Adminstration

Administration/Service

I have extensive administrative experience. Below I list the major administrative tasks undertaken at Aston, UMIST and Cambridge. My present position at Cardiff is focused upon Research. Administration is limited to chairing PhD vivas

Cambridge University (2001-2006)

Committee memberships (major) : Judge Business School Advisory Board; Council of the School of Technology; Syndicate and Degree Committees; Research Committee; MPhil Admissions Committee; School of Technology Transferable Skills Committee

Committee Chair : Promotions Committee; PhD Admissions Committee; Graduate Teaching Committee

Working Party Memberships : MPhil Management Studies Review; Research Strategy Review (Chair), Strategy Working Party, Business Planning Working Party

Major Administrative Responsibilities : Director of the PhD Programme, Convenor of the Human Resources and Organizations Subject group

UMIST (1988-2001)

Committee memberships : School Library Committee; Policy Committee ; Capital Equipment Committee, Undergraduate Committee, School Undergraduate Course Review Sub-Committee, Promotions Committee, Postgraduate Committee, Staffing and Personnel Panel

Working party memberships : School Space Working Party, Teaching and Learning Working Party, Research Assessment Exercise Working Party

Committee Chair : Sessional Resources Committee, Management Process Team, Resource Allocation Model Working Party,

Course Administration Roles : Admissions Tutor, P/T MSc Management Sciences; Admissions Tutor Joint Manchester School of Management/ Manchester Business School MBA; Course organiser for the 2nd Year Undergraduate Course `People, Management and Change'; Coordinator for the MSc module `International Management and Organization'

Major Administrative Roles : Head of Organizational Analysis Group; UMIST Academic Development Resources Committee; Responsibility for Staff Development and Appraisal within School

Aston University (1977-88)

Major administrative roles included:

Course Organiser for the Final Year of the Management and Administrative Studies Degree

Chair of Doctoral Programme. Overall responsibility for the operation and development of the programme, including the teaching of the Research Methodology course.

Member of Senior Staff Committee responsible for strategy.

Representative on: Faculty Board, Faculty Research Committee, Faculty Higher Degrees Committee, Board of Undergraduate Studies

Service on External Bodies and Related Activities

1986-1990 Member of Executive Committee, Management Control Association

1986-1989 External Examiner for Undergraduate Courses in Business Studies, University of Wolverhampton

1987 Subject Specialist External Assessor for CNAA degrees in Business Studies

1988-1992 External Examiner for Undergraduate Courses in Business Studies, University of Central Lancashire

1989 Advisor to the Labour front bench on Committees stages of the Companies Bill

1990 Subject Specialist and External Assessor, Organisation Studies, Validation of LINCS Undergraduate Degree,

University of Central Lancashire

1994 External Assessor for Validation of PGDip/ MSc Research Methods (Organization Studies), University of Central

Lancashire

1995-1999 External Examiner for MA in Management Learning, University of Lancaster

1996-1999 Member of the Steering Group for the MPhil in Critical Management, University of Lancaster

1996-1998 External Examiner for MA in Social Theory and Organization, University of Keele

1997-2001 External Examiner for MA in Management Studies, University of Essex

1999 Doctoral Consortium Faculty Member, Critical Management Studies Workshop, Academy of Management

Conference, Chicago

2001 Academy of Management , Terry Book Award Committee

2002-2007 External Examiner for MA in Business Studies, University of Edinburgh

2006- 2009 External Examiner for MBA, Said Business School, University of Oxford

2007 Quality and Renewal Panel Member of , University of Uppsala

2008- 2010 External Member, School of Technology Promotions Committee, University of Cambridge

External examination of PhDs at Universities of Warwick, Edinburgh, London, Lancaster, Cambridge, Sheffield, New South Wales, Lund, Leeds, Brunel, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Hamburg

Editorial Board Memberships

Have previously served on the boards of Administrative Science Quarterly and Organization. Currently serving on Academy of Management Review, Journal of Management Studies and Organization Studies. I have acted as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous social science, business and management journals.

Conference Organization (major events)

1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1998 Organiser of Annual UMIST/Aston International Labour Process Conferences.

1990 Organizer of International Colloquium on Critical Theory and the Management Sciences

1996 Body and Organization Workshop, University of Keele, September

1999 First Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Manchester. July

2000 Learning and Practice Conference, GMB College, Manchester

2001 Second Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Manchester

2000- 2002 ESRC Critical Management Studies Seminars

2005 Institutional Theory Workshops, University of Cambridge

2005 Fourth Critical Management Studies Conference, University of Cambridge

2006 All Academy Showcase Symposium on `The Discursive Turn: So What?' , The Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, August (co-organizer)

2008 Core Network Member, Discourse Analysis Network, Centre for Theoretical Studies in the Humanities and Social Science, University of Essex

2008 Scientific Member, Conference on IT and Change in the Service Economy, University of Toronto, 10-13 August,

2009 Scientific Member, Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Accounting Conference, University of Innsbruck, 9-11 July

2009 Political Economy and Discourse Theory Conference, Cardiff University, 28-29 May

2011 Scientific Member, Seventh Critical Management Studies Conference, Naples, 11-13 July