Con Connell
BSc MSc PhD MBCS CIPT
- Primary position:
- Professor
BSc (Sociology) London, 1970
MSc (Systems) Aston, 1979
PhD (Information Systems) Southampton, 1996
MBCS since 1980, CIPT since 2004.
Professional and commercial experience in IT and general management in the public and private sector. Consulting, research and teaching experience over a wide range of management topics, including outdoor management development programmes.
Professor of Management 2006.
Head of Department of Accounting and Management Sciences 1991-1994.
Editorial Board Member, Knowledge Management Research and Practice & International Journal of Enterprise Information Systems.

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Research Interests
Recent research includes:
Approaches to Knowledge Management
Use of narrative approaches in knowledge creation and transfer - Centre for Narrative Studies
NHS Information Systems Development in community health
Approaches to problem structuring
Systems modelling
Approaches to risk management in the UK not-for-profit sector
Doctoral Supervision
I have supervised six candidates to succesful completion, with two students under my supervision at the present time. I welcome enquiries from prospective students, who are advised in the first instance to look at the appropriate section of the Information Systems Research page, which now includes an electronic application form.
Work in progress
2006-2008 EPSRC/ESRC, Research into Global Healthcare Technologies (RIGHT) (GBP1,119,000). Co-applicant, with colleagues from Brunel, Cambridge and others.
2005-07 ESRC, Research seminar series in Organisational Storytelling (GBP15,000). Principal applicant, in collaboration with partners at City, Imperial College, Exeter and UEA.
2004-2007 Workforce Development Confederation (NHS), Evaluation of Critical Care Interventions (GBP108,000). Joint Principal Investigator, with E Meyer and Professor D Humphries, Healthcare Innovation Unit.
Primary research group: Centre for Narrative Studies
Affiliate research groups: Centre for Risk Research, CORMSIS: Centre for Operational Research, Management Science and Information Systems
Research project
The Cumberland Initiative
Transforming the quality and cost of NHS care delivery through simulation, modelling and systems thinking
Professor Con Connell
Southampton Management School
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ, UK.
Phone +44 (0)23 8059 2185
Fax +44 (0)23 8059 3844
E-mail N.A.Connell@soton.ac.uk
Room Number: 2/4041