A5085915434- Higher Education and Employability
- Higher Education Learning Practices
- Human Resource and Talent Management
- Innovative Education and Learning Practices
- Resilience and Mental Health
- Reflective Practices in Education
- Higher Education Governance and Development
- Youth Development and Social Support
- Labor Market and Education
- Entrepreneurship Studies and Influences
- Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
- Education Systems and Policy
- Career Development and Diversity
- Management and Organizational Studies
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management
- Evaluation and Performance Assessment
- Quality and Supply Management
- Employer Branding and e-HRM
- Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Primary Care and Health Outcomes
- Collaboration in agile enterprises
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Educational and Psychological Assessments
University of Chester
2016-2024
The Royal Melbourne Hospital
2015-2019
St Thomas' Hospital
2002
King's College London
2002
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the issues and challenges facing employers as they manage degree apprentices in workplace. It examines relationship between managers undertaking a work-based degree. This research particular relevance at time because UK Government’s initiative expand number apprenticeships workplace three million new starts by 2020, inevitably bringing range pressures bear on (BIS, 2015). share early experiences employer management apprenticeships, provide...
Photoreceptor maintenance is dependent on effective delivery of nutrients from the choroidal circulation by way acellular Bruch's membrane and retinal pigment epithelium. Aging associated with thickening, increased cross linking fibers, deposition debris culminating in reduced porosity. The present study has investigated effects aging diffusional transport eight amino acids across 19 human donors. Diffusion studies were carried out Ussing chambers, amount time-dependent transfer preparation...
Purpose In 2014, the UK Government introduced a new form of apprenticeship, Degree Apprenticeship, which extends across all undergraduate degree and master’s levels, maps to professional standards, is now embedded within governmental levies large businesses. The purpose this paper share early experiences developing these Apprenticeships, consider processes deployed achieve it. Design/methodology/approach This combines desk research with reflections on experience Apprenticeships higher...
Purpose Educational policy instruments such as apprenticeship levy and forthcoming lifetime skills guarantee are creating unprecedented opportunities for rapid growth in a range of work-based learning (WBL) programmes, requiring increasingly complex levels collaboration between providers employers. Apprenticeships require to assume responsibility ensuring apprentices’ managers mentors (WBMMs) equipped provide effective support individuals they learn ‘on the job’. After six years higher...
Technological change is a feature of contemporary life encompassing interactivity, collaboration and, above all, real-time content sharing and live streaming. The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced new dynamics in relation to digitisation technology usage. Within organisations, these changes have been swift profound, leading online meetings, events virtual team management. An explosion literature accompanied their human impacts. However, the generational intergenerational issues remain...
This study explores the experiences of leaders who have led organisations and teams through an extended period crisis management whilst completing a UK work-based master's programme. paper examines contemporary approaches to learning effect organisational workforce demands in volatile era global economic uncertainty. Theoretical conceptual foundations relating experiential learning, digital education communities are analysed discussed. Taking inductive qualitative approach, analyses...
Purpose This paper aims to explore the past and future impacts of automation on family businesses, with a focus opportunities for human capital empowerment. Design/methodology/approach draws upon contemporary literature search examine range scholarly practitioner perspectives challenges benefits automation, exploring evolvement towards hyperautomation empowerment in businesses. Findings Automation, transforming hyperautomation, general purpose artificial intelligence (AI) beyond has...
Purpose This paper explores the challenges, issues and benefits of reflective practice faced by work-based practitioners undertaking negotiated experiential learning. The study focuses upon case a ground-breaking UK-based Senior Leader Master's Degree Apprenticeship (SLMDA) programme which requires learners to develop apply skills through comprehensive learning research activities. apprenticeships represent significant opportunity for providers employers become more closely aligned in joint...
Purpose Global talent shortages, new skill demand and rising numbers of unfilled posts are fuelling an increasingly challenging job market, exacerbated by economic uncertainty transformational digital change. Seeking creative solutions in response, the authors examine management’s (TM) theoretical conceptual foundations, specifically identification selection TM programme design to explore challenges benefits side-of-desk projects as interventions. Design/methodology/approach Taking inductive...
This paper employs a qualitative case study to suggest how the research journey of doctoral students can be improved in educational institutions by encouraging formation small and informal Communities Practice (CoP). It examines themes emerging from feelings opinions four part-time professional doctorate about their experience participation emergent CoP. A peer group developed where share experience, expertise, insight, knowledge caring supportive, but informal, forum. CoP could become an...
Purpose Adopting the lens of ambidexterity, this paper examines decision-making within private technical education providers as they attempt to meet workforce and UK government training demands against a backdrop unprecedented pace global change in technology. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative data, drawn from semi-structured interviews participants provider, was analysed thematically investigate common patterns, clarify understanding identify development areas inform bodies provider...