Ralitsa is a lecturer (AC3) in the MSc Project Management programme of University of the West of Scotland and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a Chartered Marketer, working within the Scottish Higher and Further Education sectors since 2014.  Her background includes managing national student programmes, along with promoting enterprise and entrepreneurship among students, and embedding innovation within the university curriculum. 

Most recent research outputs include investigation of Project and Risk Management practices and challenges among UK SMEs and stakeholder collaboration improvement via effective communication.

• Project Management education in the UK and internationally
• Signature pedagogies and the Project Management Curriculum
• Quality Management for Higher Education
• Curriculum alignment with graduate job market requirements
• Embedding Marketing techniques for effective teaching and research 

Higher and Further Education institutions with engineering, computing and business disciplines. 

• Project Management
• Quality Management
• Organisational behaviour
• Employee training and development
• Business strategy 
• Operations management
• Risk management 
• Marketing stragegy 
• Brand development 
• Marketing communications 
• Digital marketing 
• Innovation
• Events management