Staff profile

Bernard's research interests are mainly split into two areas. Firstly, within organisational behaviour the area of special interest is implicit/explicit social cognitive behaviour and how this affects complex organisational situations. Examples of such complex situations include mergers and acquisitions, intense collaborations, and organisational integration efforts. Bernard's doctoral thesis used health and social care integration as a case study.

The second area of research and teaching interest is advanced research methods, particularly mixed methods research. Within this field I am particularly keen on the fusion between quantitative and qualitative research efforts leading to advanced data/analytics and insights which increase outcomes for patients. 

Bernard's industry experience varies from Automotive, Technology, and Finance Industries before building up significant expertise in Healthcare Management. Within the National Health Service in England, Bernard has held strategic planning as well as numerous data and analytical roles, working with NHS England, HEE, Public Health England, Local Authorities as well as other academics with a continued focus on outcomes for people as a result of health and care needs being met by our organisations. He also holds a visiting professorship with UNICAF University for doctoral supervision as well as holding a Fellowship with The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. 

Bernard read Economics and Politics at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, and holds an MA in Business from the University of Sunderland. Additionally, he holds a doctoral degree from Durham University for his thesis 'Complex Organisational Integration: A Case Study of Health and Social Care in England'. Finally, Bernard studied with health and care colleagues at Yale's School of Public Health on their Global Health Leadership Programme (2019-2023) to understand the implications of the digitisation of health and care work on their workforce. 

Bernard has and emergent list of published work, as he focuses more on teaching and supervision, a limited selection of papers (at various stages) is available below:

 

Selected Publications:

• Why integrated healthcare is harder than we think: How social cognitive processes hinder successful health and care service delivery B.M. Groen Journal of Enterprise Transformation 6 (3-4), 120-135 7 (2016)
• Beyond Structure: Why Organisational Integration Still Fails without Psychological Insight B.M. Groen Health Economic eJournal 6 (01)   (2025)
• Beyond SARS-CoV-2: Understanding the Implications of National Pandemic Policies on Local Health Care Systems B.M. Groen, P Turner, L Yinfeng Behavioral & Experimental Economics eJournal 25 (06), https://dx.doi.org/10 …   (2025)
• Forecasting Local A&E Demand and Workforce Gaps in England: A Trust-Level Modelling Approach to Inform Policy and Practice B.M. Groen Health Economics Evaluation Methods Journal   (2025)
• Projecting the Impact of Demographic Changes on Accident and Emergency (A&E) Attendances in England: A 10-Year Forecast B.M. Groen Health Economics Journal 17 (27)   (2025)
• Will 2022 be the year that ‘integrates’ health and social care in England? B.M. Groen Journal of Healthcare Management 28 (4), 1-3   (2022)
• The expediency of local modelling to aid national responses to SARS-CoV-2. B.M. Groen, P Turner, P Lacey medRxiv, 2020.05. 27.20107656   (2020)
• Minimal Group Paradigm: An Inter-group Dynamics Study B.M. Groen   (2019)
• Social Status Attribution: An Experiment Findings and Experimental Design B.M. Groen     (2019)
• Collaboration in the context of integration: a Social Dominance Experiment B.M. Groen   (2018)
• Complex Organisational Integration-A Behavioural Approach. B.M. Groen     (2015)
• Complex Organisational Integration: A Case Study of Health and Social Care Integration in England B.M. Groen Durham University   (2015)
• Using Interactive Concurrent and Rapid Sequential Mixed Methods in Social Psychological Research L Pólos, B.M. Groen     (2014)

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• Behavioural Economics
• Social cognitive psychology
• Explicit social cognitive behaviour (self-reported measures such as; Benevolence, Empathy etc.)
• Implicit social cognitive behaviour (Bias, Prejudice, Empathy, etc.)
• Complex organisational situations (i.e. Mergers, Acquisitions, Integration Efforts)
• Public Policy – (i.e. Health Policy, Public Sector Transformation)
• Workforce Transformation

Conference Paper

• Complex Organisational Integration - A Behavioural Approach.
  
  Groen, B. (2015). Complex Organisational Integration - A Behavioural Approach [Conference paper]. Presented at Institute for Operational Research and Management Science Annual Conference., Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Doctoral Thesis

• Complex Organisational Integration - A Case Study of Health and Social Care Integration in England.
  
  Groen, B. (2015). Complex Organisational Integration - A Case Study of Health and Social Care Integration in England [Thesis]. Durham University. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11270/