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Nicola Smith

Nicola Smith

  • Position: Associate Professor
  • Areas of expertise: Student Education & Organizational 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 the Programme Director for MSc Management. My PhD research focuses on personal goals, the ending of commitment to goals, enforced goal change, and the effect of AI introduction on work identity.  

 

Responsibilities

  • MSc Management Programme Director

Research interests

  • Goal engagement/disengagement
  • Goal hierarcy
  • Enforced goal change
  • Life transition and goals
  • The effects of AI on human work 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 am the MSc Management programme director. In addition to this, I lead a large PG-level professional practice module, a large Management PG dissertation module, and I also teach across a variety of different modules, mainly those with an OB focus.  
I supervise both UG & PG Dissertations, particularly those focused on Organizational Behaviour using quantitative methods. 

Research groups and institutes

  • Workplace Behaviour Research Centre