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Nicola Smith

  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Areas of expertise: Student Education and Organisational Behaviour
  • Email: N.M.Smith@leeds.ac.uk
  • Phone: +44(0)113 343 0566
  • Location: G.17 Charles Thackrah Building

Profile

I joined LUBS in 2014. I focus on Taught Postgraduate Students though I teach and tutor at all levels. I am completing a PhD in Organizational Behaviour through the Workplace Behaviour Research Centre alongside my position as Programme Director for MSc Management.

 

Responsibilities

  • MSc Management Programme Director

Research interests

  • Goal hierarchy/multiple goals
  • Goal engagement/disengagement
  • Life transition
  • Professional identities

Qualifications

  • PhD (ongoing), University of Leeds (Organizational Behaviour)
  • MRes - Business And Economic Studies (Management - OB focus), University of Leeds
  • PGCE, Manchester Metropolitan University
  • BSc (Hons), Applied Environmental & Resource Science, University of Salford

Professional memberships

  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
  • Certified Management & Business Educator (CMBE)
  • Academy of Management (AoM)
  • Management & Organizational Behaviour Teaching Society (MOBTS)

Student education

I lead a large PG-level professional practice module, a large Management PG dissertation module, as well as teaching across a variety of different subject areas.  
I supervise both UG & PG Dissertations, particularly those focused on Organizational Behaviour. 

Research groups and institutes

  • Workplace Behaviour Research Centre