Research
Dr Ian Hesketh is a serving Police Officer, currently attached to
the Organisational Development and International Faculty at the
College of Policing. During his policing career he has carried out a
number of specialist operational roles including Armed Response,
Police Partnerships and the Mounted Branch. He has worked on
secondments with the United Nations in Bosnia & Herzegovina,
and with the OSCE in Kosovo. Ian has worked on numerous
Police Change and Review programmes and also consults as a
UK police expert for the EU, most recently working on a twinning
project in Serbia.
Ian is an Honorary Researcher at Lancaster University
Management School and a Visiting Fellow at the Open University
Business School. He holds a PhD in Management and Social
Psychology and an MBA from Lancaster University Management
School, and a Dip Mgt, and Cert Ed from the University of Central
Lancashire. He is a Chartered Manager (CMgr), an A1 assessor,
and holds Qualified Teaching, Learning and Skills (QTLS) status
with the Society for Education and Training.
His research interests are centred around Wellbeing and
Transformation in the context of Policing, and most notably
introduced the concept of Leaveism to explain human behaviours
associated with workplace workload and stress. In 2011 his article
on Transformational Leadership During Change was voted one of
the Top 5 Management Articles by the Chartered Management
Institute.
Ian regularly lectures at Colleges and Universities throughout the
UK and overseas and is the author of numerous papers on
workplace wellbeing, change and public value. He is a Member of
the Society for Education and Training and a Fellow of the
Chartered Management Institute.