Associate Head of School: Strategy and Operations
I have over 25 years of work experience from careers in retail, hospitality, IT, consultancy and education. Outside the UK, I have worked and delivered projects in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore and Zimbabwe. I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and also a member of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). I am also the centre leader for Sur University College in Oman, one of our partner universities.
Currently, I am an External Examiner for Coventry University, Sainte Marie, Lyon – MSc International Business Management with Entrepreneurship and the University of Bedfordshire (Global MBA).
Teaching and supervision
I am currently Programme Leader for MSc International Business Management.
I am module leader for:
- PGBM135 Global Strategy and Foresight
- PGBM115 MSc IBM Dissertation
- SIM337 Contemporary Developments in Business and Management
(for students studying at our London campus and those off-campus students who study with our partner universities around the world)
I also teach:
- SIM336 Strategic Management
- PGBM16 Global Corporate Strategy
Research interests for potential research students
My main research interest is to investigate the interplay between strategic foresight and organisational resource weaknesses.
Research
I am currently examining how organisations could use strategic foresight to minimise current and future build-up of resource weaknesses.
- Resource-based view (resource weakness)
- Dynamic capabilities
- Strategic foresight
- Competitive strategies
- Ambidexterity