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Cambridge (2001-2006)
Committee memberships : Judge Institute 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- External Examiner for MBA, Said Business School, University of Oxford
External examination of PhDs at Universities of Warwick, Edinburgh,
London, Lancaster, Cambridge, Sheffield, New South
Wales, Leeds, Brunel.
Conference Organization
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)