Subcommittee
Please see members of the submcommittee and their roles below:
Kate Black
Kate is a Professor of Management Learning and Education.
Following an early career as a Marine Ecologist at a Field Centre in rural Pembrokeshire, Kate moved into HR management (Recruitment and Development) within retail management. Her key role was to implement the recruitment and development strategy during a period when the branch was under considerable strain both locally in terms of staffing availability, and as a result of changing sales strategies.
Kate joined NBS in Summer 2014 following 10 years at the University of Chester, latterly within Chester Business School. She currently holds the role of Director of Education within the Business School.
Kate is a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (PFHEA), a Certified Management and Business Educator (CMBE) and a member of the CIPD (AMCIPD). She co-Chair of the British Academy of Management (BAM) with responsiblity for Management Knowledge and Education (MKE). She also co-leads BAM’s Education-focused Professor programme. Kate has also been Chair of BAM's Identity SIG since 2018
Kate completed her PhD part-time at Lancaster University in August 2013. Her research examined the learning of professionals working within multi-agency teams within a local authority Children’s Services department.
Kate’s research interests lie in examining informal, workplace learning, as a process of ‘being’ and ‘becoming’ (identity) for professionals in the contemporary knowledge economy. Kate is currently working on a funded research project examining inter-generational learning and knowledge exchange within the knowledge economy.
Her research adopts a largely qualitative approach to data generation with particular emphasis upon visual methods such as photo-elicitation, artefactual conversations and the use of participant-generated pictors.
Kate’s pedagogic research examines such areas as student attendance and engagement and students-as-partners. She has worked to maintain the relevance of the research methods and dissertation elements of management education in the light of the changing demographic of management students in UK universities. This has informed one of her projects that examined the role of the undergraduate Business/Management dissertation in developing skills and capabilities for employment.
Kate is a keen road runner, distance trail runner and mountain/hill walker.
Ashley Roberts
Ashley is the Assistant Dean (Internationalisation) at WBS and has presented his research at many conferences, most recently at The Academy of Management, The British Academy of Management and also as a visiting scholar at Harvard University.
He researches organisational culture, shared leadership, creative learning and participatory pedagogies, publishing in a range of journals including, The Leadership Quarterly, British Journal of Management, and Work, Employment and Society.
Ashley is Director, Trustee and Executive Team Member for The British Academy of Management where he both formulates and implements strategic international policy. He is also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an Academic Member of The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, plus a Member of The International Centre for Research in Organisational Discourse, Strategy and Change.
He is a National Teaching Fellow, a winner of The Warwick Award for Teaching Excellence and is a Fellow of the Warwick International Higher Education Academy. Ashley also holds Visiting Professorships at leading global institutions and is External MBA Examiner to a Russell Group University. He is an editorial board member of the journal The British Journal of Management and reviews for top ranked academic journals.
Ashley gained a PhD from Cardiff University where he also previously taught on a variety of courses at Cardiff Business School. Ashley teaches on Undergraduate, Warwick MBA and Master's level courses. He is the internal examiner on the Organisational Behaviour Executive variant of the Warwick MBA (London), Leading Global Organisations (Dubai) and Strategic Luxury Leadership (Venice).
He has taught Organisational Behaviour MBA Modules in Brussels, Chile, Dubai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai and Venice. Each year Ashley wins an award for his outstanding contribution to Undergraduate teaching and he also receives the Warwick Business School Outstanding MBA Teacher Award annually.
