Health Directions Network -Our Consultants

Marion Macalpine BA Hons Oxon. MA.

Marion is a Visiting Fellow in Management Education at Thames Valley University, Faculty of Health & Human Sciences and teaches critical organisation theory at City University; she also undertakes a range of consultancy projects. She focuses on:

  • management and leadership development for social services and health managers
  • integrating work on diversity/equality issues into organisational learning and practice
  • inter-professional learning
  • partnership development
  • organisational review and change
Background

Marion was Head of Training and Staff Development for the Inner London Education Authority , and has had extensive experience in equalities policy and implementation. Since 1988 she has worked in organisational consulting across the public and voluntary sectors. She has significant experience in working across professional, sectoral and organisational boundaries. With Sheila Marsh, she set up the ‘swampyground’ research project which focuses on the complexities of getting local partnerships working across health and social care boundaries.

Our consultants

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Marsaili Cameron

Maria Duggan

Rachel Harrison

Roma Iskander

Marion Macalpine

Sheila Marsh

Jud Stone

Suzanne Tyler

Key Interests
  • increasing involvement and confidence through working in a participative way, for example through participative appraisal and action research
  • surfacing issues of power and difference in order to reduce inequalities in organisations
  • usefully linking theory and practice, to enable critical reflection and to develop confidence that can lead to positive chang
Recent Projects

Co –director (with Sheila Marsh) of the Masters in Leading, Managing and Partnership Working at Thames Valley University (TVU) [link to TVU] : since 2000 Sheila and Marion have run this programme for a consortium of health trusts and social services departments in SE London

In addition, recent work includes:

  • Coordinating a one year action inquiry into diversity in a national faith-based organisation
  • Supervision of action inquiry projects across the health/social care and voluntary sector boundaries as part of the Masters in Leading, Managing and Partnership Working
  • Participative appraisal with users, staff, managers and funders of a social care project
  • Working with young people to help them carry out a participative appraisal of their ‘drop-in’ youth and health project
  • Inquiry projects focused on ‘Working for Wellbeing’, involving users and cross-professional groups for a cross-sector Learning Community initiated by TVU . These have included older people and also users of maternity services
  • Developing a new module for the Masters in Communities, Organisations and Social Change which explores the construction of key discourses within the public and private and the ‘community’ sector
  • Involvement in the Health Directions consultancy team which undertook a major review of Continuous Professional Development for all professions at a London teaching hospital trust .