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Dr Michael Lambert

Research Fellow

  1. Chapter (peer-reviewed)
  2. Published

    ‘Dumping grounds for … human waste’: containing problem populations in post-war British public health policy, 1945–74

    Lambert, M., 28/02/2023, Publics and their health: Historical problems and perspectives. Mold, A., Clark, P. & Elizabeth, H. J. (eds.). Manchester: Manchester University Press, p. 40-74 35 p. (Social Histories of Medicine).

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter (peer-reviewed)peer-review

  3. Chapter
  4. Published

    The NHS from the 1960s to the present

    Lambert, M., Mitchell, P., Peplow, E., Snow, S. & Whitecross, A., 6/09/2023, 75 Years of the National Health Service. London: History of Parliament Trust, p. 90-115 26 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNChapter

  5. Foreword/postscript
  6. Published

    Foreword to 'Taken' by Michelle Pearson

    Lambert, M., 1/09/2022, Taken: A true story of the pain and scandal of forced adoption. Mardle Books, p. v 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNForeword/postscript

  7. Doctoral Thesis
  8. Published

    "Problem families" and the post-war welfare state in the North West of England, 1943-74

    Lambert, M., 2017, Lancaster University. 540 p.

    Research output: ThesisDoctoral Thesis

  9. Other contribution
  10. Published
  11. Journal article
  12. E-pub ahead of print

    A history of the intermediate tier in the English NHS: Centre, region, periphery

    Lambert, M., 17/03/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Social Policy and Administration. 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Comparing patient and community representation in the NHS in South Cumbria, 1974-82

    Lambert, M., 1/03/2024, In: Morecambe Bay Medical Journal. 9, 6, p. 176-179 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  14. E-pub ahead of print

    Gender, flexibility and workforce in the NHS: a qualitative study

    Chekar, C. K., Brewster, L., Lambert, M. & Mathiya, T., 7/02/2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: International Journal of Health Planning and Management.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  15. Published

    The mixed economy and the NHS across Morecambe Bay: Voluntary, commercial, charitable and private medicine, 1948-79

    Lambert, M., 1/10/2023, In: Morecambe Bay Medical Journal. 9, 5, p. 147-151 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  16. Published

    "Problem families" in Burnley, 1940-70

    Lambert, M., 6/09/2023, In: Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society. 114, p. 109-134 25 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. Published

    ‘Protecting the NHS’ - and its limits

    Lorne, C. & Lambert, M., 31/07/2023, In: Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture. 82, p. 61-74 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  18. Published

    How to make friends and influence people? Lancaster Medical Book Club and professional leadership in the early NHS

    Lambert, M., 5/04/2023, In: Morecambe Bay Medical Journal. 9, 3, p. 71-75 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    (Dis)integrated care systems: lessons from the 1974 NHS reorganisation in Morecambe Bay

    Lambert, M., 14/11/2022, In: Morecambe Bay Medical Journal. 9, 2, p. 33-37 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  20. Published

    Problems of practising public health in Westmorland: John A. Guy as County Medical Officer, 1946-70

    Lambert, M., 1/08/2022, In: Morecambe Bay Medical Journal. 9, 1, p. 14-17 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  21. Published

    Who cares where the doctors are? The expectation of mobility and its effect on health outcomes

    Brewster, L., Lambert, M. & Shelton, C., 31/07/2022, In: Sociology of Health and Illness. 44, 7, p. 1077-1093 17 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  22. Published

    Medical Education, Workforce Inequalities, and Hierarchical Regionalism: The University of Lancaster and the Unrealised Medical School, 1964-68

    Lambert, M., 17/03/2022, In: Morecambe Bay Medical Journal. 8, 12, p. 342-345 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  23. Published

    The relocation of radiotherapy services from Liverpool to Clatterbridge

    Lambert, M., 14/03/2022, In: Liverpool History Journal. 21, p. 138-155 18 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    Fortunate men or penny collectivists? General practice in Lancashire and Westmorland during the “classic” NHS

    Lambert, M., 6/11/2021, In: Morecambe Bay Medical Journal. 8, 11, p. 301-305 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  25. Published

    Lancashire and South Cumbria New Hospitals Programme: once in a generation or generation gap?

