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Thursday 3 March 2005

Prestigious award for university lecturer

A Nottingham Trent University lecturer has won a prestigious award to research techniques of training people with disabilities to help develop management potential. Andrew Reeve, a Principal Lecturer in Strategy and Marketing, has received a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Travelling Fellowship Award.

The award will allow Andrew to research work-based learning and to look into the action being undertaken in universities, companies and organisations which employ people with disabilities. It will involve travelling to Washington, New York, San Diego and Vancouver.

Andrew, who is from the university's Nottingham Business School, will aim to assess the part that coaching and mentoring skills can play in management training, particularly for people with disabilities. One of his objectives will be to develop an open programme to encourage those with a disability to coach others in a similar situation. The findings will be written up for individuals and organisations interested in this field.

This work will continue from Professor Peter Cooke's successful fellowship award in 2002, which resulted in a course aiding people with disabilities to move into supervisory management. Two successful groups have already been run and another has just begun with Remploy, the UK's leading supplier of employment opportunities for disabled people.

Andrew said: "The work aims to build on the success of Professor Cooke's work to ensure that once delegates complete the course the momentum is maintained. I am also seeking to build on the current course and hopefully widen participation. I am really excited by this amazing opportunity and look forward to using the findings to develop better management training in the future."
 

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Notes for editors: The Churchill Trust was established in 1965, the year in which the former British Prime Minister died. The principal objective of the trust is to perpetuate and honour the memory of Sir Winston Churchill by the award of Travelling Fellowships.

The fellowships are to enable men and women from all walks of life to acquire knowledge and experience abroad. They enable individuals to gain a better understanding of the lives and cultures of people overseas. On their return their effectiveness at work and their contribution to the community is greatly enhanced.

Andrew is a member of the Centre for Automotive Industries Management at Nottingham Business School, which was founded by Professor Peter Cooke in 1998.