Justin is Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities. Before joining Loughborough, Justin held senior academic positions at the University of Nottingham and at University of Birmingham. He has held visiting positions at University of Manchester, University of Gothenburg, and University of Cambridge.
He has extensive experience of working across academic boundaries in transdisciplinary research and teaching programmes, especially at the interface of social sciences, business and healthcare. He was Founding Director of the Centre for Health Innovation, Leadership and Learning, University of Nottingham, Implementation lead for the NIHR East Midlands Applied Research Collaboration (ARC), Head of the Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, seconded Research Director at The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute at University of Cambridge, and Director of the NIHR BRACE Rapid Evaluation Centre.
He is an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Academy of Social Sciences.
Justin’s research programme investigates the implementation of strategic change in public services, focusing in particular on the dynamics of politics and power in the re-shaping of organisational and governance arrangements. Much of his research has examined the interaction of professional and managerial groups in the reform of health and care services. This has involved in-depth qualitative and ethnographic studies on the implementation of prominent health services innovations, in areas such as:
- Patient safety and quality improvement
- Public-private partnerships
- Knowledge management and organisational learning
- Technological innovation
- Leadership development
- Major system change
- Workforce innovations
His work draws upon and makes connections between multiple theoretical debates, including Foucauldian theories of governmentality and pastoral power, micro-sociological studies of inter-personal negotiation, decentred theories of governance, and contemporary debates on professionalism, professional elites and re-stratification.
Justin has previously taught across sociology, social policy, public policy, business & management, health policy & management, and on programmes for health and medicine
- Waring, J. and Martin, G. (in press) Muscling in and making space: ‘demonstrable claims’ and ‘jurisdictional clipping’ in the reconfiguration of professional jurisdictions Sociology of Health and Illness, (in press)
- Waring, J., Bishop, S., Clarke, J. and Roe, B. (2023) ‘Becoming active in the micro-politics of healthcare organisation: the identity work and political activation of doctors, nurses and managers’, Social Science and Medicine, 333
- Bevir, M. and Waring, J, (2020) Decentring Health and Care Networks, London: Palgrave
- Waring, J. and Crompton, A. (2019) ‘The struggles for (and of) network management: and ethnographic study of non-dominant policy actors in the English healthcare system’ Public Management Review
- Waring, J. and Latif, A. (2018) ‘Of Shepherds, Sheep and Sheepdogs: governing the adherent self through complementary and competing pastorates’ Sociology, vol.52(5), pp.1069-86
- Waring, J. (2015) ‘Mapping the public sector diaspora: understanding inter-sectoral cultural hybridity in the English Healthcare system’ Public Administration93(2), pp.345-62.
- Waring, J., Currie, G. and Bishop, S. (2013) ‘A contingent approach to the organization and management of PPPs: a comparative analysis of healthcare PPPs’ Public Administration Review, vol.73(2), pp.313-26.
- Waring, J. and Currie, G. (2009) ‘Managing expert knowledge: organizational challenges and managerial futures for the UK medical profession’ Organization Studies, vol. 30(7), pp.755-78.