Professor Roman Kislov
Business School REF UoA Lead for Outputs and Environment
My profile
Biography
Roman Kislov is Professor of Health Policy and Management in the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity. He also serves as Business School REF UoA Lead for Outputs and Environment, providing academic leadership for the development of strategies to maximise and enhance the Faculty’s performance in REF 2028. Roman has previously acted as Director of the Centre for Decent Work and Productivity and led its Work, Management and Leadership Capabilities Knowledge Platform.
Roman has extensive experience of leading qualitative research into the processes and practices of knowledge mobilisation, with a particular interest in communities of practice, intermediary roles, collective leadership and implementation of change. His work crosses disciplinary boundaries between organisation studies, public administration and implementation science.
Roman is currently a Deputy Theme Lead for Implementation Science in the National Institute for Health Research and Care Applied Research Collaboration (NIHR ARC) Greater Manchester—a large-scale partnership between universities, NHS providers and third-sector organisations aiming to produce research that responds to the needs of local health and care system across the region.
Roman is Secretary of the Society for Studies in Organizing Healthcare (SHOC) and also holds visiting positions at the Institute for Health Policy and Organisation, The University of Manchester and the Australian Centre for Health Services Innovation (AusHSI), Queensland University of Technology. He is an Associate Editor of Implementation Science Communications and sits on the funding committee of the NIHR Health and Social Care Delivery Research (HSDR) Programme.
Prior to pursuing an academic career, Roman worked as a doctor for a gold mining company in Central Asia, combining clinical work with a managerial post.
Roman’s work has appeared in Public Administration Review, Organization Studies, Public Administration, Public Management Review, Implementation Science, BMJ Quality and Safety and other leading journals. He is a lead editor of Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts (Palgrave Macmillan) and a co-author of Cambridge Element on Implementation Science (Cambridge University Press).
Teaching
Supervision
I am interested in supervising doctoral students pursuing research on topics related to organisation of healthcare, healthcare professions, inter-organisational partnerships, boundary spanning, collective leadership, co-production of research, public sector governance, knowledge mobilisation and implementation
Research outputs
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Books (authored/edited/special issues)
Wilson, P., Kislov, R. (2022) Implementation Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kislov, R., Burns, D., Mørk, B.E., Montgomery, K. (2021) Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Chapters in books
Kislov, R., Harvey, G., Bresnen, M. (2023) 'Supporting the transition from individualistic to collective leadership: a longitudinal study of a university-healthcare partnership.' In Chambers, N. (ed.) Research Handbook on Leadership in Healthcare. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 566-590.
Kislov, R., Wilson, P. (2022) 'Theorizing.' In Rapport, F., Clay-Williams, R., Braithwaite, J. (ed.) Implementation Science: The Key Concepts. Routledge, pp. 30-33.
Montgomery, K., Mørk, B.E., Burns, D., Kislov, R. (2021) 'Concluding Comments: Voice as a Common Theme Across Studies of Healthcare Management in Challenging Policy Contexts.' In Kislov, R., Burns, D., Mørk, B.E., Montgomery, K. (ed.) Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 301-313.
Kislov, R., Burns, D., Mørk, B.E., Montgomery, K. (2021) 'Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts: Connections and Contradictions.' In Kislov, R., Burns, D., Mørk, B.E., Montgomery, K. (ed.) Managing Healthcare Organisations in Challenging Policy Contexts. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-22.
Kislov, R., Wilson, P., Cummings, G., Ehrenberg, A., Gifford, W., Kelly, J., Kitson, A., Pettersson, L., Wallin, L., Harvey, G. (2020) 'The Chain of Codified Knowledge: Organisational Enactment of Evidence-Based Health Care in Four High-Income Countries.' In Nugus, P., Rodriguez, C., Denis, J.L., Chênevert, D. (ed.) Transitions and Boundaries in the Coordination and Reform of Health Services. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 243-267.
Kislov, R., Humphreys, J., Harvey, G. (2018) 'Attaining Improvement Without Sustaining It? The Evolution of Facilitation in a Healthcare Knowledge Mobilisation Initiative.' In McDermott, A.M., Kitchener, M., Exworthy, M. (ed.) Managing Improvement in Healthcare: Attaining, Sustaining and Spreading Quality. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 255-273.
Harvey, G., Hegarty, J., Humphreys, J., Rothwell, K., Kislov, R., Entwistle, V., Boaden, R. (2015) 'Facilitation methods within a project to improve the management of chronic kidney disease in primary care.' In Harvey, G., Kitson, A. (ed.) Implementing Evidence-Based Practice in Healthcare. Routledge, pp. 115-133.
Kislov, R. (2013) 'From a Project Team to a Community of Practice? An Exploration of Boundary and Identity in the Context of Healthcare Collaboration.' In Keating, M.A., McDermott, A.M., Montgomery, K. (ed.) Patient-Centred Health Care: Achieving Coordination, Communication and Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 103-118.
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Journal articles
Wilson, P., Kislov, R. (2023) 'Learning how and why complex improvement interventions work: insights from implementation science.' BMJ Quality and Safety, 32pp. 438-440.
McLean, R.K.D., Carden, F., Aiken, A.B., Armstrong, R., Bray, J., Cassidy, C.E., Daub, O., Di Ruggiero, E., Fierro, L.A., Gagnon, M., Hutchinson, A.M., Kislov, R., Kothari, A., Kreindler, S., McCutcheon, C., Reszel, J., Scarrow, G., Graham, I.D. (2023) 'Evaluating the quality of research co-production: Research Quality Plus for Co-Production (RQ + 4 Co-Pro).' Health Research Policy and Systems, 21(51)
van der Graaf, P., Kislov, R., Smith, H., Langley, J., Hamer, N., Cheetham, M., Wolstenholme, D., Cooke, J., Mawson, S. (2023) 'Leading co-production in five UK collaborative research partnerships (2008–2018): responses to four tensions from senior leaders using auto-ethnography.' Implementation Science Communications, 4(12)
Knowles, S.E., Walkington, P., Flynn, J., Darley, S., Boaden, R., Kislov, R. (2022) 'Contributors are representative, as long as they agree: how confirmation logic overrides effort to achieve synthesis in applied health research.' Health Expectations, 25(5) pp. 2405-2415.
May, C.R., Albers, B., Desveaux, L., Finch, T.L., Gilbert, A., Hillis, A., Girling, M., Kislov, R., MacFarlane, A., Mair, F.S., May, C.M., Murray, E., Potthoff, S., Rapley, T. (2022) 'Translational framework for implementation evaluation and research: protocol for a qualitative systematic review of studies informed by Normalization Process Theory (NPT).' NIHR Open Research, 2(41)
Edelman, A., Clay-Williams, R., Fischer, M., Kislov, R., Kitson, A., McLoughlin, I., Skouteris, H., Harvey, G. (2022) 'Mobilising knowledge in (and about) Academic Health Science Centres: boundary spanning, inter-organisational governance and systems thinking.' International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(7) pp. 1238-1240.
Smith, H., Budworth, L., Grindey, C., Hague, I., Hamer, N., Kislov, R., van der Graaf, P., Langley, J. (2022) 'Co-production practice and future research priorities in United Kingdom-funded applied health research: a scoping review.' Health Research Policy and Systems, 20(36)
McLean, R.K.D., Carden, F., Graham, I.D., Aiken, A.B., Armstrong, R., Bray, J., Cassidy, C.E., Daub, O., Di Ruggiero, E., Fierro, L.A., Gagnon, M., Hutchinson, A.M., Kislov, R., Kothari, A., Kreindler, S., McCutcheon, C., Reszel, J., Scarrow, G. (2022) 'Evaluating research co-production: protocol for the Research Quality Plus for Co-Production (RQ+ 4 Co-Pro) framework..' Implementation Science Communications, 3(28)
Wensing, M., Sales, A., Wilson, P., Armstrong, R., Kislov, R., Rankin, N.M., Ramaswamy, R., Xu, D.R. (2021) 'Implementation Science and Implementation Science Communications: a refreshed description of the journals' scope and expectations..' Implementation Science, 16(103)
Kislov, R., Checkland, K., Wilson, P.M., Howard, S.J. (2021) '‘Real-world’ priority setting for service improvement in English primary care: a decentred approach.' Public Management Review, 25(1) pp. 150-174.
Kislov, R., Harvey, G., Jones, L. (2021) 'Boundary organising in healthcare: theoretical perspectives, empirical insights and future prospects.' Journal of Health Organization and Management, 35(2) pp. 133-140.
Kitson, A.L., Harvey, G., Gifford, W., Hunter, S.C., Kelly, J., Cummings, G.G., Ehrenberg, A., Kislov, R., Pettersson, L., Wallin, L., Wilson, P. (2021) 'How nursing leaders promote evidence‐based practice implementation at point‐of‐care: a four‐country exploratory study.' Journal of Advanced Nursing, 77(5) pp. 2447-2457.
Edelman, A., Clay-Williams, R., Fischer, M., Kislov, R., Kitson, A., McLoughlin, I., Skouteris, H., Harvey, G. (2020) 'Academic Health Science Centres as Vehicles for Knowledge Mobilisation in Australia? A Qualitative Study.' International Journal of Health Policy and Management, 11(6) pp. 840-846.
Kislov, R., Pope, C., Martin, G.P., Wilson, P.M. (2019) 'Harnessing the power of theorising in implementation science.' Implementation Science, 14(103)
Kislov, R., Wilson, P., Cummings, G., Ehrenberg, A., Gifford, W., Kelly, J., Kitson, A., Pettersson, L., Wallin, L., Harvey, G. (2019) 'From research evidence to “evidence by proxy”? Organizational enactment of evidence-based health care in four high-income countries.' Public Administration Review, 79(5) pp. 684-698.
Kislov, R. (2019) 'Engaging with theory: From theoretically informed to theoretically informative improvement research.' BMJ Quality and Safety, 28(3) pp. 177-179.
Harvey, G., Gifford, W., Cummings, G., Kelly, J., Kislov, R., Kitson, A., Pettersson, L., Wallin, L., Wilson, P., Ehrenberg, A. (2019) 'Mobilising evidence to improve nursing practice: A qualitative study of leadership roles and processes in four countries.' International Journal of Nursing Studies, 90pp. 21-30.
Kislov, R. (2018) 'Selective permeability of boundaries in a knowledge brokering team.' Public Administration, 96(4) pp. 817-836.
Kislov, R., Wilson, P.M., Knowles, S., Boaden, R. (2018) 'Learning from the emergence of NIHR Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRCs): A systematic review of evaluations.' Implementation Science, 13(111)
Kislov, R., Hyde, P., McDonald, R. (2017) 'New game, old rules? Mechanisms and consequences of legitimation in boundary spanning activities.' Organization Studies, 38(10) pp. 1421-1444.
Kislov, R., Humphreys, J., Harvey, G. (2017) 'How do managerial techniques evolve over time? The distortion of “facilitation” in healthcare service improvement.' Public Management Review, 19(8) pp. 1165-1183.
Kislov, R., Wilson, P., Boaden, R. (2017) 'The ‘dark side’ of knowledge brokering.' Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, 22(2) pp. 107-112.
Kislov, R., Hodgson, D., Boaden, R. (2016) 'Professionals as knowledge brokers: The limits of authority in healthcare collaboration.' Public Administration, 94(2) pp. 472-489.
Omidvar, O., Kislov, R. (2016) 'R&D consortia as boundary organisations: Misalignment and asymmetry of boundary management.' International Journal of Innovation Management, 20(2) pp. 650030-650030.
Kislov, R., Waterman, H., Harvey, G., Boaden, R. (2014) 'Rethinking capacity building for knowledge mobilisation: Developing multilevel capabilities in healthcare organisations.' Implementation Science, 9(166)
Tierney, S., Kislov, R., Deaton, C. (2014) 'A qualitative study of a primary-care based intervention to improve the management of patients with heart failure: The dynamic relationship between facilitation and context.' BMC Family Practice, 15(153)
Omidvar, O., Kislov, R. (2014) 'The evolution of the communities of practice approach: Toward knowledgeability in a landscape of practice - an interview with Etienne Wenger-Trayner.' Journal of Management Inquiry, 23(3) pp. 266-275.
Kislov, R. (2014) 'Boundary discontinuity in a constellation of interconnected practices.' Public Administration, 92(2) pp. 307-323.
Kislov, R., Walshe, K., Harvey, G. (2012) 'Managing boundaries in primary care service improvement: A developmental approach to communities of practice.' Implementation Science, 7(97)
Harvey, G., Fitzgerald, L., Fielden, S., McBride, A., Waterman, H., Bamford, D., Kislov, R., Boaden, R. (2011) 'The NIHR Collaboration for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care (CLAHRC) for Greater Manchester: Combining empirical, theoretical and experiential evidence to design and evaluate a large-scale implementation strategy.' Implementation Science, 6(96)
Kislov, R., Harvey, G., Walshe, K. (2011) 'Collaborations for Leadership in Applied Health Research and Care: Lessons from the theory of communities of practice.' Implementation Science, 6(64)