Shane Scahill
Shane is a pharmacist and organisational scientist with a PhD from The University of Auckland in Pharmacy/Health Systems. His research relates to service provision in community and hospital pharmacy in high and low-and-middle income countries. His research has informed local pharmaceutical policy reviews.
Shane applies organisational and management theory to pharmacy practice research and he is co-convener of the Australian/New Zealand Academy of Management Health Management Special Interest Group. He collaborates with NZ and international colleagues from Australia, Malta, Sweden, USA, Canada, Turkey, Pakistan and the UK. Broad interests in the management space include entrepreneurship and innovation, pharmaceutical policy, organisational culture and social media analytics.
Historically Shane’s work has been in organisational culture. Studying individual and team identity; the ways we think and act, our values, beliefs and taken for granted assumptions that drive health care culture – further, what is the impact of this on healthcare performance – socially, safety-wise and financially? Culture studies in pharmacy and residential care has been with researchers at Auckland University and Queens University Belfast. More recently Shane has used the concept of entrepreneurship to explore tensions in pharmacy being retailer and ethical healthcare provider. Shanes work in this area has looked at how nurses view pharmacists as entrepreneurs and how this may impact on pharmacists and nurses working together in primary care. The entrepreneurial identity of pharmacists has been studied alongside where pharmacists think they should be obtaining training in entrepreneurship. The most recent area of research for Shane is studying the discourse from pharmacy leadership bodies through large data set TwitterTM analysis.
Shane’s work has published in journals such as Health Policy, New Zealand Medical Journal, Health Policy and Technology and International Journal for Quality in Healthcare. He serves as Associate Editor for Labour and Industry and the Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice.
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