Richard Allen
Centre for Business Performance,
Cranfield School of Management
Qualifications
BA Law, MA Criminology
MSc Organisational Psychology
Background
I was head of business planning and organisational performance management for Barnardo’s the UK children’s charity for three years. Prior to that I have: worked as a Director of Quality for a large UK NGO; undertaken several years consultancy in the public and voluntary sector on quality and performance management; managed a grant fund for the voluntary sector on behalf of the UK government; been Chief Executive of the Child Psychotherapy Trust; project managed development projects in local government relevant to social care, crime and policing.
Research Topic
Organisational performance management maturity in third sector organisations
Research Issue
Approaches to understanding and managing organisational performance.
Sector
Third sector/NGOs
Research Methods
A work in progress.
Theoretical perspective
A work in progress.
Why I Chose Cranfield
I was attracted by Cranfield’s reputation for work on organisational performance management which I was already familiar with through my membership of the public sector performance management round table. I was fortunate to win a fully funded scholarship supported by the Cranfield Trust to undertake a PhD in third sector performance management.
Published papers
McEwen J., Shoesmith M. and Allen R. (2010); “Embedding outcomes recording in Barnardo’s Performance Management Approach” in the International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 59, No.6 p. 586.