Role
Dr Beth Patmore is a Senior Lecturer in HRM. She has over thirteen years of teaching experience across undergraduate, postgraduate and executive levels. In her current role, Beth teaches on postgraduate and executive modules for both full-time and part-time students. Beth specialises in organisation behaviour, organisation development, innovation, entrepreneurship and research methodology.
Career overview
Beth has recently joined Nottingham Business School as a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management. She has over 13 years of experience designing, leading and delivering teaching and learning in higher education on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for full-time, part-time and HRM and executive students at Sheffield Hallam University (2011- 2019) and the University of Sheffield (2019-2023). In 2021, she was nominated for a Vice Chancellors Award in teaching excellence and pastoral care at University of Sheffield due to her role in supporting students during the pandemic.
Since August 2009, she has delivered a vast range of applied client drive research across the private, third and public sectors securing over £950,000 of income. These research projects have explored a range of topics such as:
- impact of organizational development initiatives on individual and organisation performance
- impact of coaching and mentoring on management and leadership development
- role of the UK voluntary sector in the delivery of innovation public services
- evaluation of of public policy initiatives.
Clients have included Office of Third Sector, Lloyds Bank Trust Foundation, Sheffield Care Trust, Robert McBride plc, National Skills Academy for Social Care, Sheffield City Council, IMI Precision Engineering, Cooperative and River Island, Black Thrive Global CIC. Much of this research is used in teaching materials to help paint a picture of ‘live’ organisation behaviour and HRM related issues.
She has a PhD, Masters in Research Methodology (MRes) from Sheffield Hallam University in addition to a BSc (Dension University - USA) and MSc in Chemistry (The Ohio State University - USA). She gained her Senior Fellowship to the Higher Education Academy in 2020 and served as an internal assessor HEA applications for 3 years at the University of Sheffield.
Research areas
Beth’s research fits squarely within the field of organisation studies and management with a strong emphasis on issues of social justice and social equity. Much of her research is critical in nature as she focuses on telling the stories of those who are often overlooked and ignored (frontline service workers, small and medium sized charities and black and protected communities) in management literature and policy making. The majority of her research focuses on the voluntary and community sector and she has engaged in some of the largest and most significant studies of the role of voluntary sector organisations in the design and delivery of public services to gain an understanding of the capacities, capabilities and sustainability of these pivotal organisations (National Evaluation of Futurebuilders, Value of Small).
Issues of social justice and equity have been a recent emerging specialist area derived from her work on the five year Evaluation of Black Thrive Lambeth and the Value of Small in a Big Crisis. Here, she draws attention to how voluntary sector organisations represent those communities left behind (and how a voluntary sector organisation works in partnership to tackle systemic institutional racism in mental health services. Recently, Beth has been exploring the role of visual methods in data collection strategies, like drawing and photo-elicitation to encourage co-production in the research process.
External activity
Beth is currently the programme director for the newly launched Post Graduate Certificate in Leadership and Management for Social Work at Nottingham Business School. This innovative programme provides leadership and management education for current or aspiring social work leaders in Sheffield, Rotherham, Barnsley, Doncaster and Lincolnshire.
She is also a co-Investigator with Professor Chris Dayson (CRESR – Sheffield Hallam University) and Dr. Ellen Bennett (Sheffield Business School) on the 5 year evaluation of the Black Thrive Lambeth. This project explores how this innovative partnership has embedded race equity and systemic change in public services to improve the mental health and wellbeing of Black people in Lambeth.
Publications
Coule, T., and Patmore, B. (2013). Institutional logics, institutional work and public service innovation in non-profit organizations'. Public Administration, 91, 4, 980-997.
Coule, T., Patmore, B., & Bennett, E. (2018). The value of small : In-depth research into the distinctive contribution, value and experiences of small and medium sized charities in Salford. Sheffield: CRESR Sheffield. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/the-value-of-small-in-depth-research-into-the-distinctive-contribution-value-and-experiences-salford
Dayson, C. Baker, L, Rees, J., Batty, E., Bennett, E., Damm, C., Coule, T., Patmore, B. Garforth, H., Hennessy, C., Turner, K., Jacklin-Jarvis, C., Terry, V. (2018) The value of small : In-depth research into the distinctive contribution, value and experiences of small and medium sized charities in England and Wales. Sheffield: CRESR Sheffield. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/the-value-of-small-in-depth-research-into-the-distinctive-contribution-value-and-experiences
Dayson, C., Damm, C., Bennett, E., and Patmore, B. (2020). Stakeholder ambiguity in smaller voluntary organisations providing welfare services:. Journal of Social Policy, 1-21. doi:10.1017/S0047279421000970
Dayson, C., Baker, L., Ress, J., with Bennett, E., Patmore, B., Turner, K., Jacklin-Jarvis, C., Terry, V. (2021). The ‘Value of Small’ in a Big Crisis: The distinctive contribution, value and experiences of smaller charities in England and Wales during the COVID 19 pandemic. Sheffield: CRESR Sheffield Hallam University. https://www.shu.ac.uk/centre-regional-economic-social-research/publications/the-value-of-small-in-a-big-crisis
Woodward, A., Dayson, C. Patmore, B., Cliff, G. (2022). ‘The value and contribution of BAME-led organisations during and beyond COVID-19’. In J. Rees, R. Macmillan, C. Dayson, C. Damm and C. Bynner (Eds.), COVID-19 and the Voluntary and Community Sector in the UK: Responses Impacts and Adaptation. Bristol: Bristol University Press.
Bennett, E., Damm, C., Dayson, C., Patmore, B. (2023). The role of smaller nonprofit human service organisations during the COVID-19 pandemic: evidence from England and Wales. Human Service Organizations: Management, Leadership and Governance https://doi.org/10.1080/23303131.2023.2248611