Employment History
1967-70 Analyst, British Steel Corporation, Motherwell.
Member of team developing production, quality and inventory control systems for steel strip mill.
1970-73 Senior Analyst, Corporation of Lloyd's (Lloyd's of London).
Development of underwriters' and brokers' accounting systems; team leader of project to decimalise software; member of team producing systems audit reports for Computer Committee of Corporation of Lloyd's.
1973-90 Principal Lecturer, Department of Business Information Technology, Faculty of Management and Business, Manchester Polytechnic (Manchester Metropolitan University).
Experience included - Lecturer/tutor on a wide range of courses, including commercial, professional and short courses, at undergraduate, post-graduate and post-experience levels. Development and management of i) reciprocal student placements with Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts, ii) academic term abroad at Manchester Polytechnic for fee-paying students from Lake Erie College, Ohio, and iii) student interchange, Manchester Polytechnic - Institut Universitaire de Technologie,Nantes, France, gaining funding from the British Council.
Industrial Liaison Tutor.
Participant on Training Company schemes.
Tutor, SRC Graduate School.
Psychometric testing of potential students.
Initial development, implementation and course leader of Polytechnic Diploma in Information Technology, gaining funding from the Training Agency.
Organiser of self-funding short courses.
Member of departmental management and strategy group.
Wide range of Faculty management activities, e.g. chairman, Faculty computer committee, panel member of Faculty scrutiny/validation committees.
1990 – 2009 Senior Lecturer in Organisational Behaviour, Department of Management, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
Administration/Management experience at Heriot-Watt includes:
Course Leader, MSc Business Management.
Director of Research in the Social Enterprise Institute.
Degree Coordinator, MA/BA in Management.
School of Management Examinations Co-ordinator.
Convenor of School of Management Examinations Group.
Convenor of School of Management Progression Boards.
Member, School of Management Undergraduate Committee.
Member, School of Management Board.
Admissions officer, FE/HE Link Programme.
Director, BA Business Organisation undergraduate degree.
Deputy Director Heriot-Watt in-house MBA.
Chief Examiner Heriot-Watt University Distance Learning MBA Organisational Behaviour module.
Co-ordinator Organisational Behaviour module of Business Organisation Degree, and Human Resource Management module of MBA.
Departmental representative Board of Faculty of Economics and Social Science.
Member of Senate.
Member of Department of Business Organisation Strategy Group.
Chair, BA Business Organisation Undergraduate Degree Review Committee.
Member of working party developing course structure of MA (Hons) Applied Psychology, and structure of Department of Applied Psychology.
Member of working party developing course structure of MSc Organisational Psychology.
Lead the team which developed the new MA Management degree.
Carried out a ‘holding operation’ for the University after the setting-up of the new Department of Applied Psychology and before the appointment of permanent Departmental staff. This especially involved acting as UCAS selector, and dealing with enquiries from potential students, schools, colleges, and expressions of interest from other parties.
Member of the team which developed and set up the Social Enterprise Institute.
Member of the team which developed a stress policy for Heriot-Watt University.
Associate Director in the Centre for Research into Socially Inclusive Services CRSIS), School of the Built Environment, Heriot-Watt University.
Design and development of new course material includes:
New courses - Occupational Stress and Stress Management, Stress and Work, Organisational Behaviour, Strategies for Change (MBA), Organisational Behaviour (in the Programme of Management Education by Supported Distance Learning).
Other relevant material:
Member, City of Edinburgh Universities Joint Military Education Committee.
External examiner MSc Psychological Research Methods, University of Stirling.
Editorial Board, Stress and Health.
Council member of the British Academy of Management.
Referee for EPSRC research proposals.
Review mss. for leading journals including the Journal of Organizational Behaviour, Journal of Management Studies, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Applied Psychology: an International Review, International Journal of Stress Research, and for academic publishers including Wiley, Prentice-Hall, Thomson Learning, and McGraw-Hill.
Book Review Editor, Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology, 1993-2002.
External examiner MBA University of Bristol.
External examiner MBA Manchester Metropolitan University.
External examiner for the BA Business Studies/Management courses and subject external examiner for HRM modules, University of Abertay Dundee.
Visiting lecturer Technical University of Budapest (TUB).
MPhil and PhD External Examiner University of Salford.
Invited Member of HM Treasury Task Force on Financial Exclusion (reporting to PAT 14).
Carried out psychological assessment of applicants for Heriot-Watt STRIDE programme.
Lectured on courses for STRIDE, ITM and consortium MBA students.
Presented seminar for students taking Masters course in Off-Shore Engineering.
Panel member of 'brains trust' for students taking MTechM programme.
Presented seminars on research methodology and on SPSS for PhD students, as part of Department of Accounting and Finance programme of PhD research seminars.
Jointly organised and managed pre-MBA course for students from South-East Asia Unit.
Contributor to Work Positive resource pack, Health Scotland.
Research interests:
Occupational stress.
Organisational behaviour.
Social inclusion.
Economic regeneration.
Supervision and external examiner of numerous PhD and Masters students.
Research funds acquired include:
1992 £5,000 from the Museum Training Institute to research into the training needs, job satisfaction, and work-related stress of museum curators and staff. Various reports and papers produced.
1999 Member of the team awarded £15,000 by the Royal Bank of Scotland to report into the rapid growth of Credit Unions in Scotland. Report produced.
2000 £2,650 from the School of Management Research Committee for a study into the potential of Scottish Municipal Banks for economic regeneration and financial inclusion. Report produced.
2000 £750 from the Scottish Community Foundation for a study into Financial Exclusion and Homelessness. Report produced.
2001 Member of team awarded £83,361 from the Scottish European Social Research Fund Objective 3 Programme for a project ‘Managing in the Millenium’.
2002 Member of team awarded £16,500 from Scottish Enterprise Borders to carry out an Audit of Social Enterprise in the Scottish Borders.
2003 £32,824 from the Leverhulme Trust, to carry out a research project ‘The sustainability and failure of UK Lottery-funded projects’.
2005 £11,750 from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland for a research project ‘Workforce Health as a Key Organisational Asset: an Accounting Perspective (with R. Roslender and J. E. Stevenson).
Invitations to conferences / visits / etc.
1983 International Co-operative Education Conference, Boston, Massachusetts. Invited to present paper.
1988 British Psychological Society - Occupational Psychology Annual Conference, Manchester. Invited to organise and chair Conference track 'Stress and Strain'.
1991 London Foreign Exchange Association. Invited to address members on stress in City of London financial dealers.
1993 Institute of Data Processing Management Scottish Branch. Invited to address members on 'What about the user - what happens when your closest colleague is a computer?'
1993 British Psychological Society. Invited to present the Society's first media briefing on 'Psychology and the Budget' at the Ciba Foundation, London.
1993 Invited to visit Krakow, Poland, to participate in a stress workshop for staff and students of the Jagiellonian University, and in a staff development seminar for officers of the Municipality of Krakow Department of Culture.
1995 Inaugural Australian Industrial and Organisational Psychology Conference, Sydney, Australia. Invited to present paper.
1995 26th Annual Congress of the Association for Paediatric Education in Europe (APEE), St Andrews. Invited to present paper.
1998 Conference for Senior Secretaries, University of Edinburgh. Invited to lead seminar on ‘Management of Stress in the Office’.
1998 Perth Association of Mental Health, as part of World Mental Health Day. Invited to present keynote address.
1999 The Scottish Council Development and Industry, Stirling Management Centre, September 1999. Invited to present keynote address.
1999 The Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland Annual Seminar, Uphall. Invited to present keynote address.
2001 HCI International 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana. Invited to organise and chair a scientific session.
2002 RAF Hendon. Invited speaker at the 'Leadership Forum'.
2003 Glasgow Caledonian University. Invited to address GCU Psychological Society on contemporary views of leadership.
2003 Staff conference of Lead Scotland. Invited to lead seminar on stress management.
2003 NHS Health Scotland. Invited to produce the briefing paper 'Mental Health in the Workplace'.
2003 Presented keynote address at the 'Health and Well-Being Strategy Forum', RAF Innsworth.
2004 Group tutor at the British Academy of Management Doctoral Symposium, Leeds Metropolitan University.
2004 Presented keynote address at the 'Stress Awareness Day', RAF Boulmer.
2005 Presented address on stress at RAF Boulmer as part of programme for National Men's Health Week.
2006 Presentation on stress at RAF Wyton Force Development Squadron.
2006 Invited by the DTI Office of Science and Innovation to participate in a Peer Review Exercise of the Health and Safety Executive.
2007 Presented seminar on stress to Football Managers as part of the SFA’s EUFA Pro-licence course, University of Stirling.
2007 Presented seminar on stress at Celtic Park as part of the Celtic/Rangers Project ‘Live Better, Live Healthier’ in alliance with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.
Consultancy, etc.
Director of Management Consultancy.
Stress consultant.
Expert witness on occupational stress. Listed to come before the High Courts in Edinburgh and London as an expert witness. Frequent appearances on radio and television. Contributor to media on occupational stress and organisational behaviour.
