Dr Michael Shepherd - Director of AWARD SE Wales

I joined AWARD in South East Wales in August 2005 as Senior Research Fellow based at the Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics. I have worked in public health, social and policy research for many years, mostly in the UK health service, but also in social welfare in the USA, with lots of work being cross-agency and multi-disciplinary. I have experience of national and local policy development and evaluation. I have an MSc in Policy Studies, and have recently been awarded my PhD from Bristol University, School for Policy Studies. My principal research interests are in the policy process; community and user participation in decision-making; health behaviour and improvement and community approaches to tackling inequalities in health.

Education

PhD Social Policy, Bristol University School for Policy Studies “Public involvement practice in the national health service: narratives of power, resistance and partnership” awarded 2005
MSc Policy Studies - Bristol University, School for Advanced Urban Studies, 1990
BA (Econ) Trent Polytechnic, 1975

Employment

AWARD Senior Research Fellow, Cardiff Institute of Society, Health and Ethics, from August 2005
2003-2005 Head of Research & Evaluation, Sports Council for Wales
2000-2002 Head of Public and Patient Involvement, NHS Executive, South West Regional Office
1987-2003 Policy & Planning Analyst, Research & Development Manager, Public Health Specialist, NHS in Bristol and Avon
1985-87 Research and Policy Analyst, Vermont Dept of Social Welfare
1979-85 Researcher, Vermont Dept of Labor & Industry

Selected Publications

Anderson, E; Shepherd, M; Salisbury, C “Taking off the suit”: engaging the community in primary health care decision-making.. Health Expectations (accepted for publication)
Rowe, R; Shepherd, M. Public Participation in the new NHS: no closer to citizen control Social Poicy & Admin, 2002, 36, 3, 275-290
Pollock, J; Horrocks, S; Emond, A; Harvey, I; Shepherd, M. Health and social factors for health visitor caseload weighting: reliability, accuracy & potential use. Health & Social Care in the Community, 2002, 10(2), 82-90.
Coast, J; Donovan, J; Litva, A; Eyles, J; Morgan, K; Shepherd, M; Tacchi, J. “If there were a war tomorrow we’d find the money”: contrasting perspectives on the rationing of health care. Social Science & Medicine, 2002, 54(12) 1839-51.
Litva, A; Coast, J; Donovan, J; Eyles, J; Shepherd, M; Tacchi, J; Abelson, J; Morgan, K. “The public is too subjective”: public involvement at different levels of health care decision-making. Social Science & Medicine, 2002, 54(12) 1825-37
Gunnell, D; Shepherd, M; Evans, M. Are recent increases in deliberate self-harm associated with changes in socio-economic conditions? An ecological analysis of patterns of deliberate self-harm in Bristol, 1972-3 and 1995-6. Psychological Medicine, 2000, 30(5) 1197-1203
Horrocks, S; Pollock, J; Harvey, I; Emond, A; Shepherd, M. Health Visitor understanding and rating of 28 health & social factors used as a part of a health visitor caseload weighting system. Health & Social Care in the Community, 1998, 6(5) 343-352.
Shepherd, M; Gunnell, D; Maxwell, B; Mumford, D; Development and evaluation of an inner city mental health team. Social Psychiatry & Psychiatric Epidemiology, 1998, 33(3)129-135