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

Profile

Biography

Gill is a Senior Lecturer in Management in the School for Business and Society  and Deputy Associate Dean ( Scholarship and Teaching Innovation). 

Gill’s citizenship roles at the University of York have included PGT Director, Skills Adviser for Semesterisation and her most recent role of Deputy Associate Dean involves working collaboratively across the School to develop strategies for inclusive teaching and learning and to support academic staff develop scholarship around teaching and learning. Recent projects involve Gill in working with staff and students to develop strategies and ways of working that contribute to reducing UG awarding gaps for students from diverse and non-traditional  backgrounds. This is part of a University of York Transforming Access in Student Outcomes (TASO) in H.E. project, Gill specifically works on the SBS ‘No Gaps’ pilot project. From a scholarship perspective Gill has introduced a scholarship framework for Teaching & Scholarship (T&S) staff and has supported development of a policy enabling T&S to apply for research leave enabling teaching and learning focused academics develop education focused career pathways. Gill is part of the organising committee for the SBS/ CEGBI Annual Conference, taking responsibility for the Teaching and Learning track.

Gill has held Module Leadership roles in a number of HE institutions based on her subject interests, the most recent one being module leader for PGT Skills for Management and Professional Development. Gill has taught on a range of UG and PG programmes including Managing People, Behaviour in Organisations and Business ethics and she is experienced in dissertation supervision for PGT and UG students’.

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 she managed full time and part time MBA programmes. At both institutions 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 individually and working with colleagues has produced edited textbooks, book chapters and published in Action Learning: Research and Practice, the International Journal of Management Education and the Journal of Higher Education: Theory and Practice. Gill’s research interests are in critical management education pedagogy and learning processes that support the development of the skills of critical reflexivity. She is particularly interested in the use of storytelling and action learning to support development of students and staff as critical reflexive practitioners. 

Gill's research interests build on her doctoral study into how international MBA students learnt to reflect and how storytelling and action learning supports development of these skills.  As a former CIH housing management practitioner and current  Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Chartered Manager, Gill is committed to preparing students  for professional careers in management. Gill is also a Senior Fellow of Advance HE, a Certified Management Business Educator and is a member of the British Academy of Management.

Subject Group

Management and Organisation Studies

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