Jo Townend
- Position: Assistant Professor (Lecturer)
- Email: J.Townend@leeds.ac.uk
- Phone: +44(0)113 343 4493
- Location: 2.16 Charles Thackrah
Profile
MA Business Research (Durham University) and MA Marketing (Brunel University)
Experienced commercial director turned lecturer. I work part-time at the university combining teaching with management in practice via the familys property business and my armchair investing. I volunteer at Oxfam putting books on line where Ive recently started setting up a supply chain of second hand academic textbooks to help reduce the cost to students.
I am curently studying for a doctorate in education. My current research is focussed on the inequality between teaching only and reserach focussed academics in UK universities.
Teaching Experience:
1. Undergraduate:
Developing Your Potential
Exploring Your Potential
The Contemporary Business Environment
Dissertation Supervision
2. Postgraduate;
MBA Global marketing and Export Management;
MSc. Introduction to Marketing;
Dissertation Supervision
In addition to teaching I am;
A Personal tutor on Undergraduate Management Programs;
An Academic Integrity Officer for the Management Department
Responsibilities
- Academic Integrity