
Professor Fiona Denney
Professor - Business Education
Eastern Gateway 104f
- Email: fiona.denney@brunel.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)1895 267548
- Organisations and People
- Brunel Business School
- College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences
Summary
I am a Professor in Business Education in the Organisations and People division in Brunel Business School. In a career spanning nearly 25 years, I have been a business studies academic in the areas of marketing and general managment and leadership and I have held a number of central university positions. Between 2003 and 2019, I worked in academic staff and researcher development, including being the Assistant Director of the Graduate School at King’s College London and heading up the Brunel Educational Excellence Centre at Brunel University London until 2019. Both of these positions plus my national and international work for Vitae (see https://www.vitae.ac.uk) have involved me in strategic leadership and operational management including managing people, projects and resources, which now form my research interests in leadership in higher education. I served as a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Council for Graduate Education as well as the Honorary Secretary between 2017 and 2021. I am also a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
My research interests are focused on hybrid management and compassionate leadership in organisations including universities and the not-for-profit and public sectors.
In the Business School, I am involved in working closely with colleagues to provide guidance and support for the enhancement of learning, teaching and assessing in business education.
I am currently an external examiner for the University of Lincoln's College of Social Science Research Degrees Board and have served as an external examiner in many other UK universities including UCL. I am also involved in providing consultancy work for Epigeum - a major developer of online training programmes for the higher education sector owned by Oxford University Press. I am a qualified and highly experienced executive coach and I coach senior executives in professional services industries as additional consultancy work.
Qualifications
PhD: An assessment of the strategies guiding end-user involvement in consumer durable new product development (awarded 2004)
MA Management Studies
Postgraduate Certificate in Higher and Professional Education
BA (Hons) American and Canadian Studies
Responsibility
I am currently the Director of Student Experience for Brunel Business School and am also working closely with colleagues on digital enhancement to teaching, learning and assessment.
I am the Co-Director of the Brunel Education Research and Guidance Hub (BERGH) with Professor Danae Manika
Newest selected publications
Denney, F. (2022) 'Working in Universities through Covid-19: an interpretation using the lens of institutional logics'.The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management: AOM 2022 Creating a Better World Together. Seattle, WA, USA. 1 - 9 August. Academy of Management Proceedings. ISSN: 0065-0668 Open Access Link
Denney, F. (2022) 'Building Bridges and Connections – The Language used to Connect and Define Communities in the Third Space', in McIntosh, E. and Nutt, D. (eds.) The Impact of the Integrated Practitioner in Higher Education. Abingdon, UK : Routledge. pp. 50 - 62. ISBN 13: 9780367480011. Open Access Link
Denney, F. (2022) 'Understanding the Professional Identities of DVCs Education from Academic Development Backgrounds'. International Journal for Academic Development, in press (1). pp. 71 - 82. ISSN: 1360-144X Open Access Link
Denney, F. (2021) 'A glass classroom? The experiences and identities of third space women leading educational change in research-intensive universities in the UK'. Educational Management, Administration and Leadership. ISSN: 0263-211X
Denney, F. and Budjanovcanin, A. (2021) 'Hybrid Managers in Higher Education: Power, Identity and Challenges'.Academy of Management. Academy of Management. pp. 15145 - 15145. ISSN: 0065-0668 Open Access Link