Role
Susan is the Course Leader of the International Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA). She lectures at postgraduate, corporate and professional levels across the suite of programmes delivered both in the UK and abroad. Her broad teaching interests include organisational behaviour and human resource management, with specialisms in identity, talent management and global mobility. As an interpretivist researcher, she also publishes in these fields.
Susan is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), a member of the British Universities Industrial Relations Association (BUIRA) and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).
Career overview
Susan has considerable module leadership at undergraduate, postgraduate and corporate levels. She also has significant course leadership experience having formerly been the course leader for the Certificate in Management, the Certificate in Personnel Practice, the MSc in Strategic Human Resource Management and now the International Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA).
She has worked in a quality assurance role for most of her career including being responsible for quality assurance in franchise colleges and international collaborating partners and for the past 6 years she was the Divisional Quality Representative for the Human Resource Management Division.
Research areas
Susan is research active and has a number of publications. She recently co-authored chapters in a thematic HRM book and in an international HRM text and has been actively involved in the publication of three HRM Divisional texts. She has publications in the field of talent management, global mobility and identity.
External activity
Susan has considerable consultancy experience working with a diverse range of different clients including: Nottingham Probation Service, the National Health Service and West Pharmaceuticals. She has been an external examiner for the CIPD suite of programmes at Staffordshire University and was a member of the panel for their five-year validation.
She acted as external advisor to Gloucestershire University in respect of their validation of their integrated MBA programme and is currently an external examiner for Anglia Ruskin University. She is retained as an independent advisor to Westminster Bridge Partnership, an organisation providing strategic public affairs advice and advocacy for mutual organisations.
Sponsors and collaborators
- Cargill Plc
Publications
Chapter In Books
TANSLEY, C. and KIRK, S., 2016. Exploratory learners, HR ambidexterity and E-HRM projects. In: H. SHIPTON, P. BUDHWAR, P. SPARROW and A. BROWN, eds., Human resource management, innovation and performance. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 9781137465184
CAVEN, V., KIRK, S. and WANG-COWHAM, C., 2014. Expatriation and repatriation in the Asia-Pacific region. In: M.F. ÖZBILGIN, D. GROUTSIS and W.S. HARVEY, eds., International human resource management. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 179-193. ISBN 9781107669543
MYERS, J. and KIRK, S., 2009. Managing processes in human resource development. In: J. LEOPOLD and L. HARRIS, eds., The strategic managing of human resources. London: Pearson Education, pp. 382-412. ISBN 9780273713869
KIRK, S. and LEOPOLD, J., 2005. Employee involvement, particpation and communication. In: J. LEOPOLD and L. HARRIS, eds., The strategic managing of human resources. London: Pearson Education.
Conference Contributions
FOSTER, C., KIRK, S., SHIPTON, H., ZHANG, M. and KOUGIANNOU, K., 2016. An exploration of impact and engaged scholarship among DBA students. In: 5th International Conference of Professional Doctorates, Titanic Belfast, 15-16 March 2016.
TANSLEY, C. and KIRK, S., 2016. HR innovation work in the e-HRM context: ambidextrous managers' use of social capital across organisational levels. In: Human Resource International Conference (HRIC), Sydney, Australia, 2016.
KIRK, S. and CAVEN, V., 2016. Running with the wolf pack: a honeycomb of glass barriers for female global careerists. In: Gender, Work & Organization Conference, 2016, Keele University, Keele, 29 June - 1 July 2016.
ALI, S., RAIDÉN, A. and KIRK, S., 2015. Social capital in Jordan: wasta in employment selection [forthcoming]., The International Conference on Organization and Management (ICOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 22-23 November 2015. In: The International Conference on Organization and Management (ICOM), Abu Dhabi, UAE, 22-23 November 2015, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Journal Article
TANSLEY, C., KIRK, S. and FISHER, C., 2014. Navigating the ethical maze through design action research., European Journal of Training and Development., Sustainability, CSR and HRD [special issue]. European Journal of Training and Development, 38 (5), pp. 456-482. ISSN 2046-9012
TANSLEY, C., KIRK, S., WILLIAMS, H. and BARTON, H., 2014. Tipping the scales: ambidexterity practices on e-HRM projects. Employee Relations, 36 (4), pp. 398-414. ISSN 0142-5455
ALI, S.H., RAIDÉN, A. and KIRK, S., 2013. Wasta in the Jordanian culture: a study in the banking sector., International Journal of Innovations in Business. International Journal of Innovations in Business, 6 (6).
TANSLEY, C., KIRK, S. and TIETZE, S., 2013. The currency of talent management - a reply to "talent management and the relevance of context: towards a pluralistic approach"., Human Resource Management Review. Human Resource Management Review, 23 (4), pp. 337-340.
Research Reports for External Bodies
FISHER, C., HARRIS, L., KIRK, S., LEVERMENT, Y. and LEOPOLD, J., 2001. Staff attitude survey at Nottingham City NHS Trust and Queens Medical Centre NHS Trust, compared and contrasted. Research report for external body. UNSPECIFIED.