Dr Gillian Bishop
Senior Lecturer in Management Deputy Associate Dean (Scholarship and Teaching Innovation)

Profile

Biography

Gill is a Senior Lecturer in Management and Module Leader for the Skills for Management and Professional Programmes. Gill has taught on a range of UG and PG programmes including Managing People, Behaviour in Organisations and Business ethics and is experienced in supporting PGT student dissertations. She is also Deputy Associate Dean for Scholarship and Teaching Innovation and Skills Lead for Semesterisation.

Prior to joining the School for Business and Society Gill worked as Head of Postgraduate Programmes at York St John University and as Senior Lecturer at Huddersfield University managing full time and part time MBA programmes and teaching on a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate business management modules. She has also worked for the Department for the Environment, Food and Farming, working on policies around the UK exit from the EU.

Gill has recently published in the following journals; Action Learning: Research and Practice, International Journal of Management Education and the Journal of Higher Education: Theory and Practice on teaching pedagogy. She has produced two customised textbooks supporting undergraduate and postgraduate students in ‘Organisational Behaviour, Management and the Sociology of Work’ and ‘Managing People, Self and the Organisation’. Gill’s research interests are in learning pedagogy and processes supporting international students develop the skills of reflective practice as part of preparations for professional careers in management. Gill's research interests build on her doctoral study into how international MBA students learnt to reflect. Gill is a Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Chartered Manager, a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE), a Certified Management Business Educator and is a member of the British Academy of Management. 

Subject Group

Work Management and Organisation

Research

Overview

Gillian’s research interests are in the field of reflective practice, specifically how critically reflexive practices supports management development. She is interested in theories and practice around critical pedagogy and supporting international students develop critical thinking and critical writing skills. Gillian believes in the value of dialogue and storytelling as a way of developing the deeper and more critical levels of reflection and learning.

Research areas

Gill has written a book chapter on reflective practice, this can be found in the customised textbook Managing People, Self and the Organisation which explores tools and frameworks for supporting managers to reflect on practice. This builds on her PhD thesis exploring how dialogical conversations and storytelling helps students learn to reflect.  Working across discipline Gill has engaged in a series of dialogical conversations- online and face to face- with a colleague from the School of Education at York St John University to develop a deeper understanding of their journeys to reflective practitioners and results from this collaboration utilising storytelling principles were presented at the European Conference on Education Research.

Gill is interested in qualitative research methods, particularly the use of auto-ethnography as a way of learning about self in the context of others’ learning journeys.  Gill has supervised undergraduate and postgraduate dissertations

Publications

Full publications list

Books, Research and Conferences 

Bishop, G and Johnston, A.L.  (2017) Management: Self, People and the Organisation Cengage Learning

Bishop, G (2017) Developing Reflective Practice for Managers Chapter 21 in Management: Self, People and the Organisation Cengage Learning

Bishop, G. (2017) International learner voices: an exploratory study of the MBA students' journey to reflective practice. Doctoral thesis, University of Huddersfield.

2016 European Conference on Education Research Storytelling as Pedagogy for Management Development: a collaborative inquiry Dublin

2015 Futures Research: The Challenges of Business Research Working with a Social Housing Organisation April YSJ

2015 International Educational Conference ‘Values and Virtues’ ‘Storytelling as a Pedagogical Intervention’ June YSJ

2014 Promoting Positive Behaviours confidential research report for Social Housing Organisation, University of Huddersfield

2014 Working Collaboratively to Support International Postgraduate Student Experience National Conference for Association for Learning and Development in HE (ALDHE)

Bishop, G. (2012) Organisational Behaviour, Management and Sociology of Work Custom edition Cengage Learning

Bishop, G. and Yeadon-Lee, A. (2011) Enculturation and Acculturation: An Exploration of International Student Experiences in Western Learning Cultures through Individual Case Study Research in BMAF annual conference 10-12 May 2011 University of Bournemouth

Bishop, G. and Blake, J. (2008) Guide to Reflective Practice: Postgraduate and Post-experience Students University of Huddersfield HEIF Project funded.

Bishop, G (2003) Progression of Adult Community Learners: the picture at Wakefield College Research project funded through Teachers Pay Initiative