Mike Grimsley

Faculty of Arts, Computing, Engineering and Sciences

Sheffield Hallam University
Howard Street
Sheffield S1 1WB
UK

m.f.grimsley @ shu.ac.uk

 

 

My Current Research Interests

 

 

 

My recent research features two related strands. I am a member of the Public Health Team and of the New Deal for Communities National Evaluation Team in the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research (CRESR) at SHU (http://www.shu.ac.uk/cresr/). I am also collaborating with Anthony Meehan of The Open University http://mcs.open.ac.uk/am4469/), examining how electronic government (e-Government) technologies may be exploited to promote and sustain community well-being. You can find out more by following these links:

         My Teaching and academic interests are described here

 

 

Public Health and Community Well-being

 

 

 

Recent research has focused on multivariate and multilevel statistical modelling of large, complex datasets. Particular interests include:

·         modelling the pathways between deprivation, social capital, crime and fear of crime, health and well-being;

·         the relevance of health and housing to social and economic regeneration;

·         the evaluation of policy interventions particularly in their impact on health and health inequalities;

·         the concept and measurement of social quality and the enhancement of community trust.

 

My most recent publications in this area include:

 

Beatty C, Cole I, Grimsley M, Hickman P, Wilson I.  2005.Housing and the Physical Environment: Will residents stay and reap the benefits? NDC National Evaluation: Data Analysis Paper 28. Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Beatty C, Dibben C, Goyder E, Grimsley M, Manning J, Peters J, Wilson I. 2005. Health of NDC Residents: Who has the most to gain? NDC National Evaluation: Data Analysis Paper 29. Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Grimsley M, Hickman P, Lawless P, Manning J, Wilson I. 2005. Community Involvement and Social Capital. NDC National Evaluation: Data Analysis Paper 30. Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University.

 

Beatty C, Grimsley M, Lawless P, Manning J, Wilson I. 2005 Fear of Crime in NDC areas: How do perceptions relate to reality? NDC National Evaluation: Data Analysis Paper 31. Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research, Sheffield Hallam University.

For the above publications see: http://ndcevaluation.adc.shu.ac.uk/ndcevaluation/Reports.asp

 

 

Green G, Grimsley M, Stafford B. The Dynamics of Neighbourhood Sustainability York: Joseph Rowntree Foundation 2005. http://www.jrf.org.uk/bookshop/details.asp?pubID=680

 

Goyder E, Dibben C, Grimsley M, Peters J, Blank L, Ellis E.

Variation in prescribing for anxiety and depression: a reflection of health inequalities: cultural differences or variations in access to care?

International Journal for Equity in Health 2006, 5:4 pp 1 - 13

http://www.equityhealthj.com/content/pdf/1475-9276-5-4.pdf

 

 

Gilbertson J, Green G, Grimsley M, Manning J. The Dynamic of Social Capital, Health and Economy. CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University 2005.

 

Critchley R, Gilbertson J, Green G, Grimsley M. Housing investment

and health in Liverpool. CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University 2004.  http://www.liverpoolhat.org.uk/panel/pdfDocs/HHreport.pdf

 

Green G, Gilbertson J, Grimsley M. Fear of crime and health in residential tower blocks: A case study in Liverpool. European Journal of Public Health, 12 2002 No 1 10-15.

 

I also collaborate in research on the future of community and social pharmacy,

 

Magirr P, Grimsley M, Ottewill R, Noyce P. The Clinical Autonomy of Community Pharmacists in England: 1. Designing and testing a survey instrument. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 12 issue 4, Dec 2004, 223-229.

http://ijpp.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/rpsgb/ijpp/2004/00000012/00000004;jsessionid=ohytlabhldy.alice

 

Magirr P, Grimsley M, Ottewill R, Noyce P. The Clinical Autonomy of Community Pharmacists in England: 2. Key findings. International Journal of Pharmacy Practice. 12 issue 4, Dec 2004, 231-238.

http://ijpp.publisher.ingentaconnect.com/content/rpsgb/ijpp/2004/00000012/00000004;jsessionid=ohytlabhldy.alice

 

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e-Government: Trust, Social Capital and Information Technology

With Anthony Meehan (The Open University) I have been exploring the design and management of information systems that mediate community access to government and community services (e-government services). We are particularly interested in designing systems that promote trust between users and providers and thus enhance social capital and social inclusion.

We are collaborating with:

o        Anna Tan (Department for Communities and Local Government) on promoting the effectiveness of community advice agencies across five boroughs of North London (CASweb);

o        Grainne Collins (Trinity College, Dublin) on trust and employment;

o        Home Connections on ICT mediated allocation of public and social housing - Choice-based Letting (CBL).

Recent publications (copies of selected pre-prints are available from Anthony’s home page):

Grimsley M, Meehan A (2002) A Web-based Selling Agent That Maintains Customer Loyalty. In de Bra P, Brusilovsky P and Conejo R (eds.) Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-based Systems. Second International Conference (AH 2002), Malaga, Spain, May 2002, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2347, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2002, p397-400.

 

Grimsley M, Meehan A (2002) Measuring Behaviour-based Trust Between Negotiating Agents. In Klusch M, Ossowski S, Shehory O, (eds.) Cooperative Intelligent Agents VI, 6th International Workshop, CIA 2002, Madrid, Spain, September 2002, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 2446, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2002, p112-122

 

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, Green, G, Stafford, B, (2003) Social Capital and Community Trust and e-Government Services. In P. Nixon and S. Terzis (eds.): Trust Management 2003, First International Conference on Trust Management, Hiraklion, Crete, Greece, May 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2692, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2003, p165-178

 

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, (2003) Dynamic Inference of Perceptual Categories in Negotiating Agents. In Liu, J. et al (eds.) Proceeding of the IEEE-WIC International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT-2003). Halifax, Canada, 13-16 October, 2003. IEEE Press, 2003, p89-95

 

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, Tan, A, (2004) Managing Internet-mediated community trust relations. In C.Jensen, S. Poslad and T. Dimitriakos (eds.): Trust Management 2004, 2nd International Conference on Trust Management, 29 March-1 April 2004, Oxford, UK. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2995, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg, 2004, p277-290

 

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, Tan, A, (2004) Promoting social inclusion: managing trust-based relations between users and providers of public services. European Academy of Management, St. Andrews, UK, 5-8 May, 2004.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/~euram04/proceedings/contents.shtml#tracktr

 

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, Tan, A, (2004) Designing for Social Inclusion: Computer Mediation of Trust Relations Between Citizens and Public Service Providers. BCS-HCI 2004, Leeds, UK, September, 2004. Springer-Verlag.

 

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, Tan, A, (2005) Capital Accounting: Evaluating e-Government projects from a community development perspective. Z. Irani, T. Elliman and O.D. Sarikas (Eds.) Proceedings of the e-Government Workshop ’05 (eGOV05), Brunel University, UK, 13th Sept. 2005. ISBN 1-902316-46-0

 

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, Sen Gupta, K (2006) Evaluative Design of e-Government Projects: A Public Value Perspective. Proceedings of the Twelfth Americas Conference on Information Systems, Acapulco, Mexico August 04th-06th 2006 (in press).

 

Recent Workshop Papers:

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, (2003) Building on trust: designing and managing technology-mediated access to community and public services. Communities & Technologies, Amsterdam, September 2003-07-31

Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, Green, G, Stafford, B, (2003) Enhancing social capital and community trust through the design of technologically mediated access to government and public services, European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management, Amsterdam, October 2003

 

Collins, G, Grimsley, M, Meehan, A, (2004) Community trust and the 'New Employment Model.' Some policy implications for regional economic regeneration.' European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE 2004), Rethymno, Crete. 28-31 October 2004.

 

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Other research

Health informatics: SY Strategic Health Authority: working group on developing a taxonomy for deprived SY communities. With  Dr C Bentley (DPH) & colleagues (SYSHA), information scientists and public health specialists from Doncaster Health, Sheffield Health & LA, Rotherham and Barnsley and Un of Sheffield.

http://www.barnsleyfit4thefuture.co.uk/about_facts.htm

 

 

 

Teaching and other academic responsibilities

I am Principal Lecturer in Applied Statistics with extensive experience in teaching multivariate and survey methods at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. I have successfully supervised seven PhD students and one MPhil student.

I have been an elected staff representative to the university’s Academic Board and enjoyed many years of experience in this role.

Prior to joining Sheffield Hallam University, I gained a BSc(Econ) and MSc in Statistics from LSE (1969) and a PGCE from Goldsmiths College (1970). I was a lecturer in statistics and research statistician at the Institute of Child Health, University of London 1970 to 1976.
   

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Disclaimer:

These pages are the personal responsibility of Mike Grimsley.

The views expressed here do not necessarily represent the views of Sheffield Hallam University.

Last updated: May 2006