book review: Research handbook on leadership in healthcare, by N. Chambers, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023

Marshall, P. (2025). Book review: Research handbook on leadership in healthcare, by N. Chambers, Cheltenham, UK, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023. Action Learning: Research and Practice, 22(1), 85-87. https://doi.org/10.1080/14767333.2025.2458920

Group Dynamics in Organisations: A Core Literacy for Innovation Leaders in the NHS

Penlington, C., & Marshall, P. (2016). Group Dynamics in Organisations: A Core Literacy for Innovation Leaders in the NHS. Journal of Health and Medical Economics, 2(1), 1-6

Preprint / Working Paper

Rapid realist review: Anxiolytic effects of music therapy on mechanically ventilated patients

Watson, H., & Marshall, P. Rapid realist review: Anxiolytic effects of music therapy on mechanically ventilated patients

Presentation / Conference Contribution

Creating Collaborative Stories in a Time of Covid 19

Hawley, R., & Marshall, P. (2023, March). Creating Collaborative Stories in a Time of Covid 19. Presented at NHS England #StartWithPeople Event, Online

Research interests

Specialist areas of interest

I am interested in professional reflection and how this can impact on leadership performance. I am especially interested in how professionals reflect together and how this affects leaders’ resilience and professional relationships. I am currently researching into the impact on leaders when their public sector organisations scapegoat them.

Research

Current

Traumatised Leaders: When organisations turn on their leaders looking at the personal impact and costs of being a leader in the health and education.

Liminal Leadership

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

Reforming Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) roles: A practical resource to support workforce transformation of ODPs working in critical care

Funder

NHS England

Grant

£8,125.00

Started

1 January 2024

Status

Complete

Postgraduate supervision

I welcome applications to work with me and colleagues in healthcare

on leadership in general, healthcare leadership, educational leadership, professional reflective practice.

Doctoral Supervision

•Doctoral supervisor training for the University of Hertfordshire 2013 Two days

•EdD Student for the first two years of her education study 2013-5

•Doctoral training simulation programme from Sheffield Hallam University assessed over 3 months Equivalent to 1 completion

•Director of Studies 2019 2022 successful DProf completion Relational Leadership in the NHS: How Healthcare Leaders Identify with Public Engagement https://shura.shu.ac.uk/30739/

•Principal supervisor for PhD in Grounded Theory of Safety Medication Administration

•Principal supervisor for PhD in Evaluation of the NHS-VMI Partnership in developing culture of continuous improvement

•Principal supervisor for PhD in Exploring Practices of Catecholamine Changeovers in Critically Ill Neonates in Jordan

•Second supervisor for PhD in Experiences of health inequality for disabled refugees

I have supervised over 100 Master level dissertations.

Conference presentation

Presenter at ‘Start with People’ conference

2023 - 2023

A presentation of the research project exploring the experiences of patients staff and carers during Covid

Presenter at SynEnergy The Microsystems Festival 2022 JÖnkÖping Sweden

2022 - 2022

Presentation on a research paper about staff development and Allied Health Professionals to be published in the BMJ

External examiner role

External Examiner

2025 - 2030

External Examiner for PG Certificate in Healthcare Innovation (HINO) programme

External Examiner

2022 - 2026

External examiner for MBA

External examiner

2019 - 2023

BMAN

External examiner

2018 - 2022

iBSc Prehospital Medicine

Fellowship Role

Fellow of the Reach Society

2016 - 2032

Reach Society was founded in October 2010 by a small group of friends who are professional Black men who had successfully navigated the social, economical and emotional challenges to develop from boys to men in the UK. Along the way they learnt the essential strategies needed to develop their potential to become useful contributors to their families, local communities and the wider society. Soon these friends attracted other professional Black men to become leading contributors in Reach Society. By choosing to draw on their diverse personal experiences, educational qualifications and professional expertise the leaders of Reach Society are confident of their ability to encourage, motivate and inspire boys and young men from their cultural backgrounds to make similar transitions. Reach Society will offer a range of services to generate income that will be used to cover all of its operational costs; and all net income will be directed into building the capacity of the social enterprise to sustain its work in the long term.

Honorary position

Honorary Lecturer at HYMS

2023 - 2028

Journal peer reviewer

Article reviewer for Social Science and Medicine

2024 - 2027

Regular reviewer for the associated journals

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

FHEA

2012

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA)

2012

The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, commonly known as the Royal Society of Arts, is a London-based organisation committed to finding practical solutions to social challenges.

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