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:

• Leadership communication
• Communicative construction of moral reasoning
• Care ethics, feminist ethics, moral reasoning orientation
• Servant leadership
• Gender in leadership and women’s leadership
• Ethical aspects of leadership, followership, and ethical leadership development
• Content analysis of cultural artefacts
• Innovative (arts-based and reflexive) research 
• Dialogue, debate, and discourse

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:

• 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' radio interviews)
• 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.
• Self-leadership in the leadership relationship in non-profit organisations
• Women’s leadership in non-profit organisations
• Women’s motivation to lead
• Motivation to serve, moral reasoning orientation in servant leadership

Current PhD/DBA Supervision

PGR supervision

• Main PhD supervisor: “An examination of the gender leadership gap in UK call centres.” Safia Kahlid (expected completion December 2022)
• PhD Co-supervisor: “Exploring the impact of organizational culture, employee engagement, and organisational performance.” Godswill U. Chilaka (expected completion January 2024)

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:

• Developing and validating new measures of leadership constructs of moral reasoning orientation in servant leadership
• Cultural dimensions of gender egalitarianism and power distance and extra-role behaviour
• Work-life balance policies, practices, and impacts in industry specific culture
• Gender discrimination and inequality regimes in Scottish call-centres

I have four PhD completions:

• Ijeoma Ukeni (2021), Servant leadership and moral reasoning orientation: A quantitative examination of the antecedent and dimensions of servant leadership in contemporary organisations
• Tamer Koburtay (2017), The congruity in female-leader role stereotypes in the Jordanian hotel sector
• Abdulrazaq K. Nuri (2017), The influence of performance and appraisal fairness on employee attitudes and behavior in Iraqi Kurdistan
• Fatma Hussein M. Kolatshi (2017), Factors affecting the acceptance and impact of human resource information systems (HRIS): Evidence from HR professionals in Libyan companies

PhD Applicants

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 
• Narcissism, toxic leadership, bullying, gossip, and egoism and their impact on leadership processes/outcomes
• 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.
• Self-leadership in the leadership relationship in non-profit organisations
• Women’s leadership in non-profit organisations
• Women’s motivation to lead

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)

• Exploring Leadership and Management
• Organisational Ethical Management 
• Postgraduate Dissertation Proposal/Research Methods
• Leadership: Power and Ethics
• Ethical Leadership
• Leadership: Process & Organisation

Other classes taught/led since 2019 at UWS:

• Influencing Organisational Culture and Change (MBA) 
• Preparing an Honours Project
• Change Management
• Contemporary Strategy Development
• Organizational Behaviour
• Professional Development Experience
• People in Business
• Understanding Organizational Design 
• Intercultural Awareness 
• Critical Employee Relations
• Performance Management and Reward
• Facilitation Skills
• HRM in Business Contexts
• HR Service Delivery

Other classes taught between 2014 and 2019 at Huddersfield:

• Leading & Managing Change
• Managing Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
• Real World Business Issues