Biographies

Dr Isabelle Royer
Dr Royer is a member of the board of A.I.M.S., the French Management Association, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Normandy Business School. Isabelle came to academia after five-years of economic forecasts and market studies. She defended her doctoral dissertation on the ‘Dynamics of escalation and de-escalation’ at Paris Dauphine University in 1999. Her ongoing research focuses on organizational decision-making, in particular the escalation of commitment and ‘innovative’ ventures in many different sectors.  She has also undertaken more theoretical studies on decision routines, and has published in the Harvard Business Review, The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Decision Making and in M@n@gement. Isabelle has a very special interest in Research Methods and promotes it through regular AIMS workshops.  Together with Ann Langley, in 2006 she edited a Special Issue of M@n@gement : “Perspective on Doing Case Study Research in Organizations.” She has also published chapters in Doing Management Research: a comprehensive guide (2001, London: Sage) and in The Sage Encyclopedia of Case Study Research (Alberts J. Mills, Gabrielle Durepos & Elden Wiebe (Eds), 2009).

Isabelle Royer

Dr Marie Ashwin
With almost two decades of experience in higher education in the UK and the Far East, Marie joined the Normandy Business School two years ago.  She works with colleagues from around the world on teaching and research projects to enhance the standing of RM amongst staff and students, and add value to the teaching of methodology.  A qualitative researcher by nature, she is currently investigating Social Networking behaviour with an international research team.

Marie Ashwin

Dr David Bednall
David Bednall, PhD, MA, Registered Psychologist has been in social science research for all his working life. His social policy roles have included being Head of Research for the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, a Senior Research Fellow for the Australian Institute of Multicultural Affairs and a research psychologist for the Department of Immigration. He then moved into commercial market research as Market Research Manager for Australia Post, Victorian Manager of Newspoll Market Research and Manager, Human Communication Research at the Telstra Research Laboratories. In his latter career he joined Monash and now Deakin university where he is the Associate Head of School (Research) for the Management & Marketing School. He is the editor of the Australasian Journal of Market and Social Research. He is a judge in the market research industry's Research Effectiveness Awards. He has used a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods. In recent years, he has designed many surveys that have been used in commercial legal proceedings. His methodological preference is realism, tempered by critical theory. His preferred qualitative approach is based on Schutzian phenomenology and his preferred quantitative method is the use of experiments in the tradition of Shadish, Cook and Campbell. Current research interests include the use of survey evidence in legal proceedings, the relationship between customer analytics and commercial market research, free service trials and social networking.

David Bednall

Stephen Atkins.
Stephen is Principal Lecturer of business research methods, business ethics, and cross-cultural commerce at Otago Polytechnic of New Zealand. Graduate of Virginia Tech’s industrial psychology program. Historically affiliated with Massey University’s Poverty Research Group and it’s povio network, and is a Rotary Club president-elect and co-founder of the Humanitarian Work Psychology (HWP) sub-discipline, particularly one of HWP’s principal research initiatives: SmartAid.

Stephen Atkins

Dr Gary Bell
Gary Bell has a PhD and MSc from London South Bank University.  He is currently developing a postgraduate course in project management with Jon Warwick.  Additionally, he is exploring the use of OR methods and techniques for project management. Another research interest is the identification of the fundamental ideas and principles that underpin orthodox process improvement methods, and appreciating their cost/benefits.

Gary Bell

Dr David Douglas
David is director of doctoral programmes at Staffordshire University Business School, UK and has research interests in entrepreneurship, decision theory and research methods, particularly qualitative approaches. David has published in these areas and has applied, for example, grounded theory and case study to the researching of entrepreneurs’ judgments and decision making.

David Douglas

Vicky Harte
Vicky Harte is Research Officer in the HRD and Leadership Research Unit (HRDL) at Leeds Business School. Vicky was previously Research Officer in the Institute for Enterprise at Leeds Metropolitan University where she worked on projects evaluating the impact of enterprise education. Her latest project in HRDL has examined the notion of research informed teaching and methods to promote its adoption in UK universities.  

Dr Héléna Karjalainen
Héléna Karjalainen is Ph.D. (Strategy and HR Management) and professor in intercultural management in Normandy Business School (France). Her main teaching and research field is oriented to international human resources management, organisational behaviour and interpersonal cooperation in organisations. She has published articles, chapters and case studies in peer-reviewed journals and books. She is member of several international research associations and participates in international research projects.

Héléna Karjalainen

Madeleine Ogilvie
Madeleine Ogilvie is a Program Co-ordinator in Marketing. Her major interests are in the fields of semiotics, consumer research, new product development and international marketing education.  Madeleine has coordinated and taught across a range of different marketing disciplines at both a national and international level and worked extensively in China as the faculty’s Client Manager for China programs.

Prior to working at ECU, Madeleine worked extensively in the pharmaceutical industry for several large multinational organisations in sales and sales management. She has consulted for both public and private organisations on many facets of marketing and management.

Madeleine Ogilvie

Maria M. Ryan
Maria M. Ryan is a Senior Academic in the Faculty of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia. Her research interests include the impact on consumption of individuals' attachment to their environment, using various research methods to examine consumption behaviour and student learning processes. Maria has published competitive papers at international and national level on consumer behaviour issues. In addition, she has worked extensively in the marketing research industry and held senior management positions in the Australian bureau of Statistics and American Express. She continues to consult to a range of private and government organisations on consumer issues.

Maria M. Ryan

Professor Mark Saunders
Mark Saunders is Professor in Business Research Methods at the University of Surrey School of Management.  He teaches research methods to undergraduate, masters and doctoral students and is co-author of six management textbooks. These include Research Methods for Business Students (2009, 5^th edition, Financial Times Prentice Hall), which has also been translated into Chinese, Dutch, Vietnamese and Russian and Statistics: What you really need to know ( 2008, McGraw Hill).  His research focuses upon research methods (including online methods and tools for understanding and improving organizational relationships) and human resource aspects of the management of change.

Mark Saunders

Professor Jim Stewart
Jim Stewart is Professor of HRD and Director of the HRD and Leadership Research Unit at Leeds Business School. Jim is also Chair of the UK based University Forum for HRD. As well as much research and many publications on HRD, he has conducted a number of projects and published on a range of teaching and learning issues, and how to design such research. Many of these have been in partnership with Vicky Harte.

Jim Stewart

Nicola Swan
Nicola is an independent provider of training and research into rural sustainable development issues. She provides consultancy services at the company and local level for stakeholders involved in sustainable development. Nicola is a research associate with Henley Business School, University of Reading, where she is undertaking her PhD.

Nicola Swan

Professor Jon Warwick
Jon Warwick completed his first degree in Mathematics and Computing at South Bank Polytechnic in 1979 and was awarded a PhD in Operational Research in 1984. He has many years of experience in teaching mathematics, mathematical modelling, and operational research in the higher education sector and his research interests include systems theory and mathematics learning and teaching.  He is currently Professor of Educational Development in the Mathematical Sciences at London South Bank University.

Jon Warwick