    Lambert, M., 1/08/2021, In: Morecambe Bay Medical Journal. 8, 10, p. 284-287 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  26. Published

    Between “Families in Trouble” and “Children at Risk”: Historicising “Troubled Family” Policy in England since 1945

    Lambert, M., 30/01/2019, In: Children and Society. 33, 1, p. 82-91 10 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  27. Published

    ‘Getting with the (troubled families) programme’: a review

    Lambert, M. & Crossley, S., 01/2017, In: Social Policy and Society. 16, 1, p. 87-97 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  28. Published

    In pursuit of “the welfare trait”: recycling deprivation and reproducing depravation in historical context

    Lambert, M., 17/11/2016, In: People, Place and Policy Online. 10, 3, p. 225-238 14 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Comment/debate
  30. Published

    État-providence et gestion de la pauvreté en Grand-Bretagne moderne

    Lambert, M., 2/06/2018, In: Revue Quart Monde. 246, p. 32-37 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineComment/debate

  31. Book/Film/Article review
  32. Published

    Moral and social geographies of modern Liverpool

    Lambert, M., 1/08/2019, In: Urban History. 46, 3, p. 565-570 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article review

  33. Published

    Book Review: Tackling Child Neglect: Research, Policy and Evidence-Based Practice, Ruth Gardner (ed.)

    Lambert, M., 1/09/2018, In: British Journal of Social Work. 48, 6, p. 1828-1830 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article review

  34. Special issue
  35. Published

    Some Useful Sources

    Crossley, S. & Lambert, M., 30/01/2017, In: Social Policy and Society. 16, 1, p. 165-167 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineSpecial issuepeer-review

  36. Published

    Introduction: ‘Looking for Trouble?’ Critically Examining the UK Government's Troubled Families Programme

    Crossley, S. & Lambert, M., 1/01/2017, In: Social Policy and Society. 16, 1, p. 81-85 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineSpecial issuepeer-review

  37. Working paper
  38. Published
  39. Commissioned report
  40. Published
  41. Published

    Preliminary report concerning historical child migration policies, procedures and practices of the Fairbridge Society in relation to the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry

    Lambert, M., 8/03/2019, Liverpool : University of Liverpool Department of Public Health and Policy. 25 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  42. Published

    Report of a scoping exercise on health services records relating to Merseyside at Liverpool Record Office

    Lambert, M., Atkinson, P. & Begley, P., 2019, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Department of Public Health and Policy. 101 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsCommissioned report

  43. Other report
  44. Published

    A state apology for historic forced adoption in Britain

    Lambert, M., 27/09/2023, Lancaster: Lancaster University. 19 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsOther report

  45. Published
  46. Published
  47. Published
  48. Published
  49. Published
  50. Published

    Mersey Regional Health Authority, 1974-1994

    Lambert, M. (ed.), Begley, P. (ed.) & Sheard, S. (ed.), 10/03/2020, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Department of Public Health and Policy. 121 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsOther report

  51. Published
  52. Published

    The NHS internal market: a witness seminar transcript

    MacKillop, E. (ed.), Sheard, S. (ed.), Begley, P. (ed.) & Lambert, M. (ed.), 15/06/2018, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Department of Public Health and Policy. 78 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsOther report

  53. Published

    The development of health economics and the role of the University of York

    MacKillop, E. (ed.), Sheard, S. & Lambert, M., 2018, Liverpool: University of Liverpool Department of Public Health and Policy. 80 p.

    Research output: Book/Report/ProceedingsOther report

  54. Published
  55. Blog
  56. Published

    The vast majority of GPs resisted the founding of the NHS – here’s why

    Lambert, M., 4/04/2024

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  57. Published

    75 Years of the NHS: Reform, reorganisation and restructure

    Lambert, M., 22/08/2023

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  58. Published

    Victims of the diswelfare state: Listening for pertinent silences

    Lambert, M., 23/05/2022

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  59. Published

    The vices of patronage for health services under reform

    Lambert, M., 21/07/2021

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  60. Published

    The virtues of decentralisation for health services in crisis

    Lambert, M., 12/02/2021

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  61. Published

    Realising the “child at risk”, crafting neoliberal child protection: the 1989 Children Act

    Lambert, M., 8/07/2020

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  62. Published
  63. Published

    Memories of Struggle and Struggles of Memory in the History of Welfare State

    Lambert, M., 11/07/2018

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  64. Published

    The Creation and Endurance of Frimhurst Family House

    Lambert, M., 23/10/2017

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  65. Published

    The Troubled Families Programme: The ghost of policy past, present and future?

    Lambert, M. & Crossley, S., 10/01/2017

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  66. Published

    The Troubled Families fiasco should be a warning to children’s services

    Lambert, M., 26/10/2016

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  67. Published

    The trouble with the Troubled Families Programme: Repeating the failed attempts of the past

    Lambert, M., 16/08/2016

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

  68. Published

    In Spain as in Syria, people fight in foreign wars for many reasons, or sometimes none at all

    Lambert, M., 4/08/2016

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsBlog

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