Role
Claudia is the NBS School Employability Manager, where she engages with school and university stakeholders to design and implement employability/career-related curricula and extra-curricular initiatives.
She aims to encourage and promote student life-long learning to foster the continuous development and improvement of the knowledge and skills needed for employment and personal fulfilment.
Career overview
Claudia's background is in live brand communication, events and sports sponsorship and events. Initially she worked for the RFU in Twickenham, for Surrey County Cricket and then for Watford FC. She has also worked for two live brand agencies and managed a Leadership Education Centre in Hertfordshire, before joining higher education. Leadership clients ranged from Shell, Bechtel Engineering and City and Guilds. During her time in live brand communication, Claudia was able to work with corporate clients such as Lloyds TSB, T- Mobile, the NHS, Asda and M&S on projects ranging from £500k- £1.5m. Projects focused on improving the internal and external communication of corporate strategies and visions.
Claudia joined Huddersfield University in July 2009 and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in September 2012. Claudia has extensive experience of managing and delivering education overseas (China) as part of her participation in a transnational education collaborative partnership. During her time in teambuilding, her role was to facilitate in the building of corporate teams and improve cross-team co-operation to create unified organisations.
In February 2017, Claudia joined the Business School at Nottingham Trent University, Initially as Senior Lecturer in Postgraduate and Executive Education Personal and Professional Development and then to become the NBS Employability Manager.
Research areas
Her PhD was inspired by eight years of managing and delivering a TNE programme in China. She has also researched the role of international academic staff in higher education. Having made a significant contribution to knowledge in the field of TNE, acknowledged by leading HE organisations such as the HEA, UUK, the QAA and the British Council.
Her research interests include the Internationalisation of Higher Education, Student Personal and Professional Development (including AI to inform learning).
Publications
Recent Publications:
- Bordogna, C.M. (2024). Improving the operational (transformation) management process of postgraduate mentoring. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/IJMCE-10-2023-0098
- Bordogna, C.M., & Lundgren-Resenterra, M. (2023). Integrating and Normalising Coaching as a Routine Practice in Doctoral Supervision. International Journal of Doctoral Studies, 18, 099-118. https://doi.org/10.28945/5096
- Bordogna, C.M. (2023). Using social exchange and equity theory to explore postgraduate student mentoring initiatives and academic faculty participation. International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJMCE-04-2022-0031
- Bordogna, C.M. (2021). Transnational Teaching: Evaluating the Application of Heideggerian Phenomenology and IPA in a Study of Lived Experiences. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. DOI:10.1177/16094069211008335.
- Bailey, W., Bordogna, C.M., Harvey, H., Jones, G., & Walton, S., (2020). Transformational, inclusive, and multicultural or empty rhetoric? Perceptions and experiences of international academic staff. Journal of Further and Higher Education. DOI: 10.1080/0309877X.2020.1762848
- Bordogna, C.M., (2019). Are degree-awarding institutions doing enough to support the implementation of quality assurance in transnational higher education Partnerships? Journal of Studies in International Education. Vol. 24. No. 3. DOI: 10.1177/1028315319888458
- Bordogna, C.M., (2019). Advocating and administering critical realism in a study of transnational educational collaborative partnerships. Higher Education Research and Development. Vol. 39. No. 5. Pp. 883-897. DOI: 10.1080/07294360.2019.1704691
- Bordogna, C.M., (2019). The development of social capital between operational academics delivering transnational collaborative programme partnerships. Studies in Higher Education. Vol 45. No. 11.DOI: 10.1080/03075079.2019.1605502
Blogs:
- Bordogna, C. (2025). Understanding how module learning supports employability and career planning. Advance HE Blogs. Available at: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/understanding-how-module-learning-supports-student-employability-and-career-planning
- Bordogna, C. (2025). Supporting international business postgraduate students with their employability. Advance HE Blogs. Available at: https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/supporting-international-business-postgraduate-students-their-employability
- Bordogna, C.M., Sewell, P., Gray, D. (2023). Evaluating the impact of extracurricular events in 2023 on postgraduate employability. CABS Blogs.
- Bordogna, C. (2023). Exploring the role of the mentor in postgraduate student mentoring initiatives. EMCC UK.
- Bordogna, C. & Harwood, C. (2023). Translating our Employability Service: Can You Help Us? Advance HE Blogs. Available at: https://advance-he.ac.uk/news-and-views/translating-our-employability-service-can-you-help-us