Institute for Strategic Leadership and Practice Innovation

The mission of the Institute for Strategic Leadership and practice Innovation (ISLSI) is to achieve practice innovation through transformational leadership, research and education. Building on the expertise of a new multi-disciplinary team, ISLSI achieves its goals through partnerships with health providers, commissioners and other centres of excellence.

This section provides information about ISLSI research activities. Our section about departments provides further information about ISLSI's role as a department .

Research interests

  • Leadership and organisational change.
  • Evidence-based practice.
  • Professional role innovation.
  • Service transformation, role competency and user engagement.

Research work related to evidence-based practice and service development is strongly aligned with the Institute of Strategic Leadership and Service Improvement. Research by the Evidence Based Practice and Service Development Group focuses on two themes:

Evidence-based nursing

Examples of recent and ongoing externally funded research related to this theme group includes the following projects:

Staff members working within this theme are: Professor Susan McLaren, Dr David Cowan, Dr Lesley Baillie, Professor Pamela Eakin, Dr Nicola Crichton and Professor David Sines.

Workforce and service development

Examples of recent and ongoing externally funded research related to this theme group includes the following projects:

Staff members working within this theme are: Professor Susan McLaren, Dr Leslie Woods, Markella Boudioni, Dr David Cowan, Dr Lesley Baillie and Professor David Sines.

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Projects

The Faculty is involved in a wide range of research projects which are listed in our section on externally funded research. Those supported by the Institute for Strategic Leadership and Practice Innovation are:

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Staff

Professor Susan McLaren
Tel: 020 7815 7978
Email: mclaresm@lsbu.ac.uk

Dr Ruth Belling
Tel: 020 7815 6157
Email: bellinri@lsbu.ac.uk

Dr Ferew Lemma
Tel: 020 7815 6108
Email: lemmafa@lsbu.ac.uk

Markella Boudioni
Tel: 020 7815 6745
Email: boudiom@lsbu.ac.uk

Dr Leslie Woods
Tel: 020 7815 6741
Email: woodslp@lsbu.ac.uk

Jonathon Davies
Tel: 020 7815 6195
Email: daviesjs@lsbu.ac.uk

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Key contact

Professor Susan McLaren
Tel: 020 7815 7978
Email: mclaresm@lsbu.ac.uk