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Professor Rachael Finn serves as Chair in Organisation Studies and Head of the Work Psychology Group at the University of Sheffield Management School, where she has held faculty positions since 2011 and previously served as Interim Dean (2019). Her research critically examines health and social care organisation through qualitative methodologies, with extensive collaborations across NHS services and academic disciplines including ScHARR and Medical School.
Her educational foundation includes a BA joint honours in Psychology and Sociology and PhD in Sociology, both from the University of Nottingham. These qualifications underpin her interdisciplinary approach to organisational analysis in complex public service environments.
Finn's scholarly focus centers on discursive perspectives and critical management within healthcare systems, investigating policy implementation, professional identities, and patient involvement. Her work consistently bridges theoretical frameworks with practical healthcare challenges, emphasizing power dynamics and institutional constraints through rigorous qualitative inquiry.
Analysis of her publication record reveals sustained engagement with mental health workforce issues, organisational innovation sustainability, and institutional change mechanisms in the NHS. The predominant use of qualitative methods across her work establishes a distinct critical perspective on healthcare organisation that challenges conventional management paradigms.
Professor Finn actively supervises doctoral research including Arbaz Kapadi's 2023 thesis on service user involvement, while securing substantial external funding from The Health Foundation, NIHR, and NHS bodies for projects examining mental health staff retention, health and wellbeing boards, and lived experience integration in professional training.
She leads the Work Psychology academic group and contributes to the Organisation Studies Research Cluster, maintaining external examiner roles such as for the University of Nottingham's EMBA in Healthcare program.
