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Accepting PhD Students
PhD projects
I am looking to supervise academically excellent PhD candidates from all areas of the world for the following or closely related topics: Innovative (arts-based and reflexive) leadership development and leader learning Dialogue, debate, and discourse in leadership development Content analysis of communication and cultural artefacts in leadership or followership Individual, relational, and socially embedded aspects of moral reasoning in leadership and followership Crisis leadership, crisis leadership communication Care ethics, Nussbaum's ethics, moral capitalism (A. Smith) in leadership and/or HRD (Womens’) motivation to lead, Women’s leadership, the agency myth Motivation to serve (servant leadership), Moral reasoning orientation in leadership and followership, Dual system processing in ethics Ethical aspects of power, empowerment vs. gaslighting and manipulation Innovative (arts-based and reflexive) leadership development and leader learning: leadership ethics, followership ethics Critical Leadership / Management Studies The reflexive construction of leader ethical identity through the medium of poetry, Communicative and socially embedded construction of gendered leader identity (gendered discourse analysis of business leaders' communication) Arts-based inquiry of relational and socially embedded aspects of ethical and unethical leadership Content analysis of women and men's constructions of leadership and moral reasoning in epideictic rhetoric. Women’s leadership in non-profit organisations Women’s motivation to lead
Research activity per year
I have 15 years of experience teaching in higher education in Europe, the Middle East, the US, and seven of those years in UKHE commensurate with a senior academic level. I also have 15 years of experience in the private and public sectors managing information technology and organisational communication projects, processes, and systems.
Our recent publication "Beating the virus" in Human Resource Development International ranks in the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric.
I joined UWS from my previous post as Senior Lecturer in Leadership at the University of Huddersfield which I held from 2014-2019. Prior to joining the Huddersfield Business School I had a five-month lecturship in Saudi Arabia, worked three years in the United States as an adjunct professor for intercultural communication and academic skills development, and two years in Germany teaching ESOL and EAP in higher and further education. During my PhD studies I facilitated online master's theses and portfolio supervision as a graduate teaching assistant. I have also delivered online teaching as a volunteer professor for Jesuit Worldwide Learning Higher Education at the Margins for students living in Kakuma and Dzaleka Refugee Camps in Western Africa.
I have been a Fellow of the HEA since 2015.
Before entering the academy I led small and large scale Internet-based projects in business consultancy, online marketing and communication for international corporations in Berlin in the automotive (VW/gedas), telecommunications (T-Systems, Gauss Interprise, Activ-Consult), publishing (Holzbrinck, Quintessenz), and public sector (German Libraries Institute, Humboldt University).
My research expertise and interests encompass:
I conduct research projects in niche and interdisciplinary areas applying post-postivisit, pragmatic, interpretivist, and critical perspectives. I am interested primarily in innovative approaches to research using arts-based inquiry and content analysis, including rhetorical and discourse analysis, but also expanding into further approaches such as the analysis and interpretations of communication and cultural artefacts as they embody and perpetuate meaning.
My current projects explore:
Current PhD/DBA Supervision
I have supervised, advised, and examined PGR theses on gender and leadership, servant leadership, work ethics, OCB, and performance appraisals in various occupational (higher education, HRM, retail, finance, hospitality) and cultural settings (Caribbean, West Africa, Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, UK).
I have supervised postgraduate research students with projects focused on, for example:
I have four PhD completions:
PhD Applicants
I am looking to supervise academically excellent PhD candidates from all areas of the world for the following or closely related topics:
I have experience in course/programme leadership for PGT and UG, as well as the development of PGT/PGR curriculum and course design. Having served as the programme director of the PG courses MSc Business, MSc Business with HRM as well as UG courses BA Business Administration and Management and BA Human Resource Management for top-up students I have managed all aspects of course administration.
The ongoing success and strategic importance of modules I have taught in ethical leadership have seen these developed further and expanded into the new PGT portfolio at the University of Huddersfield. I was actively involved and contributed to the PGT curriculum review and development of the new PGT portfolio at Huddersfield Business School having developed the new cross-course core PGT module: Leadership, Power and Ethics for a range of new programmes. I also contributed to the development of a new suite of courses for Strategic Communication and Leadership. I developed a concept for PGR community development for the Associate Dean of Teaching & Learning and Director of Postgraduate Studies. During my time at Huddersfield I also actively contributed to course validation processes for UG and PG courses specifically the MBA. I was also involved in the AACSB accreditation process for Huddersfield such as completing module mapping for AACSB accreditation and received AACSB traning.
Teaching interests (classes taught at UWS and Huddersfield): (bold=module lead, italics=curriculum development)
Other classes taught/led since 2019 at UWS:
Other classes taught between 2014 and 2019 at Huddersfield:
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
External Examiner, Lancaster University
Sep 2021 → …
External Examiner BA Professional Development In Leadership and Management, University of Dundee
2020 → …
External DBA Examiner: Ethical Leadership, University of Liverpool
2017 → 2018
External Examiner for MSc Leadership, MSc Leadership in Health and Social Care, Certificate in Professional Studies Management & Leadership, Manchester Metropolitan University
2016 → 2019
Editorial Board Member, Asparkía Investigació Feminista (Journal of Feminist Research)
Peer Reviewer, Gender in Management (Journal)
Peer Reviewer, Human Resources Development International (Journal)
Editorial Board Member, Journal of Leadership Education
Peer Reviewer, Journal of Leadership Studies
Peer Reviewer, Servant Leadership Theory and Practice (Journal)
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Other › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Foreword/postscript › peer-review
Reynolds, Kae (Recipient) & Stewart, V. L. (Recipient), 3 Sep 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Reynolds, Kae (Recipient), 2020
Prize: National/international honour
Reynolds, Kae (Recipient), 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Kae Reynolds (Lecturer)
Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - CPD delivery/organisation of courses for externals (in kind)
Kae Reynolds (Advisor)
Activity: Other › Types of Business and Community - Consultancy (in kind)
Kae Reynolds (Examiner)
Activity: Examination
Kae Reynolds (Examiner)
Activity: Examination
Kae Reynolds (Speaker)
Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